In this lesson you'll learn the Type on a Path tool. It's a pretty cool tool
whether you're wanting to create some kind of logo or even a title to an illustration
or a feature story or even a poster. So go ahead and create a new file.
And first we need to create a path for the type to go on. So one simple example
would be a circle. So click and hold on to the Rectangle Tool, go down to the
Ellipse tool, click and drag, hold SHIFT for a perfect circle and so we have a
basic circle here and if you click and hold onto the Type tool, go down to
the Type on a Path tool and hover over the path here. If you click, notice we don't
have a Fill or a Stroke to this shape anymore once we click and we can type in
our text, "This is some copy" and if you choose one of the selection tools up here, you
can click this little thing right on the opposite side of the circle...
If you click that line there, you can actually move it around so it can be on the inside
like that and it can be on the outside like we have it already and you can move
it around the edge if you want. So depending on where we want it to end up,
we can move it around. You can also of course double click and click and drag here.
Just get the cursor in there, I mean and change the font size
and keep typing on there but again, you just want to choose one of the arrows and then move it
around and we can edit it or you can even put it on the outside. So it takes some getting used
to to move it around but basically, you can move it all the way around this on the inside
or the outside and that's a circle example. But if you want to do something
more customized, I mean you could do even like a starburst when you can add a
Type on a Path to and you can just go around the edges. But pre-made shapes are fine but you can
also create an original shape. So a lot of times we use the Pen tool and click,
click and drag, click and drag. It doesn't matter that we have a Fill or Stroke as
its going to erase it once we use the Type on a Path tool. Just make sure we're on this
path here and then...
Alright, so we got some type. We can change the font up here just like normal, the size and we can use the
arrows here and move it around. We could put it on the bottom, put it on the top.
What's pretty neat is we can still adjust the shape of this path. So if I click on the
end here, I can still edit it after we have typed in. Same thing over here.
I can move the anchor points, the paths in between and the handles to adjust that curve.
So that's the Type on a Path tool. I will see you in the next lecture.