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CS3">Warping Text using Illustrator CS3

By Nick Hodge | October 8, 2007

Strangely, the most hit page dur­ing the most recent week has been my “how-to” warp text with Adobe Illus­trator 10.

Adobe, in Illus­trator 11, 12 and 13 (aka CS, CS2 and CS3) have dra­mat­ic­ally sim­pli­fied the pro­cess of warp­ing text:

Firstly, you have some text in a Text Frame:

IllustratorCS3-warp-1

Whilst the frame is selec­ted, there is a new but­ton on the Toolbar:

IllustratorCS3-warp-2

If you select “with warp”, a new dia­log box appears:

IllustratorCS3-warp-3

By click­ing the “Pre­view” but­ton, off you go!

Topics: adobe, illustrator, technology | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Warping Text using Illustrator CS3”

  1. Warping Text using Illustrator 10’s Warping Tools | www.nickhodge.com Says:
    October 8th, 2007 at 6:57 pm

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  4. Zach Says:
    August 29th, 2009 at 7:52 am

    Nice, but not quite as easy to use as AI9 was with Kai’s Power Tools where indi­vidual let­ters could be eas­ily mas­saged against an out­line of a back­ground ele­ment. This thing is cum­ber­some, requires too much guess­work, and doesn’t have any­where near enough options. And…why are the let­ter­forms all of a sud­den no longer paths? It’s nice that the fin­ished product can still be edited, but it makes things very dif­fi­cult for warp­ing text into com­plex shapes when dis­tor­tion is not a desired effect.

    Sigh. Maybe next time Adobe.

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