I recently came across the need to write circular text, when I was designing the cd cover of my band’s cd, and decided that this task could make a useful tutorial for you guys.

Step 1

Create a new document in Photoshop, size: 800px x 800px.

Step 2

Take the Eliptical Marquee Tool

and create a perfect circle. To create a perfect circle, while dragging, hold down the Shift key.

Step 3

Create a New Layer (Layer>New>Layer) and fill it with black.

Step 4

Take the Ellipse Tool

and create another perfect circle, size of your preference. That is the shape that the circular text will have.

Step 5

Take the Horizontal Type Tool

click over the inner circle line and with a white colour, write whatever you want.

Step 6

You can then delete the layer you created with the ellipse tool.

After you’ve mastered that, the possibilities are endless. Here are a few more examples of this powerful tool:

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