If you're after good Logo Design try this site, which offers logo design software, logo creators and a logo maker. It is commercial software, but it provides excellent results. The latest version of the logo creation software, v5.0 comes with modifiable logo designs, each edition comes with logo elements such as orbs, swooshes, shapes and so on. You can import and more importantly manipulate your own artwork, photographs and clip art images.
The tools allow you to undo/redo to up 60 times, you can resize, rotate, fade and change opacity, add in reflections, 3D and mirrored effects - great for a Web 2.0 look to your pages. Other features include shadows, circular text, backgrounds, edit text size etc. You can create your own logo template and then modify it to see what it's like in different colours and so on.
There are a variety of different versions available - The Logo Creator, The corporate logo edition, with 80 professionally created designs, The Business Mascot logo creator, The Travel and leisure logo design set, with 50 logos designed for the travel industry, The Entertainment logo creator, which would work well with podcasts, radio, news groups and so on. The Spiritual logo collection, The real estate logo edition, with 50 real estate logos, The Sports logo collection, again with 50 different designs. Finally, theres a pack that contains all the sets, with a total over 800 logos. This costs $189.95, and each pack costs $29.95
The website provides you with a lot of samples to view, so you do get a very clear idea of what exactly you're going to be getting. It's true to say that there are plenty of free logo/image/banner products available, but the ones in these collections really do look professional. The website itself says:
"Create incredible logo, page headers, splash page images, movie titles
and more that look like a Photoshop guru spent hours laboring over!
It's like having your own logo design studio... without the studio!
With The Logo Creator by Laughingbird Software - you'll get a portfolio
full of logos that you can modify and personalize yourself, in your own
time... for far less than what a designer will charge.
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[Please note that this has been a paid posting, but also note that I wouldn't advertise products that I didn't think were good in the first place.]
