Text to Curve

I am going to show you how you can use text to curve in Photoshop

The examples above can be used with any preset shape that you have

This tutorial uses the simple circle shape

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Open a document of any size

I have gone for 500x500px

Now on to the left select the Custom Select Tool

and where you see the small arrow click on it and select the Ellipse Tool 

Hold shift on your keyboard and create a circle to your canvas

Colour and size doesn't matter

Now select your Text Tool and at this point the colour and font doesn't matter

For this tutorial I have gone for black as the colour

Select about the middle of the top of the circle

You will see a small wave when you hover any part of the circle

Now type in any text that you want

I have gone for my blog name

Go to your layers palette to your right and hide the Ellipse 1 layer

This will hide that layer, click on the top layer, right click

and select Rasterize Type

This will make your text to a raster layer and you can now

delete the Ellipse layer as you don't need it any more

That is how you text to curve in Photoshop

This technique comes in handy when you want a curve to your tag

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This tutorial was written by Neptunia Tutorials

Any resemblance to any other tutorial or tag is purely coincidental

All my tutorials act as a guide only

Using Masks

This is not for snagging

This tutorial is showing how that you can use Paint Shop Pro masks in Photoshop

This tutorial was written in Photoshop CS6 and if you know

your version then this should work

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SUPPLIES:

Mask used is MPM_mask135 from Milllies PSP Madness

Paper used is from one of my own packs,

which you can get at Neptunia Designs

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OTHER INFORMATION:

For the sake of this tutorial most/all images have been resized

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Open the mask that you want to use and also open your chosen paper

With the paper image open, go Image >> Image Resize

In either the height or width box type in 700 and click OK

Double click on the Background layer and when the

New Layer window comes up, click OK

On your mask image go to Select >> All and Edit >> Copy

Back to your paper layer go to Edit >> Paste

Click the Channels tab on the Layers palette, press Ctrl and click on the top layer

When doing this you will see a hand with dashed rectangle on top

Mask now should have marching ants around the mask

Click on the Layers tab and hide the mask by clicking on the eye

Highlight the bottom layer and at the bottom you should see a

gradient rectangle with a white circle

Click on it and then you should be able to see that you have use a

Paint Shop Pro mask in Photoshop

Below is a couple of examples using a couple of of other masks and my papers

Click on either one of the images to view at full size

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This tutorial was written by Neptunia Tutorials

Any resemblance to any other tutorial or tag is purely coincidental

All my tutorials act as a guide only