Does anyone know, whether it is possible to put type into a shape such as a circle, or any other polyphonic shape. I don’t mean that the text should bend, but that the borders are set by the shape, e.g. I don’t want the text to cross the circle border.
Is there a function that allows the user to set the borders of the type tool other than the rightangle?
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Just draw your polygon, or circular shape, with the Pen tool; click inside it with the Type tool and start typing.
I’m unable to make this work. I used the Pen tool to draw a shape, clicked inside it with the type tool and the type pays no attention to the shape what so ever. Can you give me more info or point me to a tutorial? Thanks! Larry
Tried it out just a sec ago, and I still can’t get it to work. After drawing a circle or polygon (sorry for that foolish polyphonic! Quite funny though), I selected my type tool, but as I press into the circle, it obviously creates another layer, that doesn’t get affected by the borders of the circle!
Is there anything in preferences or anything else I have to change before the border of the circle becomes the border of my text?
Finally, I found how to do it. You have to create a Path and then press into it with the type tool. Search in Photoshop help for "create path". The third subject "Creating a work path (Photoshop)" will tell you how to get it all to work.
Works for me in CS as long as I have the shape tool set up either to create a path or a shape layer. I just click with the text tool and the shape gets surrounded by a bounding box and the text is constrained (on its new layer) to lie within the shape – how closely it fills depends on font size and word length etc
(edit -Tim – you beat me to your own solution!) Susan S
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