Inside Artfkt / Mac and Windows

Start with an image. Make it your own.

Layer pictures, lettering, footage, and forms. Explore a treatment, shape its motion, and keep an editable composition you can return to in the Artfkt desktop studio.

A starting point. Room to grow.

Begin with one look. Bring in another layer or a new way to move when the idea calls for it.

01 / Composition

Give every layer its own treatment.

Add lettering, footage, or a 3D form when your idea needs it. In the Artfkt desktop app, give words solid depth, bend a surface, or arrange layers under one Scene camera. Keep sources editable and use masks to choose where a treatment appears.

02 / Effects

Build your own look.

Try an effect, adjust its controls, and compare before and after. Combine and reorder effects from different collections to explore a look of your own.

03 / Motion

Give each layer its moment.

Place layers in time, blend between clips, or set hold, linear, and ease keyframes on a parameter. Choose a pattern for repeating motion. In the Artfkt desktop app, a separate soundtrack can drive the artwork too.

04 / Your library

Keep your ingredients. Reuse a look.

Save an image, sound, font, or model to your local Assets library. Keep reusable effect stacks and personal motion presets in My Artfkts, then bring them into another project and keep exploring.

Editable masks

Choose where your effects appear.

Reveal part of an image or give one area a different treatment in the Artfkt desktop app. Use images, video, text, or shapes as editable masks, combine their coverage, and soften the edges. Keep adjusting the cutout as your composition changes.

Artfkt for Mac showing BLOOM flower lettering, an Add circle and a subtracted diagonal stripe, one Content mask and two ordered Effects masks, with Clear stripe selected and Combine masks set to Subtract.

Add a region. Cut a stripe.

BLOOM cuts the flower into editable letterforms. An Add circle limits RGB Split and Posterize to the right side; a Subtract mask leaves a diagonal stripe free of those effects. The Content and Effects groups keep their masks in editable order.

Typography

Change the headline. Keep the treatment.

Edit the words without rebuilding their treatment. In the Artfkt desktop app, give lettering solid depth and bevel, then shape it with materials, textures, and motion.

Artfkt for Mac showing a Make Some Noise text layer over an image, with typography controls and RGB Split applied to the text.

Shape every word.

Edit text on the canvas, refine its typography, and give the layer its own effects.

Settings → Fonts in Artfkt for Mac, with the font catalog, an Inter preview, favorite status, and download controls.

Keep your fonts close.

Search Google Fonts, preview styles, and manage favorites and downloads in Settings → Fonts.

More ways to explore / Artfkt for Mac and Windows

Let the idea keep growing.

Give words depth, arrange layers under one Scene camera, or let a soundtrack drive the artwork. Bend or shatter a surface while keeping the source editable. Explore materials, moving type, and a local Assets library in the Artfkt desktop app.

Artfkt for Mac in Focus layout, showing gold MAKE WAVES solid 3D lettering with editable text, depth, and bevel controls.

Give your words depth.

Solid lettering keeps its words and font editable. Shape depth and bevel, then try materials, textures, and motion in Artfkt for Mac.

Artfkt for Mac in Focus layout, showing PLAY solid lettering and a pink-and-blue bent torus-knot in Document Scene with camera controls.

Play in shared space.

Gold lettering and a bent torus-knot share one Scene camera and depth. Orbit the composition while keeping each source editable in Artfkt for Mac.

Artfkt for Mac in Focus layout, showing a pink-and-blue torus-knot model and its material controls.

Give a shape its own finish.

A torus-knot model with a Gradient finish. Adjust its geometry, material, and lighting while keeping the model editable.

Artfkt for Mac showing MAKE SOME NOISE lettering with Kinetic Wave controls in Focus layout.

Let the letters move.

Kinetic Wave gives editable lettering a moving arrangement. Shape the movement while keeping the original words.

Artfkt for Mac in Focus layout showing Animate’s Sound setup with a Studio pulse soundtrack waveform and editing controls beside flower artwork.

Start with a soundtrack.

Choose a passage from a separate soundtrack and use its energy, hits, or a manual beat grid to drive motion in Artfkt for Mac.

Artfkt for Mac showing the Assets sidebar with the project's original image and Save to My assets action.

Choose what to keep.

Project originals stay with the composition. Save a useful source to My assets when you want to reuse it in another Mac project.

Inside Artfkt

Your ideas. A workspace to explore them.

Try an effect, compare the result, and keep experimenting. Place layers on the timeline, blend from one clip to the next, or give a parameter its own keyframes.

Artfkt desktop workspace showing an orange flower against blue with an RGB Split and Posterize effect stack.

Build your own combinations.

Stack effects around your image and refine the result in the desktop workspace.

Artfkt showing RGB Split keyframes and segment controls beside orange flower artwork.

Shape the motion.

Set hold, linear, or ease keyframes on a parameter beside your artwork.

Artfkt Browse Collections dialog displaying the Glitch collection and its effects.

Find a new direction.

Explore collections and inspect their effects without leaving your composition.

From experiment to finished work

Room to explore. Tools to finish.

Keep your compositions, revisit your decisions, and take the result with you.

Pick up where you left off.

Save and reopen local projects with your original images, footage, soundtrack, fonts, and models. Larger saves show progress and let you cancel.

Explore and retrace.

Undo, redo, and browse your session’s editing history as you refine a composition.

See what changed.

Compare before and after, and preview blend modes to see how your effects work together.

Export for your next post.

Inspect a larger export preview, start with Instagram, TikTok, Reels, YouTube, Shorts, or Spotify Canvas presets, and save your own presets in the Artfkt desktop app. Keep the format, dimensions, soundtrack, and time range editable. Include your separate soundtrack in supported MP4 or WebM exports, or choose silent video. Dimensions and codecs depend on your device.

What would you like to make?

Video art / Ghost Train

A dancer rides the subway.

Two films play at once. Screen carries the dancer’s bright sleeves into the tunnel while the train moves through her shadow.

Watch ten films and remix Ghost Train →

A dancer turns in a subway tunnel. The bright folds of her dress float over the rails, and the train keeps moving through the dark stage.

Make something unexpected

Keep your next idea editable.

Bring all collections and multiple image layers together in one desktop studio. Build a look, shape its motion, and save your next starting point.

Pay US$29 once at launch (regularly US$39). Includes all current collections and Artfkt 1.x updates.

Future major upgrades are not included.

For Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 13 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PCs. All collections in one desktop studio. Full requirements