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This document was created by an unregistered ChmMagic, please go to http://www.bisenter.com to register it. ThanksWarping TextOne of the major complaints about Photoshop used to be that you couldn't set type in anything but a straight line. If you wanted, say, awavy line of text, you had to either position the letters one by one or set the type in Illustrator or something similar and import it intoPhotoshop. It was a nuisance, at best. Those days are long gone. As of Photoshop 7, Adobe added warped text. Rather than drawingyour own path, the Warp Text dialog box allows you to select from 15 preset paths. You can also warp and distort the paths asnecessary. Figure 17.22 shows a list of the presets.Figure 17.22. Multiline presets work with one, two, or more lines of type.The dialog box settings, shown in Figure 17.23, are a little bit tricky at first. Use the sliders to increase the amount of Bend applied to thepath. Moving to the right bends words up; to the left (negative numbers) bends them down. Distortion makes the line of type appear toflare out on one end (Horizontal Distortion), or flare from top to bottom (Vertical Distortion).Figure 17.23. Move the sliders left or right to change the settings.