Type on a path vs. text as an art brush

- [Instructor] Another often overlooked use for…art brushes is text along a path.…And you may recall text on a path…from the end of chapter eight of the fundamentals course.…We're seeing a couple of examples right here…and it works just great if you want to keep your text…editable and you want to set it along…a nice, smooth path outline.…But what if you're looking for a more distinctive effect…where the text distorts or bows,…as we're seeing right here,…and you want it to auto-fit the path?…And this is a huge issue.…

Art brushes always automatically fit their path outlines,…where text along a path does not.…And so, what I'm going to do in this movie…is show you how we might approach this project…if all we had to work with was text along a path outline…and then in the next movie, we'll see how much smoother…things go if you first convert your text to an art brush.…If you're working along with me, twirl open the…path type layer at the top of the layers panel…and then scroll to the bottom of it and you will find…