Collage and Wondershare Photo Collage Studio Software for Windows

AKVIS Chameleon
$75 - AKVIS LLC

AKVIS Chameleon is an efficient tool for photo collage creation. This ingenious software makes the process easy and entertaining. Earlier one had to thoroughly select an object for pasting into a new background; with this software this tedious part of work drops out. You can concentrate on the creative part and forget about complicated selection techniques.

The software has three modes:
* Montage. In this mode the program combines images to create a seamless photo montage. It transfers selected objects to a new background and makes the irrelevant parts of the pasted fragment fade away. The object does not change its color range or opacity. This mode is good to use for creating photo collages with people.
* Chameleon. In this mode the program adjusts the inserted object to the target image color range and smoothes the object's borders. It looks similar to the way a chameleon adapts to the environment.
* Blend Mode. In this mode the program does not only smoothes the borders of the inserted object and adjusts its color range, but it also makes the object semi-transparent, so that the texture and the relief of the primary image can be seen through. Use this mode if you want to "dissolve" the inserted image in the background.

The tool is very easy to handle as it does not require precise selection of objects.

You can use AKVIS Chameleon in many ways. You can create customized postcards for your loved ones; make a wedding album using all kinds of photos and backgrounds; correct closed eyes (by implanting open eyes from another photo of the series), change the appearance of a person, etc.

Designers will appreciate this tool as it allows them to combine images with entirely different color ranges, to create the effect of drawing on a texture surface (crumpled paper, wood, etc), and all that with only a mouse-click.

AKVIS Chameleon plug-in is compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Corel (Jasc) Paint Shop Pro, Ulead Photo Impact, etc.

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Easy Frame Creator
$19 - Image Tools Group

Easy Frame Creator is intended for quick and easy creation of image frames. With help of this program you can also create unique collages.

Program features:
- loads source image from BMP, JPEG (JPG), GIF, PCX, PSD, PNG - files;
- rotates, flips, changes the size of the image;
- applies effects and corrects the image and texture;
- creates frame images on basis of prepared templates;
- adds new templates to the list;
- deletes templates from the list;
- adds background color or texture from BMP, JPEG ( JPG ), PSD, PCX, PNG and GIF - files;
- creates rectangular frames with opaque background outside of the source image;
- creates frames of the different forms and styles inside the source image;
- sets shape of inside frame and its parameters ( width and number of linear segments in curved shape of frame );
- sets style of inside frame and edits its parameters;
- allows to fill image area around inside frame by color or texture with different values of transparency;
- gives possibility to apply several frames and effects to the source image simultaneously;
- copies created image to clipboard in BMP - format;
- pastes image from clipboard;
- saves created image as GIF, BMP, PNG or JPEG - file;
- sets JPEG compression quality;
- supports internationalization.

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Blue Photo Editor
$0 - Blue Software

Triscape's FxFoto provides a single tool to organize, archive, enhance, scrapbook, print, email, upload, share and create collages, scrap books and slide shows with your digital photos. FxFoto was designed to give the novice to advanced amateur an easy-to-use package to address common photo needs as well as offer unique features that help you publish and preserve your photographic memories with style. Some of Editer's many features include automatically locating all your current photos, direct import from virtually any digital camera or card reader, visual grouping and organizing photos, and a host of processing functions to spruce up pictures, including red eye correction, lighting and image enhancement, blemish removal and a clone brush.

The Standard Edition includes powerful photo organization and editing and is Really Free! A unique animated navigator frame in FxFoto displays photo thumbnails of all your pictures by topic. Each topic can be opened or closed to view the thumbnails and clicking on a picture thumbnail instantly shows a picture preview or adds it to a collection of pictures to create a slide show or collage. In addition, photos can be organized and searched by user specified keywords.

the Edition allows easy and efficient email and upload sharing of one or more photos. The Deluxe Edition also distributes photos or slide shows by burning them directly onto CD-ROM. It allows users to create multi-picture collages and slide shows by simply dragging photos onto the presentation page and clicking to apply frames, special effects, dialog balloons, music, narration and other annotations and provides advanced effects and inch/cm printer page layouts.

The Edition Creative Edition has everything needed for digital scrapbooking and more including digital kits with backgrounds and embellishment clipart on CD-ROM. The results are stunning when printed on larger format paper.

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FxFoto
$0 - Triscape Inc.

Triscape's FxFoto provides a single tool to organize, archive, enhance, scrapbook, print, email, upload, share and create collages, scrap books and slide shows with your digital photos. FxFoto was designed to give the novice to advanced amateur an easy-to-use package to address common photo needs as well as offer unique features that help you publish and preserve your photographic memories with style. Some of FxFoto's many features include automatically locating all your current photos, direct import from virtually any digital camera or card reader, visual grouping and organizing photos, and a host of processing functions to spruce up pictures, including red eye correction, lighting and image enhancement, blemish removal and a clone brush.

The Standard Edition includes powerful photo organization and editing and is Really Free! A unique animated navigator frame in FxFoto displays photo thumbnails of all your pictures by topic. Each topic can be opened or closed to view the thumbnails and clicking on a picture thumbnail instantly shows a picture preview or adds it to a collection of pictures to create a slide show or collage. In addition, photos can be organized and searched by user specified keywords.

FxFoto allows easy and efficient email and upload sharing of one or more photos. The Deluxe Edition also distributes photos or slide shows by burning them directly onto CD-ROM. It allows users to create multi-picture collages and slide shows by simply dragging photos onto the presentation page and clicking to apply frames, special effects, dialog balloons, music, narration and other annotations and provides advanced effects and inch/cm printer page layouts.

FxFoto Creative Edition has everything needed for digital scrapbooking and more including digital kits with backgrounds and embellishment clipart on CD-ROM. The results are stunning when printed on larger format paper.

The Media Edition includes all FxFoto features and creates MPEG slide show movies.

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Photo-Printer
$16 - CAD-KAS GbR

Start using your printer for a useful job! Print your photos and pictures with CAD-KAS Photo-Printery! With the program you can create collages out of your picture material. You can arrange pictures as desired on the worksheet and change the size of this pictures. By request the program arranges the pictures automatically. You can write a free text for all photos.

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PhotoMix
$29 - fCoder Group, Inc.

Without question, PhotoMix is the most powerful innovation in the scrap booking arena, equipped with a range of high torque tools capable of packing a punch! Create stunning collages, greeting cards, and quality photo layouts, with an absolutely highly powered simplistic user interface in an instant! With 400+ FREE templates, many additional graphics and output selection, either as digital images or prints, why would you settle for second best?
What's new: Minor bugs fixed, added 100+ new compositions.

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