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Creating text inside a custom path - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Creating text inside a custom path
I have saved my changes as Side-by-side area text.psd, so-called by the way because we have area text over here on the left and right-hand side of our magazine cover. In this exercise we are going to take this text right here, Make Him Love You In Less than 5 Minutes, and we are going to paste it into a custom shape outline, so that it wraps to the contours of the model. So here is how we'll start. Get the Type tool and click inside of the text to make it active. Then press Ctrl+A or Command+A on the Mac, in order to select all of that text. And now I'll go up to the Edit menu and choose the Copy command or press Ctrl+C, Command+C on the Mac, because this time we not only want to copy the text, we want to copy its formatting attributes as well. All right, so we're done with that. I'll press the Escape key to cancel out of the Text Edit mode, and I am going to turn off this text layer clicking on its eyeball icon. Now then I want you to switch over to the Paths panel, and you'll find…
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Photoshop's vector exceptions1m 11s
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Making text in Photoshop6m 18s
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Creating and editing a text layer6m 56s
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Font and type style7m 35s
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Type size and color7m 52s
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Combining layer effects and type10m 57s
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Drawing a custom shape layer8m 34s
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Side bearing, kerning, and tracking10m 36s
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Point text vs. area text8m 26s
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Selecting and formatting a paragraph5m 19s
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Copying and pasting unformatted text7m 45s
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Creating text inside a custom path6m 26s
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Creating text along a path8m 13s
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Adjusting baseline shift6m 16s
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Drawing a fading arrowhead7m 29s
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Fading a shadow with a layer5m 32s
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Logo creation and Fill Opacity7m 44s
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Stretching a background element6m 9s
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Drawing with shape outlines6m 18s
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Combining vector-based shapes6m 42s
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Masking vector-based shape layers6m 7s
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Correcting spacing problems7m 44s
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Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle8m 45s
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Preparing text for commercial output5m 9s
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Saving a high-resolution PDF file7m 11s
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Inspecting the final PDF document7m 8s
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Saving large poster art9m 32s
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