Hallmark Scrapbook Studio Deluxe | 
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| From: Vivendi Universal
Category: Software
Buy New: $19.99
New (2) Used (7) from $8.50
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 9607
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows ME
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.9
UPC: 020626710206
EAN: 0020626710206
ASIN: B000050GEA
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Pictures fade and paper crumbles, but computer files last as long as their backups exist. Keep memories safe and well preserved with the Hallmark Scrapbook Studio. This package includes everything you need to file scanned photos, create memory pages, and design and print announcements and greeting cards. Even the most left-brained user will find it easy to put together birthday cards using the simple click-and-drag interface; choosing from hundreds of preset designs or creating new ones from the unique elements included is fun and easy. Some computer experience will be helpful to navigate the program's installation and interface, but the online help should be sufficient to get anyone started. As with all creative endeavors, working with the Scrapbook Studio gets easier and more fulfilling over time. Placing scanned photos on pages, for example, is a bit challenging at first, but practice quickly offers results. The package also includes a large paper greeting card, envelope, and stickers for a one-time non-virtual scrapbook project; though it adds little to the software, it's a nice rainy-day activity. Computer users who want to arrange and store their memories will enjoy the program, but the real aim of the program is to help users create a never-ending source of cards and keepsakes. --Rob Lightner
Amazon.com Product Description
Scrapbook Studio Deluxe provides an extensive collection of scrapbook templates, images, and phrases. You can discover thousands of possibilities for making and sharing scrapbooks by adding your own photos, images, and memorabilia. This CD-ROM features over 4,000 Hallmark art images, more than 500 paper doll accessories, original Hallmark phrases, custom fonts and alphabets, and over 500 scrapbook templates. Choose from a wide variety of themes and events, including holidays, birthdays, weddings, babies, sports, and school. Also included is SnapShot Express, to help you edit, organize, manipulate, and store photos, and add them to your scrapbook.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Great!! October 12, 2007
A. Gates
Great product, so easy that my kids use it to make cards for their friends.
 Great software! READ THIS TO FIX THE PHOTO PROBLEMS! May 13, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
To anyone deciding whether or not to buy this, first of all, it is made by Sierra, so it works like Print Artist does. So, if you like Print artist, then this will be easy for you to use. This software, like Print Artist, lets you change the colors of the graphics, which I love. This software includes beautiful predesigned projects, the especially great ones are the baby themes, holiday themes, and heritage themes. The graphics included in the predesigned projects can be replaced with other graphics if you want to. The bad part about this software, just like Print Artist, is when you put photos in, it resizes it to fit the box, which means most of the time it will be distorted in some way. The best solution I have found is to edit your photos first, which means if you click on the square or rectangle, the bottom right hand corner will tell you the size of that rectangle. So then, you go resize it in a photo editing software by either making it that exact size or something equivalent to that size. So, if the box is 3in. x 4in., then you can use that size or 4.5in x 6in(1.5 times original) or 6in. x 8 in (2 times original) or anything else equivalent. This process might seem too hard at first, but after you get used to it, it goes pretty fast. This seemed to be the big problem for people, and for the price of the software, I think it is totally worth it even if you have to take that extra step for photos. The other solution is to add the photo by itself (insert graphic), then place it in on to of the photo spot- this doesn't work that well for frames. I, myself, don't usually print out photos in the photo spots, because I print the pages on cardstock, and you don't get great photos when printed on cardstock, so I cut out the spot for the photo and then put a printed or actual photo behind it. The great graphics include: realistic looking fabric and quilling, buttons, and gorgeous backgrounds. Totally worth it!
 It's worth it for the graphics and layouts June 24, 2002
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This was the first Scrapbook program I bought (I know have three, this one, Scrapbook Factory, and Microsoft Picture It) and I was really disappointed with the user interface - especially the part about cropping photos. I don't do traditionally scrapbooking where you have to use scissors and glue (yuck!). I was also upset to discover that you can't bring in cropped images because Hallmark Scrapbook Studio loses the transparency. But the graphics are beautiful. The layouts are very good starting points. And, I just export everything to another program. One last thing, the licensing agreement allows you to use the graphics for business use as for as I can tell. So I can't recommend it to as THE scrapbooking program to get but then again I couldn't do that for any of the programs that I've tried. I plan on getting Scrapbook Studio 2 - just to get more graphics.
I wouldn't want it to be my first scrapbook program! June 16, 2002
S. Valdes (Illinois USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I love the layouts in this program, BUT...it leaves a lot to be desired in adding photos. This is my 5th scrapbook program and the ONLY one that does not have the "crop" option for photos added. You have NO way of shaping them to the frame or trimming them to fit. I have to bring up another photo program, crop the picture, copy it and then paste it into this one. I can't imagine why Hallmark would make a scrapbook program without a cropping option!! The "help" menu says to just drag part of a photo off the page to crop it.....you can NOT do that and keep it in a selected frame. SO....I gave this 3 stars ONLY for the good layouts and options for text but NOT for adding photos....which is WHY we buy scrapbooking software in the first place. So....if you DO buy this, you'd better have a few other photo manipulating programs that allow you to prepare your photos for THIS program. Plus it is very slow. I would love to get rid of that little circle that goes around making you wait for a command to be carried out. It's NOT my computer because this is the ONLY program I have that works this slow. I'm glad I have it, but ONLY because of the neat layouts I can use in OTHER programs. I have even copied and pasted ALL the parts of a layout in THIS program to put in another scrapbook program and finished my layout in that scrapbook program. If this is NOT your first scrapbook program, I recommend it....if it IS...I do not.
Inexpensive but not the best March 21, 2002
Therese Thomas (Santa Clarita, CA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I've used this software program to produce a digital scrapbook of baby photos and other family/heritage photos for my son's 18th birthday. My main objection and frustration with this product is that, on the pre-made pages, while there are many attractive layouts using star shapes and so forth, when you actually try to place your own scanned-in photo into one of those shapes, it can't be done. For example, you find a layout that uses a star or oval shaped photo area. However, the program doesn't offer any way to crop your own photos into these shapes, just ways to size it and to adjust its contrast and color intensity and so on. I've mainly used a blank page and browsed through the Graphics Grabber until I've found all the parts of the page I want to create. I have to used only square or rectangular shapes for frames around my photos, of course, but sometimes I achieve some really terrific-looking results!
Also, the canned Hallmark phrases, page titles, and verses included in the program are often quite disappointing and I find myself spending hours searching for something appropriate online. The Graceful Bee site and dMarie.com are probably the best places to start this search, by the way; but do plan on spending some time getting to exactly the right poem or quotation. Sometimes, of course, it's worth it because you are producing something very special that will be looked at by several generations to come. With that in mind, you usually re-find the patience to continue.
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