Re: Circular text

At 5:29 PM 10/15/98, Dan Gray wrote:
>Nonethless, I'd just as soon do it in a vector program (Freehand,
>CorelDRAW, Illustrator) and bring it into Photoshop as an AI or EPS.  =)


And, at risk of sounding like some street-corner hawker, if you're using
Fireworks, then you can set paragraphs of text on a curve, apply vertical
skewing for that nice 3D look, bevel the text and give it a drop shadow,
and still instantly change the text and the curve itself, right there in
the same tool.

If the client changes a word after you show them the comp, or if they want
the text's circular path to be just a wee bit wider, then with Fireworks
you can turn around this new design in about thirty seconds. If you used
the FreeHand -> Photoshop -> compressor approach, this would take you much,
much longer.

Please forgive me for what might be interpreted as a self-interested
comment, but the integration of these frequently desired web techniques
into a single tool can really save you time and money, honest! 8)

jd

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