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The Long And The Short Of Type

 

Although the Character palette has numeric controls for making your type fatter (horizontal scaling) or taller (vertical scaling), it’s usually easier to do these two functions visually (rather than numerically). Here’s how: First set your type, then with the Type cursor still blinking somewhere in the text, press-and-hold the Command key (PC: Control key) to bring up the Free Transform bounding box. To make your type fatter, click on the center handle on either side, release the Command/Control key and drag outward. To make your type taller, grab the center handle on the top or bottom, release the Command/Control key, and drag upward or downward.

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More Curve Point Quick Tips

When you’re working in Curves (Command-M [PC: Control-M]), once you’ve plotted a curve point, you can rotate over to the next point in your curve by pressing Control-Tab (PC: Right-click-Tab). To rotate back to the previous point, add the Shift key to make it Shift-Control-Tab (PC: Shift–Right-click-Tab). If you’ve got one or more points selected and want to deselect all your points, just press Command-D (PC: Control-D) to release all your points.

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