If you have ever bought or sold any product or service online, you would have noticed that vendors generally package their products attractively. If are a seller yourself, you would probably even be wondering how that particular seller made these boxes!

Ugly software box can force your potential customer to go away.

At our Joomlaspan Store, we have some Joomla extensions available for online purchase. We have packaged them using such software 'boxes'.

In the earlier days, when we started Joomlaspan, we made these boxes manually using Adobe Photoshop. It was painstaking, creating each side first, and then modifying the shape of each side to give the box effect. You can see them on the left-hand side (level 1).

The first thing that you potential customers encounter when they meet your product is the boxshot of your product. For many, this is the moment they decide to take a closer look at your product or search for another. Take full advantage of this first impression by presenting a professional boxshot! Hiring a professional designer to create your 3D boxshot costs hundreds of dollars and may require updates. 

But now, we have found two easy solutions which take the pain out of making these boxes and also give a fine professional touch to them (level 2), while being affordable at the same time! We came across two software solutions that did exactly what we had in mind.

One was True BoxShot and the other BoxShot 3D. Both these are very user-friendly systems.

True BoxShot. Our personal favorite. Very Cool.

True BoxShot is the ultimate solution to present your software box cover electronically!

Most important features of the True BoxShot:

• Main advantage of the True BoxShot is that it produces high quality images with sub pixel accuracy rendering without fuzzy edges.
• True BoxShot is able to produce 3D images of a Software Box, CD, DVD Case, Screenshot or Member Card.
• The Soft Shadows and Light enhances the three dimensional feeling of the boxshot image.
• Soft Reflection. It gives additional positive impression.
• The Wireframe makes it possible to show the contour of the boxshot in cases where the colour of your software box is similar to that of the background.
• The transparency feature allows you to use the boxshot image with alpha channel in complex compositions and therefore you can take full advantage of .PNG images!!

True BoxShot supports full 3D rotation with optional drop shadows and reflection effects.

BoxShot 3D. Exceptionally Good. 

Main features of BoxShot 3D:

• Box Shot 3D uses raytracing algorithms to produce photorealistic virtual covers. It is an unique feature of Box Shot 3D. You will not find another virtual cover software that does the same.
• Allows to use sky lighting to improve image realism. This is another unique feature of Box Shot 3D.
• Allows to control reflection, shadows and lighting parameters with ease.
• Allows to use custom background images.
• Creates up to 4000x4000 pixel images.
• Allows to create various type of boxes.
• Contains 12 virtual cover templates. You can use them to create you software box with a few mouse clicks.

• BoxShot 3D is easy to use: just move sliders and watch your changes in real time.

  BoxShot 3D is easy to use: just move sliders and watch your changes in real time.

If you are an online seller, you will find these products highly cost-effective. We use them too... 

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