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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
It comes in two editions:
■ Scrapbook Designer Deluxe v.2—Contains 7,500 professionally designed pages and
500 layouts from Creating Keepsakes magazine
■ Scrapbook Designer Platinum—Contains 5,000 project designs, 55,000 “irresistible”
images, and over 1,200 fonts
Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Designer is developed by Broderbund (a trademark of
Riverdeep Interactive Learning Limited) for PRIMEDIA Special Interest Publications,
the publisher of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Comments
With so many images, it can be difficult to find what you are looking for, so there must
surely come a point when the “pile ’em high” policy starts to have a negative effect.
Nonetheless, this is a very popular range, with (arguably) superior graphics to Art
Explosion and the same ease-of-use. Most users report good results with it, apart from
one or two minor niggles like having to rotate images manually before inserting them
into tilted frames. Fortunately, the pros outweigh the cons in what is a very strong brand,
with enough features to make anyone feel creative. Creating Keepsakes has its own
Website and online community at www.creatingkeepsakes.com.
Version: Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Designer Deluxe Version 3 (2008)
OS: Windows 98SE, ME, 2000 SP4, and XP (Home and Pro) SP1
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: JPEG and PDF
Price level: Scrapbook Designer Deluxe v.3 approx. $20, Scrapbook Designer Platinum approx.
$40
Address: Riverdeep, Inc., 71 Stevenson Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States
www.broderbund.com
FotoFinish
Vendor: SmartDraw.com
Purpose: Edit digital images, create collages and scrapbooks, and print the results
Description
FotoFinish is an image editing, designing, and printing application that is packaged as
three editions.
■ FotoFinish BASIC, for either printing or emailing images, but without editing or
design features