We posted our February 2010 issue, and we are open for comments, criticisms and suggestions.
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Are your staffers begging to do yet another collage of photos in your yearbook or newspaper? In my experience, these all-too-often hastily constructed space-fillers turn out looking bad. Bad like my caffeine-addled 14-year-old neice’s MySpace layout bad!
Fear not! You and your staffers can easily create highly customizeable, professional quality photo collages with Shape Collage 2.0, which you can download absolutely FREE at this website.
It’s a relatively small download that works great on Windows, Mac, Linux or your trusty ol’ Java Web Start launcher (the same thing that you might use to run Taylor Publishing’s StudioWorks). You choose which photos to use, choose an on-screen or print size, set a few options (you can do custom shapes!), and presto, you’ve got yourself a high-quality photo collage file. One of the best features is the choice to save the finished product as an Adobe PhotoShop (.PSD) file. This file keeps all of the separate photos on different layers for easy tweaking later. Awesome!
Why don’t you check out more screenshots of Shape Collage in action, or maybe peruse a few examples of creations from the amazing little app. …And if you and your staff appreciate what can be done with the software, perhaps you’d like to throw a little donation in the direction of Vincent Cheung, the app’s generous creator. (P.S. – Neither PSPA nor I are affiliated with Cheung, but his app is that good, that I thought it worth a mention.)
Psssst. And if you’re a fellow Facebook’r, and you actually want to save the hideously-distorted photos posted on the site’s album, check out Cheung’s other useful app called FaceDown.
