I'll go ahead and drag out a path around the baseball. If I need to reposition my path as I'm dragging, which I almost always need to do, I can hold down my Spacebar and move the path around on the screen with my mouse to reposition it, then release the Spacebar and continue dragging out the path. Here's the image with the second path around the baseball:.
It looks like I have two separate paths in the image at this point - a rectangular one and an elliptical one. But the only active path is the original rectangular one, which now isn't quite as rectangular because, even though Photoshop isn't giving us any visual clues of what's really happening, the elliptical path is now subtracting or "cutting out", if you prefer part of the rectangular path around the baseball.
To make it easier to see, I've filled in the remaining active path area in the image below. This is the area where my text will appear. Notice how the rectangular path now wraps nicely around the baseball, which means my text is also going to wrap around it:. All that's left to do now is add my text, and for that, I need Photoshop's Type Tool , so I'll select it from the Tools palette:. I could also quickly access the Type Tool by pressing T on my keyboard.
Then, with the Type Tool selected, I'll go up to the Options Bar at the top of the screen and select my font, font size and text color. I'll just keep things simple here and go with Times New Roman Bold set to a size of 16pt, with my text color set to white:. To use the path I've created as a container for my text, all I need to do is move my cursor anywhere inside the active path area.
To create a text box that automatically wraps words, select one of the Type tools, depending on the text orientation you prefer. When you click inside the working document, the text box displays.
When you release the mouse button, the Paragraph Text Size dialog box opens. Configure the paragraph dimensions and options for your block of text. I have searched for tutorials and haven't found anything helpful.
This is the type of look I'm going for. Or using specialist software like In Design. Second select the Text On Selection Tool and click anywhere inside the selection and then click the Green checkmark. Undo that and you should see the path again.
Now click inside the path and start typing. According to Adobe, text wrapping around an image is not a feature of PS Elements. I would have to upgrade to Photoshop CS 6 Perpetual license. So for square or rectangular pics, I will have to continue to cut and paste text boxes around object. For rounding around a cutout image, I will try the steps you outlined.
One point which confused me in real application was if I wasnt selecting an area within the layer that was active. You can create funky selection shape and move the Text on Selection and click inside the selection and then click the Green Checkmark and "duh" : no paths are created in the history window. What I discovered was that if you do the Text on Selection and the Green Checkmark is in the upper left column of your document, then this means you are in the wrong layer If you have things set up correctly then the Green Checkmark will appear to the lower right of your selection.
Something I have not solved is to edit the path after the words have been typed in. This comes up often enough if the image that I'm trying to wrap around needs to change. I know I can do it manually, but there ought to be some way to make the text automatically break when it reaches some sort of defined "edge". I'm not sure where "simple" and "semi-automatic" start, but there is a simple way to make shaped area text without having to indent lines by hand.
Create a path in the shape you need using the Pen tool. When you hover over it with the text tool, you'll see the cursor change to the Area Text tool little parentheses around the I-bar.
You can use a shape layer, too, but there's no need. Type the text, and it will flow inside the path. If you need to change the shape later, just edit the path. With Photoshop you must manually create soft returns or indents where needed. Photoshop simply is not designed to be a text or layout editor. And, for this reason, Photoshop has no inherent text-wrap capabilities. Photoshop can constrain text to a shape which is not the same as text wraps See explanation here.
Using a layout app such as Adobe Indesign or QuarkXPress would easily allow you to create text wraps. This is how your examples are done - via layout software, not photo software. The easiest way I know is the old school way. Photoshop is not really designed to handle a lot of text so nest it in something that is. Open a new document in Illustrator with two layers. On the bottom layer, place the image you want to wrap. If you have already built this as a PSD, place it. On the top layer, manually wrap your text box around the object.
This allows you to avoid the dreaded Soft Return nightmare when you have to edit the copy. Open the image in Photoshop. Drag in the Illustrator layers as a Vector Smart Object. Open the new Vector Smart Object, turn off the bottom layer and save it.
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