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Ok, this has probably been covered but, I'm designing a quick logo that my client wanted it to be a circle with text wrapping around the disc.
Now I've been experimenting with a few things but I can't seem to get this text to path thing down....

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks

What software are you working with?

sorry, i posted this in the wrong group by accident... photoshop cs2....

Is this what you wanted Rob? Guru's "Type on a Circle

::tao:::: ::cell::

yer the bomb Tao.... exactly what I was looking for. I like your sig btw.... one of the nicer ones I've seen.

Thanks Rob, it felt good making it too. It's called TaoBoogie, I think it has a happy vibe as if it is smiling.

Rob : If you're using CS, you can make a circular (or curved) path, select the type tool, click on the path ( the cursor will change) , and type.
I don't have PS here at work, but I think that's it.

yes that's it DocileBob. The tutorial should be amended to give this info to CS /CS2 users.

Pierre Courtejoie

Just had to go over to a friends to use his CS to have a look at this Nifty huh? Especially with the fine tuning you can do with the Path Selection and the Direct Selection Tools.

Figured it out... thanks Bob. Only thing though is how did you get it to print right side up? I created a circle (the company is called circle of three)
and I have circle of three on the top half of the circle, then I wanted "productions" on the lover portion still curving but right side up like yours.
For now it's just upside down.

I know it can't be that difficult, this is such a powerfull tool for this kindof thing.

:-D

http://www.wayoutwestenterprises.com/images/circle.jpg

I bodged this one on a buddys CS, I'm not that familiar with it yet, as I use PS7. I digress, Make a selection the same dimension as the circle on a new layer. Save the selection and convert it to a path. Type text on top of circle. New layer, load selection, convert selection to a path. Type text on bottom half. Tranform, resize holding Shift>Alt untill it looks as near as poss'. I then spent a while, too long really, tweaking with the text character spacing and all the other text tweaksbles to get the "line" right.
Another way I tried, and much less fuss, was to;
Make a new layer above the layer that you have your circle on. Using the pen tool select the top half of the circle with many clicks type you text.
On a new layer type your text then go to Warp Text, I used Arc horizontal at a large minus setting.
I do have the feeling that there is a much easier way staring me in the face.

Mmmm...the type on a path was *supposed* to be a feature of Ps 7....but apparently didn't make it =(

Of course, that tutorial was written years ago. We've discussed at the GN adding notices to the older tutorials about the possibilities of newer features and all....we'll get to it I'm sure...