WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:06.620 --> 00:00:08.880 Hi there. In this video, 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:11.520 we're going to look at something called tracking or it's called 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:13.350 kerning but what you're really doing is 00:00:13.350 --> 00:00:15.210 you're playing around with this space between letters. 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, 00:00:18.150 --> 00:00:21.270 so let's go and look at how to do that in InDesign. 00:00:21.270 --> 00:00:24.225 A nice quick one, if I select my title here, 00:00:24.225 --> 00:00:27.570 my problem is that this is actually just in front of it, 00:00:27.570 --> 00:00:30.750 so I'm going to actually grab it, go to my last panel, 00:00:30.750 --> 00:00:32.520 unlock the background and say, 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.870 "You giant thing go in the background layer". 00:00:36.870 --> 00:00:39.810 It will be more appropriate back there and then I can lock it again. 00:00:39.810 --> 00:00:42.075 All right, so tracking, now I can select on them. 00:00:42.075 --> 00:00:43.740 If I select all of this, 00:00:43.740 --> 00:00:45.825 the tracking is on the character, 00:00:45.825 --> 00:00:47.865 it's this part here. 00:00:47.865 --> 00:00:50.400 The tracking is out, out, out, out, 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:53.730 out, just this space between letters, easy. 00:00:53.730 --> 00:00:58.890 You can, so out is interesting and in, 00:00:58.890 --> 00:01:00.525 don't be afraid you can go in as well, 00:01:00.525 --> 00:01:03.020 so minus 50, you're going to tighten it all up. 00:01:03.020 --> 00:01:06.470 I'm going to tighten mine up to maybe minus 30. 00:01:06.470 --> 00:01:08.105 Is a much different, 00:01:08.105 --> 00:01:11.080 you get to decide, I play with the tracking. 00:01:11.080 --> 00:01:12.420 People call it kerning as well. 00:01:12.420 --> 00:01:16.410 Kerning is the built-in defaults tracking is overriding it. 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. 00:01:20.450 --> 00:01:24.135 Undo, redo, undo, redo, undo. 00:01:24.135 --> 00:01:26.135 Okay, I like a bit of tracking. 00:01:26.135 --> 00:01:27.740 The other thing we'll do while we're here, 00:01:27.740 --> 00:01:29.015 is we'll do the leading, 00:01:29.015 --> 00:01:31.084 so with character selected, 00:01:31.084 --> 00:01:33.695 the leading is this guy, 00:01:33.695 --> 00:01:37.580 set to auto, I can play around with it to tighten it up and I 00:01:37.580 --> 00:01:41.760 can increase it just to get it perfect. 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:43.130 I wouldn't do this for all titles, 00:01:43.130 --> 00:01:45.440 but the cover is a little bit of a special case. 00:01:45.440 --> 00:01:46.895 Now, couple of shortcuts. 00:01:46.895 --> 00:01:48.440 With all of the selected, 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 00:01:53.450 --> 00:01:59.465 using my left or right arrows pushes it out and left tightens it up. 00:01:59.465 --> 00:02:04.590 Same key, Alt or option and hit the up and down the keys, 00:02:04.590 --> 00:02:06.740 so I never use these options at the top here. 00:02:06.740 --> 00:02:10.265 I just select all of these headers this title here and I open it up a little bit. 00:02:10.265 --> 00:02:11.960 I just work back and forth, 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:13.400 you can work with separate letters, 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:15.410 you might decide that the space, 00:02:15.410 --> 00:02:17.000 this is actually quite a well spaced font, 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:18.695 but say this one here is a bit tight. 00:02:18.695 --> 00:02:21.545 I can open up just the tracking of that one a little bit. 00:02:21.545 --> 00:02:26.295 So when I match this one because I'm playing around with the shortcuts. 00:02:26.295 --> 00:02:28.420 All right, that's it for tracking and we are 00:02:28.420 --> 00:02:31.960 through in leading shortcuts for good measure.