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Macware Logo Design Studio Pro | 
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| From: macware
Category: Software
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $30.77
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 5349
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Professional
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: 00148-9
Model: 00148-9
UPC: 831666001489
EAN: 0831666001489
ASIN: B0011B5DAO
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: box has upc torn out....never used
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| Features:
| • | Bezier editing visually shows adjustable nodes you can move or delete in order to change the look of shapes, text and curves | | • | Over 100 creative filters and effects give your logo designs a unique look. Filters include distortions, blurs, transitions, and more using Apple's Core Imaging technolog | | • | Advanced color control options, and linear & radial gradients help sharpen your look | | • | When drawing freehand on the canvas, the Bezier pen automatically smoothes any choppiness to create a natural look to your drawings | | • | Over 1300 logo objects give you a creative jumpstart to your designs |
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Product Description
Don't be limited to a single logo design concept from an overpriced design firm. Get easy recognition of your name, image, symbol, icon or trademark using the flexible tools of Logo Design Studio Pro, the #1 selling logo design software (based on NPD Techworld)
The easiest way to create your own logos just got more powerful. Rebuilt from the ground up to employ the power and flexibility of vector graphics, LogoDesign Studio Pro will quickly become one of your most indispensable tools. Vector graphics are scalable to any size without losing sharpness so all of your creations can be printed on business cards or on the side of a building. LogoDesign Studio Pro is packed with all new professionally designed objects and templates that make creating logos a snap!
Logo Design Studio Pro offers the greatest range of designer tools to help you quickly and easily create an identity from your own library of uniquely branded logos and graphic images. By modifying or importing images, shapes, graphic objects and text, each professionally designed logo included in the software is able to produce thousands of unique results - all in a matter of minutes! If your identity evolves or completely changes at any time, simply recreate a new company logo design at no additional cost.
Go beyond company logo design by creating identifying graphics or text for stationery, website icons and buttons, page headers, titles for eBooks, text effects for digital movies, sports teams, festivals, churches, fundraisers, local guides, conventions, fraternal organizations, educational institutions, television or radio media, newspapers and publications, music events or artists - just fire up your imagination and go to work! The logo design software has all the right tools to aid your creativity. You can even trademark logos created by you using helpful trademark guidelines to keep others from copying your unique look. Accurately matc
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not perfect, but improving with age October 30, 2008
Justin (Omaha)
Logo Design Studio Pro is still a young application and Macware is still
working out some kinks, but have greatly improved many areas. The support
for SVG (vector) graphics is nearly perfect and you can easily edit them to
create new looks. Logo Design Studio Pro does have a bug that prohibits
grouped objects from being resized, rotated or skewed; this can even lead to
crashing at times. Macware is working to track this down and fix it, but
this does not stop a user from ungrouping the objects and applying changes
easily to individual ones. Macware is also working to better support raster
based images, which unfortunately have taken a back seat to improving vector
support, since vector graphics can be resized without losing any quality.
Obviously Logo Design Studio Pro cannot cover every single design that users
want in the 1300+ included objects, but a mountain is easy to create with
the pen or pencil tools. Macware is also about to release two expansion
packs; each pack will contain 150 new templates and over 1000 new objects,
which should help broaden a user's creativity.
Support has had some problems lately, but is being addressed by moving the
support center to a new server and getting new people involved to better
help customers. The best thing to do when finding a crash bug is to report
it to the company. You can email a crash report along with the steps you
took to create this crash. If no one reports the crashes, and how they
happened, to Macware, it is often difficult for the company to fix in a
timely manner.
For a product of this magnitude that is less than a year old, Logo Design
Studio Pro has made some great strides forward, and is continuing to address
newly reported issues as well as releasing new expansions to better meet the
needs of different users.
 Terrible Support September 25, 2008
G. Garrison (Austin, TX)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have to agree with the other reviews flaming this software. I purchased it on the 20th, designed a logo, tried to export it and the graphic objects get inverted in the export (upside-down) but not the text. I sent a request for support on the 20th, sent another yesterday, and have yet to receive any response today on the 25th except the form email "your support request has been recieved". I will now be asking for a refund since they feel no compulsion to actually support it. Avoid this software!
EDIT: well the good news is it was easy to get the refund. they processed it right on the website. I guess THAT they do well.
Program lacks variety, locks up, crashes September 14, 2008
CaseyPOD (Vancouver)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Macware Logo Design Studio Pro is the worst program I have ever bought. I installed it and immediately wanted to get to work. So I opened up a template and started playing around. First I wanted to change objects- they say they have over 1000 professionally designed objects- most of which are very similar (series of like objects) for instance - I wanted a mountain, the closest thing they have is a pyramid. There was no good way to edit the pyramid shape into a mountain type design. I tried changing colors, stacking them to give depth, but in the end- I could not come up with a good design. They market this to people who are not professional designers, so it should be intuitive and easy to use. The only easy thing to do is pick a template and change the text... which gives you a very limited number of choices in what you can make.
I am not an graphic artist, but I am pretty good with most art programs and photoshop type programs. I figured this would be easy. Try selecting objects and most of the time you cannot grab them - try putting an object in the canvas, well they kept appearing off the screen and about 1000x too big... this is just horrible! I cannot keep this program. I can't believe that Apple, with their high standards for software would allow this program to be sold in their stores.
If you want something very generic for a logo- then go ahead and buy this... just don't expect to be able to edit the graphics much. The drawing capabilities are severely lacking in this program. I would do better with MS paint on my old PC. Save your money and buy a real graphics program.
Excellent vector drawing tool July 11, 2008
Jason (Omaha, NE)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Earlier versions did have some crash issues and did not fully support SVG (scalable vector graphics), except with exporting as an SVG, but the new 1.8.000 version really sets the mark.
I have been unable to reproduce any crashes from earlier versions, and now the application fully supports SVG which means I can bring in any SVG created with Illustrator and edit each layer of the imported graphic fully; I can also now export as an SVG or PDF and it keeps the vector information in case I want to open and edit the exported graphic in another vector editor like Illustrator. There are also new vector based artistic strokes that have been added so you can jazz up the outline of any shape or text.
The new version also now includes over 1300 pre-designed graphic objects in SVG format so you can open and edit each object fully to make entirely new and unique object designs. And, the 500 pre-designed logo templates also give you a great place to start in your designs...simply change the text to your own and tweak the graphic if needed...then export it for any web or print based project. Nothing can ever replace Illustrator, but for the price, this software packs a creative punch.
It's pre-Beta software. Be warned! Do not waste your money. June 21, 2008
Kenneth (Elk Grove, CA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
In all the years of using my Mac and using some useful, pleasing-to-work-with Macintosh programs (about 10 years), I have NEVER used a product that has such low standards. The company seems not to know what customer service, software quality is. I am surprized that this company markets Mac software at all!
First of all there is no demo at the company website. I was told that they would put a demo link "next week" - that was about more than a month ago. The program looked promising... (I have to give them credit for their press release skills and marketing skills though - precisely the reason I fell for it!). I bought the software. That's when the trouble started! At first, I thought it was my iMac (iMac/G5/2GB/Leopard) but then I tried on my MacBook Pro/IC2Duo/2GB/Leopard, same story there. I don't know how the company actually puts out this software as commercial software! Some menu commands don't work at all, once I placed the vector object on the canvas I could not move it, neither could I resize it, holy mackerel! In the prev. version if I resized the raster object placed on the canvas, it would turn into a jagged mess! It keeps quitting/crashing!- like I said I have never seen a software product that is of such poor quality. I talked to the company and was about to get a refund, they convinced me that the bugs are being worked on and there's a new version coming out. So I get that version, now the vector objects don't show up on the media palette at all! So the company publishes an SVG importer. Now this is three updates later, the program quits on my G5, I can't select the object I just put on the canvas, can't move it (mouse or arrow keys). I mean the list goes on! I am beginning to wonder if these people are actually using a Mac to produce/test their software!!
Finally I had to do my stuff in Apple Pages - Eventhoughh it can't handle SVG/Vector graphics, atleast it works! Finally I got a refund.
Stay as far away from this product as you possibly can. This product should not even be sold anywhere. I also noticed that it no longer shows up on Apple Store shelves, just before that I was wondering how Apple ever kept such poor quality stuff on their shelves...
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