Me?
I started off with basic text art in Microsoft word but for some reason it stopped working and I wanted a good alternative (3D Powertext is good if you can get hold of a copy), the next really good one I've got is one called Printmaster by Broderbund (you can't warp text but you can give it a psychedellic look). Another one I can reccomend is Fotoview's Word Artist (free to download). I heard about Photoshop and what could be done with it and would have got the cheaper version which was out ot stock so I got Xara PGD7 and love it.