Glad I got it on sale instead.

I am a designer by profession who bought CollageIt Pro on sale wanting an alternative to Picasa; I was looking for a program that would do one thing, and thats create photo collages.

My only complaint with CollageIt Pro is that the "Mosaic" tiling feature (that I primarly use to create reference image boards for design projects) is low on intelligence compared to Picasa (which is free). The other layout features it offers are fine, but I specifically find the Mosaic tiling feature to be lackluster and not well thought or designed.

Collageit Pros randomnly generated mosaic layouts do not take into account the height and width of each individual picture that is requested to be made into a mosaic (a feature that I have only been able to find in Picasa). This is a HUGE disadvantage as it tries to fit the images into a randomnly generated layout rather than taking into account all the images to generate THE BEST Mosaic layout which would give each image a maximum visibility and real estate on the collage. It will allow you to move the images around for the best crop, but much of this could be avoided if the program had a bit more intelligence programmed behind it - cropping shouldnt be necessary.

I would give this program 5 stars if they could match Picasas Mosaic Tiling layout system which takes into account the selected images. I would also like to encourage the developers of this program to take a look at how Picasa does their mosaic tiling.

All in all, its a nice program thats very easy to use. If they manage to add more intelligence to the collaging software, this would be a solid 5 star product.

CarbonPad about CollageIt Pro