Topic awaiting preservation: Is it possible to wrap Text in PS7

guys
how do I wrap a text box around a shape in photoshop.
Can i do it and how,
Tried F1, but it showed smthingelse...

it's not the text warp..

is it possible guys?

There's no comparable function in photoshop to what you want to do. You will have to either:

1. use something like indesign

2. wrap it by hand by moving the lines of text or adjusting the hard returns.




It's only after we've lost everything...
That we're free to do anything...

You can do that in PS CS unless I'm confused about what you mean by wrapping a text box around a shape. You can create type either on a path or within a closed path/shape just by clicking within the path/shape with the text tool..

You could use Blender...



It's free, and a light download, if you get version 2.25 you can switch over to the real time engine and make interactive 3D.

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Thanks guys.................


where can I get hold of blender?

Spatter: Create a text layer, then go in Layer > Type > Warp Text.... There's a lot of more or less basic warp that you can apply that way.

If you find that the Warp Text... function is too deep in the menus, you can click on the icon with a T underlined by a curve in the OptionsBar.

Cheers,

Mathieu "POÏ" HENRI

Ah, I misunderstood what you meant I guess. I was thinking wrapping like in a magazine where they have a photo placed and the text avoids it.

In Photoshop, you just choose the little "T" icon in the top info bar that has the little bendy curve line under it to pull up the text warp when you have some text selected.


It's only after we've lost everything...
That we're free to do anything...

Well, either you mean "warp" -- distort -- or you mean "wrap" -- what layout designers call a runaround.

If you want to make your text cleanly "avoid" a picture or something that's in its way, like you might see in a magazine, Photoshop doesn't provide simple tools for that. You'd need a layout program. If you just need to make text have a funky shape, Photoshop provides all the tools for that.

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2.30 is the latest

2.25 has the game engine integration... it's cool to mess around with, and free. Watch out about asking simple questions on the forums.... There are a couple of RTFM pricks who like to point out how stupid you are to ask a simple question that has been answered already.


PhotoShop's warp tool is a little cumbersome... it doesnt seem to really give you an option to make circular text paths, just oddly warped text.

Unless I've missed something... Anyone got 5 minute examples of a circular path text sequence done in PhotoShop?

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Hmmm, dontcha hate it whem ya doublecheck a statement you've made and find out you were pretty far off the mark?

T-tool, arch =

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Aurgh!! What is the rgb of this background?

[This message has been edited by UnknownComic (edited 11-21-2003).]

UnknownComic: In the Warp Text... options, select the Arc style.



Mathieu "POÏ" HENRI

Yup... I was having a brain fart when I posted in this thread... my apologies to all I've misinformed.


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thanks guys I pretty much got the idea now....

CS has Text on a Path that would do it. If you have Illustrator you could wrap text in there and cut n paste as pixels to Photoshop



[This message has been edited by Quarath (edited 11-29-2003).]