Text Boxes At an Angle?

[jjhunter]

Hello hello. I was creating a banner last night for the Poetry Friending Meme I'm hosting over at jjhunter & was struggling mightily in terms of displaying text boxes (and the text inside) at an angle. What I ended up with is skewed text for the words 'poetry' and 'meme' using the 'Shear' tool:

[image deleted due to link being overwritten by new image - see below]

Is there any way simply to rotate a text at an angle without skewing it?

ETA: Second take.



ETA2: apologies for excessive linking on the earlier version of this post - thank you to jana for the reminder about comm rules re: advertising without permission. And thank you everyone else for the assistance -- I'm much happier with the modified image.

Comments

[melannen]

There's a "rotate" tool. It's the one that has two boxes, one of them tilted, and two curved arrows around them. Or you can go to tools-transform tools-rotate in the menus up top. You should be able to use that to rotate the text, although using that tool will convert the text layer to an image layer (so that you can no longer edit the text by typing.)

[sara]

*dittos this* It works great on text.

[jjhunter]

Thank you! That sounds exactly like what I'm looking for.

[jjhunter]

See entry above--I did a second take using your suggestions.

rotate tool

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you :)