| Getting Started | What is Digital Scrapbooking? | |
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Everyone
is always wanting to improve their Scrapboooking
skills, ever tried using the new craze Digital Stamps & other Digital
Scrapbooking supplies? As you know Scrapbooking in particular is a fun way to display pictures and chronicle family history. but have you tried Digital Scrapbooking? What is that you may well ask, well it is simply using your computer and software programs to save your precious memories for future generations. This method of scrapbooking will expand your horizons by doing more things digitally that you ever could with your traditional scrapbooking. Sounds good right? In actual fact, it is not much different than your regular scrapbooking, having the same primary foundation. “You want to preserve your memories forever” How you do it is where the Digital Scrapbooking differs! Instead of using paper photographs and other products such as multi-papers Digital Scrapbooking simply uses the computer. The digital scrapbook page is made in a photo editing software program identical to the way a scrapbooking layout is made. You choose your background, add your photos and embellish to your hearts content and then simply journal your project. Added benefits are the creative options available to you with your photo software. - Digital scrapbooking is cost effective. Your primary cost is the initial purchase of software. - Anything you do can be undone! You can fix all mistakes with the 'undo button' and never ruin a picture by cropping it too small again. - No more waste - all items are reusable and can easily be re-coloured. - All the Digital Scrapbooking supplies are on your computer, CD’s or flash drives. They are not taking up space spread all over your kitchen or dining room table. Never again spend tons of time getting supplies out just to have to put them away again! And if you have to leave in the middle of a project, just hit save and go! - One other really great feature is Photo Manipulation - you can crop your photos yourself, turn them black and white, Sepia them and much more. There are so many neat tricks you can do to your photos to make them stand out in your layouts. You will never have to go to the photo lab again and spend money to have your photo’s enlarged or cropped. You can make as many copies of your layouts as you wish and share them with family and friends. - Now you can create multiple copies of scrapbook pages and albums for friends and family without having to do the same page over and over again. You simply have to hit the print button and tell it how many copies you want! You can also send copies to family & friends through email and on your personal web pages with just the click of a button. - All your photos, pages, and albums can be digitally preserved on CDs or flash drives in multiple locations. If , heaven forbid, something were to happen to your home or your scrapbooks, you can easily just reprint them. Once you’ve learned the techniques for Digital scrapbooking you will wonder why it took you so long to try it. You will spend less time to accomplish the most fantastic layouts by using pre-made supplies and pages store on your computer. Absolutely fantastic for those people without a lot of time to spend on scrapbooking and you will find that Digital Scrapbooking is capable of encompassing many different styles the same as paper scrapbooking, in fact there are even styles in digital that cannot be recreated on paper. Once you try it you will be hooked.
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