Wrapping text on a circle in Photoshop!?!??!

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I've been trying to do this all night without much success.

I want text to be wrapped around a circle, but in this fashion:

Circle "divided" in 2; different lines of text on top half and bottom half of circle.

The problem is that Photoshop decides to do one of the following:

1. Upon dividing the circle in 2, Photoshop forces me to create a work path of the entire half, including the flat part; I only want text on the outside curve!!!
2. On the bottom half, no way in hell I can get the text on the outside of the curve; Photoshop insists on putting it on the INSIDE and I can't get it out no matter what.

Help me Photoshop gurus? ;)
 
Ok, it is way easier to create something like this in Illustrator since its vector, but if you only have PS then here's what you do:

Create your line of text, then, under the filter menu find distort and apply a polar coordinates filter to your text (hit OK to the box that shows up). Your text should be wrapped in a circle now, or at least an oval. If its an oval just transform it:). Only thing is that the text will be rasterized now and if you enlarge the shape it will become pixelated.
 
Tilde84 said:
Ok, it is way easier to create something like this in Illustrator since its vector, but if you only have PS then here's what you do:

Create your line of text, then, under the filter menu find distort and apply a polar coordinates filter to your text (hit OK to the box that shows up). Your text should be wrapped in a circle now, or at least an oval. If its an oval just transform it:). Only thing is that the text will be rasterized now and if you enlarge the shape it will become pixelated.
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That would be an idea, but the only problem is that it warps the text so much that no amount of transforming it will fix it.

Any other ideas?

Edit: Yeah, it seems PS is really limited when it comes to this. What a shame. At any rate, I figured out how to do all that and more in Illustrator. Thanks for the help!
 
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