P&P Designer

P&P Designer is a software application whose purpose is to help you create personalized photo albums and calendars which can be printed.

The program employs a wizard-like assistant for helping you configure photo albums or calendars, so you are offered guidance throughout the entire configuration process. Advanced users may skip this step and manage the editing task on their own.

P&P Designer gives you the possibility to choose between several predefined photobook formats (they have a different size), namely Landscape, Portrait or Square, and pick a theme (e.g. baby boy, sports, travel, wedding, holidays, birthday).

The tool implements an Explorer-like panel for selecting the images that you want to include in the album. You can preview photos with the aid of thumbnails which can be enlarged or shrunk.

What’s more, you are allowed to pick the preferred order of pictures in the album by dragging them, rotate the items to different angles, and embed a caption text under the picture on the front cover or the first page.

You can personalize albums with the aid of different page backgrounds and layouts, picture borders, image shapes, and clipart items. The utility lets you rotate each photo to different angles in the page and move it to the desired position using the drag-and-drop support.

Last but not least, you can apply black and white filters, adjust the image transparency, delete, cut, copy, paste or duplicate photos, add drop shadow to all pictures, and print the photo albums or export them to PDF file format.

P&P Designer offers very good output results but it eats up a lot of CPU and memory so the overall performance of the system may be hampered.

You may produce your own calendar with the aid of several templates which can be edited. You may define the starting month, pick the year, assign a user-defined picture to each month, insert clipart objects and text, as well as print the calendar.

All things considered, P&P Designer offers support for several editing features for helping you generate printable albums and calendars. However, it hasn’t been updated for a while, so you can make use of its capabilities especially on older operating systems like Windows XP, Vista and 7.