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Text
Following a Curved Line
This
psp tutorial will show you how you get text to follow any shape you want.
Step
1
Open a new image
400 x 100
Transparent Background
16 Million
Colors Step
2 
Click on your Draw Tool. 
Set your Foreground (stroke) colour to black
and your Background (Fill) colour to Null.
Click on the Toggle
Tool Options
and set to
Freehand,
Width to 1
Antialias + Checked
Create as Vector = Checked.
Draw a wavy line across your blank
image.
Step
3 
Change
your "Stroke"
colour to Null
and your "Fill"
colour to a colour of your choice. For this tutorial we will use red.
Click on your text tool
 and then move your cursor
over the wavy line until your cursor turns into an "A" with a smile under
it.  When
you see the smiling "A" click once.
Your text box will then open
and you can go ahead and type whatever you like in it, using a font of your choice.
Make sure that Create as Vector is checked. 
Step
4
Your text should now be following the curved line
If you don't need the
"Wavy Line" beneath the text:
Click on your Toggle
Layers Palette 
and click on the +
(plus)
symbol beside Layer
2  .
This will turn it to a -
(minus)
symbol.
Click on the glasses
in the Freehand
layer to turn off that layer and go to Layers/Convert
to Raster.
Step
5
Finish off your graphic. Merge the layers and Save
As.
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