Text on a Path Help?

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Jonah_Schwartz
May 19, 2004
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Im at college…PSCS is sitting on my bed at home. I was wasting time in the computer lab, when I realized they FINALLY got CS. So I played around.

I was really excited about CS because my friend is a musician and she likes my work, so Ive been making her album covers for her.

One thing I wanted to do was wrap text around the contours of a guitar..which I can now do…

but I learned something very disapointing.

I created a background and then pasted the guitar image on top. I deleted the surrounding areas…

but Text on a path does not know the contours…although It did when I delete. This means I had to draw it with the mouse.

It was NOT like the magnetic lasso tool as I had assumed it would be.

So does anyone else have this problem. Drawing it by hand makes it more difficult to make an even line…provided…I didnt spend all too much time on it. I was just playing and experimenting.

Is there a way to get an even line for TOAP or do I just have to suffer and do it by hand?

Thanks
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Don_McCahill
May 19, 2004
if you know how to use the pen tool, you should be able to draw a guitar side with three mouseclicks in under a half minute.
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norm
May 19, 2004
A Don has said, just use the pen tool to draw a path along the edge of the guitar. Then select the text tool. When you move the text cursor close to the path it will show the I bar with an oblique line going through it. At that point click on the path and start typing. Select the pen tool again. Hold down the Ctrl key to get the white arrow and click at the beginning of the text on a small X to move the text. This is all described better than I can in the Help file "text along a path".

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Im at college…PSCS is sitting on my bed at home. I was wasting time in
the computer lab, when I realized they FINALLY got CS. So I played around.
I was really excited about CS because my friend is a musician and she
likes my work, so Ive been making her album covers for her.
One thing I wanted to do was wrap text around the contours of a
guitar..which I can now do…
but I learned something very disapointing.

I created a background and then pasted the guitar image on top. I deleted
the surrounding areas…
but Text on a path does not know the contours…although It did when I
delete. This means I had to draw it with the mouse.
It was NOT like the magnetic lasso tool as I had assumed it would be.
So does anyone else have this problem. Drawing it by hand makes it more
difficult to make an even line…provided…I didnt spend all too much time on it. I was just playing and experimenting.
Is there a way to get an even line for TOAP or do I just have to suffer
and do it by hand?
Thanks
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Phosphor
May 20, 2004
And if you’re not real good at making paths yet, use the Magnetic Pen Tool Option, then tweak the smoothness of that path.

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