Calendar Creator 9 Review

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(More customer reviews)I've used Calendar Creator since it first came out and it was a wonderful product until taken over by the big software companies. Not only has it become more difficult to install and use, technical support has fallen to the worst I've had experience to use. The older versions would allow you to print horizontal half-page calendars which allowed for more room for daily comments. I've called technical support several time to try to work this out in versions 7 & 8 with no response. If it does it, they won't tell you. What's the alternative? I haven't found one yet.

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Calendar Creator 9 puts you in control of your busy schedule without compromising personal style. Loaded with thousands of premium graphics, eye-catching fonts, and even photo editing tools, this program has everything you need to satisfy your creative side. Plus, ready-made layouts in a huge variety of versatile formats and a host of advanced scheduling features ensure that your calendar creations are as practical as they are artistic.
Select and customize a professionally designed layout, or design your calendar from scratch. Customize your creation with more than 110,000 premium images, themed collections, colors, and your own photos. Create subtle backgrounds with your favorite images with Tint Control.Turn your favorite snapshots into art with the Photo Workshop, featuring powerful new editing options like Repair Tool, Warp & Distort, Brush Support, and Gamma Correction.Add appointments, birthdays, and other important events to your onscreen schedule. Use streamlined organizational tools to schedule repeat events and edit calendar entries in seconds. Find a format to fit every need--view a day, a week, or even a year at a glance. Even print pages to fit your favorite planner.

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Hallmark Card Studio 2009 Deluxe Review

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(More customer reviews)I got the "bright" idea that I would make my own Christmas cards. It wasn't a matter of cost. It was just that now that I'm retired, I thought I could burn-up some creative energy.
I had used a couple of programs in the past for an occasional card, but I'd never undertaken a project quite this ambitious, or so I thought. I tried the programs I had on hand, but they didn't seem to want to work with my new computer with Vista, even the Microsoft programs. So, I thought I'd try Hallmark Card Studio.
Unlike some other reviewers, I shut-down my firewall and turned-off my User Account Controls (Vista does not like this, but what I've found lately is that with the computers reacting so fast, and being so protective, when a program, especially one that hadn't ever been installed on a particular computer, sends an installation instruction to the computer, the computer blocks it, often times before your little "window" pops-up asking you for permission to have the program access your computer's system. Since the window is up, and you haven't clicked "OK" in that split second, the computer stops the installation process right there.
Other times, the "window" asking you for permission is hidden behind another window. So, if you're installing this product, or even another, on Vista, or even XP, take down your firewall (on Vista, you can allot for a certain length of time that the firewall is down, in case you forget about bringing it back-up) and turn-off your User Account Controls.
That said, I found the "2009" version of Hallmark Card Studio an extensive program that put my Mac software and previous versions of card software to shame.
It is a little tricky on replacing the text in the cards, and it had an issue understanding that my printers duplex (print on both sides of a page without you having to physically turn the page over), but the results were phenomenal. I would really like to give the program four and one-half stars, but there's no way to do that.
One aspect that I really liked about Hallmark was that I could easily insert a picture in the cards. Not all card programs allow you to do that easily.
With regards to printing, I had picked-up some Hallmark Half-Fold Matte blank greeting card paper Hallmark Blank Greeting Cards Half-fold Matte Premium 20 Count, too. As I started printing the cards, I used first some Avery card stock I had, then used the Hallmark paper. The difference was unbelievable. The colors on the Hallmark paper were vivid! I'm posting examples of the print quality in a review of the Hallmark paper. You may want to check that out.


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For more than 90 years Hallmark has designed greeting cards for life's special moments.Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2009 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.

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