{"id":31118,"date":"2019-07-02T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T02:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=31118"},"modified":"2019-07-02T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T18:42:22","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2019\/07\/tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Tuesday (Photoshop Elements 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

FINALLY! Kerning is here!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yes, I upgraded. I mentioned it last week, and that I’d only given it a cursory look-see. I accidentally created a layout using 2019<\/strong>, even though I’d intended to stick with the familiar for a while longer. There was one thing that caught my eye that I wanted to explore further, and this is the outcome.<\/p>\n

One flaw I’ve always lamented (and did so in a couple of previous text-related tuts) is that Elements<\/strong> doesn’t allow kerning<\/strong>. What’s kerning<\/strong>? (I can see your quizzical looks!) Kerning<\/strong> is a printer’s term meaning the setting of two letters closer together than usual by decreasing the space between them. And with some fancy script fonts, kerning<\/strong> would be a really handy tool. Like Ballerina Script Regular<\/strong>… as I’m showing in my screenshot below. Those gaps!! Having to put each character on its own layer then nudging them together one at a time is such a time suck.<\/p>\n

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When I was journaling on the layout I accidentally used 2019<\/strong> for, I noticed the addition of a new tool option<\/strong> in the Text tool<\/strong> called Tracking<\/strong>, and I suspected it had something to do with letter spacing. I was right!<\/p>\n

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With my text selected<\/strong><\/em> (and that’s really important for WSNH<\/strong>), I clicked on 25<\/strong>, as shown, and the tool shifted all the letters farther apart.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, to bring the letters closer together the negative<\/strong> numbers are the ones to use. Just a single click on -25<\/strong> and it’s almost where I want it!<\/p>\n

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In an effort to make that “s<\/strong>” look better, I clicked on -50<\/strong>, but as you can see, the shift has now overshot and the “x<\/strong>” isn’t connected properly anymore. I know that other tools allow me to type in my desired number, so I tried that next.<\/p>\n

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I tried -35<\/strong>. SO close!<\/p>\n

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I changed it to -36<\/strong> and decided I could live with it. What I DIDN’T<\/em> think about was whether I could select just the “s<\/strong>” and move it by itself. That’s something I’ll try and I’ll let you know how it works out.<\/p>\n

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Here’s another script font that leaves huge gaps between letters. It’s called Peyton Script Regular<\/strong>. This might not be as quick to adjust.<\/p>\n

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First I wanted to see what spreading it out more would look like. Because sometimes that might look okay.<\/p>\n

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Then I went to the -25<\/strong> setting and could see some improvement.<\/p>\n

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I figured it might be best to just jump right to -100<\/strong>. And it was better.<\/p>\n

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I only went up by 1 increment and ended up with sorta better. This is where isolating the “s”<\/strong> and adjusting only it might have been the answer. This font is fairly condensed to start with so I ended up with the crossbars on those two “t<\/strong>“s overlapping and looking wrong.<\/p>\n

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By adding a space with the spacebar between the words I was able to uncross the T bars<\/strong>, but was left with the “s<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

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So now was the time to test my theory about isolating one or two characters only. Would it work?<\/p>\n

I started with this “t<\/strong>“, which looked a bit funny, the way the stroke overlapped the “e<\/strong>“. I ended up at -15<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Then on to the “es<\/strong>“. It’s not perfect but it’s a lot better!<\/p>\n

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While I was at it, I decided I’d try to get rid of this little tail. Going to +25<\/strong> was about the best I could do.<\/p>\n

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Then I Simplified<\/strong> the text and did some VERY<\/strong> minimal erasing. Looks pretty darned good now!<\/p>\n

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For me, this new tool option is a real game-changer. No longer do I have to choose between a font I love and the time it would take to make it look perfect. WINNER!!<\/p>\n

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FINALLY! Kerning is here! Yes, I upgraded. I mentioned it last week, and that I’d only given it a cursory look-see. I accidentally created a layout using 2019, even though I’d intended to stick with the familiar for a while longer. There was one thing that caught my eye that I wanted to explore further, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[229,102,285,62],"tags":[373],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 09:19:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31140,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31118\/revisions\/31140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}