TEXT ON A PATH
PSP8 to PSPX3
This tutorial was written by Jemima ~ APRIL 2011
Copyright © 2011 ~ Jemima ~ All rights reserved

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We will cover a variety of "Text On A Path" options in this tutorial.

(1).. Text Outside a Curve
(2)..... Text Inside a Curve
(3)...Text on a Wavy Line
(4)... Text Outside a Circle


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TEXT OUTSIDE A CURVE

In your MATERIALS PALETTE Load BLACK " #000000" in your foreground NULL YOUR BACKGROUND Open a new image 600 x 600 Transparent background PSPX - X2: Colour Depth = 8bits/channel PSPX3: Colour Depth RGB = 8bits/channel Select your PRESET SHAPES tool Choose the "Ellipse" shape and these settings. Starting at 100 pixels across and 100 pixels down drag your cursor to 500 pixels across and 500 pixels down and release Select your TEXT tool PSPX3 TIP: PSPX3 has a very different way of adding text However if you hold down the shift key when clicking on the A (Text Tool) the box will show up as other versions otherwise type the text and then click on the apply changes (green button in the tools options next to presets) I used these settings Starting at 100 pixels across and 100 pixels down drag your cursor to 500 pixels across and 500 pixels down and release Move the Text Cursor to the top of the circle, once the icon appears... LEFT click your mouse and the text box will appear. Insert your text Click APPLY In your LAYER PALETTE click on the + (plus) sign to open the vector layers CLOSE the Ellipse layer Right click on the Vector 1 layer and select Convert to Raster layer and you're done... easy wasn't it *S* ****************************

TEXT INSIDE A CURVE

In your MATERIALS PALETTE Load BLACK " #000000" in your foreground NULL YOUR BACKGROUND Open a new image 600 x 600 Transparent background PSPX - X2: Colour Depth = 8bits/channel PSPX3: Colour Depth RGB = 8bits/channel Select your PRESET SHAPES tool Choose the "Ellipse" shape and same settings as above. BUT this time start your shape at 50 pixels across 500 pixels down and DRAG YOUR CURSOR UP to 200 pixels down and 550 pixels across Select your TEXT tool (I used the same settings as above) Move the Text Cursor to the bottom, OUTSIDE the circle, once the icon appears... LEFT click your mouse and the text box will appear. I used the same text as above Click APPLY In your LAYER PALETTE click on the + (plus) sign to open the vector layers CLOSE the Ellipse layer Right click on the Vector 1 layer and select Convert to Raster layer Another one done *S* ****************************

TEXT ON A WAVY LINE

In your MATERIALS PALETTE Load BLACK " #000000" in your foreground NULL YOUR BACKGROUND Open a new image 600 x 600 Transparent background PSPX - X2: Colour Depth = 8bits/channel PSPX3: Colour Depth RGB = 8bits/channel Select your PEN tool Starting from the lower left draw a wavy line... it doesn't have to be too perfect. Click APPLY In your MATERIALS PALETTE Load BLACK " #000000" in your BACKground NULL YOUR FOREGROUND Select your TEXT tool (I used the same settings as before except I changed the SIZE to 12) Move the Text Cursor to the downward slope of your line ..once the icon appears... LEFT click your mouse and the text box will appear. Enter your text Click APPLY NOW... you can have all sort of fun pulling and pushing the NODES in different directions.. here are a few samples In your LAYER PALETTE click on the + (plus) sign to open the vector layers CLOSE the New Path layer Right click on the Vector 1 layer and select Convert to Raster layer How hard was that??? *S*

TIPS: You can also change the positioning in the line by changing the ALIGNMENT in your TEXT settings. You can change the look of your text by using EFFECTS >>> TEXTURE EFFECTS >>> SCULPTURE

TEXT OUTSIDE A CIRCLE

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