Bending text

Bending text around an image

[eyedam]

Hello!

Could someone, please, explain me how to bend a text (a couple of words) around an image (although it's unsignificant that it's around an image ;)).

I can use Adobe Photoshop or Corel Draw. I hope at lease one of these programs can do the bending (to almost 36O degrees).

Thanks!
eyedam

[mivox]

Photoshop 6 and up can do it... but the shape of the letters warps as the words bend. Don't know if PS 7 improved that feature.

Don't know about Corel Draw.

[limbo]

Don't know if you have access to Fireworks but there is a very nice feature where you can attach text to paths.

>> Draw the path

>> Write the text

>> shift select both the text and the path

>> from the text menu select attach to path

>> Voila :)

This does not degrade as much as PS but is not good for print.

[Paul in South Africa]

Corel Draw also has this feature.

Draw the path.
Write the text.
Select the text and the path.
Under the Text menu select Fit Text To Path.

[mivox]

Macromedia Freehand has an excellent text-to-path feature last I checked, so I'm not surprised Fireworks does a good job at it too... but it sounds like Corel Draw will fit the bill better than Photoshop in this case (anyone know otherwise with PS7?)

[korkus2000]

>>Macromedia Freehand has an excellent text-to-path feature last I checked

Its still in Freehand MX. I prefer to do it in freehand instead of Photoshop(fireworks and other raster programs) and bring it over.

[estebones]

Illustrator has some sort of a type-path option, I believe.