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Looking for a program

Feb 28, 2011 1:43PM PST

Is there a photo program wherein you can open a page, import pictures, resize them, put captions right on the photo, etc., and then print many pictures out on one page.

I did this at one time for my daughter making many pictures small for her baby scrapbook. I used QuarkXPress 6 I think it was. I loved that program but can't afford to pay nearly $1,000 for a new one.

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Re: Looking for a program
Feb 28, 2011 9:41PM PST

Hi, Nikilet.

Your best option is to buy "Adobe Photoshop Elements" which should fit all your requirements. It's basically a cut-down (and very much cheaper) version of the all-conquering Photoshop, without the advanced professional features that the average enthusiast will never use. You can read about it here:
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshopel/

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Looking for a program
Mar 1, 2011 5:58AM PST

I have been at the link you gave, looking things over a bit. The price is certainly reasonable enough. However, I still wonder if this is going to do what I want. First, let me ask if I have to have Adobe Reader, Acrobat and all that to run this program. I removed all that from my computer a long time ago and really don't want it back.

Secondly, I can see that this is a program to organize pictures and edit them, but can you actually open a blank 8-1/2 x 11 page within the program and then start importing pictures onto that page, making each the size you want it, and then print off that page?

At the time I was making the scrapbook pictures for my daughter, I might have 15 (small) pictures on one Quark page. Actually, at that time I was using Adobe PhotoShop 6 for editing and saving pictures, then opening Quark and importing.

I'm a long ways from being truly knowledgeable about either of these programs. I was trained to use them for what I needed.

I am not so interested in organizing pictures, or even editing them, as I am in a program like this Quark where I can import them and do many things with them.

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Re: photo's on a page
Mar 1, 2011 6:17AM PST

Why not use MS Word? Works nice enough with pics. Even Open Office Writer might work, but I've got no first hand experience with that program.

Kees

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Looking for a program
Mar 1, 2011 7:23AM PST

I don't appear to have MS Word. I did find something just a bit ago that I'm going to give a try. It is called Serif and they had a starter program I could download for free. I haven't even opened it yet, but if you know anything about it please share. Info I read was basically that it is a little known, very inexpensive program and one newspaper editor said he is using to publish with and likes.

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Looking for a program
Mar 3, 2011 10:56PM PST

Just wanted to let anyone who might have read this know that I did find a program. It is called PagePlus X5 by Serif. They actually have a Starter Edition, which does not have ALL the frills, that is free. I installed that first and then went ahead a couple of days later and got the full program because I had a pop up offering it for only $59.95.

What a find! This is a program that seems to have most of the bells and whistles of Quark (at $800). At this point I would have to give it 5 stars! So if you are looking for something like this, you'll want to give this a try.