Customer Reviews

Hallmark Christian Card Studio

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2 star:		(1)
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Christian Card Studio is truly this desktop publisher's delight. Creating and designing bulletins, programs and flyers for my church is one of my pastime hobbies. This program has enabled me to create some dynamic masterpieces. For Mother's Day, I was asked to design a Mother's Day Memory Journal and I had just purchase a copy of Christian Card Studio software. I exceeded my own expectations. The output was truly a work of art. I have received numerous request to create similar work. I had previously used several other Desktop Publishing software, but this software far exceed any of my existing software. Christian Card studio allows me to use existing verbiage and or add my own personal touch to pre-existing phrases. The artwork is absolutely outstanding. The ability to create a personal touch gives all of my artwork a more professional touch. I look forward to purchasing and using more Christian Card Studio software.

The best thing about this software is that it includes hundreds of ready-made Hallmark cards for you to print. Of course you can customize them, but you are starting with a professionally designed card, which makes the process much different than starting from a blank page. Have you ever been wandering through the card shop and wanted to take the picture from one card and the greeting from another? Or take a card addressed "to my brother" and change it "to my friend/sister/dad/Joe/Mary/whoever"? Now you can. And of course you can add pictures of your family. You will get your money's worth out of this product, but after a few years of printing the included cards, the cards in some of the categories are starting to look pretty familiar.

Like so much software these days, this is very user friendly. It not only is quick and simple to begin producing cards as soon as this is installed and played with or use of the tutorial, but it comes also with use to use modification software. This allows for change of colors, message, art, etc. I found this in itself of great usefulness and fun to explore.

The section on newsletters, etc., is great! Coupled with the ability to use their Papers, this is just an outstanding buy for the Christian who regularly sends/gives cards!

The product is good and easy to use, but...
for Newsletters you can't do muliple pages in one file
and the save feature never tells you the current name (like in Word). The font size only allows you to increase/decrease by using a plus or minus sign. It would be ideal if you could make it a true value to avoid inconsistency. Lastly, you can't set your own margins because they rely on dialog boxes similar to Powerpoint - good, but not great. I'm glad I have the product, but for this project I'll transfer it over to Powerpoint. The fonts and pics are excellent, so with a good color printer you can do some amazing projects. I found this very useful for the one page projects or basic cards, however, it does come with many other features I have not used yet...bookmarks, labels, etc.

THIS PROGRAM GIVES YOU A LOT OF GREAT GRAPHICS. I WAS REALLY DISAPOINTED IN THE MESSAGES INCLUDED WITH THE PROGRAM. I HAVE AMERICAN GREETINGS PLATINUM 6 AND IT HAS MORE SPIRITUAL MESSAGES THAN THIS ONE DOES. IT JUST DID NOT GIVE ME WHAT I NEEDED TO DO THE JOB I HAVE TO DO.

I recently purchased this product as I have used the Greeting Card Studio Deluxe from Hallmark. This program has so many excellent cards and lots of room for custom changes. The only feature of software that really needs work is the cutesy graphics that control the program commands. The program is easy to use even for someone new to computing and the resulting cards and projects have been really professional-looking. So nice if you like to remember special people with equally special sentiments.

Excellent, have recommended to family and friends and they are encouraged to buy.

The graphics are not sorted as you would think. For instance, if looking for an elephant. You would have to click through pages of 'wild animals' to find an elephant. All graphics are sorted by main catogories. Same with flowers. You sort through several pages of flowers. You can't just click on a specific flower or group (bouguets for instantce.) If you want an envelope to match your card. You have to find an appropriate graphic by searching each graphic catogory. The graphic on the card I guess can be used if you use the crop but that only gives you a few choices. (crop square, round, oval etc. You can only crop out just so much, leaving in something you don't want.)

If you don't need to be an 'artist' then this is a faily good graphic program and the price is great.
Michel Rhoads
Anaheim, Ca.

This program is great! You can make just about any card imaginable (including converting text to say anything you want). I highly recommend this software and already have to friends and family.

I've been using Hallmark Christian Card Studio for five years - all on a couple of Windows XP computers. I have not tried this program on Vista. It is an older software and as such, it is a little clutsy; meaning, it looks like older software and moves through screens like older software. But it works and prints great Christian Greeting Cards. We've moved to Mac computers and this will not run on a Mac - there isn't much to offer for Mac's and there is NO Christian card software for Mac.
The current prices on Amazon for this software, used, are 2X what retail used to be; I would look on E-bay for some good deals on this software.