CraftArtist...

[Jam-on-toast]

This week's newsletter has just landed in my inbox and I was that is sponsored by Lynne Anzelc Designs. I have seen and admired layouts with her designs but I don't believe I have ever worked with an of her products so I had a quick look at her shop here. Boy, was I surprised to see that she offers kits in Craft Artist paks too.

Does anyone here remember this software? CraftArtist was my introduction to digital scrapbooking. I LOVED it and was devastated when it was made a legacy product (and, as as Windows upgraded... just wouldn't stop crashing). In my search for new software, I downloaded a trial version of eerything: PSE, Affinity Designer, Memory Suite... I tried them all... and was so baffled by PSE - I couldn't even clip a paper to a layer in a template without watchng a video - that I ended up buying Affinity Designer which had similar interface and inner logic to it - kinda... There was still a learning curve involved - and five years later I am STILL learning new tricks... in a way CraftArtist is somewhat of a grandma of my scrapping... and there's a part of me that misses it dearly....

 

[tjscraps]

I feel that way about Microsoft Digital Image Pro ... that's how I got my start in Scrapbooking - until I got a copy of PSE from somewhere, then PS CC and now PSCS. I've never heard of CraftArtist though!

 

[Susan - s3js]

@tjscraps Trina, I LOVED DIP, too and was devestated when it would no longer run on Windows 10. Microsoft flat out lied when they said Windows 10 would do everything DIP did and more. It was so user friendly! I am now 4 years on in PSCC and am positive I will never learn all of it. Some of it just absolutely eludes me. Murray State used to offer some on-line certification courses for Photoshop but I can't seem to find them any more. If I ould I would use my waivers in a heartbeat. I need to see if the Graphic Arts professors will let me into their classes even though I'm not a major in their area. It's amazing for doing work for history papers and maybe one day a dissertation!

 

[Jam-on-toast]

I feel that way about Microsoft Digital Image Pro ... that's how I got my start in Scrapbooking - until I got a copy of PSE from somewhere, then PS CC and now PSCS. I've never heard of CraftArtist though!

And I've never heard of Microsoft DIP... amazing how many software options exist...

 

[Jam-on-toast]

@tjscraps Trina, I LOVED DIP, too and was devestated when it would no longer run on Windows 10. Microsoft flat out lied when they said Windows 10 would do everything DIP did and more. It was so user friendly! I am now 4 years on in PSCC and am positive I will never learn all of it. Some of it just absolutely eludes me. Murray State used to offer some on-line certification courses for Photoshop but I can't seem to find them any more. If I ould I would use my waivers in a heartbeat. I need to see if the Graphic Arts professors will let me into their classes even though I'm not a major in their area. It's amazing for doing work for history papers and maybe one day a dissertation!

Photoshop can do so much... sometimes I look at the layouts in the gallery and can't even begin to imanige what was done to create the effect...

 

[zanthia]

i recall craft artist - it had a very loyal following and saw such fabuluos pages created with it. i tried it but couldnt get used to it, too differnt from PSE so it actually seemed way harder for me to use. at the site jsut art think there are still some that are using it