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Hello, this is Jeff at MagicalFruitTuts. In this video I will show you how to make a linear
spiral, sometimes know as an archimedian spiral in Photoshop Creative Cloud. Procedures in
this video should also work in Photoshop CS6 - some menu items may vary. We will then convert
the spiral into a path and apply the text of the Gettysburg Address to that path. We
will then place the text over a picture of Gettysburg.
Press Control plus N to open up a new document. Make the width 2000 pixels, the height 2000
pixels, and the resolution 300 pixels per inch. Double-Click the Background layer. Name
it White. Click OK. Press D t make black your default foreground color. Choose your brush
tool. Make it 6 pixels Hard Round. Select the Ellipse Tool. Make sure that Path is chosen
as the method. In the settings check Circle and From Center.
Chose View New Guide from the menu. Make Horizontal 50 percent. Chose View New Guide again. Make
Vertical 50 percent. Now you will have a vertical and a horizontal guide in the center of your
document.
Press Control plus Shift plus N to make a new layer. Leave the default name Layer 1.
Make sure you're in your Ellipse Tool. Zoom in a little. Hover the mouse over the center.
Click once. Width and height default to 100 pixels. Click OK to accept. Right-Click on
the screen and chose Stroke Path. Click OK. Press Escape twice to deselect the path.
Press Control plus Shift plus N to create a new layer. Hover your mouse over the center
and click once. This time since we are on the second circle, we will use a height and
width of 200 pixels. Click OK. Right-Click and chose Stroke Path. Click OK. Press Escape
twice as before.
Continue as with the previous steps until you have 19 circles, but keep adding 100 pixels
each time. For example the third layer will have 300 pixels width and height and the fourth
laye will have 400 pixels width and height. Here is a chart to make it more clear.
Your screen should look something like this when you've finished all 19 layers. We put
all the circles on individual layers in order to allow us to adjust them individually. If
you are not happy with any layer at this time delete and redo it. Now would be a good time
to save your work.
Select the top layer. Scroll down to layer 1. Shift-Click on it. Right-Click and choose
Merge Layers. Name the merged layer Circles. Choose the Path tab. Rename the work path
Outer Path. This path represents the 19th ring of your circles. Click anywhere in the
path panel to de-select the path.
Choose the Layers tab to go back to your layer. With the circle layer active, select the Rectangular
Marquee Tool. Drag the marching ants around the bottom half of the document. Select the
move tool. Then use the right arrow keys to align the rings one ring to the right. Zoom
in close to make sure you align them exactly. Here I've zoomed in to align better. You can
press Control plus 0 to maximize the screen. Press Control D to de-select, then press the
Hand Tool to exit the Move Tool.
Click on the Paths tab. Choose the Outer Path. Right-Click and choose Make Selection. Click
OK. Go back to your Layers tab. Press Control J to create a new layer. Name the new layer
Spiral. Turn off the eye on the Circles layer. Control-Click the Spiral layer to select it.
Click the Paths tab. We are going to use the Make work path from selection icon on the
bottom. Hold down Alt while clicking it. Make sure the tolerance is set to 2.0. Click OK
to accept.
In a few seconds the new work path will appear. Change the new work path name to Spiral. Click
anywhere in the paths panel to de-select the Spiral path. Click the Layers tab to go back
to the Layers Panel. Make a new layer. Since our background color is White, we can press
Control Backspace to fill the layer with white.
Find a text file of the Gettysburg Address. Highlight the text. Right-Click then copy
it. Back in Photoshop, go to view Clear Guides to remove the guides. Choose the Type Tool.
Drag out a fairly large box on the document. I used the default font of Myriad Pro. You
can use what font you want, however you may have to adjust the font size to make it fit
properly. I used a font size of 10.8 with a Strong anti-aliasing method. Make your font
color Black. Next we will paste the text that we had copied to the clipboard earlier. If
this is not formatted as one long paragraph, you need to do the following procedure.
With your cursor in the top left corner of the box, start deleting the spaces that are
unnecessary. We want to make this all one long paragraph. So we go to the end of every
spot as I am doing here, that has a space in it and press delete. Right there I am deleting
the paragraph. But then I want to move the previous paragraph up into it. Until we are
finished getting them all lined up so they are just one long paragraph.
Next we will drag the cursor over the text to highlight it and then choose Copy. Now
turn off the eye on the text layer we just worked with. Click your Paths tab. Choose
the Spiral path. Click your Layers tab - go back to the layers. Make sure the left-align
option is selected. Zoom in before placing the cursor. We want the text to start on the
left side of the outside line. I'm going to place it in the wrong spot to show you what
it would look like if it's wrong. Now I'm going to go back and place it in the right
spot. You can see that flashing line is to the left of the line. That's where we want
it.
Now we can do our paste. Edit - Paste. Zoom out to see how it looks overall. Looks pretty
good. However, if you change your mind and you don't like the way it is, click on the
Cancel button and then re-place it and do the process all over again. This time I'm
going to paste it again - a little higher and see how it comes out. OK, that looks pretty
good that's about where I want it.
Go to your second layer, which is an empty layer. Right-Click and delete it. Click Yes
to accept. Go to your top text layer and go to the Path
tab. Click anywhere in the Path panel to de-select the path. Go back to your Layers panel. Go
to your font style which is now regular and change it to bold. Wait a few seconds and
the text will be changed to bold. Now we will change the font size. We will choose 11. Wait
a little while and see what effect it has on the text. That's a little better, but I'm
going to try 12 points next. Click on 12 points. Wait a little bit and see what changes occur.
That's really not too bad, but I'm going to adjust it just a little more. I'm going to
make it 12.1 - Press Enter, wait for the changes to take effect. That's just about where I
want it. You may want to experiment with different fonts and different sizes.
We will be placing the picture Gettysburg 2009 Cannon, by J Todd Poling into the background.
A link to this picture is in the description.
Choose File - Place on the menu. Select your background picture and click Place to place
it. Once placed, hold down the Shift and Alt keys and drag the corner to adjust the picture
to fill the document. Press Enter or click the checkmark to accept.
Drag the Cannon layer below the text layer. Press Control plus 0 to maximize the screen.
Select the text layer. Press the Fx icon on the bottom of the panel. Choose Color Overlay.
Double-Click the color box as shown. Then choose a yellow color. I used F5B903. Click
OK twice to exit the layers style.
Thanks for watching. Please realize you are not limited to 19 rings. You can make as many
or few as you like. You can vary the text font and size as well as apply layer styles
to the text.
Here is a video I made from within Photoshop Creative Cloud using the files in this project.
The text spins, allowing you to place your view on any ring and read all the text without
having to turn your head. Please comment if you would like to see a tutorial on how I
made this spinning video.
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