How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning
Lesson 59 from: Adobe InDesign FundamentalsDaniel Walter Scott
How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning
Lesson 59 from: Adobe InDesign FundamentalsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
59. How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning
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Overview
1InDesign Tutorial Basics Class Introduction
01:50 2Exercise files & Projects
02:39 3What Does Adobe InDesign do?
01:34 4What are the differences between InDesign and PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark?
05:10PROJECT 1: One page flyer
5How to change MM to Inches & changing UK to US dictionary in InDesign?
01:39 6New document in InDesign - what is bleed & slug?
08:08How to create your own RGB & CMYK colors in Adobe InDesign
08:39 8How do I steal colors from a logo using InDesign?
03:14 9How to color the background of a page in InDesign?
03:33 10Importing resizing rotating & flipping images & Logos inside InDesign
07:53 11How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign
05:46 12How to group, ungroup & rotate images in Adobe InDesign
05:12 13How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign
05:20 14How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign
05:16 15How to make a simple PDF from InDesign
06:43 16How to save your InDesign file as a JPEG
02:27 17Why should I use CC Libraries in InDesign?
05:08 18How to share your InDesign files with others by using package document
04:26 19Class Exercise 1
03:24 20Quiz - One Page Flyer
PROJECT 2: Other people's files
21Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates
04:59 22Working with other people's InDesign documents, missing images
03:12 23How to find missing fonts in InDesign?
04:27 24How to replace images in InDesign?
01:30 25Opacity, transparency and see through ness in Adobe InDesign
02:29 26Why is InDesign adding [Converted] and making me 'save as'
01:06 27What if I can’t find the InDesign file - can I open the PDF?
02:37 28Quiz - Other people's files
PROJECT 3: Company Newsletter/Brochure
29Creating a new company newsletter or brochure, what are spreads in InDesign
06:58 30How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign
05:33 31How do to add automatic page numbering to a InDesign file
04:11 32Removing a master page & deleting parts off the master page in InDesign
02:30 33Production Video 1
02:53 34What is Effective PPI & Image resolution in the InDesign links panel
06:52 35How to add drop shadows to an image or logo in InDesign
04:20 36What is TypeKit used for in Adobe InDesign?
08:37 37How to add the Copyright, Registered & Trademark symbols in InDesign
05:08 38Where can I find the different versions of letters in InDesign - Ligatures.
03:35 39How to add placeholder text & lorem ipsum & get a word count in InDesign
03:04 40Importing Text from Microsoft Word & keeping or removing the formatting
02:58 41Creating Columns in a text box using Adobe InDesign
01:46 42How do I justify text & turn off hyphenation in InDesign?
03:59 43What is the space after & leading in Adobe InDesign?
05:22 44How to underline text with a full width line in Adobe InDesign?
01:53 45How do I make a paragraph style in Adobe InDesign?
06:06 46How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?
04:28 47How to use Find & Change to remove double spaces after a period or full stop.
02:37 48Stealing colours from images, is there a format painter in Adobe InDesign?
03:09 49InDesign Class Exercise 2 - Magazine Spread
04:22 50Quiz - Company Newsletter/Brochure
PROJECT 4: Long Business Document
51How to bring in lots of text into InDesign at once
08:11 52How do I import paragraph styles from another document
12:45 53How do I insert completely blank pages in Adobe InDesign
02:03 54How do I create a gradient in Adobe InDesign
07:20 55Do I need to use layers in Adobe InDesign
05:27 56Opacity advanced, mater marks and Transparency Effects in Adobe InDesign
04:24 57How do I add rounded corners to an image or box in Adobe InDesign?
02:52 58How to add a large first letter to my text aka Drop Cap
02:16 59How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning
02:32 60How do I get text to move around an image or shape using text wrap
03:57 61Why can’t I put text over anything that has text wrap applied?
03:25 62How to draw an arrow or triangle or star in Adobe InDesign
06:40 63How do I put an image inside other shapes like a circle - cropping
02:47 64What is Adobe Stock
04:17 65Where can I find free images & icons that I can use for my business
04:23 66How do I add bullets and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign?
00:51 67How can I create a table inside Adobe InDesign?
07:10 68How do I convert tables from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel into Adobe InDesign
04:26 69How do I get images to move with the text in Adobe InDesign using anchored objects?
03:22 70How do I create a Line Break, Column Breaks & Page Breaks in Adobe InDesign?
04:16 71How do I make an automatic table of contents in Adobe InDesign?
04:46 72How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?
04:30 73Can I change the numbering of my pages so 1 starts later in the InDesign file?
03:26 74Quiz - Long Business Document
PROJECT 5: Conference Name Badge
75How do I combine Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in InDesign?
09:04 76CLASS EXERCISE: Create your own business card
01:16 77Quiz - Conference Name Badge
What next
78How to create a mockup for your portfolio using InDesign
04:07 79InDesign cheat sheet & shortcuts
12:45 80BONUS: Software Updates
40:41 81What to do after this InDesign tutorial class?
01:07 82Quiz - What Next
Final Quiz
83Final Quiz
Lesson Info
How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning
Hi there in this video, we're going to look at something called tracking or it's called turning. But what you're really doing is you're playing around with this space between letters, you can see here, I've tightened this one in and I've opened this one out. So let's go and look at how to do that in in design. Okay. Nice. Quick one. If I select my title here. Okay. My problem is that this is actually just in front of it. So I'm going to actually grab it, go to my layers panel, unlock the background and say you giant thing, go on the background layer, you're more appropriate back there and then I can lock it again. Alright, so tracking now I can select on him if I select all of this. Okay. The tracking is under character. It's this part here. Okay. The tracking is out out out out out. Okay, Just space between letters. Easy, easy, easy. Okay, you can sew out is interesting. Okay. And in. Okay, don't be afraid you can go in as well. So minus 50. You're going to kind of tighten it all up. ...
I'm gonna tighten mine up to maybe minus 30. Is it much different? You've got to decide. I play with the tracking people call it cocooning as well. Kooning is the kind of built in defaults, tracking is overriding it. Okay, so I'm gonna select all of this and go to zero and you just watch it undo. Redo undo. Redo undo. Okay. I like a bit of tracking the other thing. We'll do while we're here is we'll do the leading. Okay, so with character selected, the leading. Is this guy set to auto. Okay, I can play around with it to tighten it up. Okay, and I can increase it just to get it. Perfect. I wouldn't do this for all titles but the cover is a little bit of a special case. Now, a couple of shortcuts with all of the selected. I can do tracking by holding down the key on a pc or option key on a Mac and using my left or right arrows right, pushes it out and left tightens it up. Okay, same key. Okay, alter option and hit the up and down the keys. So I never use these options at the top here. I just select all of this, say this title here and I open it up a little bit but I just kind of work back and forth. You can work with separate letters. Okay. You might decide that the space this is actually quite a well spaced font, but say this one here is a bit tight. I can open up just the tracking of that one a little bit. And so I want to match this one. You can start playing around with your shortcuts. All right, that's it for tracking. And we threw in leading shortcuts for good measure
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I think Dan is very good at explaining and breaking down complex content. I like the way there are lots of small sessions which is good for keeping focus. I would advise anyone who does this course and is taking notes to label which session the notes are referring to as I have struggled to find a few looking back and this helped me. It really made me realise how much I didn't know and had been fudging. Thank you Dan I will be taking plenty more of your courses in the coming months it's been a great help.
Giuseppe Lipari
Excellent course, instructor is great well spoken, clear and a great teacher. I highly recommend this class for beginners and those who learned indesign on their own.
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