10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
It's pre-Beta software. Be warned! Do not waste your money., 22 Jun 2008
By Kenneth - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Logo Design Studio ProM (Mac) (CD-ROM)
In all the years of using my Mac and using some useful, pleasing-to-work-with Macintosh programs (about 10 years), I have NEVER used a product that has such low standards. The company seems not to know what customer service, software quality is. I am surprized that this company markets Mac software at all!
First of all there is no demo at the company website. I was told that they would put a demo link "next week" - that was about more than a month ago. The program looked promising... (I have to give them credit for their press release skills and marketing skills though - precisely the reason I fell for it!). I bought the software. That's when the trouble started! At first, I thought it was my iMac (iMac/G5/2GB/Leopard) but then I tried on my MacBook Pro/IC2Duo/2GB/Leopard, same story there. I don't know how the company actually puts out this software as commercial software! Some menu commands don't work at all, once I placed the vector object on the canvas I could not move it, neither could I resize it, holy mackerel! In the prev. version if I resized the raster object placed on the canvas, it would turn into a jagged mess! It keeps quitting/crashing!- like I said I have never seen a software product that is of such poor quality. I talked to the company and was about to get a refund, they convinced me that the bugs are being worked on and there's a new version coming out. So I get that version, now the vector objects don't show up on the media palette at all! So the company publishes an SVG importer. Now this is three updates later, the program quits on my G5, I can't select the object I just put on the canvas, can't move it (mouse or arrow keys). I mean the list goes on! I am beginning to wonder if these people are actually using a Mac to produce/test their software!!
Finally I had to do my stuff in Apple Pages - Eventhoughh it can't handle SVG/Vector graphics, atleast it works! Finally I got a refund.
Stay as far away from this product as you possibly can. This product should not even be sold anywhere. I also noticed that it no longer shows up on Apple Store shelves, just before that I was wondering how Apple ever kept such poor quality stuff on their shelves...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
does not work with leopard OS X operating system for Mac!, 30 Sep 2009
By G. Ramos - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Logo Design Studio ProM (Mac) (CD-ROM)
Great software, except that once I installed Leopard OS X operating system on my mac, Logo Design Studio Pro stopped showing any previews and the capacity to work in layers is gone. I am now waiting, and have been for over two weeks, to receive the updated version from Macware. I was told it was still not ready for release. And I don't know when I will receive! Disappointing! And I need it to work now!!! I was not aware of this before purchasing the product....
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Program lacks variety, locks up, crashes, 14 Sep 2008
By CaseyPOD "CaseyPOD" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Logo Design Studio ProM (Mac) (CD-ROM)
Macware Logo Design Studio Pro is the worst program I have ever bought. I installed it and immediately wanted to get to work. So I opened up a template and started playing around. First I wanted to change objects- they say they have over 1000 professionally designed objects- most of which are very similar (series of like objects) for instance - I wanted a mountain, the closest thing they have is a pyramid. There was no good way to edit the pyramid shape into a mountain type design. I tried changing colors, stacking them to give depth, but in the end- I could not come up with a good design. They market this to people who are not professional designers, so it should be intuitive and easy to use. The only easy thing to do is pick a template and change the text... which gives you a very limited number of choices in what you can make.
I am not an graphic artist, but I am pretty good with most art programs and photoshop type programs. I figured this would be easy. Try selecting objects and most of the time you cannot grab them - try putting an object in the canvas, well they kept appearing off the screen and about 1000x too big... this is just horrible! I cannot keep this program. I can't believe that Apple, with their high standards for software would allow this program to be sold in their stores.
If you want something very generic for a logo- then go ahead and buy this... just don't expect to be able to edit the graphics much. The drawing capabilities are severely lacking in this program. I would do better with MS paint on my old PC. Save your money and buy a real graphics program.