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Luisa Winters

Instructor and consultant for Adobe products

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Character

Adjust character settings such as font, size, style and kerning.

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Learning Outcomes:

  • Adjust character settings effectively in After Effects.
  • Enhance text readability through typography techniques.

Level: Intermediate

Skills you'll gain:

After Effects, Typography, Text Editing, Design

Key Insights

  • Use character and paragraph panels for text adjustments.
  • Select text to apply changes in After Effects.
  • Scrub font size values for dynamic adjustments.
  • Understand leading as the space between text lines.
  • Kerning affects spacing between individual characters.
  • Typography focuses on making text easy to read.
  • Utilize vertical and horizontal scale for text manipulation.
  • Apply strokes and colors to enhance text appearance.
  • Explore faux styles for additional text effects.

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