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1 12 13 1 5. Drag the Bend slider to exaggerate or lessen the warp of the text. You can also type a percentage in the Bend text box to set the degree of warp. 6. Drag the Horizontal Distortion slider to increase or decrease the horizontal warp, or you can type a percentage in the text box. 7. Drag the Vertical Distortion slider to increase or decrease the vertical warp, or type a percentage in the text box.

8. Click OK when the warp effect is as you want.

Create Text on a Path

You can type text along a path, such as that shown in Figure 11-8. First you

create a path and then you type text, pulling it along the path:

1. Select a tool, such as the Pen tool or the Freeform Pen tool, to create a path. (See

Chapter 5 for additional information on creating paths.)

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TRANSFORMING TYPE (Continued)

SKEW TEXT IN A BOUNDING BOX

1. Select the text layer that you want

to skew.

2. Right-click the text and select Skew

from the context menu, or click Edit |

Transform | Skew. The pointer

changes into an arrow that you can use

to drag the handles, thus skewing the

shape of the bounding box.

FLIP THE TEXT

To flip the text, click in the text to select it,

press CTRL/CMD, and drag the bounding box

across itself to the other side. For example,

click the right handle and drag it to the left

until the text flips. You can also right-click

the text and click Flip Horizontal or Flip

Vertical for printing T-shirt transfers and other

reversed signage.

NOTE

You cannot warp text that is formatted with Faux Bold.

Nor can you warp text that is rasterized to bitmap format.

Figure 11-8: Type text on a path for special effects.

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2. Click Paths on the Options bar, and draw the path. Text will appear in the

direction that a path is drawn, so if you draw a line from left to right, that is how

letters will be inserted. If a path is too short or the text comes to the end of the

path before all the letters are on the path, the letters will follow the path and curve

around the end of it.

3. Select the Horizontal Type tool for text parallel to the path, or select the Vertical Type

tool for text perpendicular to the path.

4. Place the pointer above the path until it morphs into an I-beam. Click the path, and an

insertion point appears.

5. Type your text.

Edit Text on a Path

To edit the text on a path by inserting and deleting letters and making

formatting changes:

1. Select the text layer containing the text to be edited.

2. Click either the Horizontal Type tool or the Vertical Type tool.

3. Click the text string to place the insertion point, or highlight the text to select it.

4. Make your changes.

Flipping and Moving Text on a Path

To move text along a path or to flip it to the opposite side of a path, follow

these steps:

1. Select the Selection Tool or the Path Selection Tool.

2. Hold the tool over the type until it changes

to an I-beam with an arrow.

• To move the tool along the path, drag the

the I-beam along the path.

• To flip the text to the opposite side of the

path, drag the I-beam across the path.

• To move text on the other side of a path without also flipping it upside down, select

the text. On the Character panel, set the Baseline Shift option to a negative

number. To move whole characters across the path, enter a number equal to the

point side of the type.

NOTE

If your letters seem to disappear as you type, you may

need to pull the text string along the path. Select the Path

Selection tool, and where the text disappears, drag an

anchor point along the path in the direction the text is to

flow. As you release the Path Selection tool, the missing

letters will appear.

Normal type direction Flipped type direction

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1 12 13 1 Create Text Within a Closed Path To type text within a closed path, such as a circle or ellipse, create a path around a shape and type text, dragging the text where you want it: 1. Select a shape tool, and draw a shape, such as the oval shown in Figure 11-9. 2. Click Path on the Options bar to make the shape into a path.

3. Click the Horizontal Type tool or the Vertical Type tool, and place the insertion point

on the path.

4. Type the text.

5. Adjust the positioning using the Path Selection tool or the Direct Selection tool to

pull the text string one way or the other. You may also want to rotate the text, format it,

or apply layer styles to it before you finish.

Use Special Effects with Text

You can apply special effects to your text using options from the Styles panel.

You can also create masks to select or fill type with images.

Add Special Type Effects

with Layer Styles

Photoshop has several predefined, or preset,

styles that you can use to create drop shadows,

embossing or beveling, inside and outside

glows, gradient coloring, patterns, and more.

Figure 11-10 shows examples of some effects

described in this section that can be applied

to type. Three commonly used styles are

described next.

Figure 11-10: Examples of effects you can create using layer styles

Gradient style

Stroke style

Nebula

(from Style

panel)

Bevel style

Inner Glow

style

Emboss

style

Drop

Shadow

style

Figure 11-9: You can type text around a

closed path to create unusual effects.

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