How to get text to do this in Photoshop?

PistolPete

PistolPete

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Just curious if there's an easy way to achieve the expanding text effect you see here on the word 'obey' in Ps?

I saw something similar on the side of a signwritten van this morning and have been playing around, but nothing in my usual tricks quite works.

The arch function in the wordart tool is similar, but distorts the Y. The perspective warp tool bunches the 'o' & 'b' up together, as does distort. It's just about do-able by rasterising the text & using the warp tool, but it left the edges noticeably softened.

So yeah, is there a way to do it, or is it really just time for me to get a copy of Illustrator?


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Not sure in Ps but it's a piece of p@ss in Illustrator.

Just set your text and then draw the shape you want it to be.

Make sure the shape is on top (as in in-font in layer order) and go to Object > Envelope Distort > Make with top object and BOOM!

It makes a mask and warps your bottom object inside the top one and your test will still be editable by double clicking it.

I find it helps to make a copy of the shape as well incase you want to make a border or whatever like in the example.

EDIT
Just read the bit about not having Illustrator. Sorry. :(
 
Have you tried Type>Warp Tool>Style>Bulge then playing around with the horizontal distortion etc?

You might need to alter the O separately, and it all depends what font you're using of course.
 
Create a type layer in photoshop

Type the word OBEY

Right click on text layer and choose "Convert to Smart Object"

Then use the Transform command and choose Warp (or perspective)

Then warp to shape required.

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Cheers guys - I think Wardy's technique gets me the closest, but I think I'm finding some of the limits of PS & the time when I need to bite the bullet & get my head around Illustrator may not be far off...
 
Ai or InDesign are the ones you need if you want perfect text. Photoshop isn't meant for things like that,
but it can do lots of things to a decent standard.

If you're struggling in future, you might be better off just trying to draw it and then clean it up in Ps maybe.
 
PistolPete said:
Cheers guys - I think Wardy's technique gets me the closest, but I think I'm finding some of the limits of PS & the time when I need to bite the bullet & get my head around Illustrator may not be far off...
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This kind of stuff is an Illustrator job really.

Grab yourself a free 30 day trial and have a go.

It's a bit of a steep learning curve and maybe not as intuitive as Ps but it's worth it and there are plenty on here that use it if you get stuck.
 
Just a thought but if you wouldn't use Ai a hell of a lot then Affinity Designer might be better as it's a £50 one off to get it.

It works very similarly to Ai and many say it's a lot better in some ways.
 
scotty said:
This kind of stuff is an Illustrator job really.

Grab yourself a free 30 day trial and have a go.

It's a bit of a steep learning curve and maybe not as intuitive as Ps but it's worth it and there are plenty on here that use it if you get stuck.
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Since I previously had the whole Creative suite I'm pretty sure my license will still work as long as I can find the right version of Ai. I ended up getting rid of most of it just because by the time it was installed I had literally no hard disk space & I found learning it all a bit overwhelming. This was before I'd started thinking of design as a hobby, so at the time MS Publisher was much better suited to my needs. Now that I have a better knowledge base to build on I think getting to grips with either Ai or InDesign is probably my next project. Although maybe I'll have another go at mastering the pen tool in PS first....
 
Illustrator is the industry standard (at the moment) so a good one to learn.

I swapped over from Freehand to Ai and I just got a month sub to lynda.com to learn the basics and then searched the net and youtube for anything I got stuck with.
 
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