Hi there. In this video,
we're going to look at something called tracking or it's called
kerning but what you're really doing is
you're playing around with this space between letters.
You can see here I've tightened this one in and I've opened this one out,
so let's go and look at how to do that in InDesign.
A nice quick one, if I select my title here,
my problem is that this is actually just in front of it,
so I'm going to actually grab it, go to my last panel,
unlock the background and say,
"You giant thing go in the background layer".
It will be more appropriate back there and then I can lock it again.
All right, so tracking, now I can select on them.
If I select all of this,
the tracking is on the character,
it's this part here.
The tracking is out, out, out, out,
out, just this space between letters, easy.
You can, so out is interesting and in,
don't be afraid you can go in as well,
so minus 50, you're going to tighten it all up.
I'm going to tighten mine up to maybe minus 30.
Is a much different,
you get to decide, I play with the tracking.
People call it kerning as well.
Kerning is the built-in defaults tracking is overriding it.
So I'm going to select all of this and go to zero and you just watch it.
Undo, redo, undo, redo, undo.
Okay, I like a bit of tracking.
The other thing we'll do while we're here,
is we'll do the leading,
so with character selected,
the leading is this guy,
set to auto, I can play around with it to tighten it up and I
can increase it just to get it perfect.
I wouldn't do this for all titles,
but the cover is a little bit of a special case.
Now, couple of shortcuts.
With all of the selected,
I can do tracking by holding down the Alt key on a PC or option key on a Mac and
using my left or right arrows pushes it out and left tightens it up.
Same key, Alt or option and hit the up and down the keys,
so I never use these options at the top here.
I just select all of these headers this title here and I open it up a little bit.
I just work back and forth,
you can work with separate letters,
you might decide that the space,
this is actually quite a well spaced font,
but say this one here is a bit tight.
I can open up just the tracking of that one a little bit.
So when I match this one because I'm playing around with the shortcuts.
All right, that's it for tracking and we are
through in leading shortcuts for good measure.