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- Wrap Text Around Circle Image In Word For Mac 2008
- Wrap Text Around Circle Image In Word For Mac 2011
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Advertisers often use special effects to draw attention to their products. You can add similar interest to your PowerPoint presentations by learning to use WordArt and PowerPoint transformation effects. If you’ve ever seen text shaped like a circle, you may have seen these types of effects in action. You don’t have to know how to type circular text because PowerPoint creates it for you when you find the right button to click.
1.Open a PowerPoint presentation, click one of your slides and then click 'Insert.' Click 'WordArt' to view a list of WordArt styles.
2.Click the style you like. PowerPoint adds text box to your slide that contains sample text in it.
3.Click inside the text box, and press 'Ctrl-A' to select all of the text. Type your own text in the text box, and then press 'Ctrl-A' again to select the text you typed. Ensure that your cursor is inside the text box before you click 'Ctrl-A.'
4.Move to the ribbon's Drawing Tools Format tab, and then click the 'Text Effects' button. Click 'Transform' followed by the 'Circle' effect. PowerPoint converts your text into a circle.
Tips
- You may see an incomplete semicircle the first time you try this if your text string does not have enough words to form a complete circle. Fix that by clicking the text to make its text appear and dragging the text box's lower-right handle up towards the left diagonally. When you do that, you make the text box smaller. Continue making it smaller until your text forms a circle. You also have the option to make the text itself bigger or smaller by clicking the 'Size and Position' button on the Drawing Tools Format tab. Type different values in the 'Height' and 'Width' text boxes to see how different text sizes affect the circle's shape.
- You’ll see several different WordArt styles in various colors when you click the WordArt button. Try different styles if you’d like to experiment -- you may find one that works best with your circular text. For instance, you may discover that you prefer the charcoal gray WordArt style against the current slide’s background.
- Microsoft notes that you'll need to use a third-party graphics program if you need precise control or if you are creating a complex combination of text and shapes.
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Wrapping an image around an object in Photoshop emphasizes the apparent three-dimensionality of the wrapped object, which can make your compositions more engaging. For example, wrapping text around a circle made with the Shape tool and shaded to look spherical will make the circle appear even more spherical. A straightforward way of wrapping images in Photoshop is to customize presets of the Free Transform tool's Warp option.
1.Launch Photoshop and load the file containing the object you want to wrap an image around. For example, load a PSD file of a sphere. Choose simple objects for your first wrapping attempts, as these are easier to work with. You can find copyright-free images of objects at websites such as Morgue File, Wikimedia Commons and Stockvault (links in Resources).
2.Drag the image you want to wrap around the object from Windows Explorer. Photoshop places the image onto its own layer, which appears in the Layers panel. Click 'Edit | Transform | Warp' to run the Free Transform Warp option.
3.Click the 'Warp' control on the Options toolbar above the canvas to display a list of Warp presets for shaping your wrapped image. Click the preset that best matches the object you wish to wrap around. To wrap around a sphere, the 'Bulge' and 'Inflate' options are appropriate choices.
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Click the 'Custom' option from the Warp control. This permits you to customize the shape of the preset you chose. Click on one of the points of the grid covering the image, and then drag to shape the grid so that the image appears to fit the underlying object more tightly. For example, if you are wrapping a brick image to a sphere, drag the points of the Free Transform grid so that the brick edges in the top half of the sphere bow upward, and the brick edges in the bottom half bow downward. To drag the entire grid for better positioning without moving the individual grid points, press and hold 'Ctrl' and drag anywhere on the grid to move it. Press 'Enter' when the image fits tightly to the object.
5.Click the 'Blending' mode list at the top of the Layers panel to display a list of blending modes. Click the 'Overlay' item to apply that mode to the wrapping image. 'Imagery in Overlay' mode allows imagery in underlying layers to pass through, effectively coloring the imagery in those layers. This causes the wrapping image to take on the shading of the object it is wrapped around, making the image appear to be on the surface of the object.
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