Well, let's get started exploring My Memories scrap book software.

I have already installed the program so once I start the program this is the first screen I see.

We get to choose if we want to use one of the many pre-designed scrap books that come with the program and just add our photos and text and stickers, etc., or do we want to start from scratch and make our own.

It looks like the 3rd option is to go online and get even more pre-designed pages if we want.

This is an ad for the software I'm exploring on this web page.

The template I picked is "A Day  in the Life".

It is now showing me all the different styles and layouts of pages within the theme of A Day in the Life. 

So it looks like I can have lots of pages all with the same look and feel because of the same colors and graphics even though each page can be different.  Pretty cool!

This is where we add our photos to the album.  It looks like we can add them one at a time either as we build our pages or add them all at once.

If you had lots of pics and didn't care just which page they ended up on (initially anyway) you could put them all in a single folder on your hard drive and My Memories would grab them all at once.

I decided to add one picture and this is what my screen looks like in preparation to add it.

You can see I am working on the first page of this multi-page template.

At the bottom of the screen it says, "Background music shown here".  I have no idea what that is!  How do you "see" music anyway?

Look how the menu choices change once I click "Photos"

I click "Add"

Now it's really fun!  I have inserted Morgan's picture into the scrap book.

I just have to now slide her around to where I think she will look best in this template.

But look on the right at all the stuff I can do with this photo!  AMAZING!

Just like I clicked "Photos" to add a picture, I clicked "Embellishments" to fancy up this page.

Look at the list of categories on the left of things that are built in that can be added with a click.  Hah! No more trips to Michael's for stickers!!

It looks like there are thousands of other embellishments available online as well.

And there's the purple flower I added.

And when I clicked on the Word Art Designer button I was able to change the text of the template from "A Day in the Life" to "Happy Birthday Morgan!"

And there's my first scrap book page built from a template.  I could have changed every single part of it if I wanted.

It looks like lots of free templates come with the program and you can also buy special templates for a few dollars if you want.

Now let's go back and build our album from scratch instead of using a template.

Select, "Design Your Own"

Notice the first page I made is shown at the bottom?

This is where we decide how we want the photos laid out on the page.

I think we will add backgrounds and colors and text later.

I think that's kinda neat how the pictures overlap and are placed at a fun angle.

This is where we apply a background.  See the choices on the right side?

But a solid color is just too plain for Morgan, so I picked the background paper option.

Again, there is a big list of choices.

This screen shot gives you some idea of the variety of templates available and what they cost.

Click the picture to see all of them.

So there we have it.  We made 2 scrap book pages - one from a template and one from scratch.

We added photos, changed text, even added a purple flower!

Let's see what we can do with this masterpiece 2 page album.

I clicked the "Share Album" button and got these choices.

Video?  Gonna be a short movie with just 2 pages!

Well, I'm impressed.

While I didn't do anything real exotic, I was able to do everything I wanted without ever once checking the help screen.

And remember, I have never made a scrapbook before or even seen this software before.

The software never hung or crashed and the install went without a hitch.

I think it sells for less than $40.  You will have to check the ads to see if they are having a sale, but even at $40 this looks like a lot of software to me.

If, after looking over my shoulder at My Memories Suite software, you think you want to try it yourself but don't know how to install software, CLICK THIS to see the steps I took to install it on my computer.  It's quite easy, and the screen shots will make it even easier.  "Installing" software sounds like you have to open your computer and "install" something into it, but it really is nothing more than clicking on a button that say's, "Install" and then answering a few questions that can almost always be answered with the default choice.  You'll see the whole short process at the link above.  But don't bother unless you want to try My Memories. And even then, the install is so easy you may not want to even bother looking at my screen shots.

To learn more click this.

This is an ad for the My Memories Suite scrapbooking software we explored above.