Appeal & Flexibility:  

HP Creative Scrapbook Assistant will be more difficult for novice computer users as they may not be familiar with some of the terminology used in the program. But once used to the program’s navigation, one shouldn’t have any problems. We found it easier to create a project from scratch—a matter of dragging and dropping items onto your design—instead of trying to alter one of the templates to fit your needs.

Importing:  

With HP Creative Scrapbook Assistant, you can use the “Get Other Content” to import pictures from a scanner, from discs or directly from a digital camera.

Design Features:  

HP Creative Scrapbook Assistant contains many of the basic editing features you find in higher end scrapbooking software, such as the ability to move and resize frames, manipulate text, rotate or flip images and choose various page sizes. But HP Creative Scrapbook is missing some crucial features—red eye removal and image cropping, for example.

Output Options:  

In order to share your scrapbooking projects with others, you have to save them to a file first, then use other software to send projects as an email attachment or to a website photo gallery. HP Creative Scrapbook Assistant allows you to save a file to a hard drive or a disc or you can print projects directly from the program. Few other options are available.

Ease of Use:  

Overall, the HP Creative Scrapbook Assistant is very easy to use, but making slight modifications and alterations to templates can prove a very long and difficult process due to issues with text-wrapping, justification and overlapping.

Help & Support:  

Hewlett–Packard has equipped HP Creative Scrapbook Assistant with a built–in help section, but we were unable to access it. They also offer email support and a toll–free telephone support line.

HP Creative Scrapbook Assistant by Hewlett–Packard offers decent photo editing capabilities, but little else. This program is not for the novice computer user and is, quite frankly, not a good value. Try the Polaroid My Memories Suite for the ultimate in features and options.