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(More customer reviews)Hello.. Let me start off by saying I have been digitally scrapbooking for about 3 years. The only program I have every used before Memory Mixer 3 was Scrapbook Factory so I am going to write my review by comparing the two. I really loved Scrapbook Factory, it is so easy to use. You basically just click and drag everything. Want to rotate a picture, just click on it and drag it to the angel you want. Super easy but man dose it have a lot of bugs. If you want to copy and past something, forget it, it takes forever and if you want to move an object around on the page you have to use the arrow keys because if you try to drag it, it freezes or takes an eternity. When I got my new laptop with Windows 7, it seemed like the problems doubled. I just couldn't stand the slowness and freezing anymore so a friend suggested I try Memory Mixer.
Pro's
-It's very fast. I can drag things across the page and they move immediatly. Also, copy and past are very fast. No freezing. Much better than SF.
-It has better pre-designed pages. I don't really use them, but some of them are pretty cute. Also, the paper and emblishments it comes with look a lot better.
-I love the color match tool. If you put a mat on a picture and you want it to match something else on your page all you have to do is click on the color match tool and drag it to the color you want to match, click on it and your done. You could do this is SF but it was more complicated.
-One of the main reasons I decided to try this is because you can put video, voice overs, and music on your scrapbook page. I though that would be fun and while a really like the voice over and music feature the video is pretty lame. It's tiney, maybe 3 inches by 3 inches and I can't find a way to make it fit the page.
-And last, it's really easy to save as a jpeg or burn to a dvd. You couldn't do this in SF, the only thing I could save them as were pdf files.
Con's
-Once you group items you can't change there size without ungrouping them and changing them all seperatly. This is one of the biggest problems. It drives me CRAZY. I hate it when I get a page almost done and I just need to tweek the size of a few grouped items to make them fit better and I have to do it all seperatly. It's a pain!!!
-You can't rotate a picture by clicking and dragging it, you have to do it on a slider bar off to the left. This isn't a big deal but I just liked the way you could do it in SF better.
-The last thing I really dislike is you can't move items off the page and set them off to the side until you are ready to use them. I hope that makes sense. A square page only takes up so much space on the screen you have a lot left over to the side. I liked usuing this as my work space. I could put pictures or embelishments or other things I wanted to use on my page there until I was ready to use them. Then I would just drag them into place. But if you try to do that in MM3 it won't allow you to. It tells you, you have to put it back on the page or delete it. Really stupid. Why would they do that.
Overall, I like it. It has some great features and you can put a nice page together pretty easily with none of the bugs that were so frustrating in SF. But there a still a ton of little things they could do to make it MUCH better. I wish I could combine the two, then you would have the perfect scrapbooking program. Hope this helps.
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