[mg1970]

Well after comparing all the online reviews I ordered Art Explosian Scrapbook Factor Deluxe 4.0 from OfficeMax.

I started to use it tonight and I am VERY DISSAPOINTED!

The first thing I did was add a photo. It was a hi rez file but when it came in it was tiny. I expanded it to be full screen (I was using it as a title page with some captions). Then I wanted to crop it. Well the crop tool takes you to a little window where you crop it then save. You cannot see what you are cropping! I messed with it a while before I gave up trying to guess what it should look like in the little window to get it to crop to fit my page and just let it overlap. Then I decided to see what it would look like in page preview. The type looked like bitmaps. I then attempted to export my ONE-PAGE scrapbook to PDF. When I changed the resolution to 300 it said it didn't have enough memory to do that -- which I have plenty on my machine. It forced me to choose 72 DPI and the resolution is terrible. No way am I building my scrapbook with poor resolution photos.

Oh, and did I mention that the backgrounds and cliparts are CHEE-SY. I couldn't find the nice graphics that appeared in the demo.

I was thinking that maybe I could just use the clipart for another program but WRONG, it is in some weird format.

I was pretty happy with picaboo but I wanted something with a little more control over the text placement.

Very, very dissappointed.

M