CollageIt 1.7.0

CollageIt is a small piece of software designed to create great looking picture collages in less than a minute. It's so fast due to the fact that the photos are intelligently placed on the layout and the only thing you'll have to do is to follow three easy steps.

Add your favorite pictures into the software, set some parameters for them (if you like) and preview the way your collage is going to look and in the end, save your collage in one of the supported file formats (jpg, png, bmp, etc.).

The interface is very simple and it has three main panels. The left one, where you add and see the thumbnail of your photos, the middle panel where you can see the preview of your photo collage, and the right one is the settings panel where you can customize the way your collage is going to look like. In here you can enhance the collage with various options for layout (space, margins, rotation, sparse) but also applying effects as 'shadow' and 'frame'.

The complexity of your collage is up to you, using just a couple of photos or up to 100 photos. Moreover, you can change the background of your collage using an image or by filling it with solid color or gradient. You can also change the collage size, manually, or picking one of the predefined size (A4, A3, 1024x768, etc.). In case you had set a layout that you like, you can save it and use it later.

Pluses: Fast and easy to use; cool looking output; it's free.

Drawbacks / flaws:You can't modify the shape of your collage.

In conclusion: A really nice piece of software that works as a charm.

version reviewed: 1.1.8