Circular text photoshop cs6

Published on May 1, 2022

Type text in a circle

In this blog I’ll show you how to type text in a circle in Adobe Photoshop.

Rather watch the video with instructions? Click here or scroll down to the end of this page!

Step 1: Create circle

Create a new file.

It doesn’t matter what size your file is. Then select the ellipse tool.

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Select ‘path‘ and create a circle. Hold your SHIFT key while creating the circle to make it perfectly round. It doesn’t matter if the circle isn’t in the middle, we’ll fix that in step 3.

Step 2: Text in a circle

Select the horizontal type tool and pick a font you like. If you hover over your path, you’ll see that the cursor icon changes when you go over the circle.

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If you see the wave icon (see image below) next to your cursor, it means you’re on the path. Now click on the path to start typing your text. The point where you click is the start of your sentence, so keep that in mind.

You can now type your text.

Then press CTRL+A to select your text. Change the tracking to place

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