Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

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for Adobe Fonts to activate your fonts.

7. Click Activate Font next to the Regular and Bold versions of the font.

The selected fonts are automatically added to your system and are then available in any
application, including After Effects. After you’ve activated your fonts, you can close Adobe
Fonts and your browser.


Creating and formatting point text


When you enter point text, each line of text is independent—the length of a line increases or
decreases as you edit the text, but it doesn’t wrap to the next line. The text you enter appears in a
new text layer. The small line through the I-beam marks the position of the text baseline.


1. In the Tools panel, select the Horizontal Type tool ( ).
2. Click anywhere in the Composition panel, and type Road Trip. Then exit text-editing mode
by pressing Enter on the numeric keypad or selecting the layer name in the Timeline panel.
The text layer is selected in the Composition panel.

Note
If you press Enter or Return on the regular keyboard instead of on the numeric
keypad, you’ll begin a new paragraph.

Using the Character panel

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