merbliss opened this issue on Jul 25, 2002 ยท 12 posts
retrocity posted Sat, 27 July 2002 at 11:17 PM
Merbliss, Slynkys suggestion is not REALLY as painful if you do something like this: Create a circle. With the rulers visible (Command/Control + R) drag a guide line from the top ruler to the center of your circle. Drag a guide line from the side to the center as well. You should have a horizontal and a vertical guide in the center of you circle. Use the type tool and create the first letter (to wrap around the circle) and place it at the VERY TOP CENTER of the circle. Press the Command/Control +T and bring up "Free Transform". You'll see the handles on each corner and a target in the center of the bounding box. Hold down the "shift" key and click directly on the center target, drag downward until the center target matches up with the center of your circle. Move you cursor back up but stay just outside of the bounding box, you'll see your cursor change into a two-headed arrow. Click and drag to the left and you'll see that your type will rotate and follow the shape of your circle (that's because you placed the center point at the circles center). Place the letter wherever you want to start your type and repeat this process until your word is complete. If you want text to wrap around the bottom as well just do the exact same steps except place the letter at the VERY BOTTOM CENTER of the circle. When you're done, and you see that they aren't where you wanted them to start, just link the layers you want to move and call up the "Free Transform-" again, when they are where you want them and you're sure there's no typos, you can render them and then merge the layers. But IT IS FASTER to do in Illustrator... This is just one way to do it in Photoshop... see ya around :) retrocity