Shaping Text

[waynis]

Hi guys l have tried several times to shape text....I have looked at the tutorial but my cursor doesn't change when l hover it over the edge's???????

[waynis]

just found another tutorial from Mrhenrydog so l'll give that a go cheers....


no that didn't work either...I place the path dots and make the shape but then when l grab the text tool and click inside the shape it still wont shape.....HELP me please

[voetzoeker]

You need to have Photoshop CS2 to shape tekst inside a path.
If you have CS1 ore lower, you only can attache tekst to a path, not inside.

[waynis]

Thanx guys l'm using photoshop 7 .... I've tried but it's not working gonna have a break....

[voetzoeker]

I know same thing happend to me, the only way i got it to work was with CS2 gonna try this in CS tonight.

Good luck

[voetzoeker]

Ok i got it to work in cs

1st thing, when i create a custom shape path with the pen tool and want to apply the tekst tool to it, it doesn't work :chin:

The only way to get a custom shape, is to create a rectangular shaped path with the regtangle tool
and shape that with the direct selection tool into the shape i want and then apply the tekst tool to it :yawn:
Man thats just weird,

[voetzoeker]

Made you a movie that will show it doesn't work.


no dice

its weird in cs2 it works fine and in photoshop 8 at work it also works fine, but with cs it just won't work with custom shapes only with predefined shapes :chin:

[voetzoeker]

and here's 1 were i got it to work

weee tekst

[voetzoeker]

Yea, it must be a bug of somekind.
i've used BB Flashback to record the demo, got it from this topic

Thnx to B3ARStyLE

[MrHenryDog]

my apologies, i only have cs2 so i didnt know it wouldnt work with early versions, i will edit the tutorial to reflect this