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Quick Tip #19 Text Re-sizing, Kerning, and Leading… Oh My!

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Hitting you up with a sweet tripple whammy of useful keyboard shortcuts this time! This quicktip shows you how to quickly resize text, adjust kerning and leading with ease! Please leave a comment and let me know what you think! And as always you can subscribe to my super awesome quicktips in itunes! (subscribers…you should write a review and let me know what you think in itunes!)

***and yes…I know I mispelled KEARNING…I recorded this in the wee hours of the morning before I had coffee :) ***

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11 Responses to “Quick Tip #19 Text Re-sizing, Kerning, and Leading… Oh My!”

  1. meredith says:

    i knew about the font size shortcut but not the leading or kerning. thank you for this! very helpful. i knew that had to be shortcuts but i’m too lazy to look them up, so i wait for design o blog. :)

    February 20th, 2009 at 6:13 am

  2. Daryl Walker-Smith says:

    Sweet tip there Niki!! (And I;m glad I’m not the only one who has there Dock on the right like that)

    February 20th, 2009 at 6:14 am

  3. Ross says:

    Sweet. My question in the last tip’s comments gets answered in the form of a new video :)

    February 20th, 2009 at 7:09 am

  4. gNcWebmaster says:

    Interesting technique :) Thanks Niki

    February 20th, 2009 at 9:03 am

  5. Andrew says:

    Awesome tip, Niki, thanks!

    February 20th, 2009 at 11:41 am

  6. Stephen Allred says:

    Very useful tip, I’ve been meaning to look those up for a while!
    I learnt how to pronounce leading too. I always thought it was pronounced in the same way as leading, when you mean leading someone somewhere.

    February 20th, 2009 at 11:52 am

  7. joyoge designers' bookmark says:

    thanks for tip Niki

    February 20th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

  8. liz says:

    oh my

    February 20th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

  9. Corinne says:

    Wow! I was not aware of these shortcuts! Thanks a lot.

    In Illustrator, my teacher taught us to kern and lead type by turning type into outlines, ungrouping the text, and then moving each individual line or letter.

    What do you think of this method?

    February 22nd, 2009 at 7:13 pm

  10. Pam says:

    Big time saver for me! Do you know the keyboard shortcut for changing the brush size in Photoshop?

    February 23rd, 2009 at 7:53 am


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