Deft's templates re: Creating concave text in Photoshop

[perezh]

If anyone could help it would be much appreciated...

I'm using Deft's photoshop templates and just wanted some help in creating the very common concave shaped text names that you see emblazoned across all sorts of baseball uniforms. I'm fairly new to Photoshop and have the feeling it'll be an easy answer for some of you pros.

Thanks very much.

[Treches]

Write the text down, right-click on it, Warp text. If you aren't too familiar with Photoshop, that's the way to go.

[perezh]

I can't get that to work. I'm using Photoshop 5.5, in case it matters.

Once I write the text, press enter and right click, it gives me a list of layers to select. If I right click on the text itself after I've moved it, it gives me the following options:

Edit Type
Render Layer
Horizontal
Vertical, and
Effects

Nothing in any of these menus looks like "warp text."

[Treches]

Oh, in 5.5 the thing is more tricky. Type your text, render (layer-type-render layer), then rotate the image 90° (image-rotate canvas, 90° cw), make the text layer active and pick filter-distort-shear, click on the line that shows up and move it as needed, finally rotate the canvas again (90° ccw).

[Deft]

Thanks Treches! I think you meant filters-distort-sphere. Another couple options are:
1) Use word art in Word and then copy your work and paste it into Photoshop.
2) Use transformation/distort, this gives you more control over the text.

[Treches]

No prob, my pleasure. It's been long since I last used Photoshop 5.5, but that feature still is in the new versions (personally, I prefer to use that better than the Warp Text's one) and it certainly is shear not sphere (under filters>distort). It may be sphere in 5.5, can't recall now.