PHOTOSHOP: Issue with Text Alignment on Path (Mac)

OK first of all, the two earlier answers you got sound like they didn’t even look at the screen shot you attached. I did, and the misalignment shown in your screen shot shows is definitely not expected and very odd. And, based on how it looks, it probably won’t be fixed by either of the suggestions you got earlier. 

First, let’s clarify what you are trying to do. Based on your screen shot, were you trying to fill the interior of the path with text, with the path being a non-rectangular text container? And did you do that by clicking when the pointer looked exactly like in this picture?

If so, then your screen shot does look like the text container bounding box is, like you said, out of alignment with the path. For some reason, the bounding box is offset down and to the right.

If that’s what’s happening, it is definitely wrong. But I don’t know exactly what would cause that. We can guess, though. Based on similar problems seen in Photoshop and other Adobe graphics apps, this might be caused by an issue with Photoshop and the graphics hardware, or the graphics driver software. 

Your post says you’re on macOS, and so am I. But on my Mac, it works as expected, as shown in this picture:

What kind of Mac do you have? I’m using an Apple Silicon Mac (M1). One way to find out if it’s related to a graphics hardware glitch is to open Photoshop preferences, and in the Performance panel, play around with the graphics processor settings. Step 1 would be to see if it still happens if you disable Use Graphics Processor…does that improve it at all?

This issue mostly arises due to Baseline Alignment or Path Direction. Firstly open the Character Panel and check whether Baseline Shift is at 0 or not. I hope this will solve the issue.