Adobe 12040118 - After Effects Standard Tutorial page 302

2. Choose a blending mode from the Inter-Character Blending menu.
Note: To blend a text layer with the layers beneath it, specify a blending mode from the Modes column in the Timeline panel.
Inter-character blending is not available for text layers with per-character 3D properties.
Text scale and baseline shift
Horizontal scale and vertical scale specify the proportion between the height and width of the text. Unscaled characters have a value of 100%. You
can adjust scale to compress or expand selected characters in both width and height.
Baseline shift controls the distance that text appears from its baseline, either raising or lowering the selected text to create superscripts or
subscripts.
To adjust scale, enter a new percentage for Horizontal Scale
To specify baseline shift, set a value for Baseline Shift
text to the right of the baseline; a negative value moves text below or to the left of the baseline.
Change the case of text
You can enter or format text as uppercase characters, either all caps or small caps. When you format text as small caps, After Effects uses the
small caps designed as part of the font, if they are available. If the font does not include small caps, After Effects generates faux small caps.
Note: Small Caps formatting does not change characters that were originally typed in uppercase.
Click the All Caps button
Choose All Caps or Small Caps from the Character panel menu.
Note: You open the panel menu by clicking the panel menu button
Format text as superscript or subscript
Superscript characters are reduced in size and shifted above the text baseline; subscript characters are reduced in size and shifted below the text
baseline. If the font does not include superscript or subscript characters, After Effects generates faux superscript or subscript characters.
Click the Superscript button
Choose Superscript or Subscript from the Character panel menu.
Note: You open the panel menu by clicking the panel menu button
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text
After Effects provides several options for working with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) text. Characters in CJK fonts are often referred to as
double-byte characters because they require more than one byte of information to express each character.
To display CJK font names in English, choose Show Font Names In English from the Character panel menu. You open the panel menu by
clicking the panel menu button in the upper-right tab of the panel.
Adjust tsume
Tsume reduces the space around a character by a specified percentage value. The character itself is not stretched or squeezed as a result. When
tsume is added to a character, spacing around both sides of the character is reduced by an equal percentage.
1. Select the characters you want to adjust.
2. In the Character panel, enter or select a percentage for Tsume
characters. At 100% (the maximum value), no space exists between the character's bounding box and its em box.
Specify how leading is measured
1. Select the paragraphs you want to adjust.
2. Choose Top-To-Top Leading or Bottom-To-Bottom Leading from the Paragraph panel menu. A check mark indicates which option is
selected.
Note: You open the panel menu by clicking the panel menu button
Use tate-chuu-yoko
Tate-chuu-yoko (also called kumimoji and renmoji) is a block of horizontal text laid out within a vertical text line.
or the Small Caps button in the Character panel.
or the Subscript button in the Character panel.
or Vertical Scale in the Character panel, or drag the underlined value.
in the Character panel. A positive value moves horizontal text above and vertical
in the upper-right tab of the panel.
in the upper-right tab of the panel.
. The greater the percentage, the tighter the compression between
in the upper-right tab of the panel.
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