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07/20/2006 02:49:21 PM · #26 |
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07/20/2006 03:06:51 PM · #27 |
Much better now. Presumably you've now figured out the paragraph text function and can justify your text? For what it's worth, the body text looks a little big to me. If it's 14 pts, that's probably too big. 12 pt text is the largest I've ever used for body text in a brochure, and 10 or 11 pt would be more normal for me. If you keep it at 14 pts, justifying will probably look very "gappy"; even 12 pt text may be hard to justify well in your narrow columns.
In general, the brochure would look better to my eyes if it had smaller text and a LOT more white space; it looks a little jammed to me right now. But you're on the right track :-)
R.
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07/20/2006 07:54:45 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by mk:
How do you specify a text area then? The borders... |
You select the type tool and then draw a box with it. |
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07/20/2006 08:09:01 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
Originally posted by mk:
How do you specify a text area then? The borders... |
You select the type tool and then draw a box with it. |
Wow, I feel so dumb. All this time and I never knew. |
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07/20/2006 08:12:24 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by mk:
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
Originally posted by mk:
How do you specify a text area then? The borders... |
You select the type tool and then draw a box with it. |
Wow, I feel so dumb. All this time and I never knew. |
I only found that after using PS for 4 or 5 years. I've been using photoshop for a very long time and learn new things everyday and there are still tools I have never touched and have no idea what they do. |
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07/20/2006 08:33:11 PM · #31 |
ok, i think i'm getting it now...
thanks very much for all the wise words!
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07/20/2006 10:12:24 PM · #32 |
Now you're getting there! Take a look at inside cover, leftmost column, paragraph 2; see how the next-to-last line there has really awkward spacing? You can fix that one of two ways; make the font size smaller (recommended, as below) or insert a hyphen after "fav" in the word "favourite" so the line breaks on the hyphen.
It's very difficult to justify 14-point type in such a narrow column width and have it look natural.
R.
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07/20/2006 10:20:37 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Much better now. Presumably you've now figured out the paragraph text function and can justify your text? For what it's worth, the body text looks a little big to me. If it's 14 pts, that's probably too big. 12 pt text is the largest I've ever used for body text in a brochure, and 10 or 11 pt would be more normal for me. If you keep it at 14 pts, justifying will probably look very "gappy"; even 12 pt text may be hard to justify well in your narrow columns.
In general, the brochure would look better to my eyes if it had smaller text and a LOT more white space; it looks a little jammed to me right now. But you're on the right track :-)
R. |
this advice is perfect and still applicable to the revised version. 10 pt text is perfect. you can add more space in between the sentences and it will look very clean and simple. more white space would be good, too. i still am not super fond of the font, but maybe that's just a matter of opinion. it just looks very dated... could be just how it looks at such a small size. maybe it looks better full size.
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