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| Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe | 
 enlarge | From: Nova Development
Category: Software
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $14.67
You Save: $25.32 (63%)
New (4) Used (1) from $12.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 8356
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 11 x 7 x 3
MPN: SBW-XYZ
UPC: 727298400427
EAN: 0727298400427
ASIN: B00005NZXQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Useful Tool for Creating Scrapbook Pages January 29, 2004
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This program is easy to use, and helped me create a custom scrapbook page with little effort. One caveat: Once you select a size template, be certain to check the result with "print preview" before you expend any effort. I had trouble getting the first page I created to print in 12 x 12 size on a 12 x 12 sheet of paper. However, I called tech support. The first rep didn't help much, but then I got a follow-up call from Derek, who had gone to the trouble of downloading my Canon S9000 printer's driver! Together, we got the print function going and produced a perfect page. It's really refreshing to find a software outfit that really cares about the results its customers are getting! It is too bad that the templates supplied with this program are so cutesy and schmaltzy, and that more background "paper" isn't supplied. But if you start with a blank template, hey, it's a clean slate and you can let your imagination run wild. It'll let you drop in your pictures and graphics wherever, and help with the lettering for titles and journaling.
 well worth purchasing January 28, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
There weren't many reviews out there when I first started looking, so I was a little afraid to try it,but I'm completely satisfied. It's especially nice for creating colorful fun scrapbooks for children; that's when the cartoonish clipart comes in handy. I think most people are used to clipart not exactly looking like art-gallery artwork,so I'm not disappointed at all with the clipart. The tutorial is wonderful; I highly recommend using it to get started. The manual doesn't go into as much detail as the tutorial. After creating scrapbooks from scratch and doing lots of cutting and pasting, I really appreciate being able to do it electronically. You have to do some eye-balling of the template frames to make sure you have the right picture to fit adequately into the template; after a while, it becomes very easy to do. I loved being able to have the software "cut" my photo into a circle; just make sure you don't try to put a wide-rectangle photo into a circle. Just as when you try to do it with a pattern when you are doing your own cutting, it won't work. I have been showing many people my completed scrapbook pages,and they are all amazed at how well they look.
 Good at its main task, but a little frustrating sometimes. December 24, 2003
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Of the scrapbook applications I've played with, this one is a favorite. It has straight-forward features and it produces handsome scrapbook pages and other simple projects with a generous variety of clipart, borders, and fonts. Frustrations include 1) the inability to crop the clip-art (only photographs can be cropped) and 2) the inability to do anything interesting with color-changing and clipart. i.e. If you change the color of a piece of clipart, it doesn't "colorize" (turn into shades of the color you picked). Instead, it does an opaque fill of the clipart, leaving just a blank silhouette. At this point, the 'Undo' features are very handy! In any event, provided you have another application to do anything subtle with your clip-art or your photographs, this application is fantastic for fun, simple pasteboard projects where you create layouts and print or save. Even the HTML export seems reliable. I wouldn't call this application excellent, but it's quite good!
awful graphics & clipart September 6, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Program is easy enough to use, but I am very disappointed with the graphics & clipart. Since it advertizes over 10,000 graphics I figured there would be something I liked - but it is all cheap cartoonish graphics. Nothing for the sophisticated look I was hoping for. It will not let me import graphics from other programs- so I am stuck with these cheap cartoon things.
Great! September 6, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I found this program to be very fun. Some have commented on poor templates and not looking further--look further. It is what you make of it. I have created many pages from scratch, using their backgrounds or creating new ones. They have enough clip art/fonts/borders for most tastes. I like the fact that I can fade objects, etc... Doing all this on the computer and being able to change something with just a click is a plus for me.I would buy this again
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