How to Make Rounded Text in Adobe Photoshop
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a picture made of words may be worth all that and much more. While text may not seem as artistic as a painting or photograph, manipulating text in a graphics program, such as Adobe Photoshop, offers the ability to stretch, shape and mold text into artistic designs. Whether you're looking to shape text for a logo, caption or to have it stand on its own as your art, a couple of clicks in Photoshop will help you spell it all out.
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Instructions
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Open Adobe Photoshop, click on the "File" menu and click on "New." Type "RoundedText" into the "Name" box. Type your preferred dimensions into the "Width" and "Height" boxes, such as "4," and select "inches" from the drop-down menus for each. Click the "OK" button and the Photoshop workspace opens. Pull down the "View" menu and click "Fit on Screen" to give yourself the most room.
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Click on the "Type" tool, which looks like a "T," on the "Tools" palette. Select a font, text size and text color from the toolbar at the top of the screen.
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Click the "RoundedText" box and type your text, be it your name or a slogan.
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Pull down the "Window" menu and click on "Layers" to open the "Layers" palette. Notice there are two layers: a white Background layer and a text layer--symbolized by a white "T" in a square--with your words on it. The text layer is highlighted in blue, meaning that was the last layer selected by you, having just written your text.
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Right-click the text layer and select "Rasterize Type." The white "T" square will change to a gray-and-white checkerboard.
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Pull down the "Edit" menu, click on "Transform," and click "Warp." Your text is surrounded by a grid of nine boxes, with white squares in each corner and black circles on the border.
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Click and pull up on one of the black circles at the bottom of the text, creating a rounded arc. Continue to pull up until the arc is rounded to your preferred degree.
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Pull the top-left white corner square down towards the bottom of the text, following the same lines of the rounded arc. Repeat for the top-right white corner square until the entire text forms a rounded arc.
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Press the "Enter" key to commit to the rounded warp and remove the grid from the text.
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Click the "File" menu, click "Save As" and save the rounded text to your computer.
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