213 Megabytes! and there are only a few templates. The templates are OK, but nothing special.

Paul  –  8 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+35)

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This program is far too limiting. One has to use one of their 86 templates included with the software and many of them are not particularly attractive. In fact, if my first impressions are similar to that of other customers, I doubt that more than 10 percent of the templates would actually create cards that anyone would choose to share. The problem is aggravated by the fact that the templates cannot be manipulated to make them more suitable; while the inserted pictures can be resized, cropped, etc., to fit within the picture frame, even those changes are limited since the frame size and location are unchangeable within the template. For example, in the template of a kitten above a ball, the picture goes in the ball and the size of the ball and its location cannot be adjusted.

In their help screen and on their website advertisement the company says:

"A template for every occasion--Christmas, wedding or birthday, Ashampoo Photo Card 2 comes with numerous thematic templates for every occasion. Combine that with the integrated clipart library and you get nearly unlimited design combinations."

It sounds great, but it just is not true! For example, "every occasion" does NOT include anniversaries, patriotic holidays, sympathy cards, and numerous other occasions for which cards may be desired.

The longer I played with the software the more convinced I became that the primary purpose for releasing this program is to entice people to buy more templates at $1.99 per set of 5 templates (which one apparently can't review before purchase to assess their usefulness). I can't imagine this business model being successful. I definitely would not pay the $7.99 ("member" price) or $19.99 ("non-member" price) quoted on their webpage until the program has become much more versatile. Neither would I be willing to pay $1.99 sight unseen for only 5 templates.

My wife enjoys making greeting cards, and I hoped that this would be a program she would enjoy, but software she used 15 or 20 years ago provided better options than this program. I would have liked to give a more positive review, but I just can't! Sorry!

Harold  –  8 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+19)

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