Circular Text ?

Post by **Phineus** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 9:15 pm

Does anybody have a program or method for wrapping text in a circle? I'm trying to get mtm.com and malibu350.com in an over and under arc from one another and I'm not havng an easy time of it. Any ideas? Thanks.

ch_2005 · Post by **ch_2005** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:41 pm

Photoshop

http://badassrebels.net/ch_2005/misc/mtm2malcom.png

Post by **Phineus** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:36 pm

I haven't touched photoshop for a very very long time. Mabye I should get reacquainted with it again. Meantime, I found a cd labeler at tucows, lol. No fancy effects tho. Anyway, thanks ch. Guess I have to dig deeper.

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:31 am

All I see are tutorials for doing it in PSP 6 or higher, Photoshop 6 or higher (I have 5.5) or using PhotoImpact....no stand alone proggies.....You'd think they'd be everywhere...

I did all my tire lettering manually, letter by letter.

Post by **Phineus** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:04 am

> ....You'd think they'd be everywhere...

All those plugins too and notaone to circle text.

> I did all my tire lettering manually, letter by letter.

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt :-)

ch_2005 · Post by **ch_2005** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 11:23 am

umm i dont know if there is a way to do a circle in psp6 - i just did 2 arches.

Fila · Post by **Fila** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 1:14 pm

I did do circular texts in PSP 7...

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:30 pm

"Paint Shop Pro 6 and 7 allows you to make circular text. Follow the PSP tutorial below to make your own circular text designs."

http://www.hypergurl.com/pspcircletext.html

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There also a non-direct "technique" for doing it in PSP5:

PAINT SHOP PRO 5 TUTORIAL
"CIRCULAR TEXT"

http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/bu ... rcle_text/

EmceeMart · Post by **EmceeMart** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:58 pm

Don't you have Corel PhotoPaint/Draw Phin?
There is an option to "plot text to path" (i.e. circle, oval or whatever shape you make your path). I don't have the program mounted right now but if you search in Corel's local help files "plotting or fitting text to path" is the thing to search for. If memory serves me right the method is (in CorelDraw):

#1 make your path i.e. draw a circle

#2 write your text anywhere on the page

#go to TEXT in the menu bar and click on Fit Text to Path

After adjusting text size and/ or path size to achieve the required result you can then select your circle and delete it, leaving your text in place. You can choose to have your text (or any part of it) fit the path by aligning baseline, cap height or centre. Hope this is of some use.

edit: link: http://www.unleash.com/articles/textonpath/

Post by **Phineus** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 6:20 pm

I have all sorts of things, but seems I'm stuck in a rut with psp5. I'll have to start doing something about that. Meantime, can't have too many paint tips and tricks. Great stuff all around [tu]

EmceeMart · Post by **EmceeMart** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 8:19 pm

re: Corel... I thought being Canadian an' all