Insofta Cover Commander 3.0

Insofta Cover Commander 3.0 is a fast, reliable, and user-friendly program that lets you 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 aren't 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 don't have to set up another photo session if you need to change something in your images.

There's 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 application 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 software rendering for maximum quality and does not require any specific 3D acceleration hardware. The program 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.

Why should you choose the product?

• Get your cover designed in just a few mouse clicks.
• Let the built-in wizards do the dirty work for you and focus on the artistic details of the cover.
• Save the result image with transparent background and use the picture for the complex web or print designs.
• Save the light, shadow, and reflection settings under a unique name and use those settings in other projects.
• Set the result image size and margins in pixels.
• Cover Commander does not require 3D accelerator to render 3D objects.
• Don't pay more than what it actually costs to create a great cover. Create additional covers at no cost at all!

 Major Features:

1. A Picture, a Wizard, and a Mouse Click: Cover Commander creates professional, custom-designed three-dimensional virtual boxes for your software, e-books, DVDs, manuals, CD-ROMs, and even screenshots. A simple picture, Cover Commander Wizard, and a few mouse clicks are all that's necessary to get the job done. The program’s extensive light, shadow, and reflection controls allow you to render a box or a cover of just about any complexity and see the final product as it is being made in the real-time preview window. The intelligent project creation wizard does the complex work for you, thus you can concentrate on the creative part of your project.
2. Perfect 3D Covers for Any Web Site
   
   • Quite often a box shot that you’ve ordered from a professional designer does not look good on your Web site after you re-design your site later. À soft shadow on white background looks differently from a shadow on dark-green background. Cover Commander takes this issue into account, producing just the perfect virtual cover that will blend into your Web site. If you decide to change your site’s background later, you won’t need to contact that book’s cover designer again; you simply open your Cover Commander project and change background color with a couple of mouse clicks.
   • No matter how complex your Web site design is Cover Commander will create a box shot that looks just right in your layout. Extensive background color and transparency, gradient, shadow and reflection controls will create you the box or cover you want. Refer to Virtual Cover Gallery for samples.
3. Speaking Their Language: Cover Commander user interface is available in multiple languages, so no matter where you live and what language you speak – you can still create high-quality covers that would sell your product and help you become the number one in your market.

Enhancements:

• Command line/batch mode added
• Save animation now
• Several minor bugs have been fixed
  

Requirements:

• Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
• 9 MB of free disk space