Consistent font size color & leading using library character styles in Photoshop

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17 lessons / 1 hours

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If you’ve ever struggled to maintain a consistent look and feel across all the touchpoints of your content marketing, this lab is for you. Beautiful design is only half the battle when you’re designing for an integrated campaign in which you have to deliver, repurpose, and repeat design elements consistently and efficiently. In this fun, fast-paced, hands-on lab with Adobe Certified Instructor Daniel Scott, learn how to professionally use Photoshop to repurpose your designs across multiple media and formats.

While becoming a design implementation wizard, you’ll learn:

  • How to structure content for multisize social imagery
  • The best workflows for social, print, ad banners, and video
  • The top tools for non-destructive design
  • How to master layers, artboards, Smart Objects, and libraries
  • How to become the master of productivity in your office

Course duration 1.5 hours
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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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.
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