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Summary: I disagree with every review so far! I love it!
Review: After reading the previous reviews of this product, I had all but decided not to buy this. But I did, and I am so glad! Other reviewers wrote about how difficult it is to use -- well, my 10-year-old daughter loaded the software and had created 5 beautiful layouts (complete with downloaded digital photos) before I even had a chance to look at it! The layouts are very appealing, and my digital photos print better from this program (with NO editing) than any other program I have. This completely gets me out of tedious "paper" scrapbooking - there is no need with this fabulous program. I can have a page done in a matter of minutes!
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Summary: A little disappointed - slow product!
Review: After using the American Greetings Card product, and all its features, I was a bit disappointed with Scrapbook Studio which was supposed to work with so well with digital photos. There is NO photo editing, like croping, etc. like there is with the AG software. Adding text boxes is NOT user friendly and is very very slow. The grapics are nice, and so are the ideas, but it would be nice if you could work more with the digital photos.
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Summary: Great Tool
Review: Hallmark scrapbook studio really brought to live my scrapbook pages.
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Summary: doesn't deliver what it promises
Review: I am an experienced graphic software user, and I had high expectations with this program. I was looking for a program with a variety of templates that I could incorporate photos from my digital camera. I then wanted to burn the finished pages onto a CD to give to family to review or print. I also wanted to print the full page with pictures on my HP printer.I was immediately disappointed as soon as I tried to insert my first picture. The frames are not transparent, which is a HUGE problem. This means that you cannot size your photo and position it behind the frame. You have to crop and exactly size the photo to fit the white "insert picture here" BEFORE you import the picture to the page. This is a huge problem, as there is no easy way to figure the size of the frame! The other large problem lies in the "vector graphics" programming of the software. Many frames are positioned at an angle. When you attempt to position a photo in the angled frame, it distorts the photo. The more the frame is angled, the more the photo is distored. However, you can tilt the graphics included in the program. This program is designed for printing the scrapbook pages, cutting out the white "insert picture here" areas, and manually inserting the pictures on the page. While this is perfectly acceptable for "paper" scrapbookers, I found it to be bothersome. I was forced to print my pictures on photo paper, print the scrapbook page on scrapbook paper, cut, then paste. And the insert photo issue made it impossible to send the pages on CD to relatives.
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Summary: I was so disappointed with this program!
Review: I am an experienced graphic software user, and I had high expectations with this program. I was looking for a program with a variety of templates that I could incorporate photos from my digital camera. I then wanted to burn the finished pages onto a CD to give to family to review or print. I also wanted to print the full page with pictures on my HP printer. I was immediately disappointed as soon as I tried to insert my first picture. The frames are not transparent, which is a HUGE problem. This means that you cannot size your photo and position it behind the frame. You have to crop and exactly size the photo to fit the white "insert picture here" BEFORE you import the picture to the page. This is a huge problem, as there is no easy way to figure the size of the frame! The other large problem lies in the "vector graphics" programming of the software. Many frames are positioned at an angle. When you attempt to position a photo in the angled frame, it distorts the photo. The more the frame is angled, the more the photo is distored. However, you can tilt the graphics included in the program. This program is designed for printing the scrapbook pages, cutting out the white "insert picture here" areas, and manually inserting the pictures on the page. While this is perfectly acceptable for "paper" scrapbookers, I found it to be bothersome. I was forced to print my pictures on photo paper, print the scrapbook page on scrapbook paper, cut, then paste. And the insert photo issue made it impossible to send the pages on CD to relatives.
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Summary: Major photo problems
Review: I am shipping it back to Sierra for a refund. It has great graphics but it is designed primarily to print the pages and insert your original photos in hard copy form. In the small print they tell you that you can't insert photos in oval or round frames. It does a terrible job of inserting photos even in the square frames in the software. They paste the photos on top of the frames. They only have a few frames that are transparent and let you send your photo to the back. As a result the photos never fit properly and you block out overlaping frames and other objects that overlap their predesigned frames. Their tech desk finally admitted there is no good solution. See Sierra's message board for more details from disappointed users. Also, their instructions are very limited and difficult to understand. It is deffinitely not user friendly software.
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Summary: Don't buy it!
Review: I have Hallmark card studio 1 and 2 and I enjoy them immensely.. Then I bought the 'Scrapbook Studio'. I can not believe how hard it is to use. My husband and I have spent hours trying to figure it out. A lot of the art is good but the program should be scrapped. Hallmark should never have put their name on this one.
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Summary: I'm Returning It
Review: I just received mine yesterday, and although there are a lot of cool templates, you cannot insert pictures unless they are straight up and down. If you try to insert one at an angle, it will be distorted - definitely a waste of money.
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Summary: I'm Returning It
Review: I just received mine yesterday, and although there are a lot of cool templates, you cannot insert pictures unless they are straight up and down. If you try to insert one at an angle, it will be distorted - definitely a waste of money.
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Summary: I wouldn't want it to be my first scrapbook program!
Review: 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.
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