There are many features included in the eBeam Scrapbook software. It is a place where you can bring together already existing documents, pictures, and content from your computer into one place and shape them into a single presentation. It is also a place where you can create presentations on the fly by using it as a “virtual whiteboard” to capture all your handwritten notes and diagrams.

Background Colors and Grids (Page > Background Settings…): This allows you to choose which color would like to have as a background to your page. You can also choose whether to have a graph or lines on the page as well.

Cover Sheet (Right-click anywhere on the Scrapbook page and choose Use Cover Sheet or View > Use Cover Sheet): This will cover your entire page with a grey layer that you can move back and forth like a sheet of paper over an overhead transparency. There are settings so you can make the sheet opaque or see-through and then choose which side of the page the sheet pulls back from.

Full screen view (Use the Full Screen icon on the main tool bar, right-click anywhere on the page and choose Full Screen view, or View > Full Screen View): This fills your whole screen with a single page so that it resembles a PowerPoint Slide in a slide show. The whole screen is writable area, and you can use the Full Screen Palette to navigate back and forth and add new pages.

Image Gallery (Use the icon on the main toolbar or File > Image Gallery): This is a window where you can link to any image files you have on your computer. Click on the “Add Directory” icon and you can set-up a shortcut to a file like My Pictures. Once My Pictures is listed in the Image Gallery, every time you open it, you will see its entire contents, which you can then use as image objects or background images in Scrapbook. This works for .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .wmf, .ico, and .emf image types.

Importing Background Images (File > Import Background Image or Page > Background Settings): With this feature, you can import Word documents, Excel spreadsheets or charts, PowerPoint presentations, and .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .wmf, .ico, and .emf image files. As a Background Image, they can’t be edited, but you can annotate over top of them and share them online.

Importing Image Objects (Page > Add Image… or Open the Image Gallery and do one of three things – use the Add Image icon, double click on the image in the viewer, or drag-and-drop into the Scrapbook Page. You can also drag-and-drop images from anywhere on your computer (My Pictures, clip art galleries, etc.)): Image objects can be .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .wmf, .ico, or .emf, and you can rotate, resize, or reorder them anywhere on the screen. A neat trick with Image Objects in Normal view is that you can actually copy an image object from the main page onto one of the thumbnails on the left by dragging and dropping!

Layers (View > Layers): This is a feature that allows you to build up pages like adding one transparency on top of another on an overhead projector. Each layer can have its own drawings, text, and objects that can be made visible or invisible and can be locked so they can’t be changed by accident.

Master Slide (View > Master Page): Setting a Background Image on this page will appear on every existing or newly created page in the Scrapbook file. The Master Page can be changed at any time, and you can override it on individual pages if you manually import another background image for that page.

Page Sorter ( Normal or Thumbnail View): You can rearrange the order of your slides by dragging and dropping the thumbnails in either Normal or Thumbnail View.

Playback (View > Toolbar > Playback): The playback toolbar allows you to replay your entire presentation back stroke-by-stroke. You can play it as a loop (all pages or just one) or you can move the slider to revisit one particular part.

Saving As (File > Save As): Choose to save your Scrapbook file as a Scrapbook file (.esb), PDF, Bitmap, JPEG, TIFF, Metafile, a PowerPoint presentation, or as a PowerPoint show. You can even choose to save it as a Web Page (HTML).