1 00:00:06,620 --> 00:00:08,880 Hi there. In this video, 2 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,520 we're going to look at something called tracking or it's called 3 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,350 kerning but what you're really doing is 4 00:00:13,350 --> 00:00:15,210 you're playing around with this space between letters. 5 00:00:15,210 --> 00:00:18,150 You can see here I've tightened this one in and I've opened this one out, 6 00:00:18,150 --> 00:00:21,270 so let's go and look at how to do that in InDesign. 7 00:00:21,270 --> 00:00:24,230 A nice quick one, if I select my title here, 8 00:00:24,225 --> 00:00:27,575 my problem is that this is actually just in front of it, 9 00:00:27,570 --> 00:00:30,750 so I'm going to actually grab it, go to my last panel, 10 00:00:30,750 --> 00:00:32,520 unlock the background and say, 11 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,870 "You giant thing go in the background layer". 12 00:00:36,870 --> 00:00:39,810 It will be more appropriate back there and then I can lock it again. 13 00:00:39,810 --> 00:00:42,080 All right, so tracking, now I can select on them. 14 00:00:42,075 --> 00:00:43,745 If I select all of this, 15 00:00:43,740 --> 00:00:45,830 the tracking is on the character, 16 00:00:45,825 --> 00:00:47,865 it's this part here. 17 00:00:47,865 --> 00:00:50,405 The tracking is out, out, out, out, 18 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,730 out, just this space between letters, easy. 19 00:00:53,730 --> 00:00:58,890 You can, so out is interesting and in, 20 00:00:58,890 --> 00:01:00,530 don't be afraid you can go in as well, 21 00:01:00,525 --> 00:01:03,025 so minus 50, you're going to tighten it all up. 22 00:01:03,020 --> 00:01:06,470 I'm going to tighten mine up to maybe minus 30. 23 00:01:06,470 --> 00:01:08,110 Is a much different, 24 00:01:08,105 --> 00:01:11,085 you get to decide, I play with the tracking. 25 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:12,420 People call it kerning as well. 26 00:01:12,420 --> 00:01:16,410 Kerning is the built-in defaults tracking is overriding it. 27 00:01:16,410 --> 00:01:20,450 So I'm going to select all of this and go to zero and you just watch it. 28 00:01:20,450 --> 00:01:24,140 Undo, redo, undo, redo, undo. 29 00:01:24,135 --> 00:01:26,135 Okay, I like a bit of tracking. 30 00:01:26,135 --> 00:01:27,745 The other thing we'll do while we're here, 31 00:01:27,740 --> 00:01:29,020 is we'll do the leading, 32 00:01:29,015 --> 00:01:31,085 so with character selected, 33 00:01:31,084 --> 00:01:33,694 the leading is this guy, 34 00:01:33,695 --> 00:01:37,585 set to auto, I can play around with it to tighten it up and I 35 00:01:37,580 --> 00:01:41,760 can increase it just to get it perfect. 36 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,130 I wouldn't do this for all titles, 37 00:01:43,130 --> 00:01:45,440 but the cover is a little bit of a special case. 38 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:46,900 Now, couple of shortcuts. 39 00:01:46,895 --> 00:01:48,445 With all of the selected, 40 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:53,450 I can do tracking by holding down the Alt key on a PC or option key on a Mac and 41 00:01:53,450 --> 00:01:59,470 using my left or right arrows pushes it out and left tightens it up. 42 00:01:59,465 --> 00:02:04,595 Same key, Alt or option and hit the up and down the keys, 43 00:02:04,590 --> 00:02:06,740 so I never use these options at the top here. 44 00:02:06,740 --> 00:02:10,270 I just select all of these headers this title here and I open it up a little bit. 45 00:02:10,265 --> 00:02:11,965 I just work back and forth, 46 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:13,400 you can work with separate letters, 47 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,410 you might decide that the space, 48 00:02:15,410 --> 00:02:17,000 this is actually quite a well spaced font, 49 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,700 but say this one here is a bit tight. 50 00:02:18,695 --> 00:02:21,545 I can open up just the tracking of that one a little bit. 51 00:02:21,545 --> 00:02:26,295 So when I match this one because I'm playing around with the shortcuts. 52 00:02:26,295 --> 00:02:28,425 All right, that's it for tracking and we are 53 00:02:28,420 --> 00:02:31,960 through in leading shortcuts for good measure.