My  Memories Suite is a digital scrapbooking software that makes your scrapbooking efforts easy. They recently came out with their Version 2.0 and so I thought I’d give you tutorial on how to digital scrapbook with it. I’m going to show you how to create a scrapbook page from scratch. This also gives you an opportunity to take a peek at the software’s features. Okay, here we go.

1. Upon opening the My Memories Suite (MMS) program, you’ll see a window that says, “New Album Options”. Select the option that says “Design Your Own”.

My Memories Suite Tutorial Step 1

2. You’ll be asked to name your album. You also need to instruct the program where you want the file to be saved. So just fill in these information at the specified places. You also have to choose how you want your page to look like: landscape, square or portrait. For this tutorial, I selected the square shape.

My Memories Suite Tutorial - Step2

3. You will be presented with a list of pre-designed layouts. Since we are creating from scratch, select the first one on the list that says “Blank Page.”

My Memories Suite: Select Your Layout

4.  On the right hand side, you’ll see your control panel. This is where you select your background, add photos, embellishments and text. If you click on the drop-down arrows, it will expand your list of options. Let me show you real quick what the scrapbook page looks like. Then I will explain how to add each element.

My Memories Suite: Sample Layout

5. First thing you do is add a background. Expand your list and you will see the image below. I clicked the following to get the background I wanted: Paper – Stripes – Thin Stripe – Cranberry

My Memories Suite: Selecting Background

6. To add a photo, you click on “Photos” on your control panel. Click on the box that says “Add” (the one with the image of a camera). You then select which photo on your computer you want to use.  As you can see, there are many tools to edit your photo. If there is red-eye, you can fix that. You can zoom-in and crop to cut out unwanted distractions.  The ‘shape’ option allows you to ‘cut’ your photo into certain shapes like a heart, circle, diamond, square, star etc…. With this sample layout of mine, I added a mat.  I forgot to add a  shadow. I should have done that. Anyway. I clicked on “effects” and brightened the photo a little.

My Memories Suite: Adding Photos

7. Next I added the embellishments. The stitched flowers, curved stitching, scroll flourish, brads and dotted knots I used are all under the embellishment selection. Just click and go through what you want to decorate your page with. Move them around or rotate them to get the look you want.

My Memories Suite: Choosing Embellishments

8.  Right click on any image to change the layer order of  it. For example, if the photo was on top of the stitched flowers and I wanted it to be underneath, I would click “Send to Back”.

My Memories Suite: Layer Order

9. It is good to give your scrap page a title to highlight what your scrap is about. Since the purpose of my scrap is to journal baby’s habit of chewing her thumb, I used the “Word Art Designer” to craft out the words “Little Chomper”.  After selecting my font and the size of the text, I continued to give it a shadow and selected “Enable Shape” to make the words curve.

My Memories Suite: Adding Word Art

10. Last of all, I clicked on “Text” to add some journaling. You don’t really want too fancy a font when journaling. The idea is to keep it legible.

My Memories Suite: Adding Text

10. When you are all done, you want to be careful when saving your work. All you have to do is click on the “save” icon as shown below. You don’t have to click on “File” and “Save as”. Doing so will create a duplicate file.

My Memories Suite: Saving Your File

11. If you want to share your file, go to your control panel and select “Share Album”. You can print out the pages or export it to JPEG to post on your blog or email.  You have a choice of exporting your file into different sizes: Large, Medium, Small and for Web/Email. You can also create calendars and greeting cards. If you want to make a CD/DVD, choose”Multimedia Output”.

My Memories Suite: Sharing Your Album

My Memories Suite: Exporting Files

I hope you have found this tutorial helpful. In this tutorial I only used backgrounds and embellishments that came with the software. You can actually use your own scrapbook stuff too. I’ll leave that for another tutorial.

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Have you ever wondered how people turn their photographs into awesome scrapbooking pages? Well, now there’s a software for scrapbooking that makes it easy for you to do the same.

PRODUCT NAME: MY MEMORIES SUITE

WHAT DOES IT DO?

A software for scrapbooking. It allows you to digitally scrapbook your photos and then you can showcase your creative work as a slideshow, save it as a DVD, print it out or bound it in a photobook.

IS IT EASY TO USE?

Yes, it is very user-friendly. The software comes with over 1500 background papers, over 1000 page elements and over 30 templates. You can choose to use a ready-designed template where you just add your photographs or create a page from scratch. The process is not complicated at all. They have tutorials to show you how to get the most out of the software.

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WHO IS IT FOR?

• Scrapbooking Beginners
  This software for scrapbooking is perfect for beginners. It’s easy to figure out how to use the features. Basically to build a scrapbook page, you choose a background. It can be a solid color, patterned or textured. Then you add your photos. The templates that come with the software will make it easy for you to design the page. You can add some journaling to record down your thoughts and make the photo more memorable. Some people like to add wordarts, quotes or poems to make the page more special. Let’s not forget embellishments, frames, tags, ribbons, buttons and a host of other cute things to liven up the design. You don’t need complicated photo editing skills or be artsy fartsy to create a scrapbook. My Memories Suite makes it very easy for you.
• People who want an easy way to scrapbook
  Scrapbooking is a lot of fun but let’s be truthful, it can take up a lot of your time and may require certain graphic skills. With My Memories Suite, scrapbooking is fast and easy. You don’t have to crack your head thinking of layouts. Just pick and choose from the available templates. Basically, to create a page, all you do with this scrapbooking software is pick and choose. How much time you spend creating a page depends on how much you want to add to the design.

WANNA SEE SOME DIGITAL  SCRAPBOOKING LAYOUTS DONE WITH THIS SOFTWARE?

Take a look at some of the pages I did with this scrapbooking software.

I used a ready made scrapbooking layout from the software. I chose a textured background. Then added a square shape and selected a checkered paper. Some of the embellishments are from the software and some are not.

This was very easy to do. The template was ready made. All I did was add the photo and changed the words.

I started with a ready made layout but later ended up moving the position of the pictures to accomodate the embellishments. Background paper and the words “Merry Christmas” were imported from my computer.  So this page is a combination of stuff from the software and stuff from elsewhere.

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WHAT IS SO GREAT ABOUT THIS DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING SOFTWARE?

• It’s more than just putting photos on a page. You can make an interactive album that allows full user interaction. You can add music, video, page transitions and hyperlinks to your scrap pages. You then burn it into CD-R or DVD-R discs and have others view it on their computers.
• You can share your memories with others in so many different ways:- Print and bind into a traditional scrapbook- Convert it into a photobook.- Make them into greeting cards- Create calendars- Share them in Facebook, Flickr or Twitter. It allows you to export your scraps into jpeg form. You have 4 sizes to choose from: large (3600 pixels), medium (2400 pixels), small (1200 pixels) and web/email (600 pixels).
• You are not limited to what they have in the software. You can upload and use your own backgrounds and embellishments as long as they are png or jpg files. You can also buy new templates and designer packs from their online store to add to the software. The prices are quite competitive to other places.

DOWNSIDE OF THIS SOFTWARE

• It is not a photo editing program. So don’t expect it to have all the editing tools of photoshop. You can’t touch up the photos you want to use. So no, you can’t erase that pimple you have on your face Here are some photo editing tools they have:- Mat- Shadow- Crop- Red Eye- Rotate, Mirror, Flip- Change the photo to black & white, sepia, blue and red- Brighten or darken the photo- Blur, Sharpen, Negative and Gamma Correction

  - Emboss, Sketch, Impressionist Painting, Fish Eye

  - Add a shape to the photo e.g. circle, diamond, heart, scalloped mat, star, talk bubble etc….

• If you don’t have a fast connection, downloading may take a while. You have 2 options, you get either download the software or get the CD. Some people like having the CD as backup. You never know when you may have to reinstall your computer.

FEATURES

Here is a list of feature you get with My Memories Suite Version 3.0 (as listed on their website).

• Drag & drop page elements such as embellishments, backgrounds, and layouts from a convenient sidebar with the Resource Gallery.
• Have precise control of your page design with Zoom.
• Position journaling around circular and angled shapes.
• Create your own word art with effects like bevel & emboss, gradients, warping, and more!
• Space elements on your page evenly with advanced align function.
• Search through thousands of embellishments quickly to find the one perfect graphic.
• Layer multiple background papers—perfect for mats, paper strips, frames, and more.
• Combine pages from albums with different shapes.
• Adjustable canvas sizes for other craft projects
• Edit your text directly on your page with WYSIWYG precision.
• See your effects on your page as you add and adjust them with Intuitive Preview.
• Duplicate and mirror your pages easily.
• View your page layouts one at a time, or together as double-page spreads.
• Easily share your album with enhanced photobook, calendar, and card wizards.
• Add multiple pictures to your layout quickly with FastFill.
• Burn your creations onto a CD or DVD with better optical device support.

There are many more features to this incredible software. I didn’t list them all here, but you read all about it at their website.

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MY EXPERIENCE

I’ve been hooked on My Memories Suite since I got it. Before, I used photoshop to create my scrap pages. This software for scrapbooking really does makes things easier and faster. For example, matting a photo now only takes 1 click. Cutting the photo into a shape also takes only 1 click. I also like how I can import in scrapbook stuff already on my computer. I’m not limited to the backgrounds and embellishments that come with the software.

But I did have a problem downloading the software. The first few times I tried, the download speed was super slow. Even after one whole day it was unsuccessful.  I contacted the merchant and their representative told me that they’ve not had that problem with other customers. Maybe it was just my bad luck those few days because after that, the download speed was better and I managed to download it in 1/2 hour.  I must note that the merchant was very good in responding to my concerns. They tried to help me as much as they could.  So, if you have any problem using the software, the merchant is really good at providing support.

Well, I give a thumbs up to My Memories Suite. Many people have asked me what I use to create my scrap pages. Photoshop is good but there is a big learning curve. If you are looking for something simple, fast and easy to use to make a digital scrapbook, this software is ideal for you.

Update (9 January 2010):

I was having a problem opening the software. When I tried, I got this error message “The JVM cannot be started. The main method may have thrown an exception”. I went back to the merchant and they kindly gave me instructions to fix the problem. Once again, goes to show they have very good after-sales support.

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