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CeledyDraw 2

Type of Program: Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing
Supported platforms: Win 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000
Company Name: Celedy Software Inc.
Price: $64.99 U.S.
Installed Size: 60 MB
I have always found Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing
software to be a bit intimidating. You run the program and are faced with a
bewildering array of meaningless buttons and usually a help file that is full of
jargon and might as well have been written in another language. Not so with
CeledyDraw 2.
The first thing that impressed me was the product's website, (http://www.celedy.com/productoverview.html),
containing clear and informative details about the program and good graphical
details. Almost everything you need to know about the program is on the site and
not just glossed over, it is well worth a visit. The program itself is awesome
and simple to use thus making it easy for beginners and more than powerful
enough for professionals.
The user interface is well designed with nice touches like all the different
shape drawing tools being aligned along the bottom of the screen, no more
clicking on tiny spinners to bring up a 4 tool submenu, this has 24 of them! 14
alignment and distribution buttons on the left of your screen! Yet the screen
still stays amazingly uncluttered. Major effort has been placed in making the
CeledyDraw 2 interface as simple and intuitive as possible.
Included is the Symbol Gallery, this is an extremely powerful feature that
allows users to browse by thumbnail and insert over 3000 fun and attractive
vector symbols in more than 100 diverse themes, symbols can be resized, filled
with textures and multicolor gradients, and even have special effects applied!.
You also get a Template Gallery, where users can quickly browse and open
hundred's of attractive templates in categories such as Flowcharts, Greeting
Cards, Business cards, Flyers, and much more. Other features include Artistic
Text, multicolor gradients, vector graphic operations such as Trim, Weld,
Intersect, and Node-Editing to quickly forge complicated shapes from basic
shapes, professional-grade Typesetting control over Leading, Tracking, Baseline
Shift, and Kerning, special effects such as Contour, Blend, and Multi-color
gradients to create stunning complex artwork. CeledyDraw 2 also offers PDF,
Adobe Illustrator and EPS export, with the option of exporting text as curves
and gradients as images to ensure that the exact layout is preserved. This makes
CeledyDraw 2 excellent for designing projects for file-sharing and commercial
printing as well. There are many many more features which are too numerous to
mention here. Take my earlier advice and visit their website for full
information.
Possible uses are: Logo and Ad Design, Web Graphics, Flyers and Signs,
Newsletters and Magazines, Catalogs and Brochures, Labels and Signs, Greeting
Cards and Postcards, Business Cards and Stationeries, Presentations, Flowcharts
and Diagrams, Floor plans and Schematics, School Projects, Resumes and Cover
Letters, Home Office Documents and much more. There is also a range of excellent
easy to follow tutorials on the website on top of the included clear and concise
help file.
It doesn't take weeks to learn, and years to master. It is a simple to use
2-in-1 graphic design AND publishing software that lets you quickly create
impressive graphics, and then conveniently place them directly into your
publication projects (DTP or Web) without having to switch between several
different applications!
Highly recommended.
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Reviewed by Simon Baillie
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