The brand new version of the Digital Scrapbook Artist was launched on 25th January and it’s got some great new features that weren’t on the original one including:
- Blend modes (a very high-end feature of products such as PhotoShop, allows seamless blending of layers)
- Photo Lab (advanced built-in photo editing software)
- Hover selection aid (items will glow when you hover over them with your mouse to enable easy selection)
- Colour palette designer (select a colour and you will be shown colours that go with it to help you design your page)
- Brush offset tool (adjust where a brush stroke sits on an object – i.e. move it outside or inside the object)
- Extra brushes & edges
- Stencils (you can drag any embellishment/shape etc into the stencil tool and it creates a stencil of your object)
As well as all this, it will have all the features from DSA 1.5 (which was a free upgrade released in June 2009) that includes:
1. New Digikit manager (replacing the content pack manager). This enables you to search all your kits at once using your own keywords (like “Ribbon” for example) and search by category, style or colour. You can see any items which are available as free downloads or are available to buy from DaisyTrail when you search.
2. New Digikit Creator. This enables you to create your own kits from items you have downloaded from other sites or created yourself. This includes organising items into embellishments, backgrounds, materials, etc. You can even create your own intelligent frames (so your photos can snap to fit like how the frames in DaisyTrail kits behave) and alphabets (so if you have an alphabet from another site you can tell DSA what letter is what so you can type in whole titles).
3. Drag objects into the tabs on the left. If you have created an item that you may want to use many times in your layout you are able to drag it into the one of the tabs (like embellishments for example) and can then drag it back out as many times as you like.
4. Format painter. If you have formatted an object in a particular way (for example applied a shadow to it) and want another object to have exactly the same shadow, you can copy that from one object to another with just a couple of clicks.
5. You can change the colour of photo brushes (for example stitches) which you couldn’t do before.
6. There is a new online tab which gives live feeds of the tutorial videos or other news from DaisyTrail.
7. You can use the graduated fills to tint photos/objects – so a photo can be tinted from blue to red for example.
There is a competition where you can win 1 of 3 Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 kits worth £29.99 each. Simply click here to enter.
For more information about all of the Digital Scrapbook Artist software ranges visit www.serif.com
