How to Create Curved Text in Photoshop

This wikiHow teaches you how to use Adobe Photoshop to correct text that lies along a curve or drag text to create wavy text.

Table of Contents

Using the Pen tool

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Open or create a Photoshop file. To proceed, double-click the blue application icon with the word ” Ps ,” inside it, then click File in the menu bar at the top of the screen and then:

Click Open… to open an existing document; or
Click New… to create a new document.

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Click the Pen tool. This action is shaped like the tip of a fountain pen, located near the bottom of the toolbar on the left side of the window.

Or, you can simply press the P key to switch to the Pen tool.

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Click Path . This action is in the drop-down menu next to the brush icon in the upper-left corner of the window.

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Create the starting point of the curve. Click anywhere on the active layer.

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Create the end point of the curve. Click again somewhere else in the layer.

A line segment connecting the two points will be created.

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Create an anchor point. Click a point near the middle of the line.

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Bend the straight line. Hold down the Ctrl (Windows) or ⌘ (Mac) key and hold the anchor point and drag until the line becomes the arc you want the text to lie along.

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Click the Text tool. This action is shaped like a T , located near the Pen tool in the toolbar on the left side of the window.

Or, you can just press the T key to switch to the text tool.

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Click the curve at the point where you want the text to start.

Use the drop-down menus located at the top left and center of the window to choose a font, style, and size.

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Type text. As you type, the text will follow the created curve.

Using the Warp Text tool

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Click and hold on the Text tool. This action is shaped like a T , located near the Pen tool in the toolbar on the left side of the window. A drop-down menu will appear.

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Click the Horizontal Type Top text insertion tool at the top of the drop-down menu.

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Double-click the window. Double-click the area where you want to place the text.

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Type the text that you want to bend.

Use the drop-down menus located at the top left and center of the window to choose a font, style, and size.

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Click the check box ☑️ located to the right at the top of the window.

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Click the Warp Text tool. This button is at the top of the window, looks like a T with a curve underneath.

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Select the effect by clicking the actions in the “Style:” drop-down menu.

When you click on the style, the text will change so you can preview the shape.
Use the radio buttons to select a vertical or horizontal curved style.
Change the curvature of the text arc by moving the “Bend” slider left or right.
Increase or decrease text distortion with the “Horizontal” and “Vertical” custom sliders.

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Click OK once done.

Steps

Using the Pen tool

Using the Warp Text tool

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