Very often it becomes necessary to write a word or sentence not in a straight line, but in an arc, that is, in a curved form. For example, a player's last name on a T-shirt written in an arc looks very impressive. If you want to do thermal transfer on clothes, then this article will help you a lot, because similar inscriptions on T-shirts are ordered all the time. No matter how nice T-shirts with the names of famous athletes are, your own surname is still “closer to the body.” They also often bring jerseys for the entire football team to put their names and numbers on. Thermal transfer on a T-shirt is best done in two ways - and. To print an inscription with sublimation ink, you can use Photoshop, and to apply it with thermal film, the inscription or number must be in a vector for cutting in a plotter. Therefore, in the second case, we cannot do without the CorelDraw program. I'll show you how write curved text in both programs, and you can use any of these methods as you wish. In my example, I will use the name of the famous Soviet football player Valery Voronin, who played under number 5. 1. Let's start with Adobe Photoshop. In the open program window, activate the button Text and enter the last name you need. .
As you understand, you can use absolutely any font. Just don’t forget that the player’s name on the T-shirt must be read from quite a distance. Therefore, I do not advise you to use exotic fonts; it is better to choose something simple. For example, Arial is perfect. Now on the toolbar click the button .
Warp text
In the window that opens, select Arc And use the slider to set the desired bending depth. Ready! All that remains is to print it and transfer it to a T-shirt. If you print it in, don’t forget to print the text in the “Mirror”. .
Now let's draw the arc itself. Select a starting point near the left edge of the sheet.
Point 1 - Click and hold the left mouse button. Point 2 - Move the cursor to the right side of the sheet and release the left mouse button in the desired place. .
Point 3 - Move the cursor to the middle of the drawn line, press the left mouse button and move the mouse up to set the desired bend in the curve. Then release the button.
Our arc is ready! Difficult? Read all three points again and repeat. It's really simple, I assure you. Now press Text - Text along the path Ready! All that remains is to print it and transfer it to a T-shirt. If you print it in, don’t forget to print the text in the “Mirror”. A flashing cursor will appear at the start of the arc. Enter the desired text. As you type, a frame will appear around the word. By pulling the corner marker (black square), increase the word by the entire length of the arc.

You can use the markers around the text to increase the height and width of the letters.

But what I like most is the panel in the upper left corner, which allows you to change the position of letters in a word.

The inscription will be placed in the document. Select it and the “Working with WordArt Objects” context menu will become available. Make sure you're on the Format tab and look for the WordArt Styles toolbox. Click on the “Edit Shape” thumbnail button and select the “Trajectory” group in the context menu. Click on the circle icon labeled “Ring.” Your inscription will be placed in a circle. If necessary, edit the boundaries of the object.

Another way: open the “Insert” tab and select the “Shapes” tool in the “Illustrations” block. In the context menu, click on the “Oval” layout. Press and hold the Shift key and create a circle in the document work area. On the “Insert” tab, select the “Shapes” tool again and click on the “Text Box” item. Set the area for the inscription and enter your text.

On the “Format” tab in the “Drawing Tools” context menu, adjust the borders and fills for shapes to your requirements, select the text and click on the “Animation” button. In the drop-down menu, set the “Transform” command and the “Circle” property. Edit the font size, if necessary, adjust the contours of the figure.

To write text in a circle in Adobe Photoshop, create an inscription in the usual way; in the context menu of the “Text” tool, click on the thumbnail button in the form of a curved line and the letter “T”. This tool allows you to deform text. In the dialog box that opens, in the “Style” field, select “Other”.

Set the degree of bend and apply the selected settings. When using this method, the text can be placed in a semicircle. Enter the label in parts to set the settings first for the fragment that will be located on top, and then for the fragment located below.

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Very often we need to print text not just horizontally or vertically, but, for example, along the contour of a shape. Fortunately, most graphics editors support this feature.

You will need

• - Adobe Photoshop or another image editing program with similar functionality.

You can use the markers around the text to increase the height and width of the letters.

Download Adobe Photoshop, preferably the latest version. Install it on your computer following the instructions in the installer menu. Take advantage of the trial period or purchase a license to use the program from the manufacturer. It can also be any graphic editor that supports this function; the scheme of further actions will be approximately the same as in the case of the Photoshop application.

Open your installed Photoshop program. Select the “Create a new file” item, specify the name and size in its initial parameters. You can also open any image you have on your computer using the same menu. From the toolbar on the left, select Draw Circle.

Draw a circle of the text diameter you need, which will be located along the edges. If you don't want the outline to show, make the circle the same color as the background of the image itself. You can also select any other shape or draw your own; along its contour the text will be located in the same way as in the case of a circle.

Select the letter tool, right-click on it, select horizontal or

CorelDRAW: placing text along a curve

Sofia Skrylina, teacher of information technology, St. Petersburg

This article provides examples of placing curly text along an open and closed path. Possible settings for its position relative to the curve are considered, and it is also described how to separate the text from the trajectory.

Let's start by placing the text along the open curve. To position text on a pre-constructed path, you need to perform a number of actions:

Note

Clicking the mouse anywhere on the curve (step 2) can be replaced by executing the command Text (Text) -> Fit Text To Path (Text along the curve).

After entering text, you can edit it like regular curly text: change the size of characters, font, color, style, etc., but provided that all characters of the phrase are highlighted with an I-shaped mouse pointer. And if you select a phrase with the Pick tool, additional text formatting options will appear: text orientation (drop-down list), vertical and horizontal position (drop-down lists and), vertical and horizontal offset (sliders and), placing text on another side of the curve (button ).

In Fig. 2a for the entered text the color, style and size of the phrase symbols have been changed, in Fig. 2b the text offset horizontally and vertically is increased, and in Fig. 2c the text orientation has been changed.

Note

When selecting text with the Pick tool, you must click on any character of the entered phrase, otherwise you may accidentally select a curve instead of text. In any case, be guided by the appearance of the attribute panel: if text is selected, it will contain the buttons listed above. So, in Fig. 3a the attributes panel shows that the text is selected as an object on the curve, in Fig. 3b panel corresponds to highlighting all the characters of the inscription with an I-shaped pointer, in Fig. Figure 3c shows the panel with only the curve selected without text.

To separate the text from the path, you need to select the composite object with the Pick tool and execute the Arrange -> Break Text Apart command. As a result, the composite object splits into two independent objects: text and path, while the text retains the appearance it had before being separated from the curve.

Once the text is separated from the path, part or all of the line can be straightened. To do this, select part of the line with the I-shaped mouse pointer or the entire line with the Pick tool and execute the command Text -> Straighten Text. So, in Fig. 4, the trajectory is no longer tied to the text, but to the words “Happy Day” and “Pooh!” The straightening command is applied.

You can place multiple texts on one curve, each of which is added by clicking anywhere on the curve with the Text tool active. If the phrase does not fit, you can easily edit the shape of the curve by working with its nodes and guide lines using the Shape tool (Fig. 5.

Note

When there are several texts on a curve, problems arise with selecting one text separately from the rest. To do this, use the Ctrl key in the Pick tool action mode.

In addition to an open path, text can be positioned along a closed curve, such as a circle. But this placement has some peculiarities: the attributes panel offers slightly different formatting options. The Text Placement drop-down list now contains four text positions relative to a closed curve (Figure 6) instead of horizontal alignment options.

In Fig. 7 shows two texts along one circle. Only the bottom text position has been changed, while the top text has all position settings set to default. In Fig. 7a the text is assigned a position at the bottom of the curve. In Fig. 7b added placement of text on the other side of the curve, that is, the button is pressed. And in Fig. 7c the vertical position has been changed - the text is placed under the trajectory.

Now let's look at an example of placing an inscription along the globe. To complete this task we will need an original photograph of the globe.

The result is shown in Fig. 9.

1. Separate the text from the path by executing the Arrange -> Break Compound Object of 3 Elements Apart command. Delete the oval, we won't need it anymore.
2. Now you need to place the top inscription behind the image of the globe. But to do this, you first need to remove the black background from the bitmap. Mask the background of the image with a curly circle crop:

Note

Since the container (circle) was created on top of all objects, the image of the globe, after applying the shape crop to it, was also placed in the foreground.

1. Now move the bottom inscription on top of the other objects, to do this, select it and apply the command Arrange (Mounting) -> Order (Order) -> To Front (To Front) - fig. 12.
2. Finally, create a black rectangle and place it under all objects using the Arrange -> Order -> To Back command - fig. 13.

Of course, you can place an inscription around the globe in Adobe Photoshop, but the example discussed shows that there is no need to switch to a raster editor every time you need to create this or that effect. In principle, quite a lot of effects can be implemented in CorelDRAW, using its rich capabilities.