RAGE Button Design: Review and Giveaway
Posted by Daniel Greg on 09/20/07 in Featured, Graphics, Web, Development, Utilities
Some of us, believe it or not, are not that skilled with a copy of Photoshop. Yes I know, I’ll try and hold back the outraged hordes of graphic designers. I am one of those people, and it’s very frustrating. Normally I know what I want the end result to be, but just don’t know how to reach that point.
It was the case recently when I was trying to design a good looking button, for a new website. Thank goodness, RAGE software’s Button Design was there to rescue me. Sort of.
The principle of Button Design is fairly simple: It allows you to create and export web buttons from included templates. When you open it up, you are presented with an intuitive interface:

From here you can choose a template, adjust the text, font and the position of the text. It does all of this beautifully but unfortunately it is fairly limited by the templates available. For me there are only a few that are really viable for use on a modern website and there is no way to create a template. It seems to me they missed a trick here, as you could have a method where designers could create templates for you to download.
The app itself it simple, and it does its job brilliantly well: creating buttons is very quick and easy and you have loads of control over your buttons. So its hard to fault in that respect. But at the end of the day, the app is only as good as the buttons it creates and this is controlled by the quality of the templates.
So if you see a template you like, then odds are you are going to produce a button that really does your site justice - otherwise your out of luck unless RAGE decides to open up a template creation feature.
RAGE ButtonDesign is shareware with a free trial and is available on their website for $19.95.
Lucky for you guys who find a button they like, we have been given 5 licenses to give away to MacApper readers. To enter all you have to do is comment below and answer the following question:
What is the feature that you would most like to see from Button Design?
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