If you need some eye-catching text for your website, presentation or home-made movie, Xara 3D Maker could be exactly what you need. It's an app that's targeted at beginners, which means it has a very intuitive interface and is very easy to use. If you need even more encouragement, the Xara 3D Maker website is packed full of tutorials, guides and other forms of help.

One thing to bear in mind when using Xara 3D Maker is that many of the options available under the menu bar at the top, the menu down the right and the options on the left is that they all do the same thing - they are just different ways of accessing the options.

These options include a bunch of animation effects, patterns and styles, ready for you to use at any moment. You can easily customize the animation's color, bevel, shadow and design options – among other features – from the sidebar, and preview results in real time. Some of these Xara 3D Maker options can also be manually changed on the preview window, by simply dragging the animated text on your screen and moving the mouse.

Once your Xara 3D Maker animation is ready, you can export it to several formats, including animated GIF, bitmap- or vector- based Flash file (SWF), AVI movie, animated cursor (CUR) and Windows screensaver (SCR), ready to insert wherever needed. The one thing we couldn't help but notice about Xara 3D Maker, however, is that both the app and the designs it creates are beginning to look dated.

If you like the style, Xara 3D Maker is a great tool that lets you easily create text animations, even if you haven't used animation software before.

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AAA Logo 2008 logo creation software aims to make creating logos creative but quick at the same time. It has hundreds of templates and suggestions to choose from, or you can just start from scratch. You can add customize those templates that are available in the way you want, changing the color and pattern before exporting it to the Web or to print.

AAA Logo 2008 is far from a great design package though. What you can create is pretty limited in terms of style, shape and special effects. It looks and acts more like a glorified version of MS Paint but with logo templates. However, if you're no Photoshop whizz and want something as straightforward as possible, it couldn't be better. The logo templates fulfill everything from corporate designs to more fresh and youthful-looking brands so there's something in there for everyone.

If you've started a company and need a pretty cheap and cheerful logo, you're sure to find something you can tailor in AAA Logo 2008.

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Anyhow, you can change a few options (lights, shadows, zoom, lens flare, etc.) for a higher customization level. The program renders images only in JPG, allowing you to set the quality level.

In short, PFE is a pretty basic tool, but novice users will find it perfect to create titles, logos, headlines and other kinds of 3D texts.

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