Tag Archives: Photoshop

Typing circular text in Photoshop

6 Feb

I accept I might be a bit stupid when it comes to certain functions in Photoshop but for the past six months or so I’ve tried – without success – to create text in a perfect circle in Photoshop.

My attempts have been made using the Warp Tool which makes text distort.

I’ve Googled this problem only to be shown the Warp Tool method again and again. I just assumed I was doing something wrong.

Finally this evening I put out an SOS call on Twitter.

And God bless everyone who offered up advice. It was, however, Shawn Collins who saved my bacon. He pointed me to this YouTube video (below) tutorial from TutCast. Shawn – you rock!

The video is short and simple. Everything I love and it works like a dream.

Alternatives to Photoshop

1 Mar

If like me you can’t afford Photoshop at home, you should check out some of these alternatives. But perhaps you’ll have better luck than I did.

10 excellent open source and free alternatives to Photoshop.

I’ve used GIMP but it kept crashing my Mac so I gave up. I’ve also used Pixen with much the same results.

I’ve been intrigued by Aviary – not on the Six Revisions link above – but everytime I try to use it my computer becomes so unbearably slow that I navigate away. Sad because Aviary has three tools: Phoenix, an image editor; Peacock, a visual laboratory; and Toucan, colour palettes. When I did manage to use it without tearing my hair out I was annoyed that Phoenix had only a handful of fonts and didn’t allow you to use your own.

Still, I think it’s the best of those I’ve tried.

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