Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Designer Deluxe Reviewer's Comments
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Broderbund's Creating Keepsakes, our second pick and "TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award" winner, offers more photo editing tools than any other scrapbooking software package around. And Broderbund gives customers access to thousands of free, online clipart images—providing you with all the options you'll ever need.
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Ease of Use:
Scrapbookers won’t have any trouble mastering Creating Keepsakes. The program menus are clear and easy to understand. We were impressed that a scrapbooking program this complex could be so simple to navigate and use.
Feature Set:
The Creating Keepsakes photo workshop gives you a full toolbox for photo editing. You not only get the fundamentals (from cropping to flaw correction) but it also includes special photo effects, such as brush effects, stamps, filters, warps, and more. These extra tools are comparable to perks you’d find in photo editing software, yet these are custom–designed for the scrapbooker. Computer novices will find these tools refreshingly simple to manage.
Creating Keepsakes offers one of the largest selections of features beyond photo editing as well; for details, see the scrapbooking software comparison chart on the homepage.
Importing:
You can easily import photos from a digital camera, disc or scanner. Browsing for your favorite pictures is easy too, since Creating Keepsakes provides a thumbnail view of your digital photos.
Also, Broderbund offers a huge selection of samples, ideas, graphics and even animations that you can download.
Sharing:
You can share your finished projects on paper, through email, as screen savers, or even as a slide show. You can also upload your scrapbook creations to Broderbund online for others to enjoy.
Organizing:
You can save images to your hard drive or disc under categories you name for easy, organized retrieval. The scrapbook projects you create can be saved in different categories as well.
Help/Support:
The help section is easy to reach from most screens. Creating Keepsakes has written tutorials that explain how to get started. The program is easy to learn; after experimenting with features you’ll feel like a pro in no time.
However, Broderbund doesn't provide telephone support or a user manual for Creating Keepsakes.
Summary:
Anything you can imagine, you can make with Creating Keepsakes. This program is versatile enough for novices and experts alike. Creating Keepsakes has more editing tools than other scrapbooking software, and what’s more, using them is a snap.
For the price, Creating Keepsakes is the best scrapbooking value we reviewed. This program would make a wonderful gift for any scrapbooking buff and an excellent treat for you, too.
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