Picture Collage Maker
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How to Make Picture Collages?
Picture collages are a creative way to capture moments in time spent with family and friends. Whether it be documenting your children growing up, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, vacations, or just plain fun get-togethers, you can create unique picture collages.
Nowadays you get many desktop and online applications to help you turn your pictures into photo collages. Photovisi, Pixisnap, PicArtia and Picture2Life are examples of some of these applications that can be found online. Most of these collage applications have pre-set or pre-designed collage templates to choose from and are fairly simple to use, however, they are limited to collages without much flexibility to customize.
I came across a desktop collage application called Picture Collage Maker which not only allows you to create amazing photo collages, but also create greeting cards, posters, scrapbooks, calendars and photo books from your pictures. In 2011, they released a Christmas edition of the software, an add-on, to the Picture Collage Maker.
This web page will focus on reviewing Picture Collage Maker and explore its various features. Also, included you will find examples of a variety of photo collage creations and tutorials on how to use this collage maker to create your unique master pieces.
Picture Collage Maker Features
Creative Ways to Use Picture Collage Maker
Picture Collage Maker by Pearl Mountain Soft was developed to make collage-making fun and easy, yet flexible enough to let you be creative. You will find many collage making software applications online, but few of them offer you the flexibility of customizing the pre-designed templates. However, one of the major advantages of Picture Collage Maker is that it allows you to create your own, unique templates from scratch.
With Picture Collage Maker you can not only make a variety of collages, but also create greeting cards, posters, scrapbooks, calendars and even photo books. Included in the package, you will find a library of hundreds of templates to help you with your collage-making, scrapbooking and other digital craft projects.
Collages: you can create a variety of collages using hundreds of collage templates available and personalize them with your pictures. You can modify the pre-designed templates or create your own from scratch. You can change the background, add clipart or text, rearrange and resize the picture frames, and so on.
Greeting Cards: you can create different types of greeting cards for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduations, new-arrivals, and for celebrating special events or just sending a "thank you" card. Again, you can use the pre-designed templates or create your own. There is a huge library of clipart to help you create your own customized and personalized greeting cards.
Posters & Calendars: You can turn your pictures into cool posters using the same templates or just create your own by modifying the pre-designed templates. As well, you can create a variety of unique calendars; full year, by season or by month.
Scrapbooks: are easy to make using Picture Collage Maker. Similar to creating collages, you can use the pre-designed scrapbooking templates to create personalized scrapbooks or use your creative abilities to customize from scratch.
Photo Books: are a great way to share your pictures with family and friends. You can have several pages as opposed to one page collages of your pictures. Essentially, a photo book is a photo album in which you can digitally document memories of events and special occasions. You can share them online as well as print them.
Create Unique Collages
Collages with Picture Collage Maker
The collage below (on the right-hand side) is an example of a simple picture collage created using Collage Picture Maker Pro. The picture on the left-hand side is a pre-designed template which I used to create my collage. As you will notice, I was able to customize and personalize it. I added a background, included an additional photo frame, and changed some of the sizes of the picture frames. The picture to the right is the finished product. There are many pre-designed collage templates with various themes and backgrounds, so all you have to do is insert your pictures.
Create Personalized Greeting Cards
With Picture Collage Maker
The graduation congratulatory card below (on the right-hand side) is an example of a greeting card created using Picture Collage Maker Pro. The picture on the left-hand side is a pre-designed template which I used to create the congratulatory card. I didn't make too many changes in the pre-designed template; I just inserted the pictures in the appropriate picture frames to make the greeting card. If you wish, you can create your own greeting cards from scratch rather than using the pre-designed templates. Take a peek at some of the pre-designed greeting card templates.
Create Cool Posters & Calendars
With Picture Collage Maker
With Picture Collage Maker, you can create different types of personalized calendars and posters. The summer calendar above was created using a pre-designed calendar template. I didn't make any changes other than inserting my pictures in the appropriate picture frames. Below, you will find two posters that I created using pre-designed templates. In both the posters, I used a picture as the background and then inserted other pictures in the picture frames to complete the posters. You can even add other graphics and clipart, as well as include text on the posters, if you wish.
Picture Frames and Mask Effects
in Picture Collage Maker
The high degree of flexibility in customizing templates and creating them from scratch is one of the unique features of Picture Collage Maker. The program has a variety of different picture frames and mask effects (as shown below) that can be used to customize templates. Also, included is a huge library of clipart which can be used on your collages, scrapbooks, posters, calendars and photo books.
Picture Collage Maker Christmas Edition
Make Your Own Christmas Cards and Personalized Collages
Pearl Mountain Software released their Christmas edition of Picture Collage Maker Pro, in 2011, which is an add-on to the original version reviewed above on this web page. There are two versions of Picture Collage Maker software available: one is for single page projects, and the other is for multiple page projects.
The Christmas edition of the Picture Collage Maker Pro includes many beautiful Christmas Collage Templates to make your own Christmas cards and collages. The brief video below features many of the Christmas collage templates available.
How to Make a Picture Collage?
Video Tutorial on How to Use Picture Collage Maker Pro
In the video tutorial below, Cheryl Poirier from butterscotch.com will show us how to make a quick picture collage using Picture Collage Maker. In the tutorial, Cheryl uses a pre-designed collage template to create her own personalized picture collage.
Also, further down this web page, you will find more step-by-step tutorials on how to create picture collages, scrapbooks, greeting cards, posters and photo books using Picture Collage Maker to create your own personalized craft projects.
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Collage Maker Tutorials
How to Use Picture Collage Maker?
Collages, Scrapbooks, Calendars, Greeting Cards, Posters
Below you will find step-by-step tutorials on how to use Picture Collage Maker to make picture collages, scrapbooks, calendars, greeting cards, posters and more.
- How to Make a Photo Collage With Grid Collage Wizard
- This tutorial shows you how to make photo collages with Picture Collage Maker.
- How to Make a Scrapbook With Picture Collage Maker
- This tutorial shows you how to make a scrapbook with Picture Collage Maker.
- How to Make a Photo Calendar With Picture Collage Maker
- This tutorial shows you how to make photo calendars with Picture Collage Maker.
- How to Make a Birthday Card With Picture Collage Maker
- This tutorial shows you how to make greeting cards with Picture Collage Maker.
- How to Make a Photo Book With Picture Collage Maker
- This tutorial shows you how to make photo books with Picture Collage Maker.
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What has your experience been making picture collages?
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eilval
May 28, 2012 @ 3:10 pm | delete
- Never tried it yet but have bookmarked for future use !
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cynthia-ann-leighton
May 19, 2012 @ 8:09 pm | delete
- Good idea. Good lens. I'm just learning about pictures now:-) Not anywhere near making a collage. Back later!
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Tolovaj
May 16, 2012 @ 11:26 am | delete
- It is a nice tool to achieve some things very fast although I prefer more open options. I have tried Picture Collage Maker and can confirm: it is stable, user friendly and does the job.
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ajgodinho May 17, 2012 @ 7:45 pm | delete
- Thanks for your feedback! I've used Picture Collage Maker extensively and find it quite flexible if you want to customize your own type of collage or greeting card. On the other hand, for people who prefer ready made collages and greeting cards, there are a lot of pre-designed templates. It works almost perfectly for me :)
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DeannaDiaz
May 3, 2012 @ 6:44 pm | delete
- Sounds like something I should try!
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dellgirl
Apr 10, 2012 @ 2:32 am | delete
- Thanks for introducing the Picture Collage Maker, I will definitely look into that. It'll help with some of the many pictures I have of grandbaby jace.
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jercow75
Apr 5, 2012 @ 9:01 pm | delete
- This looks like a great program. My kids like to scrapbook. This would be a fun way to use the computer to help out. And I would love making a calendar using my photos.
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- I've enjoyed using Picture Collage Maker for over a year now. It's great for anyone who wants to create their own stuff from scratch as well as those who want to use the ready-made templates. It all depends what you're going to use it for. There are various free applications available, but this particular one incorporates many different features in one and allows a lot of flexibility for those who are creative and want to create their own projects.
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veryirie
Apr 4, 2012 @ 4:35 am | delete
- I've had a lot of fun making picture collages on the computer. Thanks for the additional suggestions.
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artyfax Mar 17, 2012 @ 3:43 pm | delete
- I like to think as an artist, I would not need this software, with a little thought one of the many free photo-editors will do all of this. But then who would have thought that greengrocers could make extra money from selling ready peeled and cut up fruit in plastic bags at exhorbitant prices. It suits those who are short of time, I guess.
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Updated: June 4, 2012
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