I'm working my Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and i wish to create a cd label with a sentence in round shape but i dunno how, help me please, thanks in advance.

-- Cloud (cloudeen@hotmail.com), December 15, 2002

Answers

There is a simple way to make a sentence circular, but it is rather inexact. First, write the sentence normally in the middle of your work space. You need to render it onto a new layer. Make a marquee around the text and use filter:distort:poolar coordinates. Choose rectangular to polar coordinates. To get the right effect, you may need to start with rather large letters and try putting the text within different locations in the marquee. You will also probably need to transform it later. Any additional marquee at the beginning or end of the text will make it so that the text only goes part of the way around the circle.

I believe there is an even better method for making text go in circles or curves. I think it can be done with paths, but that is not an area I am familiar with.

-- Ryan Littlefield (ryanl@san.rr.com), January 20, 2003.