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BeLight Introduces Art Text

BeLight Introduces Art Text

by , 11:05 AM EST, December 20th, 2006

BeLight Software announced the immediate availability of Art Text on Wednesday. Art Text is a Universal Binary application that lets you apply artistic and other special effects to text and vector-based shapes. It includes over 50 pre-designed styles, a shading tool for creating glassy, plastic and metallic looks, gradient fills, shadow and glow effects, and exports to several file formats including TIFF, JPEG, PDF, and PNG.

Art Text is priced at US$29.95, and is available for download at the BeLight Software Web site.

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Close Name:Guest
Subject: Another nail in Typestyler's coffin!

This looks like a decent basic app.

I used to use Typestyler all the time to do stuff like this, but no OS X version of Typestyler has ever been released, even though they've been promising it for years. Between current Photoshop features and apps like this, I'll have very little reason to go back to Typestyler if they ever do release an OS X version. Are you listening, Typestyler?

As Steve Jobs said, "Real artists ship."

Close Name:Guest
Subject: ArtText works

After patiently awaiting an OSX version of Typestyler for about five years, I too have given up as the Stillman family enjoys their retirement. While ArtText is not nearly as robust as TYPESTYLER was, it DOES work on OSX and addresses basic needs of designers to shape text for importing into Illustrator as vectored files. The best part of all is that BeLight seems receptive to ideas for future enhancements. Try it! For $30 you cannot go wrong.

Close Name:Deano2222 Posts: 1 Joined: 25 Feb 2007
Subject: ArtText works!

After patiently awaiting an OSX version of Typestyler for about five years, I too have given up as the Stillman family enjoys their retirement. While ArtText is not nearly as robust as TYPESTYLER was, it DOES work on OSX and addresses basic needs of designers to shape text for importing into Illustrator as vectored files. The best part of all is that BeLight seems receptive to ideas for future enhancements. Try it! For $30 you cannot go wrong.

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