Moving type along a path?

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Sharon_Cooke
Apr 1, 2009
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Starting with a circular shape, I’ve got type around two-thirds of a circular path. Now I want to grab the sentence and move it to start further down on the circular path. What tool/sequence to I use to grab type and move it along a path? Thanks!
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John Joslin
Apr 1, 2009
What version of Photoshop?

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Sharon_Cooke
Apr 1, 2009
Sorry: CS4, Windows XP
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Freeagent
Apr 1, 2009
Can you type on a path with Photoshop? I’d automatically reach for Illustrator for that.

Anyway, since it happens to be a circle, you can just rotate the whole thing, whether it’s live type or rasterized. But of course you must have it on a separate layer.

You’d have more problems if the path was, say, the outline of a lobster. Or a frightened cat.
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Zeno_Bokor
Apr 1, 2009
You mean something like this?
< http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f3 0ea53e41001031ab64-75baa.html>
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Freeagent
Apr 1, 2009
Well, they sidestepped the shape of that cactus nicely, didn’t they?… 😉

So apparently you can these days, that’s nice. In the old days you’d have to "Export paths to Illustrator", and then bring it back in.
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Don_McCahill
Apr 1, 2009
Sharon

I think PS text on a path works identical to Illustrators. Select the type in editing mode (probably by clicking on the T in the layers palette). There should be a little I beam within the text, at the start, middle, or end, depending on the alignment. You can drag that little I beam around to change the position. Be aware that you can also drag the beam to the center, if you want type inside the circle, not outside (you will probably do this by accident, most people do, just drag it back out if that’s what you want).

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