5 comments about Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 6.0.

1. Great program! You can export anything you work on as an image file so you can actually do scrapbooking with this product! Cards & verses are excellent.



2. I love this program. It was easy to use straight out of the box, and unlike other programs I have purchased (the print shop, and printmaster) the clipart is on the cd and can be put on your computer, so your computer is not constantly dialing up to get clipart from the web. This is great for those of us who still have dial-up and can't wait 5-10 minutes for all the clipart to decide to download.
   
   The downfall I see (I really miss American Greetings CreateACard and still have it loaded) is that you can't select multiple clipart items at a time. You have to pick one then re-open the library, and if you found the last piece by using the search, you have to reenter your search and pick the next one you wanted. It would be so much easier if you could hold the control key down and pick as many as you want in one shot.
   
   Overall, I think it is great.



3. After using Deluxe Version3 for some time, we upgraded to 6.0. There is a lot more stuff to enable you to produce very professional-looking cards. The reason for not giving top marks, is that the program still crashes occasionally when doing sizing of imported images.



4. Since I am a new user with this software, I don't know if it's me or the program that is lacking something. Program states you can customize the size of paper you are using but I can't seem to get that to work. Also, what looks to be centered on screen does not print out that way.
   My old American Greetings program is so user friendly and this program is more like using a Photoshop program (too many bells and whistles) for a greeting card program. The only reason I purchased it was because of the custom paper sizing option.



5. This product has as in the past editions show to be an excellent product. I am very pleased to have it. I love to be creative.

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5 comments about Hallmark Scrapbook Studio Deluxe.

1. I've used this software program to produce a digital scrapbook of baby photos and other family/heritage photos for my son's 18th birthday. My main objection and frustration with this product is that, on the pre-made pages, while there are many attractive layouts using star shapes and so forth, when you actually try to place your own scanned-in photo into one of those shapes, it can't be done. For example, you find a layout that uses a star or oval shaped photo area. However, the program doesn't offer any way to crop your own photos into these shapes, just ways to size it and to adjust its contrast and color intensity and so on. I've mainly used a blank page and browsed through the Graphics Grabber until I've found all the parts of the page I want to create. I have to used only square or rectangular shapes for frames around my photos, of course, but sometimes I achieve some really terrific-looking results!
   Also, the canned Hallmark phrases, page titles, and verses included in the program are often quite disappointing and I find myself spending hours searching for something appropriate online. The Graceful Bee site and dMarie.com are probably the best places to start this search, by the way; but do plan on spending some time getting to exactly the right poem or quotation. Sometimes, of course, it's worth it because you are producing something very special that will be looked at by several generations to come. With that in mind, you usually re-find the patience to continue.



2. 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.




3. This was the first Scrapbook program I bought (I know have three, this one, Scrapbook Factory, and Microsoft Picture It) and I was really disappointed with the user interface - especially the part about cropping photos.

   I don't do traditionally scrapbooking where you have to use scissors and glue (yuck!). I was also upset to discover that you can't bring in cropped images because Hallmark Scrapbook Studio loses the transparency.

   But the graphics are beautiful. The layouts are very good starting points. And, I just export everything to another program.

   One last thing, the licensing agreement allows you to use the graphics for business use as for as I can tell.

   So I can't recommend it to as THE scrapbooking program to get but then again I couldn't do that for any of the programs that I've tried. I plan on getting Scrapbook Studio 2 - just to get more graphics.




4. To anyone deciding whether or not to buy this, first of all, it is made by Sierra, so it works like Print Artist does. So, if you like Print artist, then this will be easy for you to use. This software, like Print Artist, lets you change the colors of the graphics, which I love. This software includes beautiful predesigned projects, the especially great ones are the baby themes, holiday themes, and heritage themes. The graphics included in the predesigned projects can be replaced with other graphics if you want to. The bad part about this software, just like Print Artist, is when you put photos in, it resizes it to fit the box, which means most of the time it will be distorted in some way. The best solution I have found is to edit your photos first, which means if you click on the square or rectangle, the bottom right hand corner will tell you the size of that rectangle. So then, you go resize it in a photo editing software by either making it that exact size or something equivalent to that size. So, if the box is 3in. x 4in., then you can use that size or 4.5in x 6in(1.5 times original) or 6in. x 8 in (2 times original) or anything else equivalent. This process might seem too hard at first, but after you get used to it, it goes pretty fast. This seemed to be the big problem for people, and for the price of the software, I think it is totally worth it even if you have to take that extra step for photos. The other solution is to add the photo by itself (insert graphic), then place it in on to of the photo spot- this doesn't work that well for frames. I, myself, don't usually print out photos in the photo spots, because I print the pages on cardstock, and you don't get great photos when printed on cardstock, so I cut out the spot for the photo and then put a printed or actual photo behind it. The great graphics include: realistic looking fabric and quilling, buttons, and gorgeous backgrounds. Totally worth it!



5. Great product, so easy that my kids use it to make cards for their friends.

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5 comments about VideoWave 7 Professional.

1. I bought this software because it was cheap and the "box" showed all these features that i needed! Plus, it said that if help is needed, you will get it. HOWEVER, once i started using the software, i noticed it had lotts of bugs and it took for ever to make a DVD. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I HAD WAS THAT THE SOUND AND VIDEO DID'NT GO. For example, i videotaped my brothers football game and the sound of the play STARTED BEFORE THE PLAY ITSELF. I went to support for roxio and there help sucked! I would not buy this....AT ALL. Spend your money on something better even if you have to pay $40 more dollars!
   
   I suggest: Power Director 4 =$80 or Adobe Premeire Elements = $100



2. I thought this was a dream program, and it woked well for about a year. But for the last two videos I have shot, the audio has been anywhere between 2 and 4 seconds out of sync with the video. Extremely frustrating, and I have not made any progree fixing it. I'd buy something else.



3. I had earlier versions of this program. This version has many more features than the earlier version and is extrememly easy to use. I was even able to make one full video and burn it to DVD. However, on my second attempt to make a video I ran into the audio sync problem. This is when you play video but the audio is either ahead or behind the video. When I play the video clips that I have captured in the preview screen and on my computer they are fine. The audio and the video are in perfect sync. However, when they are added to the storyline the audio is off. I have been on the help website and there are thousands of people that have had this same problem. The solutions that people are posting are extreme. I am not willing to rework my computer so that this program will work on it, especially since the program worked fine last week and now it is now working. My system is great, the problem is the software, not my computer. I am going to try Adode's Premiere video editing software. I have heard good things about it from the other people having trouble on the Videowave forums.
   
   Trust me, don't waste your money and time learing to use a program only to have it stop working!



4. I purchased videowave 7 pro and the cd will not even install (out of the retail box) ... get a 'isl7.tmp error' on multiple drives / different PC's, after rebooting, etc.. trying to get ahold of their customer-no-service is a real joke! Even the required 'ask Roxanne' doesn't offer this product in the REQUIRED product selection which you MUST CHOOSE ONE. I only wish I'd read these reviews before purchasing.



5. This is a great editing system, it's tough to get the hang of at first but once you get the routine down it works great. PC Magazine gave this an above average rating...I agree completely.

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3 comments about Printmaster Greeting Cards.

1. This is another great card making product but I don't believe as good as Hallmark. But? I still use it a whole lot and love it! I know you will too! Try it out! And take a chance on a great product!



2. Thought the cards would be like Broderbund's American Gretings Creatacard Platinum 8 software but it was not and I did not like what I got.



3. I own Hallmark Card Studio 2006, and this product is a different, interesting addition to greeting-card-making. It has lots of kinds of pictures, i.e., aquatic mammals/fish, etc, for making "fun" children's cards.

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