• Adobe After Effects

  Wrapping text around a globe

  Posted by Jaime Lackner on October 30, 2007 at 7:38 pm

  Hello,
  This is actually a question for Photoshop CS2.
  Sorry but I really need an answer.
  I created text wrapping around a globe easily using the CC Cylinder effect in After Effects.
  Is there a way to do the same exact thing to text in Photoshop CS2 or Illustrator CS2?

  Thanks so much in advanced and sorry for postin on AE forum

  Kevin Camp replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kevin Camp

  October 30, 2007 at 8:00 pm

  the easiest and may be the best way i can think of is to render a frame from ae with cc cylinder. if you need a higher rez version, use a larger comp (try a 2k or 4k comp preset).

  if you wanted to try photoshop, filter>distort>spherize would be a good place to start. make you text fill the width of the frame. i would also plan on scaling it down a bit after filtering, so plan on making it in a larger file, then taking it into the final file and scaling down. also, i think the distortion is best if the file is a square when you apply the distortion (or create a square marque selection). i don’t think it will create a ‘back’ side though.

  in illustrator you could use effect>warp>fish eye. it will do about the same as ps spherize, but in vector. you should group the text with an invisible square (like ps, it seems to work best with a square shape). and again, i don’t think it will produce a back side.

  Kevin Camp
  Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

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