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Here are some design ideas for using SureThing CD/DVD Labeler Deluxe. To read more about a particular topic, click one of the links below:

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Using the Circular Text Tool in SureThing Deluxe

A couple of months ago, Lance Armstrong won his 6th Tour de France, The man is amazing. As the competition rises to meet his challenge, he simply becomes an even stronger rider.

Much the same can be said for SureThing CD/DVD Labeler Deluxe. Yes, I know. Hardly comparable. But if you look at this objectively you can definitely see that the SureThing feature set has evolved to make SureThing Deluxe the consummate CD/DVD Labeler.

One feature in particular is the Circular Text tool, which lets you create text on a circular path. Copyright text, for instance, along the edge of a CD is a good example. Alas, in versions prior to 4.0, using text effects to accomplish this was somewhat difficult. If you used the right size font and length of sentence, and, of course, sized the box perfectly, and then placed the box just so, it looked really good. But version 4 changes all that.

In SureThing Deluxe v4, all one needs to do to insert perfect circular text is to choose "Insert Circular Text" from the Insert menu or select "Add Circular Text" from the text menu on the left hand side of your screen.

The new tool lets you quickly and easily create three different types of circular text: circular, spiral and spokes (ah, so that's where the bicycle analogies come in!).



Other key options available in the Circular Text dialog box are the ability to edit the size, position, and rotation of the circular text, change the color of the text and add enhancements such as drop shadows and outlines.

SureThing Deluxe v4 has new Smart Designs that use all of these forms of Circular text. This will help you get the idea of how they all work. Essentially though, they are very simple to use. Once you have inserted that circular text simply click and drag the little red boxes to adjust the size of the circle. Click and drag on the little circular arrows to adjust the rotation of the circle.



Lately I’ve been playing with the Circular text tool and have found that it makes a cool background effect over a solid background color. Check this out!



To do this I simply entered tons and tons of S’s as my text for the Spiral effect. It’s about 33 S’s per line and about 43 lines. Changing the text size has a dramatic effect on how it ends up looking. So does changing the letter!

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