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Product Features

Easily create beautiful, handcrafted scrapbooks and cards that look just like the real thing
Share your creations quickly via email, print, or by uploading them to the web
Create your designs using realistic crafting tools – just like you'd find in a craft store
Use advanced digital tools like blending for amazing effects and top quality results
Find the digital materials you need quickly and easily with the built-in Digikit Manager
Super-easy to use plus help, support, and tutorials whenever you need them
Add fabulous effects and edit your photos in the easy-to-use PhotoLab
Make beautiful scrapbooks, cards, and other designs, without the expensive craft materials
Add amazing and realistic effects like metal, glass, and page curls to your scraps
Beautify your designs using the stencil templates included or easily create your own custom stencils

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Product Description

Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 is the must-have digital crafting studio and contains all the tools and features needed to create beautiful, handcrafted designs like scrapbooks, cards, invitations, and postcards on a PC, without a steep learning curve. It’s been specifically tailored for the digital scrapbooker and is incredibly easy to use thanks to on-screen prompts and handy toolbars. Unlike any other scrapbooking program, it also contains dedicated tools and features to create fantastic photo-realistic results while drag and drop designing, ready-made layouts and video tutorials make the experience of digital scrapbooking fun, quick and extremely cost effective.

Manufacturer's Description

There's never been a better time to dig your photos out and make something beautiful with them that you can share with others. Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 makes it easy to create scrapbooks, cards, invitations and albums, plus you'll find crafting tools like scissors and stencils and a photo editor, so your designs will be beautiful and totally unique.

Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 makes it easy to create scrapbooks, cards, invitations and albums. Click to enlarge.

Easy to use

The tools and features are designed for digital scrapbookers of all skill and experience levels. Whether you want to make a simple photo page or an entire book of memories using advanced techniques, help is always available.

Help and support
With on-screen prompts to help you at every step of your design, quick access to helpful video tutorials, drag & drop technology for fast designing, and a brand new hover selection tool for accurate object selection, Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 is super easy to use. There's also a friendly user community at Daisytrail.com to provide help whenever you need it.

Import and organise
Get design elements from anywhere--import scanned objects, photos, digikits, and much more for any design project--then create and organize your own digikits with the new Digikit Creator. Organize all your kits by assigning tags like categories, colours, styles, and more, then quickly search for individual items efficiently with the Digikit Browser.

Tools and techniques

All the tools you find in a craft store and then some extra ones thrown in! The easy-to-use tools and effects will enable you to create beautiful designs in minutes.

NEW--Blending
Create stunning effects with professional blend modes. You'll be able to seamlessly blend objects to take on the appearance of any material to give you fabulous results.

NEW--Stencils
Put the perfect finishing touch onto your scrapbook with stencils. Use one of the many included stencils, or easily create your own from any object or embellishment.

Get design elements from anywhere, then create and organize your own digikits with the new Digikit Creator. Click to enlarge.

High 300-dpi resolution allows you to print your projects at home or professionally. Click to enlarge.

Make your photos picture-perfect every time and become a photo editing expert in seconds. Click to enlarge.

Whether you want to make a simple photo page or an entire book of memories using advanced techniques, help is always available. Click to enlarge.

Easily share your scrapbook designs via email in popular image formats, or online at DaisyTrail.com.

Cutting & punching
Cut up your material using fancy scissor edges for extra creative detail, or punch out shapes to make gorgeous decorations for your scrapbook.

Edge effects
Give your materials and objects photo-realistic frayed edges by applying one of the many fantastic edge effects, like Hessian and Carpet, for a lifelike look.

Brushes and stitching
Use brushes to paint on sparkling glitter, decorative beads, fancy stitches and much more. Brushes can be easily customised to achieve the look you want.

Layers
Layers are a great way to stack the objects in your designs and makes arranging them, applying effects, and editing complicated projects super-easy.

Text
Add decorative text and beautiful lettering to your designs in Digital Scrapbook Artist 2. You can even write along editable paths so your text can flow around objects

Filter effects
Your designs will be jumping off the page after using effects like shadows, glows, bevels, embossing and more. These realistic effects are sure to impress everyone.

Your photographs

No one can take perfect pictures all the time, but you can make your photos look exactly how you want them to with the powerful photo editing features in Digital Scrapbook Artist 2.

NEW--PhotoLab
Give your photos a weather-beaten look, turn them into oil painting masterpieces, make funky pop art or combine and customise over 70 effects for amazing photos every time.

You can even edit images to get rid of red eye, remove spots and blemishes, adjust colour, change the contrast, and lots more. Make your photos picture-perfect every time and become a photo editing expert in seconds.

Image Cutout Studio
Use the Image Cutout Studio to remove items from their background or to cut out keepsakes and other items you've scanned in.

It's a fantastic tool if you want to place items on a different background, create a pop out effect, or give an object total focus, plus it's quick and easy to use so you can be ultra-creative with your design projects.

All types of projects

Don't let the name fool you--Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 can be used to create more than just scrapbooks. In fact, you can use it for any design project you can think of.

Scrapbooks
Create as many beautiful scrapbooks as you like, without the cost of buying the tools and materials from a craft store.

Cards
Personalising birthday, Christmas, and greeting cards for family and friends is the perfect way to show you care, and with loads of amazing materials, frames, and embellishments, it's super-easy to make them look beautiful too.

Invitations
Put extra sparkle onto your custom party invitations with the stylish brushes, and add personal touches by using your own objects that you have scanned in, for truly individual and inspiring invites.

Photo books
Display your pictures creatively. With the built-in PhotoLab, you can easily make sure your images look amazing and show them off in all their glory.

Postcards
Print off your scrapbooks and cards and embellish them to create a stunning hybrid design.

Pages of all sizes
Make your designs whatever size you like! Page sizes can be changed quickly and easily to accommodate projects of any size. Choose from 12" x 12", 8" x 8", letter, A4 or specify your own custom size for original design projects.

Sharing

One of the best things about being creative is sharing your designs with friends and family. Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 makes this fun and easy.

DaisyTrail
DaisyTrail.com is our free social scrapbooking website where digital scrapbookers upload (it only takes one click) and share their designs and ideas with friends, family and other digi-scrappers.

Printing
Print off your designs to give to friends and family, or display them around your home. Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 makes it easy to print your beautiful scrapbooks from any popular inkjet or laser printer.

Email
Share your scrapbook in minutes with an email--just click to attach your scrapbook, choose who to send it to, and press 'send'. Anyone with an email-enabled mobile phone can view them too.

PDF & image
Pick from loads of popular file formats when saving your design projects: JPEG, PNG, bitmap, and HD Photo are supported and you can even export as PDF files for professional printing.

Extra features

These advanced tools and features will add extra details to your projects and take them from great to amazing.

Included content
There are five full digikits included with Digital Scrapbook Artist 2, and you can mix and match objects from all of them to create your design masterpieces.

The five digikits are:

Dollhouse
Enchanted
Berry Pie
Painted Backyard
Indie Chic

Each digikit contains a selection of complementary embellishments, materials, backgrounds, frames, an alphabet, at least 4 layouts and some themed brushes.

Shadows
Give your creations a real sense of depth and make objects, embellishments, and photos appear stacked by adding realistic, customisable shadows with just one click and drag of your mouse.

Transparency
Easily adjust the transparency of any item on your page to create some truly amazing effects.

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful

A Niche Market 12 Mar 2010

By Bob TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE

Although it does everything it states on the box I found this a strange programme, this is not to distract from what it does however this is really virtual scrapbooking as I have always used scrap books to hold mementos of holidays etc things like admission tickets or an emu feather so they can be used to relive memories. This programme produces scrap book pages but unless you are going to use the embellishments etc to cut out and stick in a real scrap book the effect is lost.
This is version 2 and as I have not tried version 1 I can give no information on how important the changes are although from the manual they do not seem significant enough to warrant buying this programme as an upgrade.
Like all Serif product a full instruction book is available in this case included in the package, also unlike most companies they give you at least 30 days to return it if you do not like it.
Now what it does:-
It is supplied with a number of themes which consist of backing papers and numerous embellishments, picture frames, brush shapes etc etc each of these are fully customisable, serif calls these "digikits". Other digikits may be obtained free or purchased from "Daisytrail" which also seems to be owned by Serif; in my package there was a voucher to buy extra digikits.
There is a fairly basic photograph programme which allows some effects and correction of photographs together with adding and removing frames. You can add your own photographs or even complete albums. Although it allows you to import photographs in numerous formats the thing that it does not do is allow "pdf" input and there are many times when I would wish to either include a whole "pdf picture" or part of one.
The editing facilities are very comprehensive allowing you to use stencils cut outs and many text effects.
Built into the programme is the facility to upload to the daisytrail site so that you can let everyone else see your creations or keep them just to you and your friends. This is a free facility and I imagine it would also be quite useful for blogs. Unfortunately the only output is "pdf " either 96dpi or 300dpi which is quite limiting.
In summary if you want to do "virtual scrapbooking" then buy this, if you want to manipulate photographs or do desktop publishing this is not for you as many programmes do this better for example from the Serif range. Photoplus and Pageplus.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Fabulous Programme at a great price! 19 Aug 2010

By Anne Nelson

This has to be the best piece of software I have ever purchased. I have always been a fan of Serif software and original bought DSA for making greetings cards but very quickly found out how versatile it is. DSA2 has some very powerful features which make it a 'one stop shop' for creating some fabulous artwork using photos and/or the tools and effects the programme has to offer. It has many features that you find in the high end programmes that cost 100 times more!!! The photolab and cutout studio are just brilliant and very user friendly. I use DSA2 for all kinds of projects from cards to scrapbooks (which I had never done!) to advertising posters and preserve labels. Printing from the programme at 300 DPI produces excellent results and the facility to save work as JPEGS etc. makes light work of producing some superb graphics for the web.

You don't have to use just the digikits that come with the programme or buy from the Daisytrail shop.....all kinds of graphics can be imported into the programme (including digi scrapbooking kits or craft graphics from anywhere else) and you also have the option of making them into your own DSA digikit complete with 'intelligent' photo frames where a photo can be automatically added and cropped to size! There are some great video tutorials (on Daisytrail.com)that will show you the basics of DSA through to more complex projects plus there are plenty of members in the Daisytrail community who are always willing to lend a hand if you get stuck.

The only limitation of this programme is your imagination!!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Great for E-Cards and Invites 19 Jun 2010

By Rosey Lea TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE

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I'm not a fan of home crafts, so I wanted to use this package for creating nice e-cards and invitations. It's pretty much perfect for the job.

The software is very easy to use. Pick a background, add your picture and/or text, then have fun layering on the embellishments fuzzy felt style - flowers, frames, stencil effects etc. You can work free-style from a blank canvas but using a pre-set 'digikit' theme is ridiculously easy and gives lovely results.

As the days of paper cards and notes seem to be over, I'll be using this software regularly to create personalised messages to send by email. (As a note, you can't save pages to jpeg format, only PDF and png.)

I'm marking this software down to 4-star as you need to get your credit card out early on - the software only has 5 rather bland 'digitkits' included, the rest are chargeable from the website (although a handful of free ones are also available). The package didn't come with a printed manual (something I personally like) and the software is a little unstable on my machine (Windows 7) - it doesn't open cleanly and I've had to reinstall it several times. That aside, this is a great fun, easy to use, piece of software.

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