Where text becomes an art
 Art Text is an application to create high quality headings,
logos, icons, banners and buttons. The program implements the latest Mac OS X
technologies which allow you to easily modify any texts and vector shapes
into a fancy graphic. Use the result with iWork, Microsoft Office, BeLight
applications and other programs. Create more compelling business presentations, brochures, flyers, postcards, business cards and Web sites with the program.
Pre-designed styles, shapes, icon art images, shading materials
and other advanced visual effects make Art Text a powerful and intuitive program,
which is a great example of delivering Mac OS X technologies to everyone. Not only
professionals, but anyone, who wants to make his text work look attractive, will
find a use for the program.
Key Features:
 50+ pre-designed styles to get you started;- Text and special artwork content (about 300 pictograms) as a source;
- Shading Pro tool (ability to cover/shade anything with shading material —
any object can get the glassy, plastic or metallic look, it is also possible to add
the effect of smooth or rough surface to any of the objects);
- Option to fill and outline text or artwork with different colors, gradients or
textures;
- Apply shadow and glow effects;
- Ability to combine text with background image;
- Bend text using 20 adjustable vector transformation shapes or Bezier splines;
- Ability to export into a file or clipboard in TIFF, JPEG, PDF, PNG or other formats.
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February 12th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Everything this developer does is top shelf. I owned a license to TypeStyler eons ago, and finally something has come along that can replace it. Yes, it is no Illustrator, but for quick and easy graphics this does the job very well.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:27 am
This is very cool! Simple, quick and lovely! Also, very mac! :)
February 12th, 2007 at 7:27 am
COOL. Fantastic idea for an app.
Unfortunately for the dev, I have no need for it ^^; It looks really nice though.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Yes, very cool and simple, but for pro photoshop user, I can’t see myself spending $20. I’d scoop it for $10 though, just to do quick little things when needed. Sry.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I use PS as well, but I do like the “canned” textures. It makes things simpler yet you can modify as needed.
Could the developer chime in? When I have a shape selected, and select a style, it reverts to a text field. Is there a setting to keep the shape in the foreground? I know I can select the shape from the menu or from the triangles in the corners below. But it would nice to not have to do that with every style selected.
Thanks
February 12th, 2007 at 10:58 am
I like this program. I just used a font that I made and it looked great. I don’t use Photo Shop well, but this might be a great way for me to make quick textual content for my web site.
I have to play around with it some more.
Are there plans for custom shapes?
February 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Just speaking from my perspective this is a godsend for those of us working in a production environment where a design is built for repeat business. Typestyler was our tool of choice for many spcialized name drops. Unfortunately they dropped the the ball, and left us with a bunch of useless templates… Good riddence Typestyler!!!!
February 12th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
My 6 and 9 yr old girls have absolutely been loving playing with the trial version of this program. My 9yr old immediately had the idea and was excited about using this for our web page and about a hundred other ideas she had.
I might pony up the $20 for this just for the coolness factor. At the original price it might be worthwhile for those needing it in a business but for the average Joe Blow, it’s a little much.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Oh great. WordArt for Mac. Yuck.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Interesting app, but *two* days interesting?
February 13th, 2007 at 7:15 am
I went for it. I might not use it too often but it’ll be useful for the times that I need it plus my kids love playing with it.
Just waiting on my key now.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:59 am
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September 1st, 2007 at 7:58 pm
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I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting