I would like to be able to print multiply dissimilar images on one page and have the ability to chose the photos and custom dimension them. I have tried using Picture It!99, PhotoRecall, and Photo Expree 2.0 with no luck. Picture It comes the closest by allowing me to pick a template, then my different photos, but you can not custom size the images, they are preset sizes. What imaging software provides the printing flexibility to allow me to do this? Thank you.

-- Bill Kap (kap@funtech.com), April 02, 1999

Answers

Try Qimage Pro. This seems to be one of the most popular. I've been using it for about a year and it is the best! Multiple sizes per page, multiple copies of images, standard sizes, user-defined sizes, the choice to crop pics or keep aspect ratios, bicubic spline and Mitchell interpolations for smoother large prints from lower-res photos, associative filters to make on-the-fly touchups without resaving the file, ... It is shareware and has a trial period. For the money ($30), you cannot do better than registering it. Mike Chaney, the author, is extremely supportive and quick responding. You'll see his name a good bit on several digicam forums. Once you register, you get lifetime free upgrades. The web page is:

http://www.charm.net/~mchaney/imaging/index.html

Try it out - you won't be disappointed! (I have no affiliation with Qimage other than a happy customer)

-- Brad Grant (grants@mindspring.com), April 02, 1999.

Try "Photo Assistant Light" at EASYTEK.COM. It is extremely versatile and will fill a page to the limit. I use it with my HP PhotoSmart printer. The trial version has "DEMO" in the middle of the prints but works exactly like the purchased version. You can find a review at "www.quiknet.com/~frcn/camera.html". I agree it lives up to the review.

-- Robert Johnson (rjjohnson@silverlink.net), April 02, 1999.

Check out www.arcsoft.com/products.htm They have software called Photo Printer 2.0. I am currently using it and have found it to be the best so far as options for printing. It prints closer to the edge of the paper on my Epson Photo 700 than Picture It does. 4 3.5" X 5" prints from a 8.5" X 11" sheet is know problem for it. It is somewhat limited in the formats it will use but I just use a temporary printing folder and covert the pictures I want to print to TIFF and go from there.

-- Bob G (rgreg88721@hotmail.com), April 05, 1999.

It is not true that you cannot print different images of your own size on one page in Picture It!99. Select Projects, Collages, Create My Own, A White canvas. Then you place on the white sheet any number of your photos and redimension and locate them any way you want. The erroneous conclusion made by the questioner probably reflects the fact that there is no real manual with the software, an all-too common characterstic of new software.

-- Mark Rosenzweig (markr@markr2.pop.upenn.edu), April 06, 1999.