Insofta Cover Commander 3.1.1 is a Card & Label Design product from insofta.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Insofta Cover Commander enables you to create very professional looking simulations of product boxes and software screenshots that are suitable for web publishing or printing. It provides several design templates to create program boxes with or without a CD, as well as simulated CDs and 3D-style screenshots either straight or curved with optional drop shadows and reflection effects. All you have to do is load the images to be used for the front, back and side covers, or a regular screen capture of an software window, and the software will apply the selected style, allowing you to further customize the design by adjusting camera angle, shadow, reflection and light settings. The preview is rendered in 3D and can be freely rotated to achieve the desired effect. The finished design can be rendered in various sizes and saved in PNG, GIF, JPG or BMP. Impressive results!
This is a typical designers task: create an image of a product box, book, manual, DVD, CD, Vista box, card (etc.) for a web site, electronic presentation or a paper publication. In the past, this was done by photographers. Its a long and expensive process. Photographic images arent perfect, have resolution limitations and you can hardly edit them. Today, designers normally use 3D-rendering software. Synthetic images are perfectly clean. You can use various visual effects and transparent backgrounds to smoothly embed your graphics into existing designs. Additionally, you dont have to set up another photo session if you need to change something in your images.
Theres still a downside, though. You need to own an expensive 3-rendering package and you need to be familiar with it. It takes time to create even a simple model.
Your best option is to use a specialized 3-rendering software that does not require advanced knowledge in 3D design and allows you to create a professional graphic in minutes.
Unfortunately, most of the available programs of this kind are rather limited. They render a simple texturized parallelepiped. They use the 3D-rendering features of your video card that are normally intended for games and not for professional designs.
Cover Commander from Insofta uses program rendering for maximum quality and does not require any specific 3D acceleration hardware. The software includes a wizard that allows you to create an image in a few quick steps. The process of creating an image is highly customizable yet contains a set of presets for each step for fast and effortless customization. You start with a basic scene template: a box model, a box with a CD, book, manual, DVD-box, a 3D-screenshot, etc. The other wizard steps allow you to select images that you wish to put onto the 3D objects, set up light sources, shadows and reflections. The resulting image can be exported into a range of graphic formats, including PNG with alpha-channel. The license of this design software is Free Trial Software, the price is $69, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Insofta Cover Commander, you can buy this design software.