Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2007 [Old Version]

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Product Features

• In three simple steps add personal photos, sentiments and clip art images of your choosing
• 7,500+ Hallmark greeting cards and customizable projects
• Includes thousands of premium clip art images
• Send personalized Hallmark E-Cards via email with your choice of sounds
• Also includes Creative Projects such as Stationery, Announcements, Scrapbook pages and more

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000JLSQLK
• Item model number: HMW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 16, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,111 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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For more than 90 years Hallmark has designed greeting cards for life's special moments. Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2007 extends this tradition, making it easy to create one-of-a-kind Hallmark cards as unique as the people you care for. In three simple steps you can add personal photos, sentiments and clip art images of your choosing.

Our new Deluxe 2007 version includes:

• 7,500+ Hallmark Cards and Projects: Design cards for all occasions - birthdays, holidays, weddings and more
• 1,000+ New Designs
• 15,000+ Clip Art Images: Complement your cards with sensational artwork.
• Brand New User Interface
• Exclusive Hallmark Fonts
• Event Planner: Stay organized with address books, mailing lists and date notification.
• Enhanced Digital Photography Features: Easily add your own photos to cards and enhance them using Card Studio's enhanced photo editor
• Hallmark E-Cards: Send your personalized cards and projects via e-mail with just one click

All of the Quality and Variety You've come to Expect from Hallmark
Commemorate events and bridge the miles between family and friends with invitations, photo frames, scrapbook pages, stationery, certificates ... even e-cards.

• Easy to Use! A tutorial gets you started fast.
• Search projects by theme
• Complete Hallmark sentiment library
• Dazzling text effects
• KidLock password protection

Create Greetings for Any Occasion

Includes Customizable Event Planner
The Event Planner in Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe is a foolproof way to remind you of birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and other major events for all the special people in your life! You can also create eye-catching photo calendars that display holidays and events from your Event Planner. Customize yearly, monthly, weekly and daily calendars with included graphics or your personal photos.

Personalize Cards With Your Digital Photos
Correct any photo, remove red eye and apply special effects with a host of easy-to-use tools.

Includes Creative Projects such as Stationery, Announcements and more!

Organize With the Event Planner

Creative Projects
Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2007 now also includes Creative Projects such as Stationery, Announcements, Scrapbook pages and more!

Choose from thousands of premium clip art images
To give your cards a truly unique look we’ve included a sensational array of clip art images suitable for any occasion. You can also import your own clip art if you prefer.

7500+ Cards & Projects
Create your own one-of-a-kind Hallmark cards for family and friends to celebrate all occasions - from birthdays and anniversaries to Christmas and Valentine's Day - or just to say hello.

Send E-Cards
You can send personalized Hallmark E-Cards via email with a selection of pre-recorded sounds to suit any occasion. Or add your own recorded sounds and WAV files for an extra personal touch.

Custom Greetings for Virtually Every Event and Occasion

HOLIDAYS: Boss's Day, Christmas, Easter, Father's Day, Grandparents Day, Halloween, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Mother's Day, Passover, Rosh Hashanah, St. Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day

SPECIAL DAYS: Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Birthdays, Communion, Graduation, New Baby, Retirement, Wedding

DAY BY DAY: Congratulations, Difficult Times, Friendship, Get Well, Just Because, Pets, Thank You

AND MORE!

Product Description
For more than 90 years Hallmark has designed greeting cards for life's special moments. Hallmark Card Deluxe Studio 2007 extends this tradition, making it easy to create one-of-a-kind Hallmark cards as unique as the people you care for. In three simple steps you can add personal photos, sentiments and clip art images of your choosing. Event Planner - Stay organized with address books, mailing lists and date notification Digital Picture Placer - Easily add your own photos to give your cards a personalized touch. Hallmark E-Cards - Send your customized cards and projects via e-mail with just one click

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The most unstable software product ever., February 9, 2007

By	R. D. Smith - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The card choices are large and the feature set of the program is great...

-but-

We keep upgrading to new versions of the card software to get new cards and in the apparently vain hope that the developers of the software will someday get their act together.

To say that this software is unstable is the understatement of the year. On average, one out of three cards causes the software to crash, usually after it has printed page one (outside) and before printing page two (inside).

No problem you think? Well not really. If you print page one of the card and it crashes, of course you lose all of the personalizations but if you restart the program and redo the personalizations you have to print out a whole new card because the program won't let you only print out the inside of the card onto the already printed outside.

Sure, the dialog box has a drop down that says "Page 2 of 2" giving you the "impression" that you should be able to do this but even with this option selected, it proceeds to print out the card, the whole card, yet again.

Needless to say this results in a lot of card stock wastage and card stock is expensive.

We have a Dell Dimension with a huge hard drive, 2.6 GHz hyperthreaded P4, 1GB of memory, and are running Home XP with SP2, with a HP color laserjet printer on an Ethernet so I really don't think that the problem is that we don't have "enough computer"...

This is simply the most unstable software we have ever used, and has been so for three product updates. (Why did we buy the latest one? Well, it turns out that old versions of the card software seem to "go bad" all by themselves with card choices simply disappearing, and so the software forces you to either stop using it or upgrade.)

Go buy a set of markers instead, it will be far less frustrating. The Sierra Home developers should be embarrassed that they put out such an amazingly poorly designed product. Hallmark needs to get a new software developer...

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't Forget to Download the Patch, May 10, 2007

By	Weatherman (Northeast, Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews

Great item, but I gave it one less star as it's a bit tricky (a learning curve) to line the paper on the correct side (outside) then to get the inside of the card printed when you flip it over to print the inside. Make too many mistakes and it's expensive. But it can be done!

For those writing on why this crashes, yes it does. It does crash, However it will NOT if you go to the makers homepage and download the free patch under support! Then it works great with no problems. The crash is due to a Vista change in the software. Due to policy I can't type the direct link, if you cannot find it, look in your instruction manual for the tech help, and they'll email you a link for the patch.

Also you do not need a fancy printer. I have a basic HP ink jet printer and it works great.

My advise is to make some practice cards on regular paper first until you learn the proper way to put the paper in for side two (inside of the card. Make a small "X" in pencil on your regular paper to get learn how to put in your "good" paper. Then it works fine after you learn it! Oh, and don't forget the patch first!!! AND to get the Hallmark paper and envelopes here at Amazon.......price can't be beat!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, January 26, 2007

By	Card gal - See all my reviews

After being "guaranteed" by one of Hallmark's customer service reps that this version was much improved over the past few versions, I was once again disappointed that you could not open more than one project at a time (Hallmark rep said you could) or easily flip between two projects (not even a card and coordinating envelope!). Graphics STILL cannot be selected in multiples (the Hallmark rep said you would be able to). You must select one graphic, paste it to your project, go back and select the second graphic, paste it, etc. Graphics cannot be edited either (again the Hallmark rep said they could be)--not even to crop out a small portion. The rep said they now had a photo editor that can be used on graphics--not true! It can only be used on photos, not graphics and it, too, has limitations compared with photo editors included with their competitors (PrintShop, CreataCard, Print Master). There are many limitations in working with text boxes as well. If you want a line of text to have one word in one color and another word in different color or font, each word has to be in a separate text box (this is not true with the competitors named above). I do wonder if they actually let comsumers beta test any of their new products before releasing them--Hallmark has to have heard about all these drawbacks to their program, yet never change them. I agree with the other reviewer in that that are many duplicate cards from previous versions. I am also disappointed that many of the graphics included in their clip art are still rather low-end (and not much different from last year's version). The graphics on their pre-made cards are, for the most part, of excellent quality--much different from the clip art. I wouldn't waste my money on this version if you already own versions from any of the past several years. And I definitely wouldn't expect anything in the area of customer service from Hallmark since their reps obviously do not use the product!