Logo Design Software Review

Why Logo Design Software?

The logo is the most important symbolic representation of any enterprise. Logo design software delivers a platform where elaborate graphics and even 3D effects can be applied to design elements. You can easily create a fairly professional logo on your own. Logo design software is perfect for small businesses, DIY organizations or graphic hobbyists. 

The resultant designs are amazing and in a printer friendly format to save time and money. Furthermore, logo design software packages offer a great opportunity to personalize a logo with your individual taste and unique vision. On this site you will find articles related to logo design as well as reviews of logo design software to help you make an informed decision.

A Guide to Logo Design Software

Good logo designer suites needs to have all the right features in a usable interface. More than simply a library of reference images, competitive logo design software helps beginners create a professional and creative logo. The following criteria was used by TopTenREVIEWS to evaluate the best logo design software:

Font/Text Tools
Good Logo Design Software will have a good set of tools that allow manipulation of font/text. Of these tools, resizing, type, color, alignment, spacing and rotation are most essential. Bevel, shadow and emboss are a few features available with leading software. Fonts bundled with software further increase the options for a logo creator.

File Format
Support for a variety of file formats for importing and exporting designs is important when you consider the numerous file formats in use these days: JPEG, PDF, TIFF, BMP, and PNG.

Graphic and Image Tools
Color, shadow, resizing, alignment, rotation, outlining, and mirror are some of the basic graphic and image tools; whereas grouping, transparency, 3D effect, and emboss are some of the advanced and newer tools. Powerful logo design software gives you complete flexibility to work with graphics and images to tweak and adjust them.

Ease of Use
The software should have a set of easily editable template and objects catering to many different businesses,  such as schools, universities, teams and clubs. Instructions should be clear, precise and task oriented. A well organized user interface and easy to use tools will help newbies feel like a logo design pro.

Help and Support
Typically, generic help files are bundled with logo design software. For more precise questions and problems, the software developer should provide help and support to its user through as many channels as possible. With the right software and help, all you need to do is put in a little time, effort and imagination and out comes a perfect logo. Great help can be found online, over the phone, or with interactive tutorials.

While we recognize that professional logo design will remain with the pros, for DIY logos, logo design software is a great way to go. Combining all the right features in a usable format, logo design software will help you make your own logos in no time. At TopTenREVIEWS We Do the Research So You Don't Have To.™

 
 
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$29.99
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$39.95
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Templates/Objects
High Resolution
 
Color Adjustment
Edit Options
Resizing
 
Package Templates 470+ 1500 500 500 2200 400 250
Package Objects 1300+ 6360 8500 850 5000 4000  
Font/Text Tools
Add New Text
Color Adjustment
Edit Options
Bend
 
   
Rotation
 
Style
Tag Lines
  
   
Package Fonts 300 48    288   
File Importing
Open .ppp,.pfd,.ppb,.ppx .gbl .al8,.lde .lds .lps .lde .companylogo
PNG
 
GIF
 
JPEG
 
BMP
   
TIFF
   
ICO
 
    
TGA
 
    
PDF
 
    
WMF
 
   
Graphic/Image Tools
Color Palette
Shadow
 
Rotation
Color Gradient
 
Resizing
 
Outline
 
 
Group
   
Create New Objects
 
   
Transparency
 
 
Emboss
     
3D Effects
     
Alignment
    
Mirror
   
Layers
 
File Exporting
Save .ppp,.ppx .gbl .al8,.lde .lds .lps .lde .companylogo
PNG
GIF
  
JPEG
BMP
 
TIFF
 
TGA
     
PDF
 
 
WMF
      
EPS
  
 
Help & Support
Product help/manual
 
 
Online Help
   
Phone Help
   
  
Email Support
Tutorials
 
 
 
Supported Configuration
Hard Drive Space 566 MB 250 MB 50 MB 1.5 GB 150 MB 150 MB 5 MB
Memory(RAM) 512 MB 128 MB 512 MB 256 MB 64 MB 512 MB 3MB
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