Some free alternatives, most of them with more templates and options.

* online initiatives
-- http://www.photovisi.com/collage/choose_template/wallpapers
About a hundred different templates for grouping pictures ranging from only a couple up to a dozen or more. You choose a template, load pictures from your computer and once the photos are loaded you can crop, resize, rotate and reposition them on the canvas. You can add background images and even text on your collage. The final collage can be downloaded as 1024x768 or 1600x12000 JPG image.
-- http://www.photocollage.net/
(Registration required)
-- http://www.picture2life.com/
(Registration required)
-- http://funny.pho.to/
Creating photo collages from your photos online. Create realistic photo montages and add cute frames to your photos. Also comes with many single-photo effects!
-- http://www.photocollageonline.com/
To top it off... This one isn't that 'advanced' but gets the job done anyway : )

* Windows / Other
-- http://www.picturecollagesoftware.com/free/
Description: Over 2300 Collage Resources(Frames, Masks, Cliparts, Backgrounds). Includes 48+ templates for building collage. Share your collage through any medium, including desktop wallpaper, printed copies, email and more. (Pro version available too.)
-- http://www.effectmatrix.com/Free-Photo-Collage/index.htm
Choose from collage templates. Decorate your photo collage with frames, masks, text and cliparts. Use image effects to make your photos look like faded on the edges, old-fashioned, etc.
-- http://download.cnet.com/Photo-Collage-Creator/3000-2192_4-10802594.html (30 day TRIAL)
If you only want to do this once... This is a good one too!
-- http://picasa.google.com/
Yes, Picasa can do this too :)
-- http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php
You can then resize the pictures, move them to show a specific area through the frame and add countless different frames for style. All pictures appear with a white border and there is no way to get rid of them, unfortunately. There are more than one hundred templates on offer. **
-- http://www.enricoros.com/opensource/fotowall/
Fotowall is an open source software that lets you make collages and word clouds. There are no templates or grid layouts to choose from. You add photos to the canvas and arrange their position by hand, individually. But it does have a cool feature called “Force field”. When turned on, pictures arrange themselves as if they are acted upon by forces of attraction and repulsion. This tends to produce better results. You can freeze the photos while they are in motion by turning of “Force field”. **

** SOURCE: http://www.instantfundas.com/2011/12/5-free-photo-collage-making-software.html, including comparisson table.

Peace!

devnullius

devnullius  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+96)

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Very disappointing GAOTD....THUMBS DOWN from me!!


BETTER FREE ALTERNATIVES:


* PICTURE COLLAGE MAKERS

http://www.scrapbookflair.com/index.aspx
http://www.sixdots.de/mosaik/en/index.php


* PICTURE PANORAMA STITCHERS

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html


And as a fully featured image management tool I definitely recommend the excellent freeware "Helicon Photo Safe":

http://www.heliconsoft.com/safe.html


Enjoy!

Giovanni  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+40)

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I totally agree with #2.
This is a LOW-TECH collage maker. The sort you get free with photo maniplation software, with just a few extra tweaks.

To register, you need to close programme then re-start it (not PC)after you ACTIVATE it.

PROS
It's free today.
You can move pics around and move forward/back.
You can save in BMP JPG TIF PNG and GIF
Pics can be rotated in free template (only when you click on photo and point to centre circle in the photo, very awkward).
Lots of fonts ( but no font preview).Lots of page resolutions (pixels).

CONS
Templates very limted.
No masks or backgrounds.
Total lack of options to do anything else like posterize, etc

SUMMARY
Handy to have but no way would you pay for it. Compared to Picture Collage Maker in last weeks GIVAWAY this is an amateur.

Denis  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+34)

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Installation on x86 Vista went just fine. Before I press Finish to start the program, I also ran Activate.exe.

When the program started first, whatever I did, I could not figure out how to operate it.

Re-starting the program fixed all my confusion : ) Problem? First time, with me, there was no template selected - only a gray area was visible.

This program makes a photo collage - not to burn on dvd, but to save as a new picture (for your scrapbook?).

Templates are: grid (side by side), classic (grid with two big pictures), free (random overlapping), circular & heart.

Two other options: Fill & Random. Fill changes the photos of the collage in to a new order. Random re-arranges the lay-out of the pictures (egg, stacking differently).

The result can ber saved in jpeg, tiff, png, bmp or gif.

All in all, this is not a tech-tool but a fun tool to have lying around - might be nice to occasionally print a photo collage for someone as a souvenir.

Thanx, and... Peace!

Devvie


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devnullius  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+15)

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Very nice program! I can split or merge a cell, rotate, move, resize photo in cell in Classic layout. In Free mode grab picture to anywhere, change order. I can add text, background, border - perfect!
I will use this program, very simple and useable.

Mykee  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+10)

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