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What I’m trying to do is put text all around a contoured object such as a person in an image. What I would do is with the Lasso tool make a tight selection around the contoured object and then select Inverse. I would then Right click with the Selection (lasso)in the area I don’t want the text to appear and in the drop down menu would select "Make Work Path from Selection" and give it a tolerence of 2.0 pixels. After I click OK the marching ants would then become a solid line around the contoured object and the outer borders of the image.
In my Paths Pallet it would show "Work Path" with a thumbnail of the selected object in gray surrounded by white. When I select the Type tool and place it in the area where I want my text to appear, the Type tool cursor is now an I-beam with a small horizontal bar near the bottom of it with dotted angles on each side of it.Now when I click on where I want my text I would lose my path around the contoured object and the outer borders of the image looks like a banding box.The Type tool cursor now turns to just an I beam with the small horizontal line at the bottom of it (there are no square dotted lines around it. Naturally now I can’t omit type on the object I don’t want text on.
This is probably a crude way of accomplishing what I want to accomplish (putting text only around a contoured object) but at one time this method worked without any problems and all of a sudden this method went Kaput.
So I was wondering if somebody can see where I’m screwing up. Andrew
In my Paths Pallet it would show "Work Path" with a thumbnail of the selected object in gray surrounded by white. When I select the Type tool and place it in the area where I want my text to appear, the Type tool cursor is now an I-beam with a small horizontal bar near the bottom of it with dotted angles on each side of it.Now when I click on where I want my text I would lose my path around the contoured object and the outer borders of the image looks like a banding box.The Type tool cursor now turns to just an I beam with the small horizontal line at the bottom of it (there are no square dotted lines around it. Naturally now I can’t omit type on the object I don’t want text on.
This is probably a crude way of accomplishing what I want to accomplish (putting text only around a contoured object) but at one time this method worked without any problems and all of a sudden this method went Kaput.
So I was wondering if somebody can see where I’m screwing up. Andrew
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