The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Aardwolves wrote:These ones are a bit harder, I think.

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1. Squirrel Damage
2. Sock Puppet

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The Voice Inside Your Head

Also, Aardwolves is an excellent cartoon illustrator.

4. Sven Mullet

Winners, the lot of you! I wasn`t sure whether anyone would recognise Sven Hoek. Also, thanks Fluffy!

jimtyrrell wrote:

Jim of Seattle

also current head coach of the Washington Redskins

Nice work!

Question for any of you graphics gurus who work in Fireworks (possibly same in Photoshop): Is it possible to bend a text object. Like could I make a vertical block of text and then make it curve in an 'S' shape, for example?

I don't know about Fireworks but in Photoshop you can. There's a little separate button when you're editing text which looks like a bent grid, which lets you apply text shape effects. It's pretty limited though (for more fine-tuned text stuff you need Illustrator).

You can also separately "free transform" it but Photoshop limits the sorts of transforms you can do to text for some reason (bitmap and vector layers you can do all sorts of things to but text you can only do basic rotate/skew).

Kill Me Sarah wrote:Question for any of you graphics gurus who work in Fireworks (possibly same in Photoshop): Is it possible to bend a text object. Like could I make a vertical block of text and then make it curve in an 'S' shape, for example?

your in luck, am a fireworks guru (ie, i hate photoshop).

you do this by using the attach to path command, under the text menu.

1) draw your S or path using any of the VECTOR tools. line, pen, free form vector, tools.

2) type your text

3) select your Text and Path

4) Text Menu > attach to path; further modification to make it look the way you want it is needed.

I accomplished what I wanted by converting texts to path and then manually moving each letter (I hadn't read your post yet Dre...I have a feeling I'll be hitting you up for tips a lot ). I think this may be my favorite:

Blues Manufacturing Facility. Very nice!

jimtyrrell wrote:Blues Manufacturing Facility. Very nice!

Well I'd hoped it wouldn't be that easy, but good call

drë wrote:

Abecedarian?

Man, I really need to get one of those Wacom Tablets...

Lunkhead wrote: Abecedarian?

YES.

OK, time to play...

Elite Inner Echelon Blood Circle?

[edit] Oh I didn't see the bug right in the middle of the circle. So not a blood stain or whatever.

Permanent Bug?

Kill Me Sarah wrote:Man, I really need to get one of those Wacom Tablets...

Puce!

i was kind of thinking 'puce' because of the pew and then snake starts with an 's' but I didn't know how the ! fit in.