AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional

What is included in AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional?

Collage Templates – Over 350 high-resolution templates for albums, cards and scrapbooks.
Photo Book Wizard – Step-by-step assistant for assembling multi-page photo books quickly.
Masks and Frames – 150+ photo masks plus frames, borders and themed clipart.
Artistic Filters – Sepia, pencil drawing, colorization, fish eye and twist effects.
Core Capacity – Print up to 600 dpi; export JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF.
Important – Windows only; no macOS version and no RAW development.

What are the main benefits of AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional?

AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional is the top edition of AMS Software's Windows program for photo collages, scrapbooks, greeting cards and multi-page photo books. It works page by page: you choose a template or your own layout, drag photos into the placeholders and finish the design with masks, text and clipart.

Fast Page Setup – Templates and drag-and-drop remove manual layout work.
Reusable Designs – Saved custom layouts keep recurring projects visually consistent.
Multi-Page Projects – Build complete albums instead of exporting single pages.
Print Shop Output – Save print layouts as PDF, TIFF or JPEG.
Web-Ready JPEG – Set target file size and compare quality before saving.
Editable Projects – Saved project files can be reopened and changed later.

What does AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional do?

AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional combines several photos into one designed page or into a multi-page photo book. You start either from one of more than 350 templates or from a blank page with your own width, height, resolution and orientation. Photos are dropped into the layout by drag-and-drop, then cropped, rotated, flipped, masked into shapes and finished with frames, captions and clipart. The background can be a solid colour, a gradient, a texture or an image, which matters when a collage has to match an invitation or event theme.

How does the Professional edition differ from Standard and Deluxe?

The Professional (Pro) edition is the largest of the three Photo Collage Maker editions and is the one AMS positions for regular scrapbook and photo book work. AMS's edition overview lists only what each tier adds: Standard has 100+ templates and the drag-and-drop editor, Deluxe raises this to 200+ templates and adds multi-page projects as well as greeting cards and invitations, and Pro extends the library to 350+ templates and adds artistic photo filters, the photo book wizard and the option to design and save your own page layouts and frames. If you only make the occasional single-page collage, Standard covers that task; Pro makes sense when you produce albums or repeat the same design style across many pages.

Is AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional available for macOS, and what does it not include?

No, AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional is a Windows program, and AMS lists Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7 as supported systems with no macOS version. The program is a page layout tool for collages and photo books, not a RAW converter or a full photo retouching application. Its layer controls arrange collage elements, setting their stacking order, opacity and drop shadow, rather than providing pixel-level retouching layers like a dedicated image editor. If your photos are camera RAW files, develop and export them as JPEG or TIFF in a RAW editor first, then place them in the collage.

Which file formats and print options does AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional support?

Finished collages can be exported as JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP or TIFF. The print module prepares the layout for the selected paper size at 300 to 600 dpi and lets you set margins and add trimming marks. Print layouts can also be saved as JPEG, PDF, PNG or TIFF, which is useful when a print shop prints the poster or photo book instead of your home printer. For web use, the optimized JPEG option lets you set a target file size and check the preview before saving, so a collage for a website or email stays small without visible quality loss.

Who is AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional best suited for?

It suits Windows users who regularly turn photo sets into finished pages, such as wedding or holiday albums, school and club event collages, or family scrapbooks. The photo book wizard handles the repetitive part of multi-page projects, so you don't have to lay out each page by hand. The ability to design and save your own layouts and frames, available only in the Pro edition, helps when a series of pages or a yearly album should keep the same look. Users who need professional image retouching, RAW processing or print prepress with colour management will need a separate photo editor or layout application alongside it.

What should I check before choosing AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional?

First, confirm that you will work on a Windows PC, because the program does not run natively on macOS. Second, decide whether you need multi-page work: single collages are already possible in Standard, while albums, cards and invitations start with Deluxe, and the photo book wizard and saveable custom layouts are reserved for Pro. Third, check your source files, since the program processes common image formats but does not develop camera RAW files. AMS offers a free trial version, which is a practical way to test the template style and the print output on your own printer before deciding.

Frequently asked questions about AMS Photo Collage Maker Professional

Can I use my own page size instead of a standard paper format?

Yes. The page editor offers the most common paper types and also lets you define your own page width, height, resolution and orientation, for example for a square social media image or a custom poster size.

Can I share collages directly online?

AMS describes sending collages by email and uploading them to the web, including posting to Facebook. Exporting an optimized JPEG first keeps upload sizes small.

Which background options are available for a collage page?

A page background can be a solid colour, a gradient, a texture or one of your own images, and you can add a border around the page. This makes it easy to match a collage to the colour scheme of an event or invitation.