flowing text

[joyfuljanet]

I have a Mac and PSE 4. I understand that you cannot make a text path(?) on PSE but you can on Photoshop. I am making a birthday card for my sister in law and would like the words happy birthday to swirl around the card, any suggestions in creating this?

[Heather G]

The best way I can think to do this in Elements would be to use normal text boxes and then free transform and warp the text to flow the way you want it to. Use multiple text boxes as needed. Once you have the words spelled correctly, you can also simplify the text layers and then play with them with the different distort filters - pinch, ripple, sheer, etc. Other than that, all I can think to do is to search for someone who has a text path template that does the shape you want or describe how you want it to float around and ask someone to create a path for you. I am still learning about the path abilities but if you were more specific (or doodled on paper and scanned it), I would be willing to try to help create a path that does what you want for you.

[connieg]

You could try using the wraped tool to get your waves or try using the shear tool. Type your phrase, simplify it, rotate, to the right or left; so it is vertical, click on the marquee tool and draw a bigger box (outline) around it, go to filter> distort> shear. Pulling and adding new points where you want to get the desired wave. Here is an example using this method http://www.scrappersguide.com/forums...00&ppuser=3817

[joyfuljanet]

http://www.scrappersguide.com/forums...500&ppuser=505

HEre is the birthday card. With all my creating and grouping and deleting I ended up with a B cut out of the heart that I have no idea how I did it. I did each letter on a separate layer and I made it all much harder than I needed to. But I have to start somewhere and thank you for the input, suggestions and support.

[Heather G]

As for how you most likely ended up with the "B" cutout on your heart... you probably had the "B" letter outline selected (Ctrl-click? on PC - Cmd-click on Mac) but were working on your heart layer and hit delete so it deleted the selection from your heart and not the actual letter layer... I tend to do that a lot but it is also useful when you want to do things like that Some of the most "creative" things I have done have started out as "oops!"

[joyfuljanet]

http://www.scrappersguide.com/forums...500&ppuser=505

Here is the final final edition. I redid the heart, got rid of the cut out b, made the pocket bigger moved the text around and added a few more letters to make it flow off the page.

I am delighted I stuck with this and I know that your support really helped me.

Janet

[Wendy]

Janet ...

It looks fantastic !!

Wendy

[connieg]

You did a fabulous job, it looks wonderful

[jw4joyce]

That is a lovely card. Goes to show, that experimenting leads to some great results. Joyce

[chris78p]

This in response to joyfuljanet.Pattie Knox at Designer Digitals has several text templates for sale at a nominal fee. Hope this is helpful.
Chris