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Typetool kerning1/9/2023 Not all options in Photoshop can use a scrubby slider, but if it's available, your cursor will change into the scrubby slider icon, which looks like a hand with the index finger pointed up and small left and right arrows on either side of it. To access an option's scrubby slider, move your mouse cursor over the option's icon directly to the left of its input box. Using Scrubby SlidersÄ«efore we continue with our look at the other type options in the Character panel, one thing I should point out is that if you're using Photoshop CS or higher, an easy way to adjust many of the options in the Character panel (as well as in the Paragraph panel and the Options Bar) is by using scrubby sliders which allow us to change an option's value simply by dragging the mouse! ![]() If there seems to be too much or too little space between your lines of text, adjust the leading value accordingly. The general rule with leading is simply to choose a value that makes your text look natural and easily readable, and it will depend a lot on the font you've chosen. The lines of type now appear more condensed. A checkmark to the left of the panel's name means its already open somewhere on your screen: One way to access the Character panel in Photoshop is by going up to the Window menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen, which opens a list of all the panels that are available to us, and choosing Character from the list. In this tutorial, we'll cover the Character panel options, then in the next tutorial, we'll look at the additional options in the Paragraph panel!Äownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Accessing The Character Panel ![]() Instead, they're found in the Character and Paragraph panels. Photoshop includes more advanced text options as well, but we won't find them in the Options Bar. In both of those tutorials, we saw that whenever we have the Type Tool selected, the Options Bar along the top of the screen gives us quick access to a handful of commonly-used text options, like font selection, text color, and so on. In the first two tutorials in our series on working with type in Photoshop, we learned how to add point type to a document, best for small amounts of text on a single line, and how to add area type, which is a better choice for larger blocks of text on multiple lines.
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