03-17-2021, 11:17 PM
(03-17-2021, 08:09 PM)Jebby Wrote: Maybe this is not the script I need. What I am trying to do is increase the height of my text before I put it on a path, in my case a circular path. Just want to make the fonts taller, not wider. Say 100% wide and 175% tall. Once I make the font taller, its not a font layer no more. How to make a non-font layer made up of rasterized (?) letters wrap around a circular path?
- Get the path from the text
- Scale it up (much more than what you think, see below)
- Create a selection from it, and bucket fill on a transparent layer
- User Filter>Distorts>Polar coordinates to wrap your text
- When you get very familiar with the Polar filters and can do a little math, you can predict you result (ie, how tall and where the text should be so that the distortion creates the result you want. Otherwise it's a bit of hit or miss.
- Place you text so that no part is stretched (you only want it squished), because the stretched text would have blurry edges.
- The line of text at the bottom is the text layer I use to create the path