Surething CD Labeler Deluxe 4.0

by MicroVision Development

Product Features

• Over 6,000 Background and Clip Art Images
• Photo Touchup and Effects and make photo collage covers
• New Circular, Spiral and "Spoke" Text Layouts and Drop Shadows and Color Fills
• Never Type a Song Title Again
• Updated and Enhanced UI

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009RTNX
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 21, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,130 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #11 in Software > Graphics > Home Publishing > CD Labels
  • #35 in Software > Video & Music > CD Burning & Labeling
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Microvision development has added all the features most requested by users and has improved many of classics, including:

Over 6,000 Background and Clip Art Images: Super packed with thousands of incredible new background images including creative textures, vibrant photographs and wild gradients.

Photo Touchup and Effects: Enhance photos with built-in tools and effects. Crop or rotate an image for the perfect fit, reduce red eye, or even sharpen and lighten the photo. For a unique look, add a special effect filter to photos or backgrounds using Sepia, Colorize, Posterize or Solarize.

Make Photo Collage Covers: Version 4.0 sports a new Background Collage featureÑa fun and easy-to-use tool that lets you quickly assemble any of your digital photos and images to create a custom collage you can use as a background for your label and jewel case designs.

New Circular, Spiral and "Spoke" Text Effects: Microvision has completely revamped the Circular Text tool in v4.0. Create, scale and rotate text that follows the contour of CD edges (both inner and outer edges). You can even create spiral and spoke text effects.

Never Type a Song Title Again: Automatically add the artist, track title, album title and playtimes to your CD labels or jewel case using one of the several available methods: Auto-Grab Playlist from CD-Text, Internet look-up, Import from your MP3 Files, or Import MP3 playlists from third party software (With version 4.0, you can import your MP3, or M3U playlists from MUSICMATCH or Windows Media Player as well as other music players. Recommended: MusicMatch Jukebox 7.5 or Windows Media Player 9.0 or later)

New Alignment Tools: Easily center objects on your labels or align their edges. No more guess work, just a click of the button and it's done.

DVD Labels and Case Inserts: Version 4.0 has custom templates and backgrounds especially designed for DVDs and DVD case inserts. Bonus: The software also include a free advanced set of DVD and CD symbol fonts containing the following logos and many more.

Transfer Your Designs to Other Labels: Once you've made that perfect CD label, you can now clone your design to make a matching jewel case cover, or apply the same design to anything other label using the new Transfer Design tool.

New Text Drop Shadows and Color Fills: Now you can add drop shadows to any text, anywhere! Makes text pop and easier to read on virtually any background.

FREE Subscription to our Online Design Gallery: Only SureThing version 4.0 grants you access to a dynamic online gallery of cool new backgrounds and label designs. The SureThing Design Gallery is constantly updated with professional and seasonal designs. Browse it for ideas, or download the designs and use them for yourself!

Updated and Enhanced U.I.: Microvision has made features more easily accessible with new design panels for one-click access to frequently used commands. They've also updated the interface with a new "XP style" look.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent labeling software--powerful and fun to use, October 1, 2004

By 

Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surething CD Labeler Deluxe 4.0 (CD-ROM)

I've been using SureThing Labeler since Version 2, and it just keeps getting better and better. I regularly use this software for data CD's and backups so I can easily tell what I've put on the disk.


If you follow the Design Wizard, the software will lead you to create labels for CDs, jewel cases and spine labels, zip disks, tape cassettes, hub labels and mini disks, to mention a few. If you have a printer and an appropriate label stock, you can label your home media with custom-created art.


I tried out SureThing for several applications: the method for labeling any CD is similar. In this case, I was creating a design for a set of recovery disks for my HP computer. This required 6 CD-R's and I wanted a good label for this valuable set of disks. I used the Design Wizard. I could have used the backgrounds provided by SureThing. There are quite a few of them, based on anything from landscapes to random textures or designs from microscopy or nature. But I used my own background. By browsing my "My Pictures" folder, SureThing showed me how various graphic files would look stretched into a circular background. I had created a an appropriate background for the HP in Photoshop, so I used this picture as my background. Then I added a photo of the actual computer the recovery disks were made for, using a digital image I created previously. I chose a design template I happen to like called "Bubbly" which has a semi-circular clear area cutting into the background. The title of the CD is arced text around the edge of this intersecting segment. I then scrolled through various font styles and chose something readable. If you don't like the fonts in the Wizard, you can highlight the text and format another font you may have installed.



I then added a text section for "Disk 1 of 6, 2 of 6" etc and the date and time. I printed the labels and attached them to my recovery CD's using the SureThing stomper, a sort of plastic plate that holds the label sticky-side-up so you can pop the cd face down onto it and get a smooth application. In a few minutes of work, I had a set of 6 nicely-labeled CD's, clearly marked as to what they were. If I ever have to do a recovery on my PC, I will be able to find these easily in my CD file.



I tried making a jewel case label and a spine label. Again, using the Wizard, it was easy. If you are burning a CD for your car, you can download a playlist and have it inserted into the design without retyping the song titles. You can also make your own designs, chosing layout, text, font and design without using the Wizard or by modifying an existing design.



Version 4 of SureThing has many more CD label formats; Version 3 did not have the particular Fellowes-Neato label I buy at my local office supply but Version 4 has it in the label stock and that's what I used. It was perfect. There is a print-align feature so you can test the accuracy of your alignment, and you can choose to print 2 up (on a 2 up label) or just one of them, saving the second label for later. The software shows you which label you will print, top or bottom in this case, and if you click on the space, it shifts the label up or down. So if the top label is used, you can shift down and print the bottom label later on.



Though not always the easiest software to use, if you follow the Wizards, SureThing V. 4 is pretty simple. As you get familiar with the software, you can get more daring and create your own designs and even forms to fit brands of labels for which no template is included. This is done by measuring various placement dimensions (very accurately down to 16th's of an inch) and choosing the layout (2 up, 3 up, vertical, with spines, with hub labels, etc) that best fits your custom label. The average person, following the Wizard, should have no trouble to make great labels.



Summary: this is very powerful software that will help you make very nice labels for CD's and other media. It's full of clip art, graphics, backgrounds, and text effects, and it is a lot of fun to use.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Warning: Not for Windows NT, February 21, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Surething CD Labeler Deluxe 4.0 (CD-ROM)

As far as functionality goes - I never got the CD labels to line up perfectly on the paper. But there were a few tweaks that I never bothered with.
Most importantly, I want to mention that Windows NT is NOT a supported operating system for this product. Amazon is just plain wrong to list Windows NT. Go to the manufacturer's web site if you want to verify for yourself.
What will happen if you use Windows NT? I used it with Windows NT 4.0 SP 6. Many programs leave some pending operations for the OS to execute the next time it reboots, that's why you see that "you must reboot your computer for all changes to take effect" on a lot of programs. With Win NT 4 SP6 the operations will ruin the hard drive. Totally, physically destroy. Completely unrecoverable. I trashed 4 hard drives (all under warranty) before I finally figured out the culprit.
I posted my problem to the forums from SureThing and got a response asking if my computer could really handle writing to a CD - they thought I might be taxing my computer too much. Well, the computer I was using was a brand new Dell Workstation (purchased 2002). Not a Dell desktop, but a workstation. The kind of computer you can only get by clicking on the "medium or large business" link on Dell's web site.
I was able to get the software to work find in Windows 2000. I was using two separate hard drives on the Dell workstation. Due to customer requirements, some software had to be built on Windows NT 4 SP 6.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars SureThing the Swindler, September 13, 2007

By 

Anthony Cangialosi (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surething CD Labeler Deluxe 4.0 (CD-ROM)

I'm writing this review as a cautionary tale to other unsuspecting customers of Surething. I purchased a Lacie drive 3 months ago which came bundled with the Surething Labeler software. I bought the drive in order to be able to use the cool new Lightscribe technology.

After buying the product I tried to install it on my Windows Vista 64Bit OS but found that it would not install. I thought it was likely due to me having Vista installed in 64bit mode because many apps were reported to have issues on 64bit so I reinstalled Vista to 32 bit. I then found the software still didn't work.

I attempted to contact lacie for support but they simply ignore my request for about a week. SureThing at least replied but said; sorry you'll have to buy another version of SureThing. One would think that SureThing would do right by their existing customer base and offer a patched version of SureThing 4 for Vista . No Vista update or fix for whatever shortcomings their Version 4 had. Just more money. After several emails the best I got was a weak analogy from their tech rep about bad parts in Toyotas but no useful help. Thanks SureThing.

Be warned about the poor customer experience you're likely to receive from SureThing & Lacie.