Comments on: Shape Collage 2.0

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:54:12 +0000

GREAT PROGRAM!!! But it really needs to ability to manually move the pictures within the collage before saving it as an image. I understand your steps outlined above, but for those who do not readily have access to those costly programs, this is the perfect program to use. I wish you the very best with it, though!

By: Vincent Cheung

Vincent Cheung — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:01:41 +0000

Just click on the “Custom Shape” option and import the shape that you want by clicking the “Open” button and selecting the image file containing the shape. The shape image just has to be any image, preferably black and white. The photos will go on the black parts of the image.

By: Antje

Antje — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:33:43 +0000

Love the world shape. Is it possible to import this or any other shapes?

By: Vincent Cheung

Vincent Cheung — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:09:55 +0000

Yes, an expanded shape template gallery is a good idea. The trick is figuring out which shapes that people would most likely use. Star? Flower? Diamond? Cat? Dog? Bird? Arrow? Snowflake? What do you think?

By: Roman

Roman — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:03:04 +0000

Hi Vincent,
just sent me an email when you need the help. What about a little (bigger) template-gallery for shapes? Not everybody wants to draw it himself.

greets from germany

By: Vincent Cheung

Vincent Cheung — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:07:30 +0000

The fastest way to add photos to the Shape Collage program is to drag and drop the photos from the file manager of your operating system (Windows Explorer for Windows, Finder for Mac OS X, Nautilus for Gnome, etc.) into the Shape Collage program.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:10:44 +0000

Really great programme! Thumbs up! But I think you could allow ‘thumbnail’ view while in the selecting photos window so that the user can complete the task at a quicker pace.

Keep up the good work

By: Vincent Cheung

Vincent Cheung — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:10:17 +0000

I’ll look into allowing multiple lines of text. I just have to see how well it would work in the interface. For the time being, you can accomplish this by creating a collage for each line of text and combining them in an image editing program. Alternatively, you can use an image editing program to create an image with the text you want and then load it as a custom shape in Shape Collage.

It is unlikely that I will facilitate the editing of the collage manually within the Shape Collage program. See my comment above. Instead of implementing every possible effect and customization, I’m aiming to keep Shape Collage as simple as possible, and where Shape Collage is lacking in features, I provide mechanisms (eg. transparent backgrounds and PSD files) to accomplish them using other more powerful and more established image editing programs.

You will have more control over the text positing if you just did this manually by creating the collage with a transparent background and then using an image editing program to place the collage on the background. Or, you can simply save the collage as a PSD file and move the photos around as you please.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:13:53 +0000

This is a great program!

- Is it possible in future versions to allow for more than 1 line of text when placing the photos in a collage of text? I realize you can’t have too much text but allowing more than 1 line of text would be great.

- It would also be great if the user had some ability to place or position a collage of text into the background area.

Thanks

By: Vincent Cheung

Vincent Cheung — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:28:29 +0000

Thank you very much for your offer! I actually am working on translating Shape Collage into different languages for the next version, so I could definitely use your help. I will be in contact in the next little while once I have prepared the material to be translated.