VistaCreate features 680+ fonts in 25 languages to help you create your own custom designs with text. VistaCreate supports Hebrew, Latin, and Cyrillic characters. Whether you’re working with a template or designing from scratch, you have the option to add, delete, and edit text.
Here’s how you can work with text in VistaCreate:
- Add new text and photo text
- Upload your own fonts
- Experiment with font styles
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- Tweak opacity
- Change formatting
- Adjust spacing and alignment
- Apply animated and static effects
- Add a link (hyperlink)
How to edit texts in VistaCreate
Add text
To add text to your design, go to “Text” in the left menu, and click “Add text”. Or, use a shortcut by pressing “T” on your keyboard.
Add photo text
This feature allows you to fill your font with an image or video. You can upload your own files or choose something from VistaCreate’s media library. Go to the “Text” menu, click “Photo text”, and it will appear on the artboard. To apply your photo or video to it, select a media file from “Photos”, “Videos”, or “My Files”, and drag and drop it onto a text.
Upload your own fonts
Create customized designs by uploading your own fonts. To do so, select “Text” in the left menu, then “My Fonts”, and click “Upload Fonts”.
Select a style
The VistaCreate library offers 80 text styles that you can use for quick design. Some styles include a pair of complementary fonts that you can use for titles and subtitles. To access all styles, go to the “Text” menu and select “Styles”.
Pick a text color
To change the color of your text, go to the top panel and click. You will see the “Text Fill” menu with multiple color options. Here’s how you can pick a color for your text:
- Select a color from presets
- Use the color slider to pick a color from the palette
- Enter a hex code
- Select one of the image colors
- Pick a color using the eyedropper tool
- Apply your Brand Kit color palette
Change opacity
You can easily adjust the opacity of your text by clicking at the top panel and moving the slider.
Edit text formatting
Find all the formatting options at the top panel of the artboard. You can change the font, its size, and formatting (Bold, Italics, Underline, and Uppercase).
Adjust spacing and alignment
Go to the top panel to change spacing and alignment. Click the Align button to adjust the text location to left-aligned, right-aligned, or centered. Select the most common preset spacing or use the slider to tweak the spacing.
Add animation effects
When working with animated designs, you can also apply animation effects to your text. To do so, click “Animate” on the top panel and you’ll see the list of effects. VistaCreate offers 8 animation options: Move, Fade, Scale, Zoom, Wobble, Flash, Shake, and Spin.
Apply static effects
VistaCreate features 7 static effects you can apply to your text: Outline, Shadow, Text Box, Echo, Glitch, Reflection, and Curved. To learn how to use text effects, read this article.
Add a link (Hyperlink)
- Ensure the selected text is highlighted (as shown below) before adding a link to your text.
- Click the Link icon at the artboard's top panel, and then enter your desired link:
Note: depending on your monitor scale, some icons might be placed under the three dots in the upper-right corner of the artboard. Click to find them in the drop-down menu. It works only in PDF.