01-03-2012, 11:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-03-2012, 11:17 AM by Robert Darwent.)
Tony is more familar with Photoshop than I, but essentially the method he describes is the same on the Picture Publisher software I use with only minor differences.
You can get good results doing it that way but it does mean individually rotating each character, or small group of characters, one at a time and its quite tedious to rotate them all by equal amounts.
Plus on some scales you will end up working with the characters at horizontal or greater, which is a good deal more difficult a position to judge the correct amount of rotation from!
I personally add any curved text, etc at either side of the 12 o'clock position, where it is much easier to judge the required rotation, then rotate the entire grouping as an object around the centre point of the scale to the correct position.
I know that sounds quite complex, but its far more difficult to explain in writing than to do with the software.
Trouble is, I'm not sure how to direct you in detail to achieve it with Photoshop. It is broadly similar to Picture Publisher but not exactly the same in terms of functions.
Regards
You can get good results doing it that way but it does mean individually rotating each character, or small group of characters, one at a time and its quite tedious to rotate them all by equal amounts.
Plus on some scales you will end up working with the characters at horizontal or greater, which is a good deal more difficult a position to judge the correct amount of rotation from!
I personally add any curved text, etc at either side of the 12 o'clock position, where it is much easier to judge the required rotation, then rotate the entire grouping as an object around the centre point of the scale to the correct position.
I know that sounds quite complex, but its far more difficult to explain in writing than to do with the software.
Trouble is, I'm not sure how to direct you in detail to achieve it with Photoshop. It is broadly similar to Picture Publisher but not exactly the same in terms of functions.
Regards
