I am a Photoshop NOOB.

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited November 2005 in Internet & Media
I need some assistance with Photoshop. What I'm trying to do is take an object I've taken a photo of, and put it over a solid color background. Then I want to paste text into the background, but have it flow around the image from the photo.

So far, I've figured out how to erase the background around the object using magic eraser tool. Then I can copy and paste it in, but when I add the text to my shape (rectangle around the object) it will flow over the object (obviously). I can't figure out how to avoid that. Not only that, but I'm having trouble with the text itself. If I try to copy from Notepad and paste into my shape, the text bunches up somewhere in the middle and two to three lines of text are put together into the same line. I'd also like to fully justify the text inside my rectangle, but Photoshop CS only gives me the option to left, center, or right align.

It's a big block of text that I'm trying to fill the shape with - could that be what's causing the pasting trouble and the bunching up?

Any help will be appreciated! :thumbsup:

Comments

  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited November 2005
    layers... you need to make a new layer for just about everything. 1 layer for the background, 1 for the text, 1 for the image you are over laying.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    As in, you want the text to take the exterior shape of what you're placing over the solid background?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    You need to create an invisible path around the object, on a new layer, and then use the type-on-a-path tool. - important question - What version of photoshop?
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    Thrax wrote:
    As in, you want the text to take the exterior shape of what you're placing over the solid background?

    No, sorry, what I meant was I want the text to fill the box, but not flow over the image, much like a newspaper column.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    it's called text wrap. I'm not sure you can do that in photoshop. You need a layout tool like Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress for something like that.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/textwrapping.asp ?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    That is a seriously clever workaround to a missing feature. :thumbsup:
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    prime, IIRC, I'm running 8.0 CS.

    Black Hawk, THANK YOU!

    PS guys - this project, in the immortal words of Vicodin, has something to do with something that rhymes with 'sign snapple' - I won't let the cat any further out of the bag than that. ;)
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    Or you could use Word ;D
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited November 2005
    GHoosdum wrote:
    prime, IIRC, I'm running 8.0 CS.

    Black Hawk, THANK YOU!

    PS guys - this project, in the immortal words of Vicodin, has something to do with something that rhymes with 'sign snapple' - I won't let the cat any further out of the bag than that. ;)


    Pineapple? :confused:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited November 2005
    GHoosdum wrote:
    ...I won't let the cat any further out of the bag than that. ;)
    Meeoowwww!!!!!!! :D
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    Yup...

    ... It is 8.0 CS.

    Did I just hear a cat? :thumbsup:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited November 2005
    GHoosdum wrote:
    ...Did I just hear a cat? :thumbsup:
    A feline in search of a prickly pear. :D
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