Greeting Card Factory Reviewer's Comments

Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 7.0 by Nova Development is our third pick and "TopTenReviews Bronze Award Winner." This program has well-designed navigation that is intuitive and attractive. Greeting Card Factory Deluxe also has a dazzling selection of text designs and effects, a generous collection of clip art images and a fair supply of photo editing tools, project templates and font styles.

Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 7.0 didn't nab one of our top two spots, however, because this software is almost exclusively "printed card" software—you cannot produce electronic cards with sounds or animation. You can email greeting cards without sound, print greeting cards, or produce a CD photo slide show with background music, but that's all.

New features in Version 7 include:

• Thousands of New Projects!
• Brand New Look–Easier Than Ever to Use
• Photorealistic Graphics Gallery
• Keyword Searching for Faster Template Selection
• Enhanced CD Greeting Cards
• Improved Photo Editor
• Save as PDF
• And More

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Ease of Use:  

We felt Greeting Card Factory Deluxe was the simplest to operate of all the greeting card software we reviewed. We didn't have any problems finding the tools and recourses we needed—everything seemed to be a click away. The program designers clearly put great effort into making Greeting Card Factory Deluxe intuitive so that it would be enjoyable for everyone to use, even computer novices.

Feature Set:  

Greeting Card Factory Deluxe has great text editing strengths, and the photo editing capabilities are equal to higher-ranked greeting card programs. And as with all high-ranking greeting card software, you aren't limited to greeting cards. Greeting Card Factory Deluxe comes with several craft and project templates beyond greeting cards, such as certificates, announcements and postcards.

However, Greeting Card Factory Deluxe does not include any sound, music or animation capabilities to embellish electronic greeting cards, and you have fewer options for saving and sharing completed greeting cards.

Although you can't add sound, music or animation to greeting cards, you can create a CD photo slideshow "greeting card," complete with sound.

Ease of Installation:  

We had no trouble installing Greeting Card Factory Deluxe.

Help/Support:  

Greeting Card Factory Deluxe has solid help options, including a manual, tutorials and an index search section. Nova Development also offers customer phone support and a FAQs section on their website.

Summary:  

We felt Nova Development's Greeting Card Factory Deluxe had an elegantly simple design—anyone can use it easily. But we felt the price was a little high since the program has limited sound features.

Greeting Card Factory is an excellent choice for those who don't want sound or video incorporated into electronic greeting cards. If Greeting Card Factory Deluxe came with sound and animation capabilities, the program would have been a contender for our #1 spot, taken by Broderbund's PrintMaster Platinum.