Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0 [Old Version]

I found this software to be a lot of fun. It makes very nice scrapbook pages, although like other reviewers said, the clip art is kind of cartoonish. I made a few pages, but haven't printed them out yet.I'm kind of upset that it advertises that you can make a photo disk that can be played on any DVD, because it cannot be played on mine! I spent hours making a beautiful scrapbook of my daughter's birth and added music and everything, burned the disk, and it wouldn't play on my DVD player. So, I went out today and bought a new DVD player that says it plays this type of disk, and it still wouldn't play. If you don't have Burning Nero software on your computer, it makes it very hard to just burn the disk. It kept sayng my burner was "unsupported". You have to generate a video and then burn it on your own. Obviously something is going wrong because I still can't see this on my TV.

This is my first scrapbooking software. Unfortunately it did not live up to my expectations. For starters, the software has a few bugs and issues:1. On "full Install" it tells you that you will need to use the 2nd CD (with the Art and Fonts) to finish installation, BUT it never asks for it. Installation completed with bare minimum artwork and the 2nd CD will not autorun in any computer I tried it on. It's very time consuming to try to find a graphic on the 2nd CD because there are too many folders!2. The images are not "common" file names so you cannot import them to another program from the CD either. Basically - I can't use the artwork CD unless the CD is in the drive, which is not a possibility for me at all times, especially while listening to music.3. Inserting New Pages - When the program starts it gives you the option to pick from a list of pages to use as templates for your first page. Unfortunately, once the first page is done you can't go back to pick from the templates for page 2. Your only options are to start a blank page, or duplicate the same page. This is a problem if you want one book with more than one type of page.4. Cutesy artwork - the box that I purchased shows many examples of elegant looking scrapbook pages, but from what I can see of the artwork included, the templates are filled with cartoonish characters and designs. I was unable to find one template suitable for an adult birthday party, or adult get together. While there is a LOT of artwork, I would personally not use most of it.If I were to say anything positive about this program, it's that it comes with many other features that it doesn't list on the box, such as a calendar maker, journal pages and label maker, etc. However I would have much rather skipped those "freebies" if it meant I got a higher quality product for what I want to use it for - no-nonsense scrapbooking. If my review was helpful please vote for it. Thank you for looking!

While I admit some of the problems people have mentioned (cutesy art, not installing 2nd CD, proprietary artwork, inserting new pages, can't copy and paste from a different program, and can open only one page at a time, THIS PROGRAM IS SIMPLY AMAZING!!!The scrapbook pages I create are mainly MY photographs with the other nonphoto capabilities of SFD 2.0 (squares/rectangles as picture mats, text boxes, custom shapes, borders, lines, etc.). Rarely do I even think about using "clipart" in my pages.Some of the things that are really cool about this program:1. You can edit your layout! One of the things that's frustrating about real scrapbooking is there is no undo button. You have to be soooo careful not to mess up your layout when working with real objects.2. Auto alignment of grouped items. What a time saver! Even lets you set equal spacing between items, horizontally or vertically.3. Customize the shape of your photo, circle, oval, rounded corners, heart, arrow, etc., over 20 shapes available, plus flip and rotate.4. Add a border to your photo, two tools: one is similar to MS word insert arrow options adds a line border (any color, varying thickness, varying styles) and the other is to make the border from Nova's clipart or ANY other graphic or photo.5. Edit your photo. Amazingly powerful for a $29.95 program! Adjust color, focus, tone; fix flaws (clone tool, red eye redux, dust/scratch tool); paint tools; and special effects tools (blur, emboss, grainy paper, pixelate, antique, tile, puzzle, 40 effects in all)6. Lighten or darken the photo, great for watermarking!7. Dual-layered page (foreground and background) effects you apply on one layer don't affect the other.8. MS Word-type spellchecker, very powerful!9. Export your complete project as a graphic file.10. Put your completed project on a CD and share it with family and friends.11. Create a label for your CD.12. Prints OUTSTANDING 12 x 12 pages with a wide format printer like the Canon i9000 and Epsons's 12 x 12 matte photo paper, absolutely stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check some examples at [...]I tell you, if you like digital scrapbooking, THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU. It is so easy and fun to use!Some of the things that are NOT cool about this program:1. Cannot cut and paste from another program. You must save the graphic/photo to your hard drive and use the insert graphic from file option. I am scrapbooking my 22-year Air Force career and I like to capture pics of places I visited over the years from the Internet (e.g., reenlisted on the USS Arizona Memorial and wanted one of their pictures as my background)2. I created subfolders under the default graphic file location and added the graphics/photos from disc 2, but there evidently is an SFD-imposed limit on the number of subfolders. I don't recall the number (about 20) but once you exceed that limit, SFD doesn't see the extra folders when you insert a graphic from the SFD library (default graphic file location).3. SFD doesn't support transparent backgrounds. One of their graphics from the second disc is a torn page, but there is white space to the right of the tear. So you can't send the torn page to the front and have a different colored background other than white, or you see the torn page, white space, and the colored background. It doesn't look like a torn piece overlaying another piece at all unless you leave a white background.4. No search feature for the graphics!