PHOTOSHOP® ELEMENTS 3: DOWN & Dirty TRICKS

Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks114

Type on a Circle

While this could be a tedious step-by-step technique for wrapping type around a circle, it doesn’t have to be. Photoshop

Elements’ cool Warp Text feature lets you create this effect much faster and easier. Here’s how:

STEP ONE: Open the circular image

you want to place type around. (Note:

You can start with a blank document:

Just draw a circular selection with the

Elliptical Marquee tool; go under the Edit

menu, under Stroke [Outline] Selection;

and add a 1-pixel black stroke to the

selection. You can then use your stroked

selection as a guide for the rotation of

your text.)

STEP TWO ...