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September 20, 2010
Photoshop CS5 Edit - Transform - Perspective
In Photoshop CS5, "Perspective" and "Distort" are grayed out under "Edit - Transform" if you're working with a Text layer. Maddening, of course. Makes me want to start Killing Strangers. Eventually I figured out that you have to rasterize the text layer. This sucks, of course, because now you can't work with the text anymore, but this is what Adobe thinks makes sense, apparently. So, just Right-click on the Layer and select "Rasterize Type". Then you'll be able to work with the text using Distort and Perspective.
If you're going to be dragging the text in using Perspective or Distort, you may notice some degradation of the text. Try changing from the default algorithm of Bicubic to Bicubic (Sharper). Go to Edit - Preferences - Bicubic (Sharper).
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/perspective-for-type-layers.html
Posted by Rob Kiser on September 20, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Comments
The fact that adobe did this is highly idiotic. One of many things that irk me about CS5. Being able transform allowed me to use the bounding box as a way to find the center point of a line of text, too. They screwed up a good thing.
Posted by: psexpert on December 16, 2010 at 1:15 PM