In these times days when most of us have digital photos coming out of our eyeballs, it can sometimes be difficult to know exactly what to do with all your snaps. Luckily, there are several programs kicking around that allow you to put your pictures to use in a creative way in order to impress your friends and family. Although it’s no Photoshop, CollageMaker provides a relatively simple way in which to bring your photos together and produce eye-catching collages.

The application proves to be pretty simple to use, even if you haven’t used any kind of graphics editor in the past, thanks to a clearly laid-out toolbar with distinctive icons. The selection of features at your disposal isn’t exactly ground-breaking, but the speed at which you can apply effects such as Colorize, Grayscale and Negative, has to be admired.

For the basic user, there’s enough power in here to design a decent enough looking presentation in just a few minutes, especially with the inclusion of text effects and a nifty Stamp tool. However, if you’re yearning for a program that allows you to create professional image compositions then you’ll be disappointed by the lack of advanced tools, such as layers and cloning. On top of this, simple omissions like the lack of a recently-opened file history and a decent help file only serve to lessen the kudos of the editor.