 Text Editing Magic |
| Review Date: November 28, 2006 |
| Reviewer: A. Albers, Northwoods of Wisconsin |
This is the third Art Explosion product I've owned. I agree with the user who said the "canned" cards could be better, but if you're a user like me who likes to design your own projects, this is a fantastic program. It doesn't make me feel like I'm locked into presets with my hands tied, banging against a program that's not as imaginative as I am.
It's got lots of art, finally searchable in this version! The best of it loads to your hard drive, the rest is available on the disks. The art is divided into vector and raster images, one being "fine art" and the other clip art. Also, there are photographs and the ability to import your own graphics and photos. You can tint, fade, control transparency, crop, draw, even freehand...just great versitility. There's even a sentiment library to provide you with words for your occasion.
I've NEVER seen a program that has better text editing. There are preset galleries to automatically affect your text, or you can make your own using drop shadow, line and character spacing, fill with texture, three different controlable gradients, two shaping option dropdowns...it's just about limitless.
And it's so much more than cards! There are 15 major menu choices that proceed to the subfolders of choices for projects, both preset and blanks. I used the preformatted web slide shows to put together our family photo greeting for the holidays, again, easy and versitile and not a glitch in the web experience.
If there's one drawback I'd like to see Art Explosion improve on, it's the font selection process. It comes with a lot of fonts, but with no viewer or way to make a selection of which ones you want to install except to tediously wade through folder after folder of alphabetized font files, opening them to the famous "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Other than that, this software's nearly perfect and only as limited as you are. |
Greeting Card Design
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| Review Date: November 5, 2006 |
| Reviewer: K. Ward, |
| This is an outstanding software package for making cards. I have been designing cards for a number of years using another popular product. But I needed a new, upgrade program. This has so many improvements over my old software, it's so much more fun to do cards. It is easy and fast. There is an abundant assortment of art at your fingertips. It has a huge file of sentiments. The most flexible software I've seen. My only negative comment is I'm still waiting for my rebate - over 2-1/2 months now. I would select this over my other two packages in a minute. Importing is also very easy and changing the premades is a piece of cake. |
New does mean BEST
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| Review Date: November 7, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Neo, |
| I just got my copy of this application from amazon.com. I have had the first and third version of this software and now this one. This has improved leaps and bounds. It now procures the functionality to search templates by key words. I have found this tool extremely helpful due to the fact that this software has over 20,000 cards. Another thing I particularly enjoy is the 700 new fonts that were installed on my machine. I really enjoy this software and I think others would too. |
Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 5.0
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| Review Date: June 26, 2007 |
| Reviewer: J. Schwab, |
| This product is amazing! I have been using it steadily since the day it arrived and my friends and co-workers can't believe it when I show them the finished products. Using my own digital photos, I've been able to make greeting cards, photo cards and even electronic greetings. I'd recommend this product for anyone interested in creating their own cards using the graphics that come with the program or photographic images of your own. |
A copy for everyone in the family
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| Review Date: January 12, 2006 |
| Reviewer: UCLA4LIFE, |
I received this as a Chanukah gift last month. Honestly, I haven't had this must fun with software for some time! This software does it all: cards, labels, envelopes, photo cards, and so much more! I even went out and purchased a high quality printer to use with this program.
I really have had a positive experience with this. Shortly after downloading it to my computer I called the company. Their Support Dept. answered every question I asked! They even gave me a few pointers on using the program!
I like this software so much, I just bought one for my sister and my aunt!
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