As a previous owner of Creatacard 3, I jumped when Creatacard 5 came out. What a disappointment. It was merged with Printmaster, the wonderful easy to use interface was all botched up and most if not all the cards were duplicates of Creatacard 3.
However, I bit the bullet, kept Creatacard 5, sold my old version of 3 and then kept my eye out for a new deal. Then Creatacard 6 came out. I thought great, but when I read that that number of cards were not an incremental change over 3 or 5 I said forget it.
Well now Creatacard Platinum 7 is out and here's some stats.
This from the Broderbund site:
more than 6,800 creative possibilities
Note this means:
Projects on CD: 2,381+; Projects Online: 4,419.
more than 11,300 premium quality images in every style
Note this means:
Images on CD: 3,101+; Images Online: 8,199.
However I received this in an email from Broderbund. Presumably, they are referring to Version 6 when they say more than?
Enjoy over 600 NEW projects and images (18,100 total)
NOTE this means:
Images and Projects on CD: 5,482+;
Images and Projects available online: 12,618.
More than 400 NEW greeting cards (4,300 total)
Over 900 NEW sentiments to add to any project!
more than 9,100 exclusive sentiments
So armed with this information, I look up the stats on Creatacard Platinum version 6.
6,300+ greeting cards
15,000+ art images
9,400+ projects
8,200+ sentiments.
From above Creatacard Platinum 7 (not including items online)
4,300 greeting cards (400 new I guess, but 2000 less overall)
3,101 images on CD (11,300 overall)
2,381+ projects on CD (6800 overall)
9,100 sentiments
It would seem from Creatacard Platinum 6 to 7 there are
2000 less cards
12,000 less images on the CD (not including online)
7,000 less projects on the CD (not including online)
900 more sentiments.
Even considering the online images and projects the numbers come out less than Creatacard 7.
Needless to say. I'm still not buying.
Henry G. Jewell
Carla M. Holladay
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