Draw Text On A Path Software Application

The Draw Text On A Path application allows working with long text on a path you can define.

You can then beautify the text by changing several values/properties such as values related to fonts: Font Size, Font Family, Font Style, Font Weight and also by applying two text effects: the Drop shadow effect and the Blur effect. You can of course change the color of the text as well.

Using this application you can do the following:

• create beautiful texts which follow a path.
• save the resulting text image with transparency to a .PNG file.
• create 3D text easily.
• add images (just drop them on the canvas) to the resulting text to make it more beautiful.
• create individual letters of the alphabet which you can beautify. In essence this would be like creating a font for an application which works with images of alphabet letters.
• aside from working with texts, you can also work with any number of images on the canvas by resizing, rotating, duplicating, deleting and changing the opacity of those images. This way you could create a final image from multiple individual images.
• select any image and filter it using 94 filter variations.
• create a path made of points for which you can then get the coordinates.

You can define the path the text will follow using one of the following:

• points
• arcs
• beziers

• circle
• ellipse
• rectangle

Besides creating a path for the text using any of the above items, you can also specify your own text using the Edit Text button at the top, or the Edit Text menu option when you right-click in the working area.
When you are done defining the shape, the text and the values/properties of any of the effects, you can press the Get Text Image button at the top to get the image of the text which follows the path made by the points in the working area.’

You can then:

• duplicate that image just by double clicking it. The actual points/hands, cannot be duplicated.
• resizing that image by pressing one of the CTRL keys and then grabbing the image with the mouse and dragging the mouse, as you drag the mouse, the size of the image will be updated based on the direction of where the mouse is moving.
• rotating that image by pressing one of the SHIFT keys and then clicking the image. If you press the LEFT SHIFT key and click the image, the image will rotate to the left. Similarly, if you press the RIGHT SHIFT key and click the image, the image will rotate to the right.
• filtering the image using several image filters. Notice the Quick Filters menu option when you right click the image.
• change the opacity of the image by pressing LEFT CTRL key + A (lowers opacity of the selected image) or LEFT CTRL key + Q (increases opacity of the selected image)
• moving the image using the: W, A, S, D key (before moving the image using these keys, you have to click on the image first, to select it)
• deleting the image just by pressing the DEL button on your keyboard

The application also has several Presets. A preset contains predefined text, points and effects which provide a start to easily creating new beautiful text images. For example, you could use one of these presets by loading it (press the Go New Tab button) and then by modifying the actual text. Then you can press the Get Text Image button to get the image of that text as defined by the preset. This means you don’t have to recreate the path (the position of the points and their type), the values/properties of the effects (colors, font size, etc) to get that specific image because those were already created for you, and all you need is to plug in the text of your choice.

A preset specifies the following:

• predefined position of points to form a certain path. You can either remove all points from the preset or you can move them around within the working area.
• predefined value for the text properties
• predefined text which follows the defined path. You can edit this text to anything you like.

Here are several examples of text on a path:

The text properties mentioned above are as following:

• font color
• font family (for example Verdana)
• font size
• font style (for example Italic)
• font weight (for example Bold)
• shadow depth (how far away from the actual letter the shadow is)
• shadow direction (the shadow can go around the letter the full 360 degrees)
• shadow opacity
• shadow color
• blur radius (this is one of the properties of the Drop shadow effect but the Blur effect also uses the same field in the Side Bar to specify the Blur radius)
• arc Clockwise
• arc Counterclockwise
• arc radius X
• arc radius Y

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