Circular Text on a Path

How do you put text on a circle?

Patty from New Jersey, CSA, using Photoshop CS with Windows XP, writes in with:

[Quote:] I understand that you can create a "path" and have text follow this path weather it be wavy or a complete circle. Can you instruct step by step?

Reply:

One of the new features of Photoshop CS is the ability to bind text to a path like most other programs have been able to do since the '80s.

It really doesn't matter what kind of a path it is so long as it's a path.

Create your circle using the Ellipse tool from the tool box, or create your own path using the Pen tool.

Once you have your path, select the type tool and position its cursor over the path. You may have to wave it around a bit until you find the sweet-spot -- at which time the text editing cursor will appear. Then click.

You're now ready to key in or paste your text. Select all to change text attributes or paragraph settings.

Do you need a pictorial tutorial of this? If you do, just let us know by posting your request here

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Comments

[Tison]

I figured it out, here's one way:

1. Create the text for the bottom half of your circle using the same method as you used on the top. So, you should have 2 circles with text at the top (running in a clockwise direction)

2. Simply flip the circle. Goto Edit -> Transform -> Flip Vertical.

You will see the text has flipped as well, staying upright along the bottom edge in a counter-clockwise direction.

[stevo]

Yeah i use PS6 too and can't find a good tutorial :(

[MW]

Anyone know if I can make the text flow counter-clockwise? i.e. I want the text to go from 180 degrees to 0 degress (along lower half of the circle) but still be upright...

[Fred Showker]

NO... you cannot put text on a circle in Photoshop 6 using the vector text method as you would in CS2, CS3.

See:
http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/type_on_circle/index.html

In version 6, you can use the "Warp Text" button... to the right of the text specs in the Options Bar, or you can use the "Polar Coordinates" command...

First: here's the tutorial we posted back during the years of version 6:

http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/Tips/circle.html

You will get better and faster help when you post your questions to the Photoshop 911 forums at:

http://www.dtg-forums.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5

or, here are two other pretty good tutorials which were posted to THIS blog several years ago -- now scrolled way off radar:

http://home.zonnet.nl/epragt/tutorials/photoshop/text/textroundcircle/index.jsp.htm

and/or

http://home.zonnet.nl/epragt/tutorials/photoshop/text/circulartext/index.jsp.htm

[luzia]

How do you put text on a circle?

using photoshop 6???

thank you

[Charlie Comstock]

Does this same set of instructions for placing text on a circle work with PhotoShop CS2 for Windows?