Published by Pearl Mountain Software Picture Collage Maker allows creation of photo collages from digital images. A variety of template layouts or own designs can be used. Image frames, masks, drop shadows and other effects are possible. The images can be cropped and resized to fit, and freely arranged within the collage. The program supports drag and drop image placements, resizing and multiple layers of images and clipart decorations. The result can be saved as new JPG image and/or set as desktop wallpaper.

Pros: Very well designed package allows creation of a collage almost intuitively. Menu system is well designed too helping easy of use. Large number of templates for the collage; effects, masks and frames on individual pictures are very useful. The range of effects and masks are wide enough. It includes a wizard for creating collages quickly. Clip-arts can be used too and the range is good. Tools for adding text is available and is well supported.

Cons: Nested levels of undo and redo are a definite requirement on such packages where one would like to change direction or start over quite often. Saving of the collage is possible only in JPG format. There being a large community of free source tools users support for PNG is a need. In general, the range of formats should be wider and include gif, tiff and even bmp.

Overall, it is a very nice package. It is definitely very close to what is needed in any such package except for the issue mentioned above, a definite 4 star package.

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