Art Text 2 is a Mac OS X application to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web site elements and buttons. Use Art Text 2 for doing a lot of your grafical jobs in an easy and stressfree way. Art Text 2 comes with a Template Gallery where you can choose one of over 200 ready made button, heading and icon templates, which can be edited afterwards. The program supports multiple layers, which you can manage via layers bar  and control their properties separately in the layers panel.
Multi layer support in itself means that you can create complex graphics. So you get a very convenient and economic tool to create web site buttons and decorative artwork for various documents.

Templates and Styles
Art Text offers over 200 ready made button, heading, icon and logo templates, use them as they are or modify to your taste. Apply one of 100 pre-designed styles, including Web 2.0 styles to your text or icon to achieve amazing results.

Artistic Fonts
50 Bitstream fonts were specially selected to give users a possibility to create textual graphics and catching headings. (Retail edition only)

Vector Objects
A collection of over 600 supplied vector icons and shapes will fill the need for objects to create unique logos, icons and web buttons. You can easily load your own vector icon as well.

Text Warping
22 adjustable vector transformation shapes will let you warp text to achieve wave or perspective type headings.

Graphic Effects
Cover any object with over 245 materials to give text or icon glassy, plastic or metallic look. You are also offered to control surface type, making it smooth or rough. Advanced material editor will let you create your very own, unique material.
Adjustable shadow and glow, as well as unlimited stroke effects provide you with the ability to graphically enrich object outer area.

Using the Result
Created graphics can be exported to TIFF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, EPS and then used as an image with any text editing, web designing or presentation software. Copying the result to Clipboard provides more convenient way to use the graphics, all you will have to do is simply paste it to Apple Pages, iWeb, Keynote, Microsoft Office or BeLight documents.


Features:

General:

• Multiple layers supported;
• LinkBack technology supported;
• Export into a file or clipboard in TIFF, JPEG, PDF, EPS, GIFF and PNG formats;
• Ability to print the created artwork.

Content:

• 200+ ready made templates that will enrich your text and web documents;
• 100+ pre-designed styles aimed at a quick creation of headings, icons, logos and web buttons;
• 600 supplied vector icons and shapes, and ability to use your own;
• 50 Bitstream fonts (Retail edition only);
• Shading Pro tool offers over 245 ready-made surface materials and 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;
• Blend Modes allow layers to overlap each other with different effects, which helps to mask or partially shade images;
• Flip, rotate and control opacity of objects;
• Multiline text support.

System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Try out ArtText 2 !  You can easily download the software here: Download-Area

ArtText is a product of BelightSoftware, Ukraine