Designing with Type

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Designing with Type

with Scott Kelby

lessons: 10 Course Lessons

duration: 1hr, 31min

published: 2016

watched: 3561 Member Views

Designing with Type

with Scott Kelby

Join Scott Kelby and learn how to design with type. Calling all non-designers who have the need to create slideshows, photo books, watermarks, and other items that may require type. In this class Scott will share tips and tricks that will make your layout more impactful, show you some of the cool type features in Photoshop, teach you what NOT to do with type, and walk you through a series of in-depth type layouts that you can use with confidence in your projects. At the end, Scott wraps up the class with a look at some of his favorite and most useful fonts and where to find them. BUY COURSE

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lesson 1: Introduction (free course preview)

Join Scott as he introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.

2min, 50sec

lesson 2: The Glyphs Panel

Glyphs are those hidden characters that can help you take your designs to a whole new level.

15min, 47sec

lesson 3: Selection Trick

This is a selection trick you can use for type and throughout Photoshop.

7min, 36sec

lesson 4: Type Recipe: Stacking

Here’s a technique called stacking that you can use when working with multiple words in your layout.

12min, 46sec

lesson 5: Type Recipe: Contrast

Here's another technique that can be used for a cover project, where you employ contrast for visual impact.

7min, 55sec

lesson 6: Type Recipe: Varying Font Weights

You can use a single font, but vary the weight of each use of the font to create contrast in another way.

4min, 33sec

lesson 7: Type Recipe: Elegance

In this lesson Scott demonstrates a recipe for adding elegance to your type.

8min, 14sec

lesson 8: Type Recipe: Lowercase Uppercase

Another technique for using contrast is to use both all lowercase and all uppercase words in your layout.

13min, 13sec

lesson 9: Putting it All Together

This project is meant to reinforce the ideas and techniques covered in previous lessons.

8min, 25sec

lesson 10: Useful Fonts

Scott wraps up the class with a look at some of his favorite and most useful fonts.

9min, 57sec

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Scott is the President and CEO of KelbyOne, is also the original "Photoshop Guy", is the editor and publisher of Photoshop User Magazine, Conference Technical Chair for the Photoshop World Conference, Training Director and instructor for KelbyOne Live Seminars, and author of a string of bestselling technology and photography books.

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