SOHO Business Cards


		Requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
		Snow Leopard & Lion compatible
		(Release Notes)

Make a great first impression.

SOHO Business Cards is the #1 best-selling business card software for Macintosh. It includes everything you need to start making great first impressions.


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Professional Business Cards Everything you need to create professional business cards.	Searchable Artwork The world's first searchable artwork makes browsing easy.	Smart Templates Drag & drop business cards couldn't be easier.	Cover Flow View your artwork Cover Flow-style for large previews.	Font Previews Find the perfect font using list and animated modes.

3 Easy Steps Create stunning business cards in 3 easy steps.	5 Different Card Styles Choose the card style that fits your business and branding.	Popular Card Stock Brands Support for hundreds of card stocks like Avery®, etc.	Efficient & Cost-Effective SOHO Business Cards saves you time and money.	iPhoto Integrates with iPhoto so your photos are at your fingertips.

Smart Shapes Use smart shapes to add custom design elements to your card.	Curved & Spiral Text Bend text, spiral text, or crop photos with text for effect.	Double-Sided Cards View both sides of two-sided cards at once for consistency.	Full Bleed Cards Create designs that go all the way to the card's edge.	Feature List A complete list of award-winning features.

The easiest way to create professional business cards.

First impressions are important. Your business card is often the first promotional material a person receives from your company. It's also the thing most people keep to remember you by. SOHO Business Cards will help you create a professional and memorable impression every time.

NEW! The world's first searchable artwork.

Finding the right background paper or design element for your business card can be daunting task. Fortunately, SOHO Business Cards works with packages of related images called "iScrapKits". An iScrapKit is more than just a collection of high-quality graphics. iScrapKits also contain built-in information about the kit and the graphics in the kit. This information makes it easy to browse and search for the perfect graphic without any setup on your part. For example, you can quickly search your artwork for a blue sandstone paper by simply typing, "blue sandstone."

When searching for the perfect graphic, you can search by name, tags, primary color, secondary colors, and actual colors. There are several kinds of iScrapKits:

• Complete Kits	• Paper Kits	• Alphabet Kits
• Embellishment Kits	• Stamp Kits

BONUS! SOHO Business Cards comes with 20 kits containing 900+ graphics to help you get started. Plus, you can purchase more artwork from the iScrapbook Store.

NEW! Get speedy with Smart Templates.

SOHO Business Cards comes with over seventy (70+) 2nd generation Smart Templates that will revolutionize the way you create business cards. Each Smart Template has been professionally designed and shows you exactly where to place papers, embellishments, logos, and more.

The templates are "smart" because the software understands what each placeholder on the template represents. For example, double-click a paper placeholder on the template and SOHO Business Cards will show you all of your papers. Graphics in placeholders will even be automatically resized to fit the space.

Smart Templates are so amazing because they help you create custom business card in just a few clicks. Simply choose the design you like, fill in the placeholders, and you're done.

NEW! Let your artwork flow.

The new cover flow window lets you quickly view LARGE previews of your kits. It's now easier than ever to browse for the perfect artwork for your business card. It's also more fun than ever!

NEW! Flying font previews.

The new new Font Preview makes make choosing the right font for your business card fast, fun, and easy! The Font Preview shows you how your text will look in different fonts. Plus, you can choose to display the fonts in a standard list mode or an animated mode where the text flies across the screen in random directions. The animated mode lets you sit back and watch for the ideal font.

It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

SOHO Business Cards comes with everything you need to create stunning business cards in minutes. Your clients will be amazed and think that you have an in-house design department! Tell them you have something better: SOHO Business Cards.

Step 1. Choose a design.	Step 2. Customize the card.	Step 3. Print.
Choose from over 140 professionally-made Smart Templates and Ready-Made-Designs. Many of these designs include photos or artwork right up to the edge of the card (full bleed). You can also start with a blank card.	Use the built-in design tools to customize your design and build your brand. SOHO Business Cards will automatically pull your name, details and logo from the Mac OS X Address Book for you.	Print your design on virtually any business card stock using any inkjet/laser printer. You can also submit your design to an online commercial printer if you want special UV finishes or raised inks.

Choose your own style.

It's your card, so choose the style that suits you best. Whether you want a fancy double-sided card or a simple horizontal card, the choice is yours!

Works with any brand card stock.

SOHO Business Cards supports 700+ business card stocks from companies like Avery®, PaperDirect®, Idea Art, NEATO®, etc. The companies offer some sophisticated card stocks with features like:

• Two-sided printing
• Clean-edges (no perforations)
• Glossy, matte, and uncoated finishes
• White or ivory colors
• Linen textures

The more efficient, flexible way.

SOHO Business Cards is more efficient, flexible, and cost-effective than ordering business cards from traditional sources. Here's why:

Only print cards when you need more
Eliminate costly reprints when your information changes or your company relocates
Refresh your corporate identity when you need to, not when you run out of business cards
Create cards for different roles you have at your own company
Hand-out modified cards at trade shows to limit private info
Create cards for your various hobbies
Create cards for your employees using the same design (software fills-in info from Mac OS X Address Book)
Carry cards in your wallet for friends, neighbors, babysitters, etc.
Use different email addresses on cards to control spam
Travel with cards in the language/format of foreign countries you visit

iPhoto at your fingertips.

SOHO Business Cards automatically displays your photos directly from iPhoto in the built-in iPhoto Browser. The iPhoto Browser makes it easy to put a picture of yourself on your card or use a favorite photo of a sunset as your card's background.

Make it look sharp with smart shapes.

Create custom design elements with the 35+ Smart-Shapes built into the software. Control every aspect of a shape including stroke color, fill color, stroke style, stroke size, and opacity. Where appropriate, certain shapes include controls to customize attributes unique to the shape. For example, you can specify the number of points on a star and the height of the points.

Text madness: bend it, spiral it, crop it.

Text is magic in SOHO Business Cards. Bend it along a curve. Spiral it to tell a story. Or use text to crop an image. It's so easy that it's fun!

Double your impact with double-sided cards.

Both sides of double-sided and folding business cards appear next to each other on the design canvas. This approach helps you maintain a consistent look for both sides of the card. Business card stock manufactures now make two-sided stocks so printing double-sided cards is easier than ever.

Taking the mystery out of "full bleed."

There are two different kinds of business card stock: regular and full bleed. SOHO Business Cards works with both and has special features to assist with full bleed designs.

Regular. Regular stock means that all of the cards on the sheet share an edge with adjacent cards (no gap between cards). Manufacturers can fit 10 cards per sheet with regular stock since there are no gaps.

Full Bleed. Full bleed means that there is a gap between each card on the sheet so you can "print-to-the-edge" of the card without accidentally printing on an adjacent card. When printing full bleed designs, you want the artwork that goes to the edge of the card to actually "bleed" or extend past the edge of the card a little bit. The "bleed" gives your printer a margin of error in case the business card stock does not feed precisely in. Full bleed stock usually comes with 8 cards per sheet.

Optional crop marks can be added to assist commercial printers in making exact cuts for regular and full bleed designs.

Why is SOHO Business Cards the #1 business card software for Mac? Here's 70 reasons...

INCLUDED MATERIALS
	BONUS! 20 artwork kits containing 974 graphics including: • 206 alphabet letters • 288 embellishments • 285 papers • 195 stamps	30+ special effect that can be applied to images: • Sepia • Gaussian blur • Sparkle • Motion • Lenticular halo • More...	35+ shapes for creating custom design elements and cropping images	100+ masks to create special effects on images and shapes
	75 Smart Templates for drag & drop business cards	140 pre-designed templates in horizontal and vertical formats	700+ supported card stocks from Avery®, PaperDirect®, etc.
FEATURES
	iScrapKit Browser manages your artwork & makes it searchable	Horizontal business cards in many popular sizes	Font Preview shows you font samples (list & animated modes)	CD business cards when you want to include content
	Vertical business business cards in many popular sizes	Double-sided business cards show both sides at once	Folded card business cards show both sides at once	Access the iScrapbook Store to acquire more iScrapKit artwork
	Group multiple objects for easy moving and resizing	Export cards as single cards or a full page of cards	Trim-To-Page hides objects outside the page boundaries	Paste and Match Style feature matches the style of nearby text
	Hold down the space bar and drag to quickly scroll the page	Automatic backups and recovery for peace of mind	Smart shapes let you customize shape attributes like # of points	Use papers to establish a theme for your page
	Use a commercial printer to have cards delivered to your door	Fine-tune photos: brightness, contrast, sharpness…	Access iPhoto albums & photos from the built-in photo browser	Curve text for dramatic effect or to wrap around curved objects
	Spiral text to tell your story in unique way	Cover Flow shows large previews of all your artwork kits	Favorites Bin to store and re-use creative design elements	Adjust the transparency of text, images, and shapes
	Rotate any object in real-time to any angle	Bezier paths so you can create any custom shape	Add drop shadows and control height, blur, color, opacity	Gradients (linear & circular) for sophistication and realism
	Single window interface is easy to learn and use	Place objects on different layers to organize and isolate	Super-masks let you control position, size, softness...	Crop zoom lets you zoom and move images inside of the crop
	Perfect Balance ensures text is balanced (both directions)	Crop photos using any shape and adjust the crop at any time	Crop photos using text for original effects.	Grid overlay/underlay is useful for aligning objects
	Lock objects on the page to prevent accidental alteration	Export cards in TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and PDF formats	Print business cards on your inkjet or laser printer	Smart Inspector only shows context-sensitive tools
	Ready-made templates let you create cards from re-usable designs	Placeholders let you define and customize image/text drop spots	Built-in spelling and grammar checker for word perfect results	Auto-capitalization: upper, lower, or mixed (first letter)
	Specify your contact info once for all cards you create	Use the perspective tool to give depth to two dimensional images	Text Bin stores common styles like heading, caption...	Use the Template Wizard to start from scratch or a template
	Zoom the card as small or large as you wish	Real-time alignment guides automatically appear	Use the built-in rulers to precisely position objects	Snap-To-Grid ensures objects are aligned
	Align multiple selected objects simultaneously	Resize multiple selected objects simultaneously	Distribute multiple selected objects evenly	Tint an image with any color and control the tint intensity
	Advanced typography: kerning, line spacing, more...	Calibrate your printer for perfect paper alignment	Preferred printer support for users with multiple printers	Move objects forward & backward on the page
	Print crop marks for precise commercial printing cuts	Full bleed support for artwork past the edge of the card	Pulls contact information directly from Mac OS X Address Book