Type Distortion

Suppoz I have an 8.5×11 flyer full of type. But now I want to introduce a fat man in profile on the right side of the flyer facing in. I want to distort the type so that it looks as if that fat man’s belly is pushing the type (compressing it) and kind of conforming to the belly of the fat man, as if the left side of the type couldn’t move so with that fat man on the right, the only thing the type could do is get smashed by his belly. I don’t mean that the type conforms to the belly like a text wrap. More like a bulldozer pushed the type up against the side of a sphere. Is this a job for Photoshop? If so, can I get a clue as to how to do it?

Suppoz I have an 8.5×11 flyer full of type. But now I want to introduce a fat man in profile on the right side of the flyer facing in. I want to distort the type so that it looks as if that fat man’s belly is pushing the type (compressing it) and kind of conforming to the belly of the fat man, as if the left side of the type couldn’t move so with that fat man on the right, the only thing the type could do is get smashed by his belly. I don’t mean that the type conforms to the belly like a text wrap. More like a bulldozer pushed the type up against the side of a sphere. Is this a job for Photoshop? If so, can I get a clue as to how to do it?

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:19:28 -0800, "Alan Bell" wrote:

Suppoz I have an 8.5×11 flyer full of type. But now I want to introduce a fat man in profile on the right side of the flyer facing in. I want to distort the type so that it looks as if that fat man’s belly is pushing

type (compressing it) and kind of conforming to the belly of the fat man,

if the left side of the type couldn’t move so with that fat man on the right, the only thing the type could do is get smashed by his belly. I

mean that the type conforms to the belly like a text wrap. More like a bulldozer pushed the type up against the side of a sphere. Is this a job

Photoshop? If so, can I get a clue as to how to do it?

No. Use Illustrator and the distortion tools there.

Suppoz I have an 8.5×11 flyer full of type. But now I want to introduce a fat man in profile on the right side of the flyer facing in. I want to distort the type so that it looks as if that fat man’s belly is pushing the
type (compressing it) and kind of conforming to the belly of the fat man, as
if the left side of the type couldn’t move so with that fat man on the right, the only thing the type could do is get smashed by his belly. I don’t
mean that the type conforms to the belly like a text wrap. More like a bulldozer pushed the type up against the side of a sphere. Is this a job for
Photoshop? If so, can I get a clue as to how to do it?