Product Description

Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 is the must-have digital crafting studio and contains all the tools and features needed to create beautiful, handcrafted designs like scrapbooks, cards, invitations, and postcards on a PC, without a steep learning curve. It’s been specifically tailored for the digital scrapbooker and is incredibly easy to use thanks to on-screen prompts and handy toolbars. Unlike any other scrapbooking program, it also contains dedicated tools and features to create fantastic photo-realistic results while drag and drop designing, ready-made layouts and video tutorials make the experience of digital scrapbooking fun, quick and extremely cost effective.

Manufacturer's Description

There's never been a better time to dig your photos out and make something beautiful with them that you can share with others. Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 makes it easy to create scrapbooks, cards, invitations and albums, plus you'll find crafting tools like scissors and stencils and a photo editor, so your designs will be beautiful and totally unique.

Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 makes it easy to create scrapbooks, cards, invitations and albums. Click to enlarge.

Easy to use

The tools and features are designed for digital scrapbookers of all skill and experience levels. Whether you want to make a simple photo page or an entire book of memories using advanced techniques, help is always available.

Help and support
With on-screen prompts to help you at every step of your design, quick access to helpful video tutorials, drag & drop technology for fast designing, and a brand new hover selection tool for accurate object selection, Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 is super easy to use. There's also a friendly user community at Daisytrail.com to provide help whenever you need it.

Import and organise
Get design elements from anywhere--import scanned objects, photos, digikits, and much more for any design project--then create and organize your own digikits with the new Digikit Creator. Organize all your kits by assigning tags like categories, colours, styles, and more, then quickly search for individual items efficiently with the Digikit Browser.

Tools and techniques

All the tools you find in a craft store and then some extra ones thrown in! The easy-to-use tools and effects will enable you to create beautiful designs in minutes.

NEW--Blending
Create stunning effects with professional blend modes. You'll be able to seamlessly blend objects to take on the appearance of any material to give you fabulous results.

NEW--Stencils
Put the perfect finishing touch onto your scrapbook with stencils. Use one of the many included stencils, or easily create your own from any object or embellishment.

Get design elements from anywhere, then create and organize your own digikits with the new Digikit Creator. Click to enlarge.

High 300-dpi resolution allows you to print your projects at home or professionally. Click to enlarge.

Make your photos picture-perfect every time and become a photo editing expert in seconds. Click to enlarge.

Whether you want to make a simple photo page or an entire book of memories using advanced techniques, help is always available. Click to enlarge.

Easily share your scrapbook designs via email in popular image formats, or online at DaisyTrail.com.

Cutting & punching
Cut up your material using fancy scissor edges for extra creative detail, or punch out shapes to make gorgeous decorations for your scrapbook.

Edge effects
Give your materials and objects photo-realistic frayed edges by applying one of the many fantastic edge effects, like Hessian and Carpet, for a lifelike look.

Brushes and stitching
Use brushes to paint on sparkling glitter, decorative beads, fancy stitches and much more. Brushes can be easily customised to achieve the look you want.

Layers
Layers are a great way to stack the objects in your designs and makes arranging them, applying effects, and editing complicated projects super-easy.

Text
Add decorative text and beautiful lettering to your designs in Digital Scrapbook Artist 2. You can even write along editable paths so your text can flow around objects

Filter effects
Your designs will be jumping off the page after using effects like shadows, glows, bevels, embossing and more. These realistic effects are sure to impress everyone.

Your photographs

No one can take perfect pictures all the time, but you can make your photos look exactly how you want them to with the powerful photo editing features in Digital Scrapbook Artist 2.

NEW--PhotoLab
Give your photos a weather-beaten look, turn them into oil painting masterpieces, make funky pop art or combine and customise over 70 effects for amazing photos every time.

You can even edit images to get rid of red eye, remove spots and blemishes, adjust colour, change the contrast, and lots more. Make your photos picture-perfect every time and become a photo editing expert in seconds.

Image Cutout Studio
Use the Image Cutout Studio to remove items from their background or to cut out keepsakes and other items you've scanned in.

It's a fantastic tool if you want to place items on a different background, create a pop out effect, or give an object total focus, plus it's quick and easy to use so you can be ultra-creative with your design projects.

All types of projects

Don't let the name fool you--Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 can be used to create more than just scrapbooks. In fact, you can use it for any design project you can think of.

Scrapbooks
Create as many beautiful scrapbooks as you like, without the cost of buying the tools and materials from a craft store.

Cards
Personalising birthday, Christmas, and greeting cards for family and friends is the perfect way to show you care, and with loads of amazing materials, frames, and embellishments, it's super-easy to make them look beautiful too.

Invitations
Put extra sparkle onto your custom party invitations with the stylish brushes, and add personal touches by using your own objects that you have scanned in, for truly individual and inspiring invites.

Photo books
Display your pictures creatively. With the built-in PhotoLab, you can easily make sure your images look amazing and show them off in all their glory.

Postcards
Print off your scrapbooks and cards and embellish them to create a stunning hybrid design.

Pages of all sizes
Make your designs whatever size you like! Page sizes can be changed quickly and easily to accommodate projects of any size. Choose from 12" x 12", 8" x 8", letter, A4 or specify your own custom size for original design projects.

Sharing

One of the best things about being creative is sharing your designs with friends and family. Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 makes this fun and easy.

DaisyTrail
DaisyTrail.com is our free social scrapbooking website where digital scrapbookers upload (it only takes one click) and share their designs and ideas with friends, family and other digi-scrappers.

Printing
Print off your designs to give to friends and family, or display them around your home. Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 makes it easy to print your beautiful scrapbooks from any popular inkjet or laser printer.

Email
Share your scrapbook in minutes with an email--just click to attach your scrapbook, choose who to send it to, and press 'send'. Anyone with an email-enabled mobile phone can view them too.

PDF & image
Pick from loads of popular file formats when saving your design projects: JPEG, PNG, bitmap, and HD Photo are supported and you can even export as PDF files for professional printing.

Extra features

These advanced tools and features will add extra details to your projects and take them from great to amazing.

Included content
There are five full digikits included with Digital Scrapbook Artist 2, and you can mix and match objects from all of them to create your design masterpieces.

The five digikits are:

Dollhouse
Enchanted
Berry Pie
Painted Backyard
Indie Chic

Each digikit contains a selection of complementary embellishments, materials, backgrounds, frames, an alphabet, at least 4 layouts and some themed brushes.

Shadows
Give your creations a real sense of depth and make objects, embellishments, and photos appear stacked by adding realistic, customisable shadows with just one click and drag of your mouse.

Transparency
Easily adjust the transparency of any item on your page to create some truly amazing effects.