This video is all about consistent fonts and font sizes, lidding, all of that good stuff that we need to follow with a large job that has a really strict brand guideline. We want consistency and plus we want it easy to apply like this. Imagine if we could just select them all and update them all in one big go, huh? Yep. It's that easy. Let's get into it now and work out how it's done.
All right, so first thing we're gonna do is, uh, with our move tool, you probably already have Auto Select on, but just make sure it is and just click on the Freedom Starts Here Layer. And that's on our square upward. All we have to do is click on this. Ready? Well, let's zoom in. There's a little bit more, a little bit more effect, shock and awe.
Ready? Cool. Huh? So it's pulled that style that we made from Illustrator and it's consistent. It's exactly the same in the illustrator as it is here in Photoshop, but we wanna do it to all the bits of text. So we're gonna use our handy layer filters.
So under layers where it says kind, we're gonna turn on the T and then I can just select them all. Click the first one, hold shift, click the last one and just go all of them and zoom out. Look at that. They're all the right font. I should doing that while you're watching. Look, hey, great.
'cause we've got brand guidelines that say it has to be this font at this size. Okay? You hover above them, they give you the basics. So it says it is uh, Mussio Sands rounded 300 Weight, it's 12 point. There's a letting in there. Oh, it's useful.
Now the one little tidbit for this is that you can't update this character style in your libraries, which is a bit weird. Feel like it's a feature that will get updated eventually if you do know a way. If there is a way, and I'm just don't know it yet, but I've looked high and low, let me know in the comments. When I first found out about that, I was like, man, that makes it useless. But actually it's perfectly fine. I'll show you the way that I use it and how you'll probably see it as well.
Like it's actually not a big disadvantage. So let's say you are working on this and actually it's not the right size. I need to make it smaller. I'm gonna make it, yeah, I'm just gonna make it a little bit bigger just for no good reason. Just so we can see. So it's 14.
I'm gonna make it really big so that it makes it clear when we do update it and you're like, there's no way of going in here and right clicking and say Redefine style or anything else you're used to with these character styles. What you can do is you can go in here and actually just say, actually grab it with the Move tool. Got my layer selected. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna add that character style. So turning these off. Okay, so that's gonna be my new one.
It's called Museo Sands. It's the new one. And all I need to do is grab them all and say You're all Museo Sands. And you can see they're update. So it's not as handy as maybe updating now back into uh, illustrator 'cause it's not gonna automatically do it. But I can open up Illustrator and just use that character style.
Yes, it would be better to be able to update the one that's linked in the library like we did this Hawaii image. But the workaround is perfectly fine and it definitely still saves time. Gonna undo it all. You go back to its normal state and I'm gonna grab this guy and I'm gonna bin him. See you later. Alligator.
The other thing to note with Photoshop is that in Illustrator and InDesign, you can add paragraph styles that work in libraries And they work across Illustrator and InDesign. But at the moment, if I put a paragraph style, if you know what one of those are, if I add it to the CC libraries from say InDesign, and I put it into the library and I open up in Photoshop, it'll be grayed out in here. It'll say it'll see it. It'll say This is a paragraph style, but Photoshop for whatever reason, says I can't use it. So you have to use character styles when you are doing, when you want fonts to kind of go across all of the applications. I imagine paragraph styles is a little bit, imagine it's not the way Photoshop kind of uses type and that kind of hardcore paragraph style.
But character styles are perfect. And that's it. Short one. Let's get into the next video. You're gonna love it. Select subject.