Anyone know how THIS is done??

[sdkikikins]

Anyone know how this is done? I've googled until I'm blue in the face, and THINK I know, but... How did she get the text to follow the curve of the cat's back?? Custom path in PS? If so, is the path freehand? I can't, for the life of me figure out how she did it, and have it be so smooth, and aligned.

Picture (http://spraguelab.squarespace.com/storage/ACatNamedJane_webLg.jpg)

[Wendy]

Hi ...

It could have been done using the full version of Photoshop ... with photoshop you can use the Pen tool to draw a path and make a shape (and that can be smooth) then you can type text within the shape you made.

In Elements you could do it line by line and manually align it :)

Wendy
By the way next time you want to show us an image then it is better to just give a link to the URL of the image ... a lot of people don't like to use links that download things to their computers.

[David Asch]

It would almost certainly be Photoshop; it can be done in Elephants but would be a line-by-line job. I'd say she used the pen tool to create the outline and constrained the text to the path (click the Type tool inside the shape).

[David Asch]

Oops! Simultaneous posts! :)

[sdkikikins]

Wendy
By the way next time you want to show us an image then it is better to just give a link to the URL of the image ... a lot of people don't like to use links that download things to their computers.

Ooops! I'm so sorry - I had never seen that before - it was always just opening as a link for me. I apologize!!

[sdkikikins]

Thanks - that's what I had figured - text on a path. Now if I can just figure out how to freehand draw a smooth enough line...

Thanks again!

Kim

[David Asch]

Thanks - that's what I had figured - text on a path. Now if I can just figure out how to freehand draw a smooth enough line...

Thanks again!

Kim

Not on a path, in a path. :)

[Wendy]

Hi ...

Are you using Photoshop ??

If you all you do is use the pen tool to create the smooth curves .. :)

Wendy

[TonyW]

In looking at the example I'm guessing that it was just done by starting with a rectangle shape and subtracting two curved shapes to create the text box shape as the curves don't really line up with the back of the cat - I know that was the way I did it when I wanted to do something similar as I'm not as proficient with the pen as Wendy :) . But either of those methods need Photoshop to work - being able to justify text within or around a shape would be a nice feature for a future Elements version (even Word will let you do it which is the way I did it in my Elements only days)

Tony

[PaulH]

My guess - it was done with a publishing program.

Quark or On-Design (Pagemaker).

Sine it was a book, it would have been done via a pub.program.

Use of CS2 would have been involved for images, but a pub. program really puts pages together much better than Photoshop.

You can create a text shape (box or whatever) and the text will flow within it, link boxes, etc.

You also have something similar to layers allowing you to overlay.

[Wendy]

Hi ...

I didn't realise that it was a book ... it looks like Scrapbook layout to me :confused:

Wendy

[Wendy]

Sort of like this :

I could have done it a lot better but I was rushing :)

I had to extract the cat, find a suitable kit, distress the papers ... the text was the easy bit :D :D

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1SgoBqhkrTSqAVg1Op1dl1qrXHJX7_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1SgoBqhkrTSqAVg1Op1dl1qrXHJX7)

Wendy

[twoaussies]

I found it in http://spraguelab.squarespace.com/
just yesterday. Full tutorial on how to do it.
Jean

[Wendy]

Hi Jean ...

It tells you how to do the image but it doesn't say how they did the text :)

Wendy

[twoaussies]

Oh, sorry, and I was going to try it. Lovely scrapbook page.
Jean

[Wendy]

Hi Jean ...

It does make a nice page ... try it out it actually is easy to do an Elements workaround for the text. All you need to do is start each line of text as a new text layer ... then you can fit the shape around the cat :)

Wendy

[sdkikikins]

Just getting back here to see all of your comments. I thank you!

Yes, it is just a scrapbook page, NOT a book, and the author often uses PSCS2, so assume that's it. However, I guess my follow-up question to those who know is...

Did she draw the path using freehand? Or, bezier curves? I can't for the life of me draw a smooth enough path with the freehand pen tool..

Wendy, your lines along the cat's back are so smooth! Wouldn't it be painstaking layout in Elements?

[Wendy]

Hi ...

Just has to be Bezier curves ... and that is what I used. The Pen tool is one of those things that you either love or hate and I just love it. Take a look here and you will see how to use it to make nice smooth curves:

http://www.photoshoplab.com/pen-tool-crash-course.html

I have never used the Freeform Pen tool at all and can't work out what to use it for :)

It actually not hard to follow the curve in Elements. Just decide where you want the line to start and finish (draw it roughly on a new blank layer that will help)
Then start a line of text ... when you get to the end line stop.
Start another new line one row down on the curve and just type over to the end again ..

Just keep on doing that until you have enough lines. Its a bit fiddly but not too bad to do ..

Wendy

[mimi23]

http://spraguelab.squarespace.com/display/ShowJournal?moduleId=722647&currentPage=4

Look on this page for the turtorial using Elements 5 that Jessica Sprague ( i think this is her first name) did on how to use text pattern paper as a overlay. She has a new turtorial every Friday
This turtorial was done in Feb.

Patty