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Review
Created: December, 1999
Personal CD Label Kit
By Lowell Conn, Cyberwalker
Media Syndicate
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Admittedly, the majority of small businesses will not get a lot of use out of Personal CD Label Kit. It is software of specificity. Unless you burn CDs for business, sell discs out of your basement or
have some other reason to design jackets and CD graphics,
you probably don't need this.
On the other hand, if you do maintain a collection of CDs, burned
or otherwise, the price and efficiency of this program make it
well worth the while.
Load up Personal CD Label Kit and you are presented with two possibilities:
build a new CD case based on a wide array of templates made available or
start from scratch. Both offer a wealth of options, both are equally
easy to use.
About the only complaint from the start is that there is plenty of loading
time in this program, a no-no for print software (or any software mind you,
in these lightening quick CPU times).
Anyone familiar with publishing or print programs will have no problem
navigating through this one. There are intuitive icons on the side
of the screen and the
menu-bar is self-explanatory. There are three surfaces to work on: the actual
CDs design, the front cover plus inside insert and the back cover.
Use the same types of design skills that you would on a pamphlet
or greeting card. Enter some text, change the font. Change the font
size, reposition the
text, add a photograph (the program thankfully accepts bitmaps, jpegs and
other formats).
It's too bad that Personal CD Label Kit does not offer much in the
way of photograph or image editing, however. A solid colored photograph
cannot be rendered transparent
for image editing. The images you bring in are the images that you're stuck
with. In the program's defense, at $29.95 US, one ought not to expect the "crème
de la crème" in publishing works.
If you are looking to start a record label, boy oh boy, this is the cost-effective
program that will set you on your way to designing your jackets. Everybody
else, this is pure vanity. But vanity, at $29.95 US, is not so bad. And as
a promotional gift for your customers -- say, designing a CD cover that is
a promotion from your business with the proper innovative marketing mind
-- Personal CD Label Kit could do your business some good.
Reviewer's rating: 4 / 5
Comments: Good program, good price. Anyone out there need
this? If you do, you're in the minority -- and in luck.
Price: $29.95 US
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