![]() ![]() ![]() For reference, PhotoScape has over 100 page templates. The number of templates is also not enough.For example, there is no possibility to crop a picture or adjust an image inside the frame. Image editing features are almost absent.Criticismįirst, a disclaimer: in this post, I’m talking about the free CollageIt version and all the drawbacks that I, as a user, noticed might be eliminated in the paid version that I didn’t test on purpose. But CollageIt developers have managed to pack these features really nicely and I value it! Though, there is a fly in the ointment. To tell the truth, most of the features that I mentioned above are the standard ones that any collage maker has. CollageIt has a Mac version! Which most of the free desktop image editor can’t boast. What I also consider as the program plus is that the developers have published a series of tutorials on the website.I changed the number of photos on the template and the template preview reflected the changes flash-like! I would like to draw your attention to the following fact – CollageIt is one of the speediest apps I have ever tested.You are also able to play with the background color and patterns.This is what really impresses in the free CollageIt version! Click the Page Setup button, select the Collage Size group and expand the Customize drop-down menu. Here you find templates for scrapbooks, photo albums, posters… This is the first thing you see when you open the program. These are only some of the features that CollageIt offers. And the details hide under two tabs of the side panel, buttons that I’ve already mentioned, and links that we’ll discuss later. Skip the upper menu, since all the necessary functions are compactly arranged in the main editing window.Īs they say, the devil is in the detail.Moreover, the buttons are equipped with the icons, so there’s no way for visual preceptors to miss the necessary button. Find the most needed functions duplicated by the appropriate buttons in the interface.Change the program skin (4 variants hide under File -> Skin).You won’t get lost and actually one can see that the app developers have worked a lot on the visual counterpart of the application. The user interface is really nice and clear. Since I mentioned the artist’s words, let’s make an artistic review of the program. I would apply these words to the CollageIt application too, a free version of the program cab be downloaded at the official CollageIt site. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – as Leonardo da Vinci said. Today I suggest that we have a look at one tool that can be installed on your computer and can be used even without the Internet access. There are enough online collage creators, take Photovisi, for example, and desktop applications to organize your pictures into a wonderful mess. Collage is about responding to feeling both as the viewer and the creator.Collage makers have recently become very popular. Collage is non-linear, and our brains work in the same way which is why Collage is ideal for expressing a mindset or a viewpoint.Ĭollage artists leave their work open to interpretation, because the ideas presented are always open to discussion and evolution. This is why Collage is perfect for expression, the colours, the technique of cutting and sticking, the form, the images all provide an idea of the artist's thoughts and feelings. Collage expresses the feelings and ideas of socio-political events and ideas in the subconscious, and it's very difficult to capture these feelings in text, painting or photography because ideas on subjects such as these are multifaceted and complicated. Adorno's view on Poetry can be applied to Collage he believed that Poetry was a way of looking at something that could not be discussed directly, only alluded to. The Collage art form is a visual language much like Surrealism, Cubism, Expressionism, or Fashion Photography (of which many artists cross over), Collage is very fluid and abstract so that the ideas behind the work are left open to interpretation. ![]()
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