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Importing and organizing text
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Importing and organizing text
- [Instructor] This being a book for grownups, it's going to need some text and that's what we are going to deal with in this movie. I'm going to go back to my layers panel just here for a moment because what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn off the visibility for everything, apart from the text layer. We're then going to bring in some text and we're going to divide it up without the distraction of everything else on the layout. We can treat that as being secondary to just managing the text at the moment. So, let's go ahead and bring in some text from the exercise files. If you don't have access to them, then just go ahead and grab some text from wherever or just mimic it with placeholder texts from the type menu. So, I've got this Culinary Lab RTF file here. I've got show import options turned on and actually, there's nothing I'd really need from here. I'm not going to remove the stars and formatting, just in case I…
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Project overview1m 5s
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Document setup5m 28s
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Setting margins5m 15s
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Adding guides2m 49s
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Challenge: Layout guides2m 31s
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Solution: Layout guides5m 27s
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Choosing and pairing fonts5m 8s
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Challenge: Using in-app capture for colors4m 46s
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Splitting images for the covers3m 42s
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Creating tints for the cover flaps5m 40s
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Adding image content5m 23s
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Importing and organizing text5m 31s
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Styling the title block7m 30s
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Styling the cover quote6m 4s
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Optical margin alignment3m 38s
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Setting the back cover text6m 53s
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Adding character style overrides3m 45s
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Challenge: Set flap texts54s
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Solution: Set flap texts4m 32s
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Creating the spine content4m 27s
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Adding the publisher's assets5m 25s
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Exporting assets3m 14s
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Creating a print finish5m 54s
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