From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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- [Instructor] We're going to take a look now at text and before we actually begin, something that is completely optional here is to replace the placeholder text in your layout with some actual text. If I zoom in, you can see here I've got some text. Don't be too harsh because I'm not generally a cosmetics copywriter, but there you go. So the text is provided in the extras folder with the exercise files. Although you could type your own stuff, use anything you like. It's written here in left to right top to bottom order so you should be able to make your way through that. And here's a research section that I'm going to copy out to show you something else in Photoshop momentarily. But whichever way you want to work with it that will be fine for the purposes of this exercise. So one of the great things Photoshop can do with shape players is identify them when you want to use them with text. They don't join together in any…

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