Photo collages are a great way to express yourself, or to create a wonderful personalized gift for a loved one or close friend. Collage It, which is available in a free limited version and a commercial version, offers to create photo collages in three easy steps.
Photos are added in the first step. The application supports the popular image formats jpg, png, gif, bmp and tga. Single or multiple photos can be added easily with a click on the Add button or the selection of File > Add Files. The photos are then processed and displayed as thumbnails in the left sidebar.
A click on Generate Layout creates a sample photo collage from the photos that have been loaded by the user. It is possible to customize the layout after they have been loaded. Available for selection are options to use a limited amount of photos, configure the space and margin, rotate photos and increase the amount of spare space.
The Photo tab offers to remove and configure photo frames and shadows.
Backgrounds can be configured with a click on the background button at the bottom of the screen. Here it is possible to use a gradient, solid fill or an individual image.
The page setup button offers options to change the collage size. Available for selection are A4, A3, A2, A1, desktop wallpaper size, scrapbook, greeting card or custom size.
Layouts can be saved and loaded. That’s handy if you have created a specific layout that you want to use again in the future.
A click on the Save button saves the custom photo collage as an image to the local hard drive so that it is easy to send it via email, upload it to an image hosting site or social networking site or print it.
Collage It is an easy to use photo collage creator that users of all experience levels can use to create photo collages with. The main weakness of the application is the missing ability to move the photos around individually on the page. Additional layouts, like a photo collage that looks like a heart, would have been great as well.
Collage It is available for Windows and Macintosh. The developers have given me 20 license keys that I’d like to give away. Just leave a comment and let me know what you’d like to make a collage of for the chance to win one of the licenses.
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I’m interested in trying the software… do count me in. Thanks Ghacks
yeah i need this key plz :-)
i gonna make a collage of my canicross games
My wife died recently after a year long battle with breast cancer. I accumulated many pictures of her and us over the 5 years that we were together and I’d like to create some collages for sentimental reasons.
This comment is not meant as looking for sympathy, but as an honest one!
I would still purchase this software even if I wasn’t granted a license.
I would like to make a collage of all my Nintendo devices that are lying around, would give it to my brother – he’s mad about Gameboys ;)
I would like to try this app and make a nice collage of photos taken on a recent trip to Greece. Thanks!
Humm, insteresting!.
I can try?
Thank you very nice program..
i’d like to make my daily advantures with my friends. :D
Thank you
Will try to make collages of my college trips.
I’d like to use the software to create posters to decorate my bedroom. My wife’s idea is to create a set of photos and hang them on the rope by using a wooden clothespegs.
Great idea and well thought out. Smart wife you have there. :)
I am very very very want this great Photo collages .
I miss the days at my university. I would like to make collages of my friends and post them on Facebook & Flickr.
My kids and our vacations would make great collages.
I missed the great giveaway last month.
Please count me in. Thanks
This would be great for our daughter’s first birthday and then sixteen years in the future her sweet sixteen birthday. She is the first grand daughter to grace the family after too many boys. Win or not I’ll most likely purchase the software for many more sentimental reasons.
This will be great for making a collage of my whole family (+ my new born son)!!! Count me in please…
Please send me one license.
I would like to make a custom collage to print on a coffee mug and present it to my parents.
This program would enable me to layout the family history album I will be making for my kids and grandkids in a very nice way. My plan is to include scanned photos going as far back into the last century as I can. Please include me in the “candidates”.
I would like to make a collage of my son and wife!
Hi, A great giveaway. I will like to make a collage of the animal’s pictures photographed by me. Hope to get the license.
With regards
Oooh, I took a trip to Paris this last year with my wife, and we’ve been struggling our way through laying out a collage in Gimp… this would make it a done deal!
Thanks!
Because I never made a collage before.
I have several isolated shots of Manhattan,
where I live, that would make an interesting one.
I need good software to make from photos collage. Please count me in. :)
I’m gona try something from my last summer trip to south Russia :)
Looks pretty cool.
I’d like to use it for family pictures
LOL, interesting! i will put a moon picture to be mu background.
I went on a world trip and have many awesome photos from different countries – it would be sweet to make a collage of them using this softeware.
Seems like a very limited implementation. For instance, a collage program needs ot be able to rotate and partially overlay photo’s.
Here’s a free opensource collage program that is much more robust:
http://www.enricoros.com/opensource/fotowall/
Thanks for the giveaway. Hope to get a license!