How to alter text typed in a circle

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January 10, 2021
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So I understand that you can use the ellipse tool to draw a path and then just add text to that path. Still, this method doesn't produce the look I was going for so does anyone know how to recreate the following look (the text specifically).

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Semaphoric

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You could divide your text into front and back halves on separate layers; upper is the front, and lower is the rear. Set the text with Vertical Scaling in the character panel to 200% or 300% or so. The stretch will be undone in a later step. Flip the rear left to right.

Transform > Warp the front using Arch, with a Bend of -100%. Similarly Warp the rear using Arch and +100%. Select both, and scale vertically down, to make it look oblique. This will undo the stretched type.. Use masking to hide where the rear text goes behind the subject.

na2999Author

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Thank you for the tip! Clearly my attempt did not result exactly like the image you provided so let me know if theres someting I missed based on the images I attatched.