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Creating text along a path - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Creating text along a path
I've saved my progress as Text inside custom path.psd. In this exercise, we are going to create text along a path outline, and this might be text that occurs along a circle or wavy text or text along an arc, like we are about to create now. Now, to give you an idea of coming attractions here I'll go ahead and switch to the final Pout magazine.psd file, and I'm zoomed in to the far bottom left corner of the image. We can see the date of publication here SEPTEMBER, 2026, and we are going to create this text and format it and set the Drop Shadow all manually, as you're about to see. I have drawn the path outlined in advanced, however. So, I am going to go ahead and switch back to my image in progress, and then I'll zoom in to that bottom-left corner of the image like so, and then I'll switch over to my Paths panel. Now, notice in addition to the container path we have a path called down left and if you click on it then you'll go ahead and select it. Now, it's hard to see because…
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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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