I just re-read the review, and pdfs are definitely an option! I'm not sure why it didn't get a check mark for that category? It's supposed to be really awesome because it supports common file types like. And, I can make all kinds of really cool layouts by just adding my pictures to pre-made templates or by designing my own layouts with their embellishments and backgrounds!
How much fun is that?! See I'm stark raving wild about it and I don't even have it yet! Oh yeah I don't think I'll ever use these features, but it allows you to add music and recordings to digital pages you copy to CD. I can see using this if we had kids and we got them to sing happy birthday to grandma or grandpa, for example.
But the only singing that goes on around here is when the dogs howl at in the morning! You can also download the pages to an iPod which I pretty much think is stupid. Lots of fun stuff and good prices, plus you can immediately download your purchase :.
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I swear that Polaroid did not pay me to write good things about their software — it really is awesome and I love it! Thank you so very much for your kind comment! It really is fantastic, and if you have any questions about getting started, let me know and I can try to help as best as I can with it! I have been reading your comments about My Memories Suite with interest as I am new to digital scrapping and considering purchasing My Memories Suite.
I am wondering if you have scrapped with Photoshop Elements and can compare the two. I am trying to decide which to purchase. For me, PSE is used for design and manipulating stuff to make scrapbooking elements and though I have it, I prefer plain-old Photoshop CS2 and My Memories Suite is for putting it all together into scrapbook form with all of the extra options and exporting abilities.
Sorry — there might be someone else out there that uses it and you might be able to find a review that way. Try asking also on scrapbook. Good luck! I just watched your tutorials—they were excellent—so helpful!!! I think I am going to order the software—I just need to make sure that my computer system is new enough to run it I have windows xp sp3 with 1.
Good luck!! Hi, I saw this on TV, only caught part of it so looked it up on the internet. Looks like a wonderful program but I finally called them this morning to check on the dpi export since I could not find that information.
They told me it only exports at 72dpi but when you send it to their printers it is printed at dpi??? I am so confused I thought the scrapbook standards were atleast but dpi was better. They told me I could print it at dpi with my printer even tho it was expoted at only 72dpi. What is you opinion on this.
Thank you. I exported a page to test and indeed it was 72 dpi resolution when I examined it in a graphics editing program. The results were amazing quality that I received from professional printing, though, for what it is worth. Good luck to you! I just installed the software and love it!!! Your tutorials have been so helpful. I am wondering if you have had any pages printed by any means other than Polaroid?
However, you can export whichever pages you choose into JPG format that is x pixels 12 inches by 12 inches and save it onto a disc and then take that to a professional printer locally, such as Kinkos, and they can print just the few individual pages that you need without the whole binding into a photo book part :.
Thanks again! I just wanted to let you know and the previous poster that the print quality is great even without using Poloroid. I had a 12 x 12 loose page printed through sbtoshare. I was thrown off by the 72 dpi, but no problems with quality as it is x I have another question. Have you found any way to search within or without the program. I am finding that I have trouble remembering where things are—for example in making a book on my Mexican vacations, I found some great embellishments in recipe and a background I like in Winter—not places that readily would come to mind.
I was wishing I could seach within designer embellishments for strip or mat- or even by color-have you found any way to do that. I use picasa to organize my pics, and it has grabbed all the objects from the software, so I wondered if there is not a way to search within the software, if there is a way to incorporate a search outside the software?
Thanks for getting back to us and updating us on the print status after having your pages printed through sbtoshare. I will definitely check them out now. I sure wish there was a way! That make sense? I just watched your tutorial about using background paper as layers. I was just wondering how to do it so it was great! So your tutorial was wonderful news!!! I really appreciate the effort you have gone through to create them.
After watching the tutorial, I started thinking. With regard to embellishments that are downloaded—why bother putting it into the mms program. It seems you can do the same things with photos as embellisments and you could save yourself a step by just unzipping them and not having to copy them into the mms program. I tested it out and was able to add an embellishment that way.
I am just wondering if you can think of any reason not to do it this way. I am also thinking that if i keep the embellishments outside the program, I may be able to figure out a way to use picasa to tag them so I can search them. So glad the last tutorial helped! It was the inspiration for doing more tutorials because it took me awhile to figure it out — I knew there just HAD to be a way to achieve that!
As for using your scrap galleries — of course!! Thanks for bringing that up! I thought I would let you know—I was able to use picassa to organize all the mms backgrounds and embellishments.
This way I can do a quick search in picassa for objects by color, mat, ect. For me this is great as I can do a quick search to refresh my memory as to everything. I also am using Picassa to organize all downloaded stuff as well. I am not moving downloaded objects into MMS, but rather searching within picassa and then dragging the specific object I want onto my page in mms.
I have to thank you again for that tutorial or it never would have occured to me that I could do this. Hey, no problem!! Thank YOU for the suggestion and combo of using Picassa to make this easier… I may have to do it now! I used it for my photos, but a few things I had to figure out with regards to scrap stuff. To get picassa to organize the backgrounds and embellishments from MMS, I had to open picassa, go to File, add folder to Picassa, and then go to MMS components and only add backgrounds and embellishments.
Also, I had to remove from Picassa the MMS albums as if not, picassa will grab all the elements used on each page in the album and organize them again. Then go into MMS and add it as usual. Then once the file is open, just drag the item right on the MMS page. You may already know all of the above, but I had to figure some of it out, so I thought I would share it with you in case you are not a picassa guru.
We were not judging final designs but rather the tools available to create them. We prefer software that offers easy access to a wide selection of embellishments and other graphics so you can always make the page you want. We had in-house design experts evaluate the quality of graphics available from each software publisher. The designs that come with each program represent raw materials only, so the designs you create with them will depend on skill level, personal taste and other factors.
For truly professional-level designs you would want to hire a professional. Editing tools can make a big difference in terms of convenience because you can edit and make your layout in one place rather than switching back and forth. We prefer the programs that have a long list of ways to manipulate your photos — virtually cutting them into shapes, adding filters to make them appear vintage or sepia-toned, removing red eye and many other interesting effects.
We took note of how easy it was to use each program. The best software makes features and tools easy to find. Most of them took just a few clicks to download, but some were not that simple.
A few programs take a long time or make the process difficult, which we note in the side-by-side comparison. We also tallied the number of different ways you can share your final creation to highlight the companies with a variety of sharing options.
There is a learning curve for this type of software, especially if you are new to it. The best software companies make it easy to get customer service when you need it in a range of different ways — FAQs, forums, email and tutorials. All of the products in our digital scrapbooking software review come with digital templates and lots of graphics in many styles to help you make pages you will love.
All of the programs help you edit your photos. They also offer multiple ways to share your pages or a completed book. But the products that stand out have more selection in each of those categories. The best software offers not just templates but gorgeous templates. It has not just a handful of graphics in each template but also a wide selection of graphics that can be added to any template.
Quality digital scrapbook software offers photo editing tools that are extensive and truly helpful so you don't have to use a separate app to remove red eye or add a sepia-toned filter before placing a photo in your digital layout.
Standout software allows you to share your work in a wide range of ways that include printing at home and sharing online. If you are in the market for Mac digital scrapbooking programs, a few of your best options overlap with the list of PC scrapbooking software. There are other products like iScrapbook, The Print Shop, Scrapbook Crafter and iCollage that offer decent alternatives for making digital scrapbook pages with your Mac, too. For more information on your options for Mac software, see our full comparison.
Scrapbooks continued to evolve as a place for photos and other mementos through the years. The most recent methods of digital scrapbooking can make it seem less feasible to showcase anything besides photos, but some software makes allowances for things you don't want to scan in, or that would look silly as a scan. You can still attach three-dimensional items like mementos and embellishments after you print your electronic scrapbook if the digital versions are not quite enough to quench your creativity.
You can glue a real button over the top of a digital one, for instance, or just save a spot in your layout where you want to put one when you print. You can attach an actual program of a child's Christmas pageant to your printed digital layout after the fact, for example, instead of scanning it in or leaving it out of the book altogether. Or if you prefer to leave your memories in a fully digital format, some software lets you add video and music to create a multimedia digital scrapbook.
After spending hours editing photos and designing beautiful layouts for your cherished memories, you may want to share your efforts with friends and family. By turning to social media, you can share an image, or even a handful of them, in an instant; then, anyone can look at your stylish scrapbook layouts and enjoy them wherever they are. Photo storage sites. You can opt to save your digital images on a website specifically designed to handle photo storage, such as Flickr , Shutterfly or Google Photos , among others.
These sites make it easy to store, organize and share your photos whenever you want. You can keep groups of photos together, label them, tag people and sort through all your photos without any fuss. Social media. We recommend using social media sites. Instagram is a great site for visual media, and it has myriad thriving art, photography and scrapbooking communities.
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