38 MACWORLD AUGUST 2021
MACUSER REVIEW: ART TEXT 4Art Text 4
includes
more
than 440
photorealistic
objects you
can use to
create text
with the new
Spray Fill
feature.option can be turned off for those who
prefer to jump right in.) From here, users
have one-click access to every
available preset, all neatly
sorted by category with large,
colorful thumbnails.
Although the software
comes with nearly 200 free,
high-quality templates, there’s
also an option to buy more,
with 27 sets currently available.
Ranging from Artistic
Handwriting to Foodie, Metal
Cast, Wood, and holiday
themes, paid sets start at just
$3 each or $100 for everything.
With so many typographical
tricks already up its sleeve, Art
Text 4 manages to pull one
more rabbit out of its magic hat with the
addition of distortion effects. With eight
options including
Displacement, Roundness,
Erosion, and Blur, users can
now turn ordinary fonts into
something amazing, limited
only by the imagination. Lastly,
although version 4.0 still has no
way to export a layered PSD
file, you can now export layers
to individual files for further
tweaking elsewhere.BOTTOM LINE
With a dizzying number of
creative options, Art Text 4
makes typography fast, easy,
affordable, and most of all fun. ■mmmmh
Art Text 4
PROS- Affordable 2D and 3D text
design software for Mac. - Cool new Spray Fill, font
distortion features. - Export Facebook 3D
photos.
CONS - No CMYK or PSD file
output. - Can’t drag-and-drop
objects between different
project windows. - File management defaults
to iCloud Drive.
PRICE
$30
COMPANY
BeLight Software