: How would I recreate this effect of text that seems to flow over a flight of stairs? Is there nondestructive way of achieving the wavy type effect, found below?

@Nimeshi706

Using a black n white displacement map might get you the distortion effect you want.

The principal is explained here: www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/dispmap/dispmap.htm

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@Bryan765

IMO, that looks like displacement mapping over a photo of stairs -or fabric over stairs?

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@Pierce403

In Illustrator, you can use a Mesh Envelope distort to non-destructively warp text like this:



Select your text object, then use Object > Envelope Distort > Make With Mesh... and add however many rows and columns you need to get the desired effect. I used 16 rows and 1 column in my example.

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