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Hi

I need to 'wrap' some text around a circular image that I've drawn so that it goes around the outside - any idea how I can do that with Photoshop? (or even Coreldraw?)

Pleeeeeease help!!!!!

The image involved is a secret for now, but will soon be revealed.

You will all love it. I guarantee it.

The talented and tall one has excelled himself!

- Trout

Kinda like this:



but all the way round ...

Shuuuuut uuuuup!

;oP

Ideally you should use Illustrator for this.

However, if you use the "Warp Text" tool in Photoshop's Text palette there are all sorts of effects. Fiddle about with the settings here (Arc maybe?) to get a circle effect.

M@

How do you do it in Illustrator?  I would've offered to do it for him the other day (all begging photoshop questions from Mulcher end up in my inbox long before they ever make it to this board, let me tell you), but I couldn't remember how.

I hardly ever use Illustrator and it takes me ages to get to grips with even the simplest functions.  I know I've done it before (actually, somebody else showed me how) and it was dead easy.

Thanks M@ but have tried the arc tool (amongst others) and just can't get the required effect. Someone's suggested using Coreldraw and then tranferring it across - all dependent on whether I can save it all properly!

all begging photoshop questions from Mulcher end up in my inbox long before they ever make it to this board, let me tell you

You love it! ;oP

Only because I get to mock you with my superior knowledge*.







*it is to be noted that most eight year olds possess 'superior knowledge' of Photoshop than Mulcher.  This is less of a boast of my own prowess and more of a damning account of Mulcher's Photoshop-feebleness.

;)

How do you do it in Illustrator?

Draw a circle, and then click on it with the "Path Type" tool (which is on a drag-out from the standard Text icon). Your text then follows the circle, or indeed any path.

M@

Yes... but how do you do it?  I was with you all the way up until "draw a circle".

;)

Cheers.

How do you do it in Illustrator?

You make a path using the pencil or shape tools (elipse constrained to create a circle as would be in this case) and then select the 'path type' tool from the tool bar and position the cursor on the shape you've just drawn. The original shape disappears but the text you type in binds itself to the path from your original shape. After your text in on the path, you can orient and position it using the direct selection tool (the white arrow, top right in the tool palette).

Hope that makes sense. :s

Ok.  Can do.  What do you want, you big spanner?  I can do it and email it to you.  Will have to wait until this evening though.

Of course, it will mean having to part with one of your precious secrets...

How do you do it in Illustrator?

There's a bumper sticker waiting to happen.

Ok. Can do. What do you want, you big spanner? I can do it and email it to you. Will have to wait until this evening though.

There's an e-mail with your name on it ...

I was going to offer, but you all beat me to it.

Bolt-01 using illustrator more than ever.

Why didn't you give me a call?

even though I've been so ill this week they sent me home from work- (second day I've been in bed with flu..) could have still given you advice or help with yer project.

cough, splutter,   B.

Oh and that drink at the Angel tonight- looks like it'l have to be nxt week :(

There's a bumper sticker waiting to happen.

'ILLUSTRATOR USERS DO IT WITH BEZIER CURVES'

;)

See?

I knew you all loved him, really.
:-)

- Trout

Why didn't you give me a call?

Yes, I can just see the conversation with my editor after half the newsroom quite clearly heres me discussing Photoshop tricks as a deadline goes whizzing past ...

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." Douglas Adams

And with the simple letters h, e, r, e and s, longmanshort ably proves why he is sh*te at his job ...