TYPETOOL CURVES SOFTWARE

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We invite your tips, tricks, comments, suggestions and camaraderie. don't forget, any community is only as good as the participation of its members. Return to the Photoshop Department, or the Design Center Main Index Participate in your Design Center Now, you should be confident with type on curves and circles in most any of the leading graphic design and desktop publishing programs. Photoshop is STILL an image processer, no matter what Adobe says, and cannot come close to managing digital objects as well as Illustrator. If you own the whole Creative Suite, then always use Illustrator for text on paths or other complicated text operations.

TYPETOOL CURVES SOFTWARE

So, naturally they would have the best software in the industry for setting and manipulating fonts. We don't need much explanation here because you've already learned all the techniques in our first Photoshop Tutorial! Illustrator works the same.ĭon't forget: Adobe wrote the book on digital fonts. Illustrator's text tools are second to none, and the Pen Tool is the best in the world - even much better than Photoshop's Pen Tool. This is really nice - it should be incorporated into Photoshop.Īs far as I'm concerned, this type of operation is better in Illustrator any way. You should feel right at home now.įinally, Illustrator handles things the same as Photoshop, except with Illustrator you'll get a ghosted image of the type as you move it with the Direct Select tool. Note that Quark XPress also has the same anchors, handles and curves. There's also a pen tool, and direct select tool, so you can modify your curves all you like. The Quark screen view is a bit rougher than Adobe's but the end results are all the same. Quark has a 'Text on Path' tool as well as 'Text Inside Path' tool. Here you'll want to discover all the different tools available under the tool box. Type on a curve in Quark XPress works much the same. presto, your type snaps to the center of the circle. If you want your slogan centered at the top of the circle, simply get the paragraph palette and click on 'Centered Paragraph'. For instance, you don't really have to worry about moving the type around on the path. InDesign's text tools are far better than Photoshop's too - you can actually do some things easier. In this illustration, notice the same anchors, handles, path and all the familiar elements you saw in Photoshop. When you go to plant the Text Tool, make sure you have the 'Type on a Path' tool selected from the Type Tool pull-out.

Release the mouse, then Click and drag DOWN with the Pen Tool on the other side while holding the Shift Key.Īs you adjust the arch, keep those handles vertical and your curve will be nice and round. You can do that, but to get a perfect circular shape,Ĭlick with the Pen Tool and drag UP with the Shift-Key. In this picture, I've screwed up the arch by playing with the handles. Yes, you can do the very same thing in InDesign.Īgain, rather than the boring circle tool, we've used the InDesign Pen Tool to create our Path.

Circular Type in Adobe InDesign and others. Photoshop Tips & Tricks answers questions posted to the Photoshop 911 hot line!. Adobe Photoshop can be confusing at times.

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