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Sep 8^th, 2006 at 1:12pm

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what is the best way to write words on an aircraft in an arch or circular pattern. I am using Photoshop,
this is what I am trying to do:

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Reply #1 - Sep 8^th, 2006 at 2:35pm

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Maybe there's an easy way to do it in Photoshop, but I don't know what it is. I just had a play with Skew and Distort and the results were 'orrible.

It's much easier to type the words in MS Word or PowerPoint, and use WordArt to curve them. Pick a font and colour that looks pretty close, play around until you're happy with the curve, enlarge it as much as possible (hold down the Shift key to avoid distortion) and finally copy it to the clipboard. Go to Photoshop and paste it in as a new layer, then resize it to suit your repaint. Pasting the text will rasterise it so try not to enlarge it once it's in Photoshop.

The J in your photo is taller than the rest of the letters, it will probably have to be placed individually but that shouldn't be a problem.

Hope that helps!

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Reply #2 - Sep 8^th, 2006 at 8:07pm

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When you select the Text tool, you should see a small icon in the upper toolbar that looks like a letter "T" with a curved line under it. Select your text, and click that icon. You should get a pop-up with different text morphing options, select "arc" in the drop-down menu and mess around with the settings until you get the desired results. Rinse and repeat as needed.

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Reply #3 - Sep 9^th, 2006 at 1:15pm

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These are good suggestions . . . do whatever is necessary to get the required result (much like flying airplanes -- real ones, I mean)

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Reply #4 - Sep 10^th, 2006 at 4:02pm

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I usually use powerpoint but the results haven't quite looked right before, I couldn't find the button in photoshop, it could be missing because I am using Photoshop 5.0LE.

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Reply #5 - Sep 20^th, 2006 at 12:26pm

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FS-ACOF - FS2004 Modern Military
FS2004 Jolly Rogers F-14 Tomcat Pack Filename: jlyroger.zip by Joshua Wilder Date: 09-19-2006 at another site

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Reply #6 - Sep 20^th, 2006 at 9:58pm

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FS-ACOF - FS2004 Modern Military
FS2004 Jolly Rogers F-14 Tomcat Pack Filename: jlyroger.zip by Joshua Wilder Date: 09-19-2006 at another site

oh that one is mine, you obviously missed this thread: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=screen;action=display;num=...

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