Digital Home Thoughts: Photovisi Makes Collages Easy Peasy

"At photovisi.com you first select one of the many collage templates, add your photos and then customize by dragging photos around. After the collage is finished, it's available for download."

Cameras are everywhere. Whether they are the ones that come built into phones, tiny ones that fit into your pocket, or large professional ones that need a bag to carry all the accessories. Companies are working hard and fast to provide various online ways to make use of your photos. A newcomer to this is Photovisi. Their service is to allow you to create a photo collage through a web interface, and then buy various products with that collage printed on them. Trying out their service, I found it really simple to use, but with some limitations.

You start off by picking the style of collage you want, and then adding pictures to it. So far, so good. However, as I imported images, I found that pictures were being cropped (usually in the center, fixed into some weird aspect ratio) so wider images did not show properly. Still, of the images I did get to work, it was easy to drag them around and rotate them to look like the front of a fridge that has 18 kids and counting. I would have liked the option to do more with the photos, aside from just cropping them.

Once done, you get the option to download the collage, and go to the Photovisi online store, where you can buy that collage on various forms of media provided by Zazzle. Not bad, but I would have liked a large selection of items. Still, it's a good start, and I hope that the folks at Photovisi keep on working on their site to add more features to make the collages more exciting.