textArt
Create and customise over 350 special effects for quick and easy title, banners and highlights. From Simple outlines, contours, dots and lines through PopArt Scribble, patch up and Comic Book to highly Polished chrome, gold Steel and even semi transparent effects such as glass and mist. ... Just type your line of text, select the effect and choose the colours and apply! ... Edit the results in Paint Shop Pro like any other image - add a drop Shadow or other effects rotate or resize. ... New in version 2 is a custom option, which lets you choose any image or texture as a basis for the effects.
ftp://ftp.digitalworkshop.com/pub/plugins/textArt_Eval_Setup.exe - 6Mb - Download - Screenshot

HyperTyle
HyperTyle is a sophisticated filter plugin for generating texture, surface, paint, erosion, transparency, edge, frame and shadow effects. These main effects are based on seamless textures, so there are unlimited variations possible. Additionally there are also zoom, rotation, metal, chrome,... A preset feature lets you save effect settings and reuse them later. ... The dialog of HyperTyle is skinned and consists of a large preview on the left side and a tab sheet control with all filter parameters on the right side.
http://graphicsgalaxy.com/products/HyperTyle10DEMO.exe - 4Mb - Download - Screenshot

SMLabel OCX
SMLabel is full feature label control which enable you to add picture and 2 captions in the same label. This control add some great features like caption fade, caption effect as shadow, embosse, engrave,... Source code are available.
http://www.station-media.com/download/smlabeltrial.exe - 547Kb - Download - Screenshot

Font-Effects
Text creation tool that produces graphics for use in presentations and on the Web. You can deform the text and use textures. Use shadow and edge effects to make the text look fantastic! You can also add a border and a background texture. The result can be printed or saved.
http://www.cadkas.de/font!.exe - 775Kb - Download - Screenshot

ImageXYZ
ImageXYZ v1. 0. 1 is a utility to watermark your copyrighted images using single or multi-line text with virtually any font installed on your system. You can specify the font properties (type, size, bold, italic, etc. ) and choose the fore color and shadow color of the watermark. ... The brightness level of the watermark and shadow colors are adjustable as well. ... tiff) or png (. ... png) image or you can simply copy the image to the clipboard to be pasted into Microsoft Word or any other application capable of accepting pasted images.
http://www.designworkz.com/download/imagexyz.zip - 724Kb - Download - Screenshot

Advanced Warp Screensaver
Advanced Warp is graphically unique. The liquid effects have been recreated with accurate physics, so they look just like they might in real life, taking into account such factors as density and speed. The effects are so smooth and realistic that it seems if you touch the desktop, ripples will... The screensaver is configurable, so you can come up with your own combination of effects, including Vortex, Psilo, Dissolving, Shadow Storm, and Violent Storm. ... If the effects are not set, they are displayed at random.
http://www.kryptile-screensavers.net/download/adwarp.zip - 301Kb - Download - Screenshot

3D FontTwister text & button maker
FontTwister is the fastest and easiest way to create dazzling text effects. FontTwister comes with an impressive selection of templates for graphic styles, color gradients, textures, shapes, letter edges, 3-D bevels, shadows, buttons and frames. Simple intuitive controls let you interactively... The effect generator creates unlimited variations of amazing text effects. ... 3MB). ... 8 MB, zipped: 1. ... FontTwister is a very compact program (2. ... It does not need OpenGL, DirectX or other libraries.
http://www.neuber.biz/download/ftw13e.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Wondershare Photo Collage Studio
Wondershare Photo Collage Studio is a digital photo collage utility that assembles favorite photos into an artistic compilation. With Photo Collage Studio, you can make great photo collages, either quickly and easily - with photo frames and special mask effect, or creatively - with rich Cliparts... A wide range of tools available, including Crop, Flip, Shadow, Gray and Filter; 2. ... Enhance your collage with text and rich Wordarts to make good picture creative and great; 5. ... Hundreds of static clipart imagesare included to spice up any collage project; 6.
http://download.photo-collage-software.com/pcls_trial.exe - 15Mb - Download - Screenshot

CoolWatermark
CoolWatermark is a cool and strong assembly to write watermark text or overlapped photo on image and is designed for . NET, working with both Windows. form application and ASP. NET. Read all Image type . NET supports(Bmp, Emf, Exif, Gif, Icon, Jpeg, Png, Tif, Wmf ) . ... Write text with kinds of special shape and effect; shadow and hollow the text; traparent watermark, and specialize the default position of watermark. ... Drawing. ... Image object on which you can make any modification, so you can aslo write it in any formation .
http://com.anggogo.com/downfile/CoolWatermarkFull.zip - 429Kb - Download - Screenshot

Total Image Watermark
Total Image Watermark is a new watermarking tool with widest opportunities yet easy-to-use. First, it can solve the task of aplying watermark for digital photo protection. Second, it can convert images to other formats (more than 30 image formats are supported! ... You may change it's transparensy, choose the position of your logo and select dozens of effects like: shadow (also inner shadow for relief view), emboss, bump, rotation, mask. ... Apart from the logo, you may add comments to your images (sure with lots of settings - position, font, color, shadow) - everything from 'It's My Photo!
http://www.CoolUtils.com/download/TotalImageWatermark.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot