Art Explosion Greeting Card Deluxe Factory

by Nova Development Corp

Product Features

• Art Explosion GREETING CARD FACTORY DELUXE 6

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• ASIN: B000050AWN
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 21, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,396 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Sometimes it's hard to find the right words to comfort, commend, or congratulate the people you care about. Art Explosion's Greeting Card Factory Deluxe puts the words in your mouth, whether your friends and family are celebrating birthdays, bar mitzvahs, or baby announcements. And for those of you who have a knack for turning a catchy phrase, you can edit the cards, announcements, postcards, labels, and gift tags to your heart's content. You can even create your own designs with the blank templates and photo-editing features.

Installing Greeting Card Deluxe is as easy as inserting the disk into your CD-ROM drive and waiting 10 minutes for the program to install. Along with the initial disk, you also get a CD-ROM containing graphics, photographs, and fonts to add more choices to your greeting-card repertoire. Once everything has been installed, you can get started on any of the many projects available. With an easy-to-use interface and a host of ready-to-use templates, this program is intuitive enough for kids who have some computer experience.

Greeting Card Factory allows you to complete 12 projects including greeting cards, photo cards, announcements, invitations, envelopes, labels, and various crafts. Some of the templates are a bit clichéd (i.e., "I'll love you for any reason. I'll love you for all the time. I'll love you for your money even if you didn't have a dime."). However, you always have the option to change the text and keep the graphics. The software also comes with a searchable sentiment database for everything from birthdays to Boss's Day.

While Greeting Card Factory is not a sophisticated photo- and image-editing application like Photoshop, you can take advantage of the included basic editing tools. Trimming graphics, adding shapes, applying gradients and textures, and importing photos are some of the options available to ambitious users. The photo editor lets you adjust colors, fix flaws such as dust and scratches or red-eyes, crop images, and add special effects to your pictures.

If you're a serious designer or photographer, Greeting Card Deluxe will probably not meet your expectations. However, if you are looking to save money on store-bought greeting cards, or you have some projects you'd like to complete with your family, Greeting Card Deluxe is an enjoyable and easy-to-use application. Gisele Toueg

Product Description

Put your creative juices to work with this greeting card software! Now you can personalize and send the very best store-bought greeting cards with just one software product. This new version of Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 6.0 has everything you need. It's the ultimate collection of absolutely charming cards, featuring beautiful graphics and heartfelt sentiments sure to express your innermost feelings every time. Because Greeting Card Factory products are the only software products among leading print creativity titles to be built on a robust graphics engine, you can achieve results never before possible. Included are sophisticated drawing tools, gradient and transparency support, unparalleled text effects and much more. Personalize and send the very best store-quality greeting cards with just one software product Includes advanced photo editing tools and text effects Thousands of graphics and templates included Delight family & friends with custom photo calendars Create photo CD greeting cards with transitions, music and more System Requirements: Windows 98, 2000, Me, XP or Vista Pentium 166 Mhz or faster; 64 MB RAM CD-ROM drive. Works with all popular printers - inkjet and laser.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Blast to the Stars, March 29, 2001

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Debbie Fein (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art Explosion Greeting Card Deluxe Factory (CD-ROM)

I have been using graphic programs for many years and have enjoyed many different type of graphic programs (I have 40 graphic and click art programs). However, this particular program has many more features than most, one is that you are able to change the card size into what is needed, and there are fonts that I have come across that I have not seen any where else. In addition the graphics are beautiful. For people as experienced as I am in graphic programs I recommend it,however,for people just starting out,unless they are proficient in computers I do not recommend it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this software!, May 16, 2003

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"bordergal" (Akron, IA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art Explosion Greeting Card Deluxe Factory (CD-ROM)

I've had four different software packages to make greeting cards, and this is the best I've encountered. It offers a wide selection of graphics and sentiments, and it is easy to navigate. I should qualify that remark by saying that I have a fair amount of experience working with graphics, but if you can read directions, you shouldn't have any problems. I find the Greeting Card Factory to be comparable to Microsoft Publisher as far as ease of use. You can easily switch to other windows and paste in objects from your clipboard. I mention that because I have had other programs that didn't allow that. Another consideration is that there are two options for installation. One loads all of the graphics, and the other offers minimal installation, which takes up less memory on your hard drive. Then you pull the graphics from the CD-Roms. I can't comment on how that works because I opted for the full installation. All in all, this is a great package that offers a wide selection for creativity and your own personal touch.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just a good software, September 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Art Explosion Greeting Card Deluxe Factory (CD-ROM)

I honestly thought this would be a great software based on the only review that appears and the rate this product has, however I was disappointed, I believe that this is a good product but does not deserve 5 stars.
It has beautiful graphics but there are not a lot of them, many graphics are from Microsoft Clip Art Gallery.
The fonts are almost the same we can found in Office, except for a few of them (10 at the most).
On the other hand I find it easy to use and not a lot of computer skills or knowledge is needed. Besides the craft section I found it really good, you can do party hats, baskets, boxes for gifts, envelopes, doorhangs, etc.
It is a good but not outstanding product.