Filling a star shape with text - ERROR

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May 25, 2020
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Hi guys, first time posting here.

I am a very novice user of photoshop and lately I've been creating song designs in a heart shape (the text fills the shape and then when printed you don't see the outline.

Someone has asked for a song in a star shape and I just cannot do it, the text simply will not align in any of the star shapes.

I'm really not sure what I am doing wrong and I have tried all the fixes I can find online to no avail.

Can anyone help?

*when I insert text inside the star, it just types it in a long line rather than wrapping it inside the shape.

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Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Many of the included shapes have a bug in that they have not been closed.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/cant-put-text-inside-a-shape

The included 5 point star, for example, isn't closed at the top as shown below.

To find the open part of a shape/path select the Pen Tool and hover over the points until you see the Merge Symbol as shown below.

Then double click on the point(s) to Close the path and hopefully after that you'll be able to type inside the shape/path.

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michellelouiseAuthor

Participant

Thanks for the super quick reply, i've taken some screen shots below. I have just tried it again and the type tool NEVER chages to the circle when I use the star shape...is there a reason or am I doing something wrong?