Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

Friends, Journals, Holidays (no concessions to UK users: Holidays are Halloween,
Christmas, and so on, nothing to do with the beach), Vacations (that’s the beach),
Albums and Bragbooks, Paper Crafts, Iron-On Projects, Photo Frames and Calendars,
and the intriguingly named Spectacular Scrapbook Additions. And Much More.
If all this is not enough, the vendor has thrown in another 5,000 “photorealistic embellishments”
consisting of buttons and bows, alphabets, tags, charms, and other decorations.
There is also a built-in digital photo editor and support for traditional 12"×12" paper.
Comments
Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe took top honors in an online comparative
review of the top ten scrapbooking software packages organized by TopTenREVIEWS.
There is no doubt that loading the user with lots of templates and fonts is often going
to win against better photo enhancement or superior layout facilities. In this case, the
vendor can be excused as it also offers an image editor called Photo Explosion Deluxe
to take care of picture quality, cropping, and so on. AESFD tends to do whatever it
thinks is best for the user, such as compressing JPEGs automatically to a mid-range value
when saving—but there is an override to maximize quality (if you know about it). The
program and its truckload of artwork will keep scrapbookers happy for hours and is a
lot easier to use than Photoshop.
Version: Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 4.0 (2008)
OS: Windows XP and Vista
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: JPEG, PDF, and five other major formats
Price level: Approx. $40
Address: Nova Development Corporation, 23801 Calabasas Road, Suite 2005, Calabasas, CA
91302-1547, United States
www.novadevelopment.com
Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Designer
Chapter 25 ■ Digital Scrapbooking 281
Vendor: Encore
Purpose: Three-step scrapbook creation in different editions with up to 55,000 images
Description
Like Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe, which it much resembles, Creating
Keepsakes Scrapbook Designer offers a three-step process for creating scrapbooks—you
select a design, personalize it by importing photos and graphics, and then save it as a
PDF file to send to friends, print it, or burn it to CD for safekeeping.