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Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects

You're reading from   Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects Learn the ins and outs of motion graphics, post-production, rotoscoping, and VFX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617281
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vishu Aggarwal Vishu Aggarwal
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Working with Motion Graphics
2. Chapter 1: Getting to Know the User Interface and Workflow FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Applying Effects and Presets to Create Animated Graphics 4. Chapter 3: Deep-Dive into Text Animations 5. Chapter 4: Animating Shape Layers 6. Chapter 5: Adding Motion to Photoshop and Illustrator Graphics 7. Chapter 6: Creating Motion Graphic Templates for Premiere Pro 8. Part 2: Post-Production and Visual Effects
9. Chapter 7: Color Correction and Color Grading 10. Chapter 8: Rotoscoping and Mask Tracking Techniques 11. Chapter 9: Chroma Keying 12. Chapter 10: Working with Particle Simulations 13. Part 3: 2D and 3D Tracking, and Rendering
14. Chapter 11: Working with 2D and 3D Tracking 15. Chapter 12: Exporting and Managing Projects 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Styling text using the Character and Paragraph panels

Now, we will see how to change text properties such as the font and font size. Open the Character panel as follows:

  1. Go to Window | Character, or alternatively you can find the Character panel to the right of the Composition panel:
Figure 3.4: Character panel with default settings

Figure 3.4: Character panel with default settings

  1. In the Character panel, change the font to Roboto.

    If the Roboto font is not already installed on your system, then you can easily install it from Adobe Fonts as follows:

    1. Open Adobe Creative Cloud.
    2. Go to the Stock & Marketplace tab and then the Fonts tab.
    3. Search for the Roboto font and press Enter:
Figure 3.5: Search for the Roboto font in Creative Cloud

Figure 3.5: Search for the Roboto font in Creative Cloud

  1. It will open the font on a web page named fonts.adobe.com.
  2. Now activate the Roboto font family:
Figure 3.6: Showing the Roboto font family activated on fonts.adobe.com

Figure 3.6: Showing the Roboto font family activated on fonts.adobe.com

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