Publisher's Description:
CoverFactory Version 2 allows anybody to
create beautiful 3D-style Cover art in minutes. It's simple and
easy-to-use. You lay out each of the sides of the book or box (etc.)
in 2D, and it takes ALL the hassle away of turning that into a
beautiful 3D-style image. It walks you through all the main steps of
creating your new Cover, using an easy-to-follow wizard. Allows you to
add shadows, reflections, special effects, and much more.
Features:
- Creates images of books, books with CD-ROMs, binders, binders
with CD-ROMs, boxes, boxes with CD-ROMs, Floppy Disks, zip Disks,
CD-ROMs.
- Gradient, Pattern, Texture and Solid Color fills for sides and
background.
- 10-step Undo/Redo.
- Draw on top of sides using vector objects, including: lines,
barcodes, text, rectangles, circles/ellipses, pictures, polygons,
polylines, margins...
- Move, Rotate, Align, Change Ordering, Delete or Edit Properties
of vectors.
- Supports comb and spiral binding styles on binders
- Choice of CD-ROM position options on binders, books and boxes.
- Special effects: including gray scale, lens flare, buttonize,
color balancing, brightness, contrast, and more!
- Set up shadows using multiple lights from an array of 25.
- Add reflections.
- Rotate your object around all 3 axes
- Vary observer position.
- Render final image to JPEG, PNG, BMP file or the Windows
Clipboard.
- FREE access to our libraries of 200+ photographic images.
Cover Factory Review by the Box Shot Depot:
| Overall
Rating: |
3.5 stars |
| Features: |
3-axis rotation, zoom and
pan, directional lighting, perspective (called observer
position), allows for gradient/texture/image backgrounds,
shadows, reflections, ripple effects, lens flare and several
other special effects. |
| Possibilities: |
Boxes, Books, Binders,
(all with or without CD), CD, diskettes, business cards. |
| 2D
Editing: |
Powerful Vector-Based
editing with all sorts of options, from gradients to free
rotation, color swapping, various shapes, text and image
manipulation and more. |
| Templates: |
None. |
| Image
Formats: |
PNG, JPG, PCX, BMP |
| Image
Quality: |
Unknown because you
can't save images to files in the demo version (and the
onscreen images don't look so hot). |
| Ease
of Use: |
Takes a while to learn
all the options. |
| Does
NOT have: |
Real-time 3D editing. |
| Recommendation: |
Although it seems
designed for Book covers, it's a very powerful and feature
rich package. It's a bit harder to use then other packages and
since the onscreen rendering seems a bit crude, we wonder if
the final image saved to file will be rough as well. |
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