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My wife wants to get into scrapbooking, and at the shops the other day, we found a few software packages that supposedly for scrapbooking.

Isn't the scrapbooking software essentially a desktop publishing / page layout design software with lots of pre-built templates? Or does it have other functions too?


Anyone else (or has partners) into scrapbooking?

My wife uses the old cut-and-paste method. (With scissors and acid-free tape, not software!)

Essentially you're right, the software has a whole heap of pre set info, templates that you can whatever too, but I have found that the best part of using scrapbooking software is the fact that it has heaps of papers and embelishments that you can use, and put together a page on the computer, that way you aren't wasting paper if you decide that you don't like what you have put together...but I do like the sizzors...that might be like me enjoying getting into the darkroom......

Oh by the way, I ended up getting Art Explosions's Scrapbook Factory Deluxe (amazon link).

I haven't played with it much myself (my wife's been doing all the playing) but she's produced some great birthday cards and stuff like that and using my photos.