Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to tell you how to
wrap your text around an object like a shape, or really any line, in Adobe Illustrator. All right,
let's get started. Okay, now I'm in Illustrator, and I'm going to Create New. We'll come up here
to Print, and then I'll choose Letter. And then we'll come over here to Create. Next,
we'll hit L on our keyboard to get to our Ellipse tool. And I'm just going to draw a big circle
here. I'll hold Shift to kind of make it an actual circle. And then I'll hit V, and click and drag to
kind of center it up on the page. Now I'll hit T to get to my Text tool. And then once I'm there,
I can click and drag and get to my Type on a Path tool. Now one thing when you're using this,
you have to make sure to get right on the edge of that circle. So I'll click once, and you can
see it added a bunch of Lorem Ipsum on there. If you don't have that, that's a preference, I
think you can turn it off and on. So if you don't have it, you'll want to type something, I'm going
to type Illustrator. Okay, now I'm going to hit CMD A to select all that type, that's CTRL A on
a PC. I'll hit Shift CMD > that's right above your period. To increase the size, we can also come up
here and increase it this way. We'll make it 75. Okay, now right now it is aligning to the left,
so if I make it bigger or smaller, it starts from right over here, and I want it to be centered. I'm
going to open my Paragraph palette. If you don't have this open, you can go to Window > Type and
Paragraph right down here. And we'll come over here and center it. And it kind of is going to
probably move it around into a place you don't really want, but that's okay. Now I'll get back
on my Selection tool. And I want to get my rulers up, and to do that, it's CMD R on Mac and CTRL R
on a PC. We'll need those in a minute. Now I've got two little bars here and one bar here. And
I'm going to just drag on one of these, and around the circle. I'm going to put it right about here.
Now I've got my rulers up, so I could easily pull a guide down, because I want the bottom of this
R and the bottom of the I to line up. So I'll just click in the ruler area and drag to bring
a guide down. I'm gonna hit Z to get my Zoom tool and draw around it. And I'll use my Hand,
which is the spacebar, to kind of move it around. Alright, now I'm going to hit V to get back on my
Selection tool. And I'll grab this handle and kind of pull it over. And now we're pretty much lined
up the way I want it. Let's change the font to something else. This College Block will work fine,
but now we're outside of these little edges. We can either pull this around to give it more space,
or we can reduce the size of our text with Shift CMD < or comma. That's Shift CTRL comma with the
PC. Okay, and now we'll move these over a little bit more to make sure they kind of line up on
that guide. Now sometimes you want the text to go around the bottom like this. So to do that,
I'm just going to copy what we already have, click off, and then paste in front with CMD F or CTRL F.
So we have a copy right on top of this other one. So to get it to come down here like this, you'll
need this middle bar. And this can be a little bit tricky, but just click on that middle one and then
pull it down. You can see it's upside down now...and then just move it along the bottom
like this. And it can kind of flip around but you can always bring it back. And now we're going to
move this little handle up to give it a little more space. I'm going to zoom in a little bit,
and a lot of these are kind of weird kerning, you can always click T on your keyboard and
just get in between them and then OPTION right or left arrow to change that spacing between them.
I'm using my arrows to move and then once I get in between when I want, I'll OPTION arrow to change
the spacing... or ALT arrow. I'll get a guide down here too. I'll get back on my Selection tool,
and then I'll just move this over so the tops of the I and R line up a little better. Now the
Type on a Path tool can be along any path, so if you just wanted to use your N tool,
which is your pencil, to draw a wavy line... I've got mine pretty smooth, you can double click this
and get it even smoother than that. We'll say OK. I'm going to delete that and try again. Okay,
yeah. So now we can use our type on a path to just click on that. And when you do that,
you'll still have your little handles and your center point. So you can move it along the line
like that. I'll put that up here. But if your lines aren't really smooth, you're going to have
some weird text issues, like that. You can always get your A tool, which is your Direct Selection,
and kind of change these points so that the text falls differently on those parts of the
line. There we go, that looks a little better. And then of course, you'll want to use your kerning to
adjust the spacing between them. Alright, if you liked this video and you want to see more videos
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