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jjhunter: The shorthand declares the function `cs50`, i.e. the cs class, takes input type `student` and returns output type 'god' (cs50)
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Hello hello. I was creating a banner last night for the Poetry Friending Meme I'm hosting over at [personal profile] 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.

Poetry Friending Meme


ETA2: apologies for excessive linking on the earlier version of this post - thank you to [personal profile] 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.

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Date: 2 January 2012 14:24 (UTC)
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] 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.)

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Date: 2 January 2012 15:21 (UTC)
sara: S (Default)
From: [personal profile] sara
*dittos this* It works great on text.

rotate tool

Date: 28 November 2016 21:03 (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Thank you :)