The Good
* Straightforward and fairly easy to use.
* Comes with many predesigned templates and layouts.
* Has templates for collages, calenders, greeting cards, and letters.
* Has a built in image editor where you can add frames, filters and other effects.
* You can customize collage by adding text and clipart/stamps.
* Has a built in "paint like" feature where you can create your own drawings.
* Can create multi-page collages.

The Bad
* Interface is very slow at times.
* Program window always started fully maximized - doesn't give user the option to start it in un-maximized position.
* Program window is not resizable except for maximized or not maximized.
* A feature to toggle between "blank" pages and templates or templates and different templates without having to start the page all over would be handy.

Free Alternatives
Google Picasa

For final verdict, recommendations, and full review please click here.

Ashraf  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+76)

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Okay, first let me say that overall, I do love Wondershare products! This is precisely why the rest of what I am about to post is actually rather critical and even nitpicky.

I took a wander over to see the new templates and to see if there were any major additions to prior versions of this lovely program. Well, I started browsing the templates and frankly at least the ones I looked at, were not up to Wondershare's usual higher standards. I did not view them all but of the random handful I did view, I had a comment for nearly every one.

Here are my thoughts/comments on viewing this batch of templates - Bear in mind I am not meaning to be cruel about this and am hoping the developers WANT to know things like this:

Template 47 - Happy & Love family picnic - First, this sentence just er isn't the best. Secondly, theres another one that says the same words - not sure how many "Happy & Love family picnic" templates any one person can use! Third, and this is the biggest one - If its for "Happy & Love FAMILY picnic" its probably not the best idea to have a picture of a liquor bottle, mixed drink, and a cocktail or glass of wine on it!

(Whoops! Make that at least THREE others with the same words!)

Onwards to Template 52, "Happy M*ther's Day" - right... okay, I think its supposed to be a daisy for the o in mother, but it ends up looking like the asterisk and thus appearing like a censored dirty word! Now many for some people, the word "mother" IS a dirty word, but I suspect for the majority, it isn't.

Template 53 (and 54) - Well, theres that daisied in O again! At least this time (and also on 54) its a lot clearer that its a daisy rather than an asterisk - Might be just better all round though to maybe do a few daisies around the words rather than trying to incorporate them into the words on this one!

Template 57 - "Happy Farther's Day" - right.... wishing dad were a long ways away? Send him this card to tell him!

Template 59 - Wow! We might have graduated but we sure didn't learn to spell or use proper grammar! Shows a yearbook with the words, "Graduat Class Year Book" on the cover. In two separate locations, template states proudly, "We are graduated!"

Template 60 repeats the "We are graduated!" message but at least this time adds the "e" to Graduate.

Template 62 again repeats the evil "we are graduated!" statement - along with an illustration of a chemistry experiment gone bad - using milk maybe?

Templates 63 and 64 also proudly proclaim "We are graduated!" This one also includes, for some unknown reason, a box designed to look maybe like a piece of paper, with a childishly drawn star and the words, "For ever" on it. Thinking maybe of Alice Cooper and "School's Out ForEver!"?

Template 66 - Might be nice in some countries but at least for USA customers, well, thats a SOCCER ball not a football! Also, there's something a bit jangling about the words, "Happy Football" painted on the field.

Template 67 - er interesting...... This one has a soccer ball that is peeling apart in layers. Whatever does this mean? Something to send to one's rival team maybe?

Template 68 - Nice pic of downhill skiing among some snow laden pine trees - However, where is it that they spell "Ski", as "SKEE"? Confusing it with Skee-Ball maybe?

Template 69 - SPORT Baseball - and "gopher ball"??????

Template 71 - "PLAY Basketball - You are best" - I think this one speaks for itself....

I absolutely do not have issues with people speaking other languages - but if said people are going to create visually oriented software for persons of another language, they really could do with getting a good translation dictionary to use for the project at least! Maybe even a proofreader for whom English is their native language so as not to have to take these sorts of things to the public exposure level. Developers - If you are wanting to sell these templates to English speaking people, especially those in the US, you might want to adjust some of these issues!

meowzz  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+50)

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Help me here. You say at the top of the page in the "key features" list that we get "templates for Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day...." and then below that under "IMPORTANT" you say:

To activate the software, you are requested to register on the manufacturer’s page (full version, free of charge). Then you can get a registration code, with which you can activate the software.

But your comment to Emily123:

Hi, Emily123

What you want is a full-version program, we provides special offer for Giveaway users and only for Giveaway users to get the full-version program just $14.95 (50% off). Get it from
http://www.ourpix.com/special-offers-for-giveaway-users.html

What version are we downloading here at GOTD? The full version you state or crippleware? I was always lead to believe that anything offered to GOTD members were the FULL VERSIONS so we could honestly comment on them.
I personally don't like to clog my machine with useless demo's etc. So what am I going to get?
Thanks.

Buskieboy  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+37)

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A message from Wondershare Software:

Installation and Registration

1. Unzip the package you've downloaded and install the software;
2. Run the software you installed;
3. Click "Get KeyCode" button, enter your e-mail address on the popup page to get keycode;
(Note: After enter your e-mail address, you can directly get the keycode on the webpage, and you also can find it in your mailbox.)
4. Type your e-mail address and the keycode to run the software;
5. Then you can use all the functions of the software now.

Please follow above steps to register the program. You are recommended to run the program under administrator account.

Wondershare provides free online support for this giveaway. If you have questions about Photo Collage Studio, please feel free to contact our technical support directly at Wondershare Support Center or Email us at: support@wondershare.com

To celebrate Easter, Wondershare has released exclusive discounts only for GOTD users.
Get More New Collage Templates for Easter and Enjoy 50% Off Special Offer ONLY for GAOTD Users

Giveaway of the Day project team  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+35)

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XP3
*Installed almost as expected. I did not see the pop described in the instructions (Read the 1st user's comments) but there were plenty of ways to get the registration key.
*Install over previous version went w/o a hitch and the installer gave you the option to over write or change the target install directory.
*opens full screen (see Ashraf's) (yes, annoying!) and centers initial collage selector between my dual screens, so that half the pop up is on one screen and half on the other. Minor, but also annoying.
*Drag picture from file explorer to frame did not work, but double click to set photo from file, did. I only tried to drag a .gif, .jpg, and .png. Dragging picture from left side photo collection will drag/drop fine. You can drill down using their file explorer (built in) and it works fine--select from thumbnails on the left side of the screen.
*Once Picture loaded, I did not see (not that there could have been) a way to resize it, so even my smaller pictures were too pixelated by the 'zoom' (fix or make more intuitive, if there is a feature).
*SOME slow loading premade templates (Baby-1), but this had multiple pages. It is also slow loading each page as you progress from one to the other. Once pages load, however, they're cached and no wait.
*Locking and unlocking text boxes takes very little getting used to but it is not a bad concept & may prevent me from goofing up!
*Shadow tool is fun & easy to use.
*Allows layering making striking designs an easy task.
*Adequate clip art and templates. Easy to add (drag/drop) then to your collage. More if you wanna buy.
*Not earthshaking but definitely fun and useful!

A keeper again. Thanks!

GeeDeePee  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+34)

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