Scrapbooks are very popular these days. I think that almost everyone wanted to capture family histories and stories in any which way they can. And with onset of digital technology, scrap booking has even extended to newsletters and journals with photos and illustrations online and in email. They've become so popular that it's not surprising to receive an entire scrapbook from your relatives and friends and loved ones even across globe. With advanced technology, people have been using graphic design and desktop publishing software to help them create wonderful and creative scrapbooks. Two of this well-known software is CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 and WordPerfect Office Suite 12.
Each of software has their own endearing qualities. Both applications are used to create newsletters as far as I know. But what software to choose? It all depends on what you want to create.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12
For graphically-rich family history newsletter or time capsule, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 would be ideal software as it is easiest graphics suite available in market today.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is a vector editing program. This software is definitely for illustration, page layout, and vector drawing. It has Corel Photo-Paint for bitmap editing of photos and images for that professional digital imaging look. It has hundreds of clip art photos and images to choose from, which you can overlay your own family photos on top. It also has Corel R.A.V.E. 3 for motion-graphics creation.