Make Attractive Collages with Photo Collage Maker Pro: Review and Giveaway

Have you ever thought of making a collage of your favorite photos!! If yes, Photo Collage Maker Pro from PearlMountain Technology can help you do that with awesome freedom. You can do everything manually or automatically with the help of numerous templates and suitable wizard. Not only collage, the software helps you to make Calender, Greeting Card, Scrapbook & Photo Album. Its really easy to make collage with Photo Collage Maker pro.

Features

• System Requirements:

• Clean installation. Installation size 86.9 Mb. Creates Desktop and Quick Launch icon by default. Opens resource page after installation end but before launching the software.
• Shows up a instruction window for helping with collage creation. There are two manual ways: Create Blank Collage & Create from Template and two wizards: Template Collage Wizard & Grid Collage Wizard

• In the wizard process, everything is done fast and nicely without any headache.
• In the manual process you can choose from a variety of template layouts or create your own design from scratch, apply image frames, masks, drop shadows and other effects. 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.

• You can add calender and text into your collage.

• You can manage the Collage Panel settings.

• You can alter the background settings.

• Object properties can be changed.

• You can save your collage as pictures (.jpg, .bmp, .png, .tif, .gif).

• You can adjust your collage as your desktop background.

• You can send your collage as mail if you have a email client set up in your PC.

• You can also save the project as a .pwp file.
• There is a well documented help file associated with Picture Collage maker Pro.
• It has skinning support.

• I have made a quick demonstration on the collage making process with Picture Collage Maker Pro.

My Verdict
Picture Collage Maker Pro has lots of plus things.

1. Nice and easy user interface.
2. Easy to follow wizards.
3. Lots of customizable templates, objects, backgrounds, clipart, masks etc. You are totally free to make whatever you want.
4. High quality output.
5. Well documented help file.

Not many negative points I've found in this software.

1. It isn't supposed to be multilingual.
2. Can't automatically check for updates. opens homepage while checking for upgrades without showing whether the installed version is current.
3. Opens webpage automatically after installation. It should ask the user before that.

Download

• Picture Collage Maker Pro is shareware.

Single-User Personal License - $39.90    
Single-User Commercial License - $69.90

• You can download the trial from the following links.

http://www.picturecollagesoftware.com/Downloads/PictureCollageMakerPro.exe
or,
http://www.pearlmountainsoft.com/download/PictureCollageMakerPro_Setup.exe

• Trial limitations: watermark, nag screen and 15 days time limitation
• Download Easter Templates Pack and other exciting templates from the following link.

http://www.picturecollagesoftware.com/resources/addon-resources.html

Giveaway

Tracy Zhang from PearlMountain Technology have agreed to arrange 20 giveaway licenses for our readers.

• The licenses are for personal use and for one PC.
• The licenses are supposed to get minor updates.
• You will get free lifetime support.

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The giveaway will run until 9th April, 12:00 GMT. Winners will be selected randomly.

Giveaway Ended

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