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Serif Digital Scrapbook Artist
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| List Price: | $49.99 |
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Product Description
Digital Scrapbook Artist is Serif's brand new digital scrapbooking program, offering unlimited creativity and invaluable tools for outstanding, photo-realistic scrapbooks to share with just one click. It's easy and fun to create beautiful, handcrafted designs that look true to life, while saving the time and expense of trying out new layouts and concepts with physical pages. It contains everything needed to get started - including built-in photo editing tools and 10 free professionally-produced Digikits from DaisyTrail, which are full of quality embellishments and materials. Digital Scrapbook Artist is perfect for both beginners and experienced scrapbookers thanks to its easy to use, flexible interface and powerful features such as the scissor tool with decorative edges, photo paintbrushes and stylish filter effects that can be applied to every object on the page Digital Scrapbook Artist is completely unique - offering unlimited creativity and photo-realistic results. The program's high definition 300dpi scraps and materials outshine those of every other digital scrapbooking software. Digital Scrapbook Artist Contains all the tools you need to create sensational projects and keepsakes for celebrations, children, special occasions, holidays and family & friends. Digital Scrapbook Artist gives you all the options you need to share and preserve your special memories. With just one click of a mouse your scrapbook can be printed, uploaded to DaisyTrail, emailed or exported as popular file formats such as PDF, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and PNG. Create and share your scrapbooks in 3 easy steps: 1. Select a Theme - No matter what the occasion you'll find a theme to suit! 2. Personalize - Decorate your page with photorealistic materials & embellishments. 3. Share - Share with friends & family at the touch of a button!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #85 in Software
- Brand: Serif
- Model: DSAUSMBRT
- Released on: 2009-03-20
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Format: CD-ROM
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
Features
- Digital Scrapbook Artist Contains all the tools you need to create sensational projects and keepsakes for celebrations, children, special occasions, holidays and family & friends
- Easily create beautiful, handcrafted designs that look true to life, while saving the time and expense of trying out new layouts and concepts with physical pages
- Perfect for both beginners and experienced scrapbookers thanks to an easy to use, flexible interface and powerful features
- Choose from a huge selection of incredibly realistic materials, add shadows and other effects, and use the unique scissor and punch tool just as you would with real scrapping
- Print your projects, upload to DaisyTrail web site, export to PDF and other formats, or email to share with family and friends
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
Please note: If you are running Windows XP, this product is compatible with the 32-bit version only.
Serif's Digital Scrapbook Artist offers a unique combination of ease-of-use, traditional scrapbooking techniques, and truly realistic-looking results. Now you can quickly and easily transform your photos and memories into wonderfully personal artwork that you will cherish forever.
 Fantastic drop shadows make items stand off the page. Click to enlarge. |
 Making your own embellishments is easy with Digital Scrapbook Artist. Click to enlarge. |
 Every item is fantastic, high definition quality. Click to enlarge. |
Preserve life's special moments... beautifully
- Suitable for all scrapbookers, novice to expert
- Create beautiful photorealistic pages
- Incredibly easy to use, fun and fast
- Unlimited creativity for unique designs
- Share with family and friends
Easily Create Handcrafted Designs on your PC
Serif Digital Scrapbook Artist is just what you've been waiting for--a way to combine your creativity and passion for celebrating and treasuring life's special moments. At last, novices and accomplished scrapbookers can easily create outstanding photorealistic results that look every bit as lifelike as traditional handcrafted scrapbooks.Make Stunning Scrapbooks in 3 Easy Steps
- 1. Select
Start with a Theme or create your page from scratch using one of the preset page sizes.
- 2. Personalise
Now decorate your page with photos, titles, text and embellishments.
- 3. Share
With one click you can save, print, email, PDF or share scrapbooks on the Internet.
Get photos & graphics from any source
- Scanner
- Digital Camera
- CD-ROM
- Phone
- Web
Real Scrapbooking...on Your Computer
You will not believe how easy it is to create your own embellishments from scratch. There are tools and materials to use exactly like those you would find in a craft store.- Choose from a huge selection of incredibly realistic materials. Digital Scrapbook Artist contains a variety of absolutely gorgeous fabrics and scraps so all you have to do is pick your favourites!
- Cut materials up with the unique scissor and punch tool--just like scrapping for real! There are 24 scissor edges and 22 customisable shaped punches to choose from, so you really can create any embellishment you like!
Everything you need for perfect photos and keepsakes
Scan in & cutout your treasured keepsakes
Simply scan in your cherished items like receipts and coins, cut them out and add them to your page!
Built-in Digital Photo Editing
Quickly and easily perfect your photos in minutes--no extra software needed!
 Unleash your creativity. Click to enlarge. |
Show off your work!
Digital Scrapbook Artist gives you all the options you need to share and preserve your special memories. With just one click of your mouse you can:Print
It's easy to print your scrapbooks at home from any popular inkjet or laser printer, including Brother, Canon, Lexmark, HP, Epson and more!
Upload
One click uploads to DaisyTrail's fabulous website--the perfect place to instantly share your designs with friends and family!
Export
Pick from loads of popular file formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF and Microsoft HD Photo, and even export to PDF!
Email
Share your scrapbook in minutes with an email--just click to attach your scrapbook, choose who to send it to and press 'send'!
Bonus DaisyTrail Digikit DVD included for Free!
Containing all these absolutely stunning embellishments and materials that look just like the real thing! Your scrapbooks will look so lifelike you'll just have to show them off to friends and family, and with one click you can at DaisyTrail.com!Contains all the tools you need to create sensational projects and keepsakes for:
Celebrations
| Children
| Family & Friends
| Holidays
| Special Occasions
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Customer Reviews
Addicting, Easy to Learn, Not Just for Scrapbooking
First to be clear, I am NOT a scrapbooker. This program fit this requirement: that is be as much like creating in the "real world" as possible. That meant if I wanted to cut something, I did not mess about with a bunch of arcane sounding tools and levels and masks and all that (bitter from trying to learn Gimp and Photoshop!!), but that I just clicked on some scissors, dragged and cut! Serif's Digital Scrapbook Artist does exactly that.
The great accomplishment of this program is it's ease of use to the beginner and it's depth of tools to the advanced artist. There are variety of filters, a cut-out studio that does a great job (the plainer the background the better though), excellent set of included brushes (and not hard to make your own!), and lot more. I have read all the help and really dug into the depth of the program and will be occupied for some time! (By the way, the program does have levels and masks, but you do not need to mess about with them at first to get a nice page going.)
The program allows upload to DaisyTrail, a scrapbooking community. It is very easy to upload, and see what others are making. A good community but it needs to work out some kinks and offer better ease of use.
If you have downloaded a lot of scrapbooking content, you can still use that in the program. You can import the pngs and jpgs as photos in the content manager (must be done each time you start, IIRC) but an *easier* way is to just tile the DSA window and the folder with your content side-by-side and then just drag and drop whatever, say a flower embellishment png, right into DSA. Maximize the DSA window again and keep working away!
Must give a kudos to the frames. You drag a photo frame (some really neat ones included for all tastes) onto the page, then drag your photo onto the frame and it instantly inserts itself into the frame. You can still move the photo about to position it all you want. If the Serif sold frames separately, I would definitely buy them!
THE DRAWBACKS:
The program is, at the fifty or so I bought it from directly from Serif (wasn't available from Amazon yet - came out in the UK first) overpriced! Even now, with the rebate bringing the price down a bit, I still believe it is overpriced.
Digikits: These are packs with ten kits of separate themes including embellishments, papers, frames, color schemes, etc. But at *forty!* bucks a pop, they are DEFINITELY not worth it. You cannot pick and choose what you install from these packs. In fact, you cannot even see all that is included until AFTER you buy. So if you do not want that sports themed kit on your hard drive, you're out of luck. They would be much wiser to break up each pack into separate kits and that can be bought for 2-3 dollars each AND offer a way to buy embellishments, frames, and papers for .25-.50 each, so you can pick and choose exactly what you want.
Other little niggling annoyances:
.There is no way to turn off something from popping up when you open the program. You can turn off the Startup Wizard, but then Content Manager pops up.
.The program crashes a LOT!! I have set the auto save to two minutes in my settings to save losing work. And I have a six-week old brand new computer with 4 gigs of ram. So no reason why it should crash.
.Not enough customizability! No way to add buttons to your toolbars (why no print button, fer goodness sakes?)
.No way to minimize to tray.
.No way to use Photoshop brushes, so all those brushes collected over the years are no good here.
.Can't choose colors by hex! A most common method! *scratches head*
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Overall, a great program that needs a few more features to make it really worthy of five stars. But if you are looking from something that is easy, but not insulting so and gives you some very pretty and nice content with the program give this a go.
Lastly, don't let the silly pink box art sway ya. That was a bad design decision, like putting a good Subaru engine in a plastic Malibu Barbie convertible!
Easy to Use, Great for the beginner
I am new to digital scrapbooking and found this product to be simple to use with fantastic results! It will allow you to convert their .sbp pages to pdf files also so you can easily download them and have them printed professionally. I am hooked! Great product!
Great product
I am new to digital scrapbooking and recently purchased this product. It has been somewhat easy to use, but does take a little practice on getting used to it. There is a free update that is provided on the daisy trail website (in the user guide) that allows for a little more. My only negative is that the user guide is not as explanatory as it could be. After referencing how to use a tool, sometimes I still had difficulty. With that being said, I emailed customer support and within the day I always had a detailed answer to my question. Now that I have been using it a lot, it gets easier and easier. I have found many websites that have free downloads for kits, pages, etc. I have spent very little money and have made 35 pages (an entire family album for 2008) in less than a month. I would recommend this product.
