Banner Designer Pro 5 is a software application which enables you to create and design Flash banners for your websites.
The interface of the program is clean and pretty intuitive. You can start a new project from scratch by specifying the banner size, background shape and color/image.
But you can also select the frame rate, insert a hyperlink and make the tool continuously loop. Alternatively, you can pick one of the templates to get started.
Banner Designer Pro provides you with some standard tools which include text, images, symbols, shapes, buttons, color adjustment, object grouping, flip, overlay and color picker, just to name a few.
In addition, you can apply effects (e.g. blur, outline, emboss, drop, shadow) and insert transitions, as well as customize text settings when it comes to the emphasis, font name, links, character maps, rotation, letter spacing, size and line spacing, among others. Image options may be modified in matter of rotation and transparency.
Furthermore, you can use the undo and redo functions, insert filters (e.g. grayscale, invert, sharpen, edge), preview results, zoom in and out, bring objects to the front or send them to the back, as well as hide the ruler and grid. Once the banner is done, you can save it as a template or to file, as well as send it via FTP or email, or upload it to Picasa or Flickr.
The tool needs a moderate-to-high amount of system resources, has a good response time and includes user documentation. We have not come across any problems throughout our evaluation; Banner Designer Pro did not freeze, crash or pop up error dialogs. First-time users may need some time to get adjusted to the app's features.
Banner Designer Professional Features:
- Create professional looking banners from 300 predesigned flash banner templates.
- You can also upload your banner to picasa and flicker.
- Access background animations and images from in-built library or import animation in background in SWF format.
- It allows you to design a banner of specific size by choosing from a set of 17 sizes.
- You can add and customize text, images, symbols, shapes, preloaders and buttons in your banner.
- Add transitions and text effects to banner.
- You can simply add effects to the banner by applying color adjustments (brightness, contrast, hue and saturation) transparency, rotate, flip, outline, shadow and blur effects as per the need to add life to your banners.
- With arrangement tools like select all, group, ungroup, lock, hide, send backward, bring forward and alignment, you can arrange banner elements easily.
- Provide special effects banner using filters like grey scale, invert, sharpen, edge and water or overlays.
- Fill using 5 color palettes, color picker or fill with image.
- Import system fonts, access font character map and even multilingual fonts.
- You can combine multiple banners into single file and perform loop action.
- Banner Rotator functionality can be used to rotate multiple banners.
- Use FTP Feature to upload banners.
- Publish your banner in SWF, HTML, AVI, JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PDF and GIF formats.
- You can also get transparent output in GIF, PNG, HTML and SWF.
- Use the help file that contains detailed instruction on how to use this web banner software easily and effectively.