Jumsoft Theme Pack Set of seven new Themes for Keynote
Page Three: More Theme Samples

So that you can see exactly what you get in this Theme Pack, here are some sample shots of other pages, along with my thoughts on them.

Network
This theme looks to have been taken from Apple's Internet icon in the System Preferences of OS X. It has been darkened and blurred quite a bit. Makes for an interesting background with just enough blur to not be too distracting.

Here's the horizontal photo slide from Network. It has a small, sharp drop shadow under the text, but in some areas of the slide, you can't read the text because of the whiteness of the background.

So I changed the shadow to 100% opaque, and changed the blur to 13 or so. Here's what it looks like now:

You can see the text pulls off the page a little more. These samples don't show the sahdow as well as a full screen image does, and it's the Vertical photo layout where the shadow really works well due to the size of the font in the subtitle. Not a big thing, but again, something Jumsoft should have taken a look at.

Here's an example of the vertical photo layout with a different font and better shadowing. I copied the text out and pasted it into another text box so i could do one soft and one hard shadow. The effect makes the text MUCH stronger. The font I used was Andover, which you can find at 1001freefonts.com

Old Paper
I got a kick out of this one. My only complaint would be that it's not old at all, it looks like a manila mailer with the flap showing. It's cool though. Kind of a whimsical feel to it. If you were a shipping company, this would be PERFECT for your internal presentations. Jumsoft added a soft dashed line across several of the pages that I think is a nice touch. Here's the title slide by itself:

And here's my experimentation. I had a little fun with the Google image search and found a Haz-Mat label. Then I added my own logo on a label with a tiny drop shadow. Then I switched the font to Bradleyhand and added a small soft shadow to the text to give it a blurred effect. Lastly I set the transparency of the text to about 60%:

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There is SO much you could do with this theme. I hope future versions come with labels in an extra file that you can add on top. Mailing labels, canceled stamps, shipping and hazardous waste labels. Anyway, you can tell I had fun with this while I was testing it.

Just so you can see it, here's a close up of one of the photo holes in Old Paper:

This isn't the whole slide, just the photo hole, which is pretty close to Apple's size. It is surrounded by what looks like it might be a packing list window, or something similar. I can't really tell what it is, but it matches the theme pretty well.

Photo Artist
I liked this theme. It has a good contrast, and the use of American Typewriter just seems to work well with the background. The background looks to be some sort of fuzzy negative, or photo frame. It's got blurry jagged edged that give it a photographic feel, without distracting too much. Here's the Horizontal Photo slide:

You can see that the photo cut-out is tilted and has a photo-paper style frame around it. The bullet is a custom sphere with a weird shadow on it. It actually looks cool, it's just hard to describe. It is also used to cap the photos images, but is movable on the Master slides. The other layouts are similar to this, and I am now trying to save space in this review since I haven't even shown HALF of the themes yet.

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