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Warping Text
Similar to the text art features that have been available in word-processing programs for some time, Photoshop's Warp Text feature lets you bend, twist, and otherwise distort text. You can choose from 15 different path shapes and choose to curve type, distort it, or both.| Tip | You can warp paragraph text or regular text, but the warp always affects all existing text on the layer. So if you want to reshape just a part of a line of text — for example, to make the last few letters in a word bend upward — put that bit of text on its own layer. |
| Note | In addition, note that you can't warp type to which you've applied the faux bold style that resides on the Character palette menu. Nor can you warp bitmap fonts or fonts for which the designer hasn't provided the paths, or outlines, that make up the font characters. |
| Note | You can warp text that you created on a path, but you basically lose all ability to perform any more path-related adjustments with the text. |
After selecting a text layer, click the text warp button in the Options bar, labeled in Figure 15-23, or choose Layer Type Warp Text. Photoshop displays the Warp Text dialog box, shown in the figure.
Figure 15-23: Use the controls in the Warp Text dialog box to bend, stretch, and curve type.
After choosing a warp design from the Style pop-up menu, set the orientation of the warp by clicking the Horizontal or Vertical radio button. Then adjust the Bend, Horizontal Distortion, and Vertical Distortion sliders until you get an effect that fits your needs. You can preview your changes in the image window.I'm sure you can easily figure out how this dialog box works, but a few hints may speed you on your way:
When you select the Horizontal radio button, the warp occurs as the shape in the Style pop-up menu suggests. If you choose Vertical, the warp is applied as if you turned the shape on its side.
Use the Bend value to change the direction of the curve. For the warp style selected in Figure 15-23, for example, a positive Bend value curves the text upward, as shown in the top example in Figure 15-23, and a negative value curves the text in the opposite direction, as shown in the second example.
You can use the Horizontal and Vertical Distortion options to create perspective effects. Horizontal Distortion puts the origin point of the perspective to the left if you enter a positive value and to the right if you enter a negative value. I used a positive value to create the fifth example in Figure 15-23.
Vertical Distortion, as you can probably guess, places the origin point above the text if you enter a positive value and below the text if you enter a negative value. I created the bottom example in Figure 15-23 by entering a positive Vertical Distortion value.
If you edit warped text, Photoshop reapplies the original warp to the layer.
| Tip | After warping text, you can often improve the effect by tweaking the tracking, kerning, and other character-spacing and scaling formatting. If you have trouble achieving the distortion or perspective effect you're after, try choosing Edit Free Transform to manipulate the text layer. (You must get out of the text-editing mode to access the command.) |
