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How to Make Quick and easy Logo's and App Icons with a free App on the Mac
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Shaders, Textures, and Gradients
Art Text comes with a collection of customizable shaders and photo textures that you can use to fill objects. Also apply a radial or linear gradient with up to three colors and apply a shadow, stroke, or glow. Shaders can be quickly customized by changing the color, bevel, light direction, and depth.
Bend and Warp Text
Make your Keynote presentations attract more attention by creating stylized headings for your slides. Using 24 different text transformations, you can bring text to life and give it a sense of motion and shape. Wrap text around objxects and bend and warp it to your heart's content!
Shape Library and Vector Editor
Take advantage of the library of over 600 fully customizable vector icons and shapes or draw your own using the powerful Vector Editor. Apply effects and fills to each of the shapes and combine them into complex objects thanks to Art Text's layer-based workflow and easy-to-use guides and layout tools.
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Hey everyone in today's video I'm going to talk about in art application that
can create logos application icons and buttons very quickly and easily now only
discovered this particular applicationcalled our texts too and it's made by
Belight software this year but after I used it I found it to be seamless it's
so easy to use you could design a logo or even just a
header for a brochure or even a simple application icon in like literally in a few minutes and you don't
really have to be a designer to be able to do it so if you are a developer and you need an app icon or if
you're doing FileMaker databases and you want to make
buttons for that it worked for that
logos brochure or headers anything so let's get started and show you how this thing
works and don't forget I will leave a little
link so that you'll be able to download
from the App Store so once you download
it you'll see this is the application
icon here if you're if it's already in
your Applications folder because you
downloaded from the App Store that's
fine if you go right to the belight
website and you download a free copy you can just drag it into your Applications
folder to install and then open it up so once you have it opens up and I do over
here let's just show you it'll start off
by opening up to this window once it
opens to this window you could actually
closed in and just go to file template
gallery here is where you can actually
choose a pre template for you to use and
it has all these different elements that
you can use and some of them are buttons
some of them are logos we're going to
pick a logo and actually redo it so I'm
gonna pick this logo here called gold
I'm going to click Choose and it's going
to open up as you can see the choices of
the different colors are right here so I
wanted to make it pink or orange and
there's quite a few blue let's say and
then if you go down to this window over
here you see the word gold you click on
it
you actually just can retype it so if I
wanted to type Mac that's all there is
to it and then I close it
and boom I have a logo now to export
this once you're finished with that all
you have to do is go down here and you
can either bring it to the clipboard and
use it to kind of paste into Word or
Adobe InDesign Photoshop or you can
share it and they have all of these
opportunities to share it into your
photos
put it in your messages use it on
Twitter or Facebook and over here you
can also save it as a file that you can
actually edit and place into various
documents so if you wanted to know how I
do the FileMaker I usually just save it
to a file and then I drag the file right
into FileMaker by inserting it if you
can use this also your web pages if
you're using it for design element you
can make it as a clipboard item or you
can make it as a file it's up to you now
besides having these different items
over here it also has a couple of items
here so you can change the texture so
you can switch around textures here and
also you can just do it with a color so
there's lots of options that you can do
and I have to say that the gold one
looks pretty awesome I like that one
there's also different styles so let's
say you liked something in this area
let's pick this one which says pink and
if you double click on that and we typed
the word Mac tips you can fit in there
now at this point they have kerning they
have line spacing care you have
additional shapes icons so a whole bunch
of things that you can do here you can
customize something yourself so they
have that area as well and let's take a
look at what do you do if things are
oversized right so as you can see over
here you have this to kind of bring down
just kind of the overall page size so
that you can see where you can grab this in to make
it a little bit smaller so we can see it
on the screen
so that's pretty cool now let's say you
wanted to have this on two lines you
would just hit return and that would
place it on two lines and then you just
close this window here and now you can
kind of stretch it out anyway you see
fit so once you have been here you
switch to this they'll actually change
what you've typed in there so you have
to retype it but there's so many if you
want to make a button or an icon for
your application you can do it right
from here but they have a lot of
predefined things so for example here in
coffee club let's try the Mac tips right
there we're going to type Mac tips and
as you could see it just keeps the
elements and you can edit the shape if
you want to stretch it out depending on
what your needs are but you can do these
things really really quickly I like this
particular one very artistic right I
wanted to type the word mac here it
could look really really cool and don't
worry about the sizing all you have to
do is drag that down to get it bigger or
you can change the size of the actual
box I like to pick inches over here and
you can do it's a 10 by 10 and that
would give you a larger size to also
work with then to be able to do things
so I think this is an incredible
software it's so easy to use once you're
done with it again you just go export
and that's it's really easy
application to use hope you enjoyed this
tip try out the Free Application if you
like it buy the full version but in the
meantime have fun making logos.
