Make the new circle smaller than the original circle. Select the new circle and resize it by selecting one of its "handles" (the small nodes on the circle that appear when you select it). Select the circle and press "Ctrl-C" on your keyboard to copy it.Ĭopy the circle by clicking in another area of the document and pressing "Ctrl-V" on the keyboard.
Select the circle and click the "Drawing Tools" tab that appears in the ribbon.Ĭlick the arrow next to the Shape Fill entry and select a color to fill the circle. This will represent your outer circle, so make it as large as you think it needs to be to fit the other circles. In the same way, artistic path texts can be created from any line, curve or outline of a shape.Click "Shapes" in the Illustrations section.Ĭlick inside your document body, hold the "Shift" key and drag the cursor until the circle is the desired size. The cursor will change to the letter ' T' with a small wave below it. To create our circle text, we can also select the circle, and from the Layer menu, just select Convert to Text Path. By the way, hope you are not inside a Klingon vessel 😉 Here, we slide it upto 80%.īelow is the circular text we just created. To place it along the outer path of the circumference, increase the Baseline slider. Select the shape on the gallery that opens: See also this tip in French: Rogner limage à la forme.
On the Format tab (under Picture Tools ), in the Size group, click the Crop button and then choose Crop to Shape : 3. Pick any approach (or both), do the necessary adjustments and accomodate the appended text.ġ1) We note that the text 'UNITED FEDERATION OF PLANETS' is written on the inside of the circumference. To crop a picture to a shape, do the following: 1. If you drag it, the text also scales along with the height and width of the object. There is an extra dot which extends from the bottom-right corner of the selection, known as the scale handle. If you drag any corner handle of the selection, both the height and width resizes simultaneously, without altering the size of the text on the path. Now there are two things about resizing the area: For this, we can either reduce the size of the font or reduce spacing between them (not a likely adjustment though) or expand the area of the circle we traced. Another set of triangles - one green (darker) and one reddish - are auto-inserted onto the circumference.ġ0) We need to complete the text - 'UNITED FEDERATION OF PLANETS' - inside the circle, and it has to fit between the start and end points. Oops! As it closes the orange mark, the new text automatically flips position to the inside of the circle, beginning from the original green start point, but inverted and in an anti-clockwise direction. Press spacebar and start typing the new words - 'UNITED. The orange triangle is also draggable, so set the marks as you desire.ĩ) Now we need to add some more words after 'INTELLIGENCE'. Your typed text can reach upto the orange triangle, beyond which, it flips over to the inside of the circle. The green triangle can be dragged around the circle's circumference to the point where you want the text to start. Remember, you can select the Font you fancy, choose the appropriate colour, and also set the font size as desired. We are now ready to type some text.Ĩ) We type in some words, say, 'STARFLEET INTELLIGENCE'. Release the mouse.ħ) Two small green and orange triangles appear on the edge of the circle, marking the start and end points for the text to be typed in a direction. The letter ' A' will appear just above the cursor. Or you can just select Layer > Convert to Text Path to achieve the same.Ħ) Left-click, hold the mouse down and drag a bit towards the right bottom corner. 4) Once you locate the symbol and 'Insert' it, you can then select it (as. If not, you can click on 'More Symbols' and you will be able to locate it there. 2) Click on 'Symbol' (located towards the far right) 3) There should be an option for a black-filled 'bubble'/circle. The cursor will change to the letter ' T' with a small wave below it. this task (for Word 2007): Ribbon steps: 1) Click on 'Insert'. Pick the Move Tool and click on the circle to select it.Ĥ) Next, pick the Artistic Text Tool to write some words around the circle we just created.ĥ) Hover over the edge of the circle. To work in a transparent background, check Transparent background in the Color section of the dialog box which just popped up.ģ) Trace out an ellipse, and press SHIFT while tracing it out it will create a perfect circle.
#HOW TO MAKE A CIRCLE IN WORD WITH A PICTURE HOW TO#
In this tutorial, we will learn how to type text around a circle in Serif's Affinity Designer.ġ) Launch Affinity Designer and create a new document ( ⌘ + N).
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