Wrapping text around images - help, thanks.

[Josiah]

Hi, guys-

I'm a writer and what you see below was my first published article back in 1999, therefore I would like to have a good copy.

As you can tell, the newspaper in the image is beat up and faded, so I thought I would chop up the JPG, lay it all out again in PS and fly in my text.

Having a devil of a time.

When I select text from WORD and paste it into a PS Text box, there are enormous gaps in between sentences. After much finagling and google attempts at help, I thought I'd come here and show you what I mean - maybe someone knows how I can fly my text into the re-done article so it looks exactly like the newspaper copy, except the text is crispy and clear-y.

Thanks in advance!

Original newspaper article:



New layout:



Text - I tried to lay it out so it would sorta fit the format of the original article. FAIL





Again, thanks.

 

[Trevor Dennis]

It is really risky cutting and pasting from a word processing app like Word. Especially with two different companies involved. You are OK using something InCopy, which id obviously another Adobe product, but if you want to compose the bulk of the text in Word, either cut and paste into Notepad, and then cut and paste into Photoshop from Notepad (assuming you are using a Windows system), or you could try selecting everything in Word, and using 'Ctrl Shift n' to strip all formatting before cutting and pasting into Photoshop.

 

[Spectrum]

For text formatting, Photoshop is not the right tool. InDesign is your friend in this case. I'm currently putting together an online publication, and it really is what you need for a book. For great tips on using InDesign head over to lynda.com or indesignsecrets.com has free tutorials.

 

[Josiah]

Thank you. You know what, I've had InDesign for all these years and never used it.

Is InDesign, for my purposes, easy to figure out?

Dumb question, I guess... I'll scoot on over to the websites you mentioned.

Thanks, too, Trevor, JohnD.