Picture Collage Maker Pro 4.1.4.1

Overview

With Picture Collage Maker you can create in only a few clicks beautiful collages, scrapbooks, calendars, invitations, posters and greeting cards. It is designed to be a software that you need to have much time to get familiar with, in contrast to other photo editing programs. It features a wide range of templates to use for backgrounds and photo layouts to make the production even easier.

Installation

It needs just a few minutes to get this program ready for use. There are no special configuration settings during installation and no additional 3rd-party software is installed with the main application. Upon completion, your web browser will open and redirect you to a web page from the publisher’s website that has an introductive tutorial video embedded and links to more detailed tutorials as well.

It is available for both Windows users who run a 2000/XP/Vista/7 OS, but a Mac OS X version exists too.

Interface

Every time you launch Picture Collage Maker a small window will open and ask you if you want to create a new blank collage, create a collage from an existing template, open the template collage wizard or lastly open the grid collage wizard. You can disable this window from appearing by unchecking the option at the bottom. Using the wizards, you will follow step by step guides to create the collage, eliminating the need for consulting the tutorials. If you decide to manually make the collage yourself, then you will be glad to hear that a lot of options are provided so you can make it just the way you want it. The window used for this purpose has a toolbar with useful functions, the editing options on the left and a preview area at the center.

Pros

The thorough wizard will help you make your creation using one of the many preset backgrounds and layouts with only a couple of clicks.

When you want to create a collage from scratch, all the features are well-organized, allowing you to gradually make your work evolve into a professional looking card. You can add backgrounds, masks, frames, shapes and even cliparts.

Cons

15-day trial version inserts a watermark in every created collage, but that’s not really a con since it’s not rare for shareware products to have limitations like that in their unregistered versions.

Alternatives

Wonder Photo Studio is a great software used to create fun photo collections without much effort. Like Picture Collage Maker, you can build your own collages with or without templates. There are various commands used to edit your work, but that doesn’t mean it’s complicated or cluttered.

CollageIt is another easy-to-use photo collage maker for Windows and Mac OS X. Although you are not given much freedom since everything is done automatically, it is an enjoyable program that you won’t have any trouble using at all.

Conclusion

The extensive features list is impressive, but with a good dose of inspiration the results will be even more amazing. Go ahead and try out this software, or even better, buy it. There is a 30-day money back guarantee, so you should test it without limitations and see if it suits your needs.