Appeal & Flexibility:  

style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: normal;">Scrapbook MAX! provides for quick, learn-as-you-go digital scrapbooking. With a well-developed publishing and sharing online community, subscribers are able to upload and view scrapbooks made by thousands of different users. Unfortunately, the buck stops there. While publishing onto CD as well as other mediums is possible, the results are wanting. The greatest strengths of Scrapbook MAX! lie in its online community-oriented design. Users provide peer-to-peer feedback, style tips and other information to one another, allowing the scrapbooks themselves to go beyond the typical breadth of friends and family.

Importing:  

style="line-height: normal;">Scrapbook MAX! can import nearly 40 file formats. However, images cannot be directly imported from a digital camera or a scanner, requiring additional time for uploading and reformatting. Being that most scrapbooking software suites provide direct digital camera and scanner importing, this seems like quite an inconvenience.  

Design Features:  

The greatest strengths of Scrapbook MAX! lie in its online community-oriented design. Users provide peer-to-peer feedback, style tips and other information to one another, allowing the scrapbooks themselves to go beyond the typical breadth of friends and family.

Output Options:  

Along with its online community, Scrapbook MAX provides video and picture CD publishing as well as print and binding services. However, the quality of the video and picture CD publishing is below expectation.

Ease of Use:  

Despite its limitations, Scrapbook MAX! offers a very user-friendly set of controls and applications. Unfortunately, like other features, trying to alter pre-fabricated templates can prove difficult and messy.

Help & Support:  

The video tutorials, user-guides and user forums hosted and provided by Scrapbook MAX! are an excellent resource. A contact page is also available, providing telephone and email contact information.

ugh the Scrapbook MAX! has many weaknesses that are hard to get around, and even harder to ignore, there is a great deal of potential, especially with its community-oriented design to offer hope for future versions.