Ok, I want to do this in Photoshop CS5:
- Create text in a half circle with no distortion. The current text tool does not work at all and only produces very bad distorted letters when applying settings like arc, lower upper, etc.
- Create a background color around the text exactly like what occurs when you use the text tool to highlight it (and it turns black with white lettering). Right-clicking on the text when highlighting doesn’t provide any new options for selecting the text’s background color…so I’m lost.
I know how to do step 1 with paths and everything no problem. The problem is creating the background color. I can’t find it in layer styles…anywhere. The only way I’ve figured out how to do it is create a screenshot of the highlighted text and copy/paste it into the image and transform it…which proves to be of seriously bad quality (which I want to avoid).
So how do I create a simple solid color background behind the text after highlighting it?