Photoshop Sucks At Rotating Text
What is up with that?
There might be a better way, but my current solutions is just to do the dang text in Illustrator, rotate it there, and copy and paste it in as a smart object to retain it’s editablility.
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November 5th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
How does it suck? Text rotation works the same as in Illustrator as far as I can tell.
Enter the type, press Enter (to get out of text editing mode)
Press Command-T (Free transform)
Change the reference point on the grid if you want
Outside the frame, the cursor gets curved (rotate mode)
Drag to rotate around reference point
Press Return/Enter when done.
Text is still editable afterwards…
I have to do basically the same steps in Illy for rotating text.
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November 5th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Just look at that image I posted. The baseline is all whack, just look at the letter “I” in the word “TIPS”, it sticks way below the other letters. That is unacceptable and unprofessional. It is not just a particular font either, it happens with any font.
Another work around it to copy the layer and covert one of them into a shape layer before rotating, and keep the other for editing and re-rotating if need be.
December 23rd, 2007 at 10:46 am
simply convert the text path to a shape, then rotate. Problem solved
(just make a backup layer of the editable text)
March 10th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Preach it, brother.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I had the same problem.. i’ve found quite a good trick to fix this problem.
In the Character and Paragraph Palette, instead of having your AntiAliasing set to Sharp, put it on Smooth, and “voila”, it should have fixed the problem ( and so the text remain editable ).
Cheers.