14 DAY TRIAL // The business card is a man's best friend when he introduces himself to potential business partners and colleagues. It's probably one of the most comfortable, easy and successful way to advertise your business.
Promoting your business can be done on many levels: TV, radio, magazines, flyers etc., but many business owners tend not to give a lot of importance to business cards. A business card is the first impression a stranger gets about your business and a well-made one may attract customers faster than you think.
EximiousSoft’s Business Card Designer is the tool that will help you design your own personalized business cards with the utmost ease. The software comes as a Demo, the only limitation being the fact that it will add a watermark on your saved business cards. To remove this limitation you can buy it for 39.95$.
The installation takes only 16.4 MB on your hard drive space which is totally acceptable considering today’s storage capabilities. In terms of memory usage the application performs well, occupying only 16 MB of RAM.
The interface looks very nice and uses the latest ribbon layout that you find in Microsoft Office suite and other popular applications. It provides quick access to all its features, ease of use and comfort when working with this program.
The first thing you will notice when you run the application is the New Card Template window that allows you to create a new business card from a template. You can choose from various categories including: Nature, Business, Art, Culture, Accounting, Corporate, Transportation, Travel etc.
Each category comes with two to twelve models you can choose from, each with different styles and arrangements to satisfy your needs. You can also choose from multiple standard sizes or create your own custom size.
After this simple procedure is done, you can instantly start to fill up your personal or business information you want to pass on. If you have chosen one of the templates, this is even easier because all the information you need to fill is automatically placed to give the card a professional look.
If you don't like the position of the elements on the business card you can simply select and drag them to another location. Selecting a text box gives you more options to play with in order to achieve the desired effect.
From the General tab, you can change the position, scale, font, size and format the text as you want. Also you can opt to fill the text with a solid color, an image, gradient or pattern for a more appealing and stylish look.
The Stroke option allows you to add more personality to the selected text. You can add a neon glow or a soft outline to attract the attention on key elements of your business. For this you can choose the weight, dash type, transparency and filling options.
For a nice 3D effect you should check out the Shadow tab. Here you can choose to add a shadow to your text by adjusting the offset, transparency, blur degree and color.
This being said, you will not have any problems in editing and reaching the card format that suites best your business and has a great impact at first sight. To customize it even more, Business Card Designer comes with a lot of shapes and clipart images to integrate into your work.
You can choose from multiple categories of premade shapes including: Accounting, Architecture, Computers, Energy, Healthcare, Nature, Religious, Science, Sports etc. The clipart images are grouped in six categories for easy access. You can also insert your own photo to business cards for a greater impact.
Another great tool that will surely help you create the card you always wanted is the Custom Shape Tool. It’s a vectorial drawing utility that allows you to create complex shapes and objects limited only by your imagination.
With Business Card Designer you will also be able to print astonishing business cards on your home or office printer, on various card stocks from Avery, Sigel, Herma, Formtec, DECAdry etc., just select the format you want to use when you create a new business card.
Custom shapes and cliparts are a nice addition to your projects and for a touch of personality you can add your own pictures and graphic. The Print Layout window enables you to select the print sheet and choose your card printing layout for optimum results and paper savings. Also I would like to see a better template management allowing you to easily create different cards with the same template (can be very useful when you want to make business cards for your employees using a simple database). The price is a little high, but as we all know, quality comes at a higher cost. The great advantage is that you can try it as long as you want, but be careful with printing, as the software will leave its mark on the card. Here are some snapshots of the application in action:
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