Changing proporions within a circle??? Enlarging center in proportion to remainder?

Hi there,

I've got an urgent fix to do for some CD artwork, sadly I am far from being a photoshop guru and I don't have time to send it back and get it redone.

Basically, I have a load of text spiraling inwards towards the center of the disk but it ends up a bit too close to the center. I need to enlarge the hole in the middle without distorting the text too much.

My first thought was to try the Filter/Distort/Spherize effect and indeed this does make the hole proportionally bigger but it also makes the text near the edge much smaller than the text near the center.

I need some kind of radial or spiral transform/distortion that will maintain the proportion of the lettering, although roughly would be fine, it doesn't need enlarging very much.

I am using photoshop 7, anyone got an ideas please? I have tried googling but if the info's out there I guess I'm not using the right search terms!

Many thanks,


Roger.

Roger,

Try using free transform on the text only to expand the text out since you already have it in a circular formation. Hope that helps.

Phantom

I would but it's a bit-mapped image, the lettering is all hand drawn. Thankfully this means it's not too obvious when I use distort/liquefy on it :-)