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iRemember 2.5

27.11.2009
These days, we can view and share photos almost as fast as we can capture them. With a quick click of a button, your photos can be stored and sent to friends, relatives, and social media sites. This type of image sharing is fun and fast—and everywhere—but for special occasions you may want to be able to tell a story with more color, creativity, energy, and style. Digital scrapbooking—creating electronic scrapbook pages you can share—gives you the best of both worlds, letting you gather favorite images quickly and then using them to create a layout that tells the larger story in a rich and meaningful way.

iRemember 2.5.1 is a digital scrapbooking program that is designed to help you gather, fine-tune, and share your favorite images in customizable page layouts that you can tailor to create a story larger than a single photo can tell. You can combine your favorite photos with other design elements—page backgrounds, clip art, formatted text, and more—to craft vibrant pages that showcase your pictures.

The program launched easily and quickly enough, but past that point it didn’t do much to make a new user feel at home. For example, even if you are launching the program for the first time, a dialog box immediately appears asking you to choose the size of the page you want to create. That's not too friendly and—especially if you haven’t created a scrapbook in awhile—it may leave you feeling somewhat baffled about what to do next. The next step in the process isn’t intuitive either, because then you have to search for a page template—assuming you want to use one. You’ll find templates in iRemember's ClipArt browser, available from the File menu. One upside is that the templates in iRemember are colorful, if elementary, and offer a range of styles that should appeal to different users with a variety of subject interests.

It's relatively easy to create scrapbooks with iRemember, once you get started. I especially liked the Inspector, once I located it: it's reminiscent of iWeb's inspector and easy to use. You might want to keep iRemember's Website available, as its handy online tour provides most of the background and instruction you need to produce your scrapbook. There are two simple tutorials available in Help as well; you can open the PDFs and follow the instructions as you create your first scrapbook onscreen.

The search feature in the iRemember ClipArt browser lets you locate templates that fit the mood you’re after. For example, enter the words , , or to find templates designed specifically for those events. There’s also an iRemember store that you can access directly from the Inspector. It offers additional templates and embellishments (the small extras you can add to the page like ribbons, buttons, tiles, and more) that you can purchase.

iRemember ships with a sweeping collection of 15,000 images—backgrounds, borders, ribbons, and embellishments of all kinds. Simply click the Select arrow, point to the category you want, and click the style. When you see the item you want in the ClipArt dialog box, drag it to your page.