As of last month,

1) We have added new features to our toolbox (in photo montage, create template pages): Effects! This set of rich effects enables our users to play with their photos as they wishes : Sketch, Cartoon, Poster, Point, Charcoal, Oil Paint and Emboss. So now on you can use Montagraph as your favorite image editor. What is more, you can adjust strengths of effects and apply them sequentially.

2) Apart from effects, in adjustment section we have enriched color settings part with Sepia, Black&White, Halftone. 

3) Montagraph has been translated to Indonesian Language due to our users' demands/statistics .

4) On Create Template page now users can Zoom In for details of their template. What is more, they can see what part to delete thanks to transparent brush recently added.

5) Lastly, we have improved speed of Montagraph and managed to compress users' montagraphs better, which means more space (effective quota) for our users.   

Hope you enjoy all these improvements and wish you happy 2010...

We introduced a new section to our site : Community. This section shows geo-location of montagraph members(not all of them) on a world map, the most active members(score is calculated by using the count of templates, montagraphs, comments) and new members, so that you can say a warm welcome to our new comers and help and guide them. Besides, you can participate and follow montagraph groups in facebook, twitter, flickr. 

One another good news : Count of montagraph family members is getting larger and larger each day, now this count is around 10000 members.

In order to make photomontages even easier and smarter we as Montagraph team, implemented automatic face detection & smart template features to Montagraph site. Face detection feature senses the most prominent face in your (uploaded) photo and smart template feature analyses the hole in template (you created or you choose) and decides where to locate and how to resize your face.

These two feature coordinates each other well and enables you to make photomontages in one click after uploading your photo. This also means, upload your photo once and try all templates without the need of uploading your photo again and again (another first/innovation in internet/world by Montagraph). What is more, these features are valid/useful not only ready templates created by us, but also for templates created online by you. That is, not only montagraphs get smarter, your templates (created by you) also get smarter!

Enjoy these hi-tech features and wait for more innovations from Montagraph!

Hi,

As i mentioned in previous post we were considering different partners in printing sector. At last, we decided to go with Zazzle, which has great API and customization facilities and simple to use. As a result, Montagraph shop is open before New Year !

So, now you have chance to create UNIQUE GIFTS within a couple of seconds. You can drink from, wear, send as a postcard, use as a keychain etc. your own creations(=montagraphs). This new year, share your imag(e)nation with your friends and give them a gift designed by you in order to make them feel special (By the way if you don't get satisfied by the product quality, Zazzle guarantees you payback). 

So let's begin to present our imag(e)nation... 

This is the first post on Montagraph and lets start with the idea of Montagraph site and how it is born. Montagraph as a word is originated from the slogan: "MONtage and TAG your photoGRAPH" , that is, montagraph is product of this process... In short it is about playing with and editing photos, graphics, not necessarily face photomontage. It is ubiquitous in the sense that it provides a new user experience and full control over your photo montages(=montagraphs). Even if user is not interested in photomontage, the user can play with its image editing tools and create his/her own gallery.

  The story behind Montagraph is a very romantic one : It all began two years ago, when i wanted to give my girlfriend a romantic and unique gift for new year which will make her smile and remind me. For this reason, i decided to design a calendar from her photo montages, it took a lot of time since i could not find enough templates and easy way to create photomontages, not even in desktop applications. There came the sparkle, the insipiration of Montagraph project. (For readers, who wonder what happened after my girlfriend took my calendar via mail, she was totally shocked, impressed and called me and said to me that she loved the person who created these photomontages for her, fortunately it was me who created :)   

 In design time, we tried our best to strictly obey KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle and as a result it had to pass a lot of Mama tests :) In fact, it takes just seconds or at most 1-2 minutes to create a template and the use this template with your photos to create a montagraph. You can even skip creating a template step and use an existing one. But in my opinion, the most powerful idea behind Montagraph is create once, share and use forever (be it photo or be it template). So you can create a new template from existing montagraph/template and use it over and over (especially useful if you want to create photomontages from several photos). Provided it is public, some other users can produce new montagraphs from your montagraphs, in this way montagraphs are possible to get produced collectively.

 Being a rock star or posing in front of Leonardo da Vinci or dating with your favorite movie star in couple of seconds are all possible with Montagraph. It is more than a community, it is a nation : the nation of imagination! Montagraph is all about sharing and creativity so let's begin sharing our imagination.