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Digital Scrapbooking Software Review
Traditional scrapbooking is an art form of expensive, painstaking and time-consuming. Different from traditional scrapbooking, digital scrapbooking save your time and money, and enable you to preserve so many memories in minutes. With digital scrapbooking software, you have everything to create digital scrapbooking, being guided step by step, and easily and quickly transform you priceless photos into precious memories. In my opinions, best digital scrapbooking software should at least include following characters:
- - Easy to use
- - Lots of templates and layouts
- - Intuitive photo importing interface
- - Powerful photo editing capability
- - Easy to share
Here are the top-rated digital scrapbooking software of our choices, in accordance with the above digital scrapbooking software criteria.
Free Photo Collage Software - Picasa
Picasa is one flashy and functional free photo management and editing software which allows you make collage from templates. Although I expected better organization and searching capabilities from a Google property, Picasa is excellent for beginners and casual digital shooters who want to find all their pictures, sort them into albums, make photo collages, and share with friends and family.
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Free Image Manipulation Program - GIMP
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
Also, GIMP can create digital scrapbooking for free. Sounds good, huh? Actually, GIMP is a digital scrapbooking freeware that is considered as powerful as Adobe Photoshop. You can go to www.gimp.org for more free digital scrapbooking background, free tutorials, free brushes and so on.
Wondershare Photo Collage Studio is an easy-to-use but professional tool to make impressive digital scrapbooking. It includes everything one needs to scrapbook such as digital scrapbooking templates, cliparts, photo frames and powerful photo editing capabilities. Photo Collage Studio is absolute ease of use. Simply choose a template, drop in photos, decorate with wonderful embellishments, add your journaling and share your digital scrapbooking. What's more, you can DIY calendar, elaborate greeting cards with it.
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Advanced Scrapbook Software - Photoshop Elements
Adobe Photoshop Elements is the easier and simpler version of Adobe Photoshop. This digital scrapbooking software combines power and simplicity so you can create digital scrapbooking with your digital photos. Make your photos look their best whatever your level of editing experience --a friendly new design and step-by-step editing assistance help get you started. Easily perform more advanced retouching and enhancing thanks to easy image-selection tools, amazing composing capabilities. And always find and view all your digital photos with ease.
Pros:
- Professional, Powerful yet easy to use
- Quick photo search
- Amazing filter effects
- Easily share on web
- Step-by-step assistance
Cons:
- No digital scrapbooking templates
- Expensive
- Steep learning curve
- Less embellishment
- Not so easy for beginning scrapbookers
Totally, if you are a professional or semi-professional, or familiar with Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Photoshop Elements is absolutely the best digital scrapbooking software. You can even create sophisticated and elegant digital scrapbooking from scratch, not using any pre-made digital scrapbooking template or digital scrapbooking embellishment. Many qualified scrapbookers could use this digital scrapbooking software to make digital scrapbooking kits for composing digital scrapbookings. But for making scrapbooks with ready-to-use templates, try Photo Collage Studio with everything included.