You can apply and combine text effects to create professional-looking logos and designs such as the following one:
Apply a ready-made effect You can select an effect from the Designer Text gallery when you need fast, professional-quality results. Apply a designer text effect
Add or remove fills You can fill the inside of a text object with solid or gradient colors, with photographs or other images, or with textures. You can also remove the fill from text so that only an outline remains. Fill a text object
Create bent text You can bend a text object in a circle or along a curve. Bend a text object
Apply outlines You can enhance the edges of text characters with plain line styles or with artistic or photo brush strokes. Outline a text object
Create 3-D text You can make plain text look three dimensional. Apply a 3-D effect to a text object
Apply other special effects You can enhance text by applying and combining shadows, transparency, blurs, or other effects. Types of PhotoDraw effects
Note To simulate certain effects, you may need to work with more than one text object. For example, you can enhance a word with a decorated first letter by creating two text objects — one for the first letter, and one for the remainder of the word. When you finish modifying these objects, you can group them so that they behave as a single object.