Text filled inside text
From the File menu, select New and bring New Document dialog box to the screen. From this dialog box, you can choose the width, height and resolution for the document you will be working on. Background contents can also be selected as white or whatever you wish. After clicking OK at the new Document Dialog box, you can go to the Tools Palette and select Type tool. Now from the Options Bar at the top of the screen you can select the font style.
After selecting the font, you can type a letter inside the new document. The letter or alphabet could be anything you choose; T or A, O and so on. Free transform box can be used to resize the letter you have typed. Selection handles along the whole letter can be dragged to resize it. You can even resize the letter from its centre. After the transformation, you can exit out of the command.
The type tool is still selected and you have to double click inside the document. This will bring a sub menu of options. From these options for text, you need to select Create Work Path. The outline of the letter is the path which can not be seen at this stage. Now in the Layers Palette option, there is an eyeball icon called the Layer Visibility icon. Visible eyeball means the layer is visible. You can click on the eyeball icon; the eyeball icon will go away and also hide the text from the document.
Now, clicking back inside where the eyeball icon was will make the layer show up again. But it will be without the text or letter. Instead, it will have only the outline of the letter. After this, you can click anywhere inside the path which you have created; but before typing anything you will need to change the font size and style. This can be done by going to the Options Bar menu. Remember that the Type Tool menu is still selected. There is another step which you need to do before you start filling up the text, and that is making sure that your text is filled from one end to other. For this, you go to the Paragraph palette and click on Justify All option on the upper right side. Even the Options Bar has Character and Paragraph Toggle button.
Once this is done, you can start typing inside the letter and continue till the end, when the letter is filled completely. After finishing, go to the Options Bar and click on the checkmark which means you have accepted the text. Now all you need to do is to hide the path so that only typed text is seen in the shape of a letter, which you chose. For this Keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + H can be pressed. The path or the outline will go away leaving the text.
Original Authors: Siva
Edit Update Authors: M.A.Harris
Updated On: 17/04/2009
