Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0 [Old Version]

by Nova Development US

Product Features

• Create scrapbooks to share your memories and re-discover the past
• Over 2,500 scrapbook templates and customizable projects
• Over 20,000 premium quality graphics
• Enjoy leading-brand clip art from Art Explosion
• Web slide shows and albums, and play CD scrapbooks on any DVD player

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000C7GEQ
• Item model number: 40441
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 25, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,756 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #46 in Software > Graphics > Home Publishing > Clip Art
  • #47 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Scrapbooking
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Preserve precious memories to share with loved ones and future generations with version 2.0 of America’s best selling scrapbooking software. Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0 has everything you need. It offers the ultimate collection of templates for scrapbooks and other keepsake projects, featuring beautiful graphics and inspirational quotations sure to capture the excitement of any occasion or event.

Because Scrapbook Factory Deluxe is the only product of its kind built on a robust graphics engine, you can achieve results never before possible with other products. Included are sophisticated drawing tools, spectacular lettering options, transparency support and much more.

Looking to capture the beauty of a wedding? The fun of a family vacation? What about the excitement of your child’s first lost tooth? No matter what the occasion, Scrapbook Factory Deluxe gives you incomparable tools – all guaranteed to help you produce projects you and your family will cherish for a lifetime.

Features Include:

SHARE WARM THOUGHTS AND CREATE LIFELONG MEMORIES WITH ...

• Millions of Unique Possibilities
Share new memories and re-discover the past as you create wonderful scrapbooks you’ll cherish for a lifetime.
• 2,500+ Scrapbook Templates and Customizable Projects
• 20,000+ Premium-Quality Graphics
Trust your projects to Art Explosion, the leading name in clip art.
• 500+ Fonts
• Built-in Digital Photo Editor
• Digital Scrapbooks
Web slide shows and albums, plus all-new CD scrapbooks you can play on any DVD player!
• And Much More!

System Requirements:
Windows 98, NT, 2000, Me or XP, Pentium 166 Mhz or faster; 64 MB RAM; and CD-ROM drive

Product Description

Whether you're new to scrapbooking or a seasoned crafter, Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0 gives you all the tools you need to create sensational projects for family and friends, including spectacular special effects, captions, balloons and creative borders, facing pages, embellishments you can add to any page, spell checker, Web albums and slide shows, CD photo scrapbooks, and much more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

84 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Clumsy with Lots of Bugs!, April 7, 2004

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MicheleLB "Michele" (Southwestern Connecticut - United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This is my first scrapbooking software. Unfortunately it did not live up to my expectations. For starters, the software has a few bugs and issues:

1. On "full Install" it tells you that you will need to use the 2nd CD (with the Art and Fonts) to finish installation, BUT it never asks for it. Installation completed with bare minimum artwork and the 2nd CD will not autorun in any computer I tried it on. It's very time consuming to try to find a graphic on the 2nd CD because there are too many folders!

2. The images are not "common" file names so you cannot import them to another program from the CD either. Basically - I can't use the artwork CD unless the CD is in the drive, which is not a possibility for me at all times, especially while listening to music.

3. Inserting New Pages - When the program starts it gives you the option to pick from a list of pages to use as templates for your first page. Unfortunately, once the first page is done you can't go back to pick from the templates for page 2. Your only options are to start a blank page, or duplicate the same page. This is a problem if you want one book with more than one type of page.

4. Cutesy artwork - the box that I purchased shows many examples of elegant looking scrapbook pages, but from what I can see of the artwork included, the templates are filled with cartoonish characters and designs. I was unable to find one template suitable for an adult birthday party, or adult get together. While there is a LOT of artwork, I would personally not use most of it.

If I were to say anything positive about this program, it's that it comes with many other features that it doesn't list on the box, such as a calendar maker, journal pages and label maker, etc. However I would have much rather skipped those "freebies" if it meant I got a higher quality product for what I want to use it for - no-nonsense scrapbooking. If my review was helpful please vote for it. Thank you for looking!

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0, March 26, 2005

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mm2239 (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

While I admit some of the problems people have mentioned (cutesy art, not installing 2nd CD, proprietary artwork, inserting new pages, can't copy and paste from a different program, and can open only one page at a time, THIS PROGRAM IS SIMPLY AMAZING!!!

The scrapbook pages I create are mainly MY photographs with the other nonphoto capabilities of SFD 2.0 (squares/rectangles as picture mats, text boxes, custom shapes, borders, lines, etc.). Rarely do I even think about using "clipart" in my pages.
Some of the things that are really cool about this program:

1. You can edit your layout! One of the things that's frustrating about real scrapbooking is there is no undo button. You have to be soooo careful not to mess up your layout when working with real objects.
2. Auto alignment of grouped items. What a time saver! Even lets you set equal spacing between items, horizontally or vertically.
3. Customize the shape of your photo, circle, oval, rounded corners, heart, arrow, etc., over 20 shapes available, plus flip and rotate.
4. Add a border to your photo, two tools: one is similar to MS word insert arrow options adds a line border (any color, varying thickness, varying styles) and the other is to make the border from Nova's clipart or ANY other graphic or photo.
5. Edit your photo. Amazingly powerful for a $29.95 program! Adjust color, focus, tone; fix flaws (clone tool, red eye redux, dust/scratch tool); paint tools; and special effects tools (blur, emboss, grainy paper, pixelate, antique, tile, puzzle, 40 effects in all)
6. Lighten or darken the photo, great for watermarking!
7. Dual-layered page (foreground and background) effects you apply on one layer don't affect the other.
8. MS Word-type spellchecker, very powerful!
9. Export your complete project as a graphic file.
10. Put your completed project on a CD and share it with family and friends.
11. Create a label for your CD.
12. Prints OUTSTANDING 12 x 12 pages with a wide format printer like the Canon i9000 and Epsons's 12 x 12 matte photo paper, absolutely stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check some examples at http://organizedscrapbooks.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&cat=18480

I tell you, if you like digital scrapbooking, THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU. It is so easy and fun to use!

Some of the things that are NOT cool about this program:

1. Cannot cut and paste from another program. You must save the graphic/photo to your hard drive and use the insert graphic from file option. I am scrapbooking my 22-year Air Force career and I like to capture pics of places I visited over the years from the Internet (e.g., reenlisted on the USS Arizona Memorial and wanted one of their pictures as my background)
2. I created subfolders under the default graphic file location and added the graphics/photos from disc 2, but there evidently is an SFD-imposed limit on the number of subfolders. I don't recall the number (about 20) but once you exceed that limit, SFD doesn't see the extra folders when you insert a graphic from the SFD library (default graphic file location).
3. SFD doesn't support transparent backgrounds. One of their graphics from the second disc is a torn page, but there is white space to the right of the tear. So you can't send the torn page to the front and have a different colored background other than white, or you see the torn page, white space, and the colored background. It doesn't look like a torn piece overlaying another piece at all unless you leave a white background.
4. No search feature for the graphics!

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars User friendly!, October 23, 2003

By 

Sonja Stein (Orem, Utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I have only had this product two days and I absolutlly love it! I am not creative and do not like spending a lot of time doing a scrapbook and this is the answer to all my prayers! I can make quick cute pages is seconds, print them out and stick them in the book! Awesome!
It is worth spending my money on ink and photo paper instead of all the scrapbook stuff you have to buy and store somewhere in your house away from kids etc..
I highly recommend this product.