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Text follow object shape in Photoshop

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial you will see how to make text follow a path, a path that we have created from an object. This is a smart little functionallity that you can use to "bend" text to make it look more interesting then just rotating it.

The first thing we will do is to drag in an object, I found an image of a beer bottle, imported it to Photoshop, then erased the sorrounding image so we have a beer bottle shape as shown in the image below.

Now hold down ctrl and in the layers panel click the layer containing our bottle, to load the selection. Then go to the paths panel (by default its located next to layers and channels, in the same dock).

Now as shown in the image below click the small icon called "create working path from selection".

Grab the text tool and move the mouse close to the working path around our object, as the mouse icon comes closer to the path it will show another icon, meaning it if you click and type in some text, it will now follow the path.

Now just type in some text as usual, you can rotate your shape and the text will follow, and I just did some styling to my text to make it look more interesting.