Art Text Features

Templates and Styles to Get You Started

Over 300 fully customizable ready-made templates and 100 styles give you a quick start to electrifying your documents with stimulating headings, icons, logos and web buttons. Simply open the program, choose a template or style, and delve into the world of design.

Library of Vector Icons and Shapes

Art Text comes equipped with 600 vector icons and shapes to supply you with all of the tools you need to create interesting logos, icons and buttons. Using the shapes and the multiple layers, you can produce elaborate designs for use on web pages, as a part of a program interface or for your business.

Materials and Textures

Art Text gives you the possibility to apply textures and materials to objects to flavor your projects with individuality. A library of over 190 ready-made textures and 245 materials expands your design palette and saves precious time that would be spent searching for graphics or materials in the Internet. Additionally, you can create your own materials using the built-in material editor, as well as import images to use as textures.

Artistic Fonts to Enliven Your Text

Breathe new life into your text with the 100 additional fonts included in the Retail edition. Choose the right font to meet your creative needs and design unique textual graphics for your documents.

Layers for Creating Complex Objects

Art Text offers you the chance to expand your artistic potential and create astonishing objects and text by taking advantage of easy-to-use multiple layers. The blend options open a new world of design possibility by changing the way the objects interact with each other. The ability to merge layers lets you create intricate graphics or do away with unnecessary parts of an object.

Bend and Warp Your Text

Bring your text to life with 22 adjustable vector transformation types and Bezier splines. Wrap your text around other objects to add a unique feel to the headings of your documents.

Editing Capabilities

Art Text is a powerful toolbox full of tools to refine your graphics. Art Text allows you to fill objects with different gradient types, colors and textures, add realistic shadows or a luminous glow, add and edit strokes using the powerful stroke tool, and customize or even create your own materials.

Integration with Other BeLight Applications

Support for LinkBack technology and integration with other BeLight Software programs allow you automatically import Art Text graphics into other programs like Disc Cover, Business Card Composer, Labels & Addresses and Swift Publisher. After the graphic has been imported, simply double click on the object to open Art Text and begin editing it again. Read more about the Art Text Bonus App.

Using the Result

Word art and graphics created in Art Text can be used practically anywhere! Export them into one of a wide range of supported formats, including TIFF, JPEG, PDF, EPS, GIFF, and PNG. Copying it to the Clipboard provides you with the convenient option to copy and paste your graphics to Apple Pages, iWeb, Keynote or Microsoft Office.

Easy-to-Use Interface

The straightforward interface of Art Text will never leave you frustrated or confused. Work within the three tabs of Art Text (Effects, Geometry, and Styles) with ease and enjoyment.

Preview and select the design you like from Assistant.	Warp your text using 22 transformation types.	Edit existing materials or create your own.

All Features of Art Text

General:

• Multiple layers supported.
• LinkBack technology supported.
• Export into a file or clipboard in TIFF, JPEG, PDF, EPS, GIFF and PNG formats.
• Multi-Touch trackpad gestures supported.
• Ability to print the created artwork.
• English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese localizations available.

Content:

• 300+ ready made templates that will enrich your text and web documents.
• 100+ pre-designed styles aimed at the quick creation of headings, icons, logos and web buttons.
• 600 supplied vector icons and shapes with the ability to use your own.
• 100 additional fonts (retail edition only).
• The Shading Pro tool offers over 245 ready-made surface materials and the ability to create your own one.
• Collection of 190+ supplied textures.

Editing:

• Adjustable shadow and glow effects.
• Radial and Linear gradient options.
• Color or texture fill capability.
• Unlimited strokes allow to outline text or artwork with different colors.
• Warp text using 22 adjustable vector transformation shapes or Bezier splines.
• Several layers can be selected and edited simultaneously.
• Blend Modes allow layers to overlap each other with different effects, helping to mask or partially shade images.
• Flip, rotate and control the opacity of objects.
• Split into Letters sends all of the letters of a word to different layers.
• Extract a Letter(s) allows you to select any portion of a word and extract it to a new layer.
• Multiline text support.