Text on a Path

In this week’s tutorial, Corey creates a logo with text arching around a center point.

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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Daniel Enloe said on — February 13, 2009 @ 9:43 pm

Very nice Corey! I look forward to your tutorials every week!
Your teaching skills are only outmatched by your Photoshop abilities…
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Stefan Klein said on — February 14, 2009 @ 6:39 am

Nice tutorial, thanks again. Unfortunately I do not have a “textures” folder in my presets. All of the other folders are there, but no textures. I have a german PS CS4 btw.
Eric said on — February 14, 2009 @ 4:59 pm

Always a cracking tutorial, thank you for all you have taught me and all you will, without doubt, teach me in the future.
AHMAD said on — February 15, 2009 @ 6:25 pm

Thank you fot this tut but i have some problem when i click the Path selection tool (the black mouse)to drage the other word its not turn into a double arrow, why ?
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Gary said on — February 16, 2009 @ 1:21 pm

Every time that I try this, the type goes inside the circle shape. I have CS3, does the type only go outside the circle if you have CS4?
David W. said on — February 16, 2009 @ 3:42 pm

Nice tutorial. I was wondering, how did you make the CS4 background with that custom honeycomb texture?
1luv1faith said on — February 16, 2009 @ 7:08 pm

cool beans! thx4sharing
Amie said on — February 17, 2009 @ 10:43 pm

OMG…That’s really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your tutourial!!!!!!
Karin said on — February 22, 2009 @ 10:32 pm

You’re tutorials are the most tasteful and useful I have seen. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! Much appreciated.
Maciek said on — February 23, 2009 @ 11:08 am

Hi Corey

Your Tutorials are very good. Some videos are not working for example : Energazie that photo or sci-fi text effect.

Greetings.
AFNAN said on — February 25, 2009 @ 4:17 pm

GREAT !!
THANK YOU SO MUCH
I BENEFITED FROM YOUR TUTORIAL.
THANKS AGAIN ..
mr.arlind said on — March 15, 2009 @ 12:25 pm

YES! By me is also the same problem like by Stefan Klein a have all the other folders but only the texture folder isn’t there can some body from you upload somewhere the texture folder and than we just and drag it to our photoshop folder xD
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Rick said on — March 30, 2009 @ 8:40 am

Once again, thank you.

All these things look so simple, but when you don’t know how to do them, they are far from it. I’ve bookmarked your site and I’ll be back!
Maureen said on — April 7, 2009 @ 1:28 am

Hi Corey,
Thank you for a wonderful tutorial on text. I love learning psp and have been learning what I can for almost a year now. There is so much I want to learn and I am thrilled I found your site. These tutorials are a great help. I am looking forward to your next one. Thanks again!
Mazerolle said on — April 25, 2009 @ 4:15 am

This is the best tutorial I know about “text on a path” . It goes far beyound the usual first steps and explains how you can get words righly positioned around a circle. The next step would be to type a 3 D text on a Sphere. It is relatively easy to do with a free 3D software like Google SketchUp, but it seems a lot more complicated with Photoshop. The last step would be to animate the 3D text around the sphere using Flash.
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Jean Hancock said on — November 9, 2009 @ 12:29 am

Any way this procedure/steps are written out. I am a beginner and this would be very help to me. Thank you!alr
Krystyn said on — November 11, 2009 @ 10:36 pm

Thanks! Great tutorial.
Kristin said on — February 2, 2010 @ 12:27 pm

Thanks for the video! I’ve been wanting to learn this for a while. Very easy to follow along.

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