This is the first program I have run into in a long time that is so unintuitive that I actually had to look at the instructions to figure out how to get to the scrapbooking. It starts up with (extremely limited) photo editing as the main desktop and I actually exitted the program and restarted it, thinking I had somehow installed the wrong program!

So I finally get to the scrapbooking and all of the templates look really gawdy and awful but I'll load one and give it a try. Only they won't load -- it keeps telling me to insert my CD again. The same CD I loaded the software from, only one drive, no tricky mapping and the thing doesn't even try to access the drive before shooting out an error message.

I paid very little for the Creative Photo Albums software and it was great. I paid a little more for this stuff and it is just useless!

"My Scrapbook Edition"
My Scrapbook Edition is just what I was looking for. It is perfect for almost everything, except I still love my real die cuts and page borders.
I messed around with my copy of Scrapbook Edition just to see if it really could do what it claimed. My biggest concern, based on other software and reviews was, "Can it really output 12 x 12 pages?" And, much to my surprise - it could! I printed some of the templates included out to an HP 1220C.
At first the preview showed that the print would take two sheets of paper. This was definitely not acceptable, and I almost gave up. Then I went into the printer properties from my control panel in Windows and changed some of the default settings and came up with an almost perfect 12 x 12 page. There is one little problem though, with that setting it leaves about 1/4 inch margin around the page. I am going to try setting the defaults to 13 x 13 and see what happens from there.

"One month later and my opinion has changed...."
Hi, it's me again, the one who wrote the first/previous review. As a service to all scrapbookers out there, I must revise my previous review to reflect some things that I have since found out.

When I wrote the first review, I had sat and designed away for hours, enthralled with the program. The next day though, when I tried to print those pages out, trouble was found. When I send a 12" page to print, the program superimposes on my page four red lines, which tech support claims are Print Margins. These margins are at the top, left and right edges of the page correctly. But the bottom "margin" is at least a 1/2" too high. I have written many emails to tech support and while the first two were at least answered (though no solution was offered) the rest have gone unanswered (even though I wrote I would come back here and warn fellow scrapbookers!) Tech support verified that this "margin" line is not changeable, moveable, or removeable, but that's it. They have been unable to tell me how to get a 12" page to print top to bottom. Therefore, since recieving this program I have not been able to print so much as a single 12x12" page. Not one.

I also discovered a design flaw in the text box. The text box is very small and only displays two lines of type, about 20 characters per line. This was fine for making captions under photo's. But the first time I tried to journal a story, it was a mess. Lines will continue to type indefinately so you have to hit 'Enter' to drop down to the next line, but since you only see 20 characters or so in the text box, you can't line up the lines in the paragraph as you can't tell where the other lines end.

Being unable to journal or print has forced me to go back to my other programs. I'm so sad, this program has such great features it's a shame not to use it. Hopefully, they will develop a patch that will correct the printing problem and journaling design flaw so that they will truly have the best scrapbook program out there...that works, anyway.