A what-you-see-is-what-you-get greeting card application, Greeting Card Builder is one of the most versatile and user-friendly card design applications available. Designed for home users, Greeting Card Builder lets users easily create sharp and attractive cards from their own photos, drawings, and digital artwork.

Users can design cards using their own photographs and drawings, or simply use Greeting Card Builder's many built-in art options as the basis of their cards. With a wide range of clipart images included, creating seasonal and personal cards is simple even without a large personal photo collection.

Instead of using the unintuitive wizard interface that's found in many other greeting card tools, Greeting Card Builder allows users to operate entirely within a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) interface, most commonly found in web design and programming applications. While this presents a slightly higher initial learning curve, once users have mastered the interface they'll quickly find themselves producing highly detailed greeting cards.

The advantages of the WYSIWYG interface area clear after a few minutes of experimentation - it allows a much greater level of detail than a wizard-based interface could provide. While Greeting Card Builder is unlikely to create cards that their rival professionally designed rivals, its wide range of editing features and relatively powerful interface allows users to create designs that are detailed, interesting, and sharp enough for any birthday or major holiday.

Greeting Card Builder is available as a 15-day shareware trial, allowing users to easily master the interface before they decide if the program is best for them. When compared to other greeting card software, Greeting Card Builder certainly stands up well. As an alternative to store-bought greeting cards, it falls slightly short, but as a self-contained editor, it's difficult to look past Greeting Card Builder.

Greeting Card Builder: What We Liked

• While the WYSISYG interface has a sharper learning curve than wizard-based editors, it's significantly more powerful and versatile.
• Importing photographs, images, and artwork is incredibly quick and simple.
• Users can easily print greeting cards to custom-sized paper, or share them via email, online hosting, or social media websites.

Greeting Card Builder: What We Didn't Like

• The slightly steeper learning curve may put off some users, although it provides a greater range of flexibility and power once overcome.
• While high quality cards can be created in Greeting Card Builder, it's unlikely to provide anything to compare with commercial greeting cards.

Pearl Mountain Support

Pearl Mountain provide online support for Greeting Card Builder users, with FAQs for both their software and their ordering process. Technical support is available via email.

About Pearl Mountain

Founded in 2006, Pearl Mountain Software Inc. offer a range of digital artwork, photography, and greeting card applications. Despite their relatively newness to the PC software world, their products have received praise from a variety of PC publications and online presences.

     

Greeting Card Builder is an extremely easy-to-use digital greeting card software which was specifically designed to create stunning photo greeting card for Birthdays, Anniversaries, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, New Year, Valentine's Day, or any occasion.

It helps you easily create cool greeting cards with your own photos, clip art, frames, masks, and backgrounds, and email or print them right away on your printer.

With Greeting Card Builder, you can build a greeting card in seconds or spend more time creating keepsakes that your family and friends will treasure for years to come.No more stale holiday cards made of cardstock only-your greeting cards can be made with heart.

Product Highlights:

• Ease of Use - No Experience Or Computer Skills Necessary!
• WYSIWYG Editor - Allows you to see your greeting card changes immediately, without saving and reopening the file.
• Variety of Card Resources - A wide variety of pre-made templates and a huge selection of frames, masks, greetings and clipart.
• Edit Greeting Cards - Come equipped with editing tools to arrange layout, resize, rotate, crop images, drop shadow, apply mask effect, apply frame to photos, etc.
• Share Greeting Card - Share your greeting cards files through any medium, including desktop wallpaper, printed copies, email and more.