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Set of seven new Themes for Keynote
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When I first reviewed this collection, I liked it. I still like most of the backgrounds, and Jumsoft's choice of photo cutouts and some of their custom bullets. I like their blurry backgrounds. I don't know why, they just grab me. But the faults in this set amaze me. It seems like Jumsoft just threw together the three new themes and sent out their press release the same day without testing them. Sure, you can doctor up their settings and get something that looks pretty decent, but if you are buying a design theme, you shouldn't HAVE to use your design skills to "fix" the theme. I happen to have a pretty good eye for these things, but many end users expect a finished design and they will trust a theme designer to give that to them.
Overall I think Jumsoft did an okay job creating a $10 set. I mean, you get a set of basic themes for $1 a theme. There are no extras here, and there are some serious flaws. You won't find cool new ideas such as the bleed cutouts that Keynote Theme Park uses in their newer themes. You won't find piles of extra objects or a sample file, and you won't find well thought out font choices or good slide contrasts.
I suggested to Jumsoft that they take these basic themes and clean them up a bit (mostly fixing errors or problems I found). And then expand on each and really finish it out. Add extras objects and bullets, rethink their font choices, tweak the contrast of the backgrounds, add extra photo cutouts, and sell them as "Pro" versions at a higher price. We'll just have to wait and see if they like that idea or not.
Keynoteuser Opinion
If you are looking for a cheap set of themes that you can customize and fix up quickly, then the Jumsoft set is worth the $10. If you are looking for some serious business themes that you can just drop your data in and give a business presentation without a lot of effort, look elsewhere.
