Photoshop tutorial: text warp at will

Perhaps not everyone knows about the potential of text handling in Photoshop, in particular the fact that it can manipulate text in ways very advanced. For example if we wanted to "bend" text, we would be tempted to use the "Create Warped Text" Altera testo , Which opens a window with these settings:

Altera testo

Now, apart from rare cases of "simple" wow, this procedure can go just fine, but what happens if, for example, we want to deform our text so that it follows a circle? In this case, applying the deformation "arc" or trying to use more of the results will still be daunting. There is in fact a much more simple and effective way to deform a text, you can do with just a few steps. Suppose you want to insert a word "around" to a circle. First of all we create a new layer and we do a circular selection:

Selezione circolare

Selezione

At this point we click the right button on the selection and select "Create Work Path ..."

Crea tracciato di lavoro

We choose the "tolerance" so that the "work path" is a circle as possible.

Tolleranza

Created our track select the text tool Strumento testo and draw near to the curve until the cursor is similar to that of the figure below:

Testo

At this point ... you just have to write!

Enjoy

Using the "tracks", then you can go to our text to any type of curve. In addition, once our text follows the curve of the track, as shown above, you can always edit the path through the tool "select track" Selezione tracciato :

Modifica del tracciato

12 comments to "Photoshop tutorial: text warp at will"

  1. March 31, 2009 Photoshop tutorial: text warp at will | Undolog.com :

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  2. March 31, 2009 Reloaded :

    ok ... where's the camera? not because I realized that I spy: I was doing a good job last night at PS and I was upset, because the text does not get me the layout of a form ...

  3. March 31, 2009 Giovambattista Fazioli :

    @ Reloaded: :) ... You've got me ... : P

  4. March 31, 2009 camu :

    So cool ... for an ignorant like me, Photoshop is a very nice thing to know!

  5. April 2, 2009 Angel :

    Very useful ... unfortunately this method did not yet know! ;)

  6. April 23, 2009 TheMaker :

    An example of a complete work using this technique combined with other features and settings:
    http://www.computerarts.co.uk/__data/assets/image/214103/varieties/7.jpg

    ;)

  7. April 24, 2009 Giovambattista Fazioli :

    @ TheMaker: truly original! Well done, congratulations! :)

  8. May 9, 2011 Hokusai:

    1000 thanks, very useful!

  9. June 5, 2011 stefanobeck :

    Thanks that's what I tried, maybe you could do something like this in Adobe After Effects. (Well, it is, but it is much more complicated) ..

  10. January 15, 2012 Barbara:

    Hi,
    is very interesting but how do you write at the bottom instead of the above? Thanks

  11. January 16, 2012 Giovambattista Fazioli :

    @ Barbara: If you mean the bottom to start writing down what it depends on where you click with the mouse when you start writing the text. Consider that in the case of a circular shape, as in the example above, the characters are the opposite.
    But if you were referring to the bottom inside, then just select from the Edit / Transform Path / Flip Vertical.

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