Not able to do circle text

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September 12, 2023
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You have a Horizontal Type tool and a Vertical Type tool. You keep making "updates" that are supposed to make this expensive program easier to use, yet for some of us, you are overly complicating things, as the so-called fixes and tutorials don't work. All I want to do right now is type in a circle. But NOTHING on your forum or the YouTube videos is working and I have a deadline I'm going to miss because of it. The wavy line is not showing up, and it won't let me type along a path. I've tried so many different things and I'm being frustrated! Can you ***PLEASE*** just make a circle text tool and put it in with the Horizontal and Vertical text tool?

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c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Can you please inform yourself about who you are talking to? (Unless you are posting a Feature Request or a Bug Report, which are registered at Adobe, you are not talking to Adobe …)

And please provide meaningful information.

Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, Paths, …) visible?

Edit: Seems to work as expected here.

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Look for a tutorial for the Type on a Path Tool.

jane-e

Community Expert

Draw an shape. Use Shift with Ellipse for a circle.

Select the Horizontal Type tool and hover over the edge.

If you are too high there will be a circle around the iBeam and the text will go inside
If you are too low there will be a rectangle around the iBeam and PS will create a new text frame

When you have the correct shape, click to create text on a path.

Photoshop is limited with its text capablilities and does not have a dedicated "Type on a Path" tool, as found in Illustrator and InDesign.

Jane

jane-e

Community Expert

Also, if I click and start typing, the ellipse just disappears and it doesn't follow the path, neither inside nor outside.

I see marching ants. Instead of the elliptical selection tool, use the ellipse shape tool. Choose one of the three modes in the options bar. I chose "Shape" and gave it a fill and stroke; you may only want a stroke. Use the options bar or Properties panel to format the shape.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/drawing-shapes.html

Jane

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