Digikit images

[jaydeetee]

What has really disappointed me is that Serif have formatted these images so that they can only be used in Craft Artist. There are, I'd imagine, many Serif customers who prefer their other programs, like I do, but cannot use these images in them. I think PagePlus is much better for card making than Craft Artist, but I have to use Craft Artist to be able to use them and I just don't like that program, for quite a few reasons.
The programs and these images are all Serif owned products so I don't get why they can't be issued as collections of jpgs and/or pngs on CD or DVD too. If it is because of copyright worries use a licence number as is done with the programs themselves, but don't, please, prevent all the PagePlus users from using them in that. We're Serif customers too, many of us being that for years. I'd happily pay the same price for the same amount of images as in a collection of digikits, but in the format I can use in PagePlus.

[mjh]

Originally Posted by jaydeetee What has really disappointed me is that Serif have formatted these images so that they can only be used in Craft Artist. There are, I'd imagine, many Serif customers who prefer their other programs, like I do, but cannot use these images in them. I think PagePlus is much better for card making than Craft Artist, but I have to use Craft Artist to be able to use them and I just don't like it, for quite a few reasons. The programs and these images are all Serif owned products so I don't get why they can't be issued as collections of jpgs and/or pngs on CD or DVD too. If it is because of copyright issues then use a licence number as is done with the programs themselves, but don't, please, prevent all the PagePlus users from using them in that. We're Serif customers too, many of us being that for years. I'd happily pay the same price for the same amount of images as in a collection of digikits, but in the format I can use in PagePlus.

Any specific free digikit?

I make stuff in CraftArtist, export as PDF or image to use in WebPlus with no problem.

I think copy/paste special into PagePlus would also work.

[jaydeetee]

No specific one. I have yet to see one I don't really like, but I just think it's a shame that to use them we have to export every aspect we like of one digikit as another format from one program to another to be able to use it. I don't want a program I don't like that much taking up hard drive space or a load of images installed on my computer when I could just, if they were jpgs or pngs on a CD or DVD, put the disk in the drive and look for the image. Admittedly, if Serif did do as I've suggested, but used a licence number to protect copyright a bit, I'd have to install loads of images on to my computer, but I'd prefer that to what I've got now, program I don't like, loads of images, open program, find images, add them, drag them onto page, export them etc etc. If I want to make a card I want to make it not do an hours preparation first.

[Meg]

Originally Posted by jaydeetee What has really disappointed me is that Serif have formatted these images so that they can only be used in Craft Artist. There are, I'd imagine, many Serif customers who prefer their other programs, like I do, but cannot use these images in them. I think PagePlus is much better for card making than Craft Artist, but I have to use Craft Artist to be able to use them and I just don't like that program, for quite a few reasons. The programs and these images are all Serif owned products so I don't get why they can't be issued as collections of jpgs and/or pngs on CD or DVD too. If it is because of copyright worries use a licence number as is done with the programs themselves, but don't, please, prevent all the PagePlus users from using them in that. We're Serif customers too, many of us being that for years. I'd happily pay the same price for the same amount of images as in a collection of digikits, but in the format I can use in PagePlus.

I often create a picture in CraftArtist, then export it as a PNG or JPG for use elsewhere. No problem. I love the cutout studio in CA and use it for photographs instead of using Photoplus. I have also used CA to produce graphics for use on web sites.

[jaydeetee]

It's the having to do all of that before, plus having a program on my computer that isn't liked just so I can do that, I'm trying to avoid. If the images were all in jpg or png on a CD or DVD I could avoid having the program taking up hard drive space and just use PagePlus from the start. Thanks, though.

[Meg]

Originally Posted by jaydeetee It's the having to do all of that before, plus having a program on my computer that isn't liked just so I can do that, I'm trying to avoid. If the images were all in jpg or png on a CD or DVD I could avoid having the program taking up hard drive space and just use PagePlus from the start. Thanks, though.

I'm sorry you don't like CA. I love it and I don't even scrapbook! I have used it for creating webpage backgrounds and even for things that previously I would have used PagePlus for, like flyers, etc. This page is for an old community day for which I produced the web page, provided a flyer (for someone else to print) and did a HUGE graphic for a big roadside poster. All done in CA. http://www.angelfire.com/hi4/Whitehe...ian/index.html

PS the map was done in drawplus.

[jaydeetee]

That's really good. I think the problem is probably that I'm so used to PagePlus that I don't like how Craft Artist works, but I would like to just be able to use the images in PagePlus and not have to have CA installed to do the things I need to do so I can do what I want to do in PP. I think it just makes cards better.

[William]

If you think about it jaydeetee, you may begin to realize that if Serif did what you want them to, then there would be considerably less people buying their Craft Artist software...... So it makes good business sense to limit the amount of cross over from one program to the next.
If you do a search on the Web for Digikits/Scrapbook kits etc, you can find hundreds of really good kits in PNG format that are absolutely free.

[AlfredP]

Originally Posted by William If you do a search on the Web for Digikits/Scrapbook kits etc, you can find hundreds of really good kits in PNG format that are absolutely free.

The original DSA Digikit Collection DVDs include the individual elements in JPEG and/or PNG format, but if the OP's digikits don't have the elements directly available in that form it should still be possible to extract the elements from the *.pack files (which are really just *.zip files in disguise).

Alfred

[jaydeetee]

Yes, I'd realised that, William. Perhaps they could've made the digikit collections CDs with the images in jpg/png as well as how they are, as they did with the DSA ones at first, so users could've used them either way. They'd still make their money as the collections would still have to be bought whatever program they were used in, but that's life.