A quick review of three videos from the Adobe Video Workshop
Making Selections Video:
The presenter was fun, well spoken and easy to understand. This video covers the following:
Double clicking will toggle between the direct select and select
Apple click will help you traverse layers that you are working on.
The Selection tool lets you select graphics and text and work with an object using its bounding box.
If you want to move a picture with the box that contains it, you would select the object with the selection tool and drag your picture around your page.
The Direct Selection tool lets you work with the content of a text or graphics frame.
If you wanted to move the picture inside the box, or frame, that contains it, but you want to leave the box itself where it is, you select the object with the Direct Selection Tool.
Working With Text
This presenter was enthusiastic and easy to understand. This video covers the following:
How to apply simple styles such as fonts, sizes, kerning, tracking, and so on.
Using character mode to make changes to the font and adding foreign language to a word to allow proper spell check and hyphenation.
Paragraph formatting – add drop caps, indents, space above and below. Optical margin alignment and style changes.
Working With Text Styles
This presenter was a little boring, but the video was short. This video covers the following:
This video discusses style sheets.
Character style sheets and Paragraph style sheets. Automated formatting tool that simplifies repetitive formatting text, frames and paragraphs. Put simply if you use the same type of formatting on a regular basis, rather than recreate it each time you can set up the equivalent to a macro in Word.
