What is Digital Scrapbooking?
Digital scrapbooking is the process of utilizing the latest in electronic technology to create scrapbook pages. Instead of using a traditional hard copy scrapbook and cutting out elements to paste into the book, digital scrapbooks allow users to create electronic books that are loaded with different colors, fonts, banners, and images such as photos and drawings. Digital scrapbooking makes it possible to share the scrapbook quickly and easily with one or more people, while still retaining control of the original copy. As with all forms of scrapbooking, photographs are often the focus of any digital scrapbooking project. Pages that are configured as photo collages, as well as images that are accompanied with captions, are created using basic software programs. The pages may be configured with a wide range of backgrounds and colors, as well as employ many different types of decorative borders and other visual elements. Because there are a number of free images on the Internet, digital scr
You have photographs that you have taken with your digital camera, right? It is likely that you bring those digital photographs onto your computer. Then once you do that, you often want to edit them so they look better. You use software to fix up those photographs (such as Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, etc.) In that same software, you can learn how to create digital scrapbooking layouts using all of the cute digital scrapbooking supplies that Scrap Girls has! It is a lot of fun and you have even more control over your layouts than you do scrapbooking the traditional way with paper. You don’t have to worry about ruining your photos or your supplies and there isn’t a mess to clean up when you are through! Once your layouts are created, you print your digital scrapbooking layouts onto photo paper with your photo printer, you can send them to a photo processer to print, or you can even have them printed in bound books. You can also email your layouts to anyone and post the
• Take your photographs with a camera. Bring your photographs onto your computer. If you used a digital camera, just hook it up to your computer. If you used a film camera, scan the photos in (or arrange for your film processor to give you a CD). Next, open the digital scrapbooking program you have installed on your computer. This is the type of software that is commonly used to make digital scrapbooks. (Popular brands include Adobe Photoshop Elements, Photoshop, and Corel Paint Shop Pro.) Open a photograph in your software. Open the digital scrapbooking supplies (the pretty stuff you buy at Scrap Girls) that make up the supplies you will use. Now, here’s the good part… Have FUN creating your digital scrapbook layout! • Once your digital scrapbooking layouts are created, you can print them onto photo paper with your printer, you can send them to a photo processor, or you can have them printed in bound books. You can also email your layouts to anyone and post them in galleries.
Basically, Digital Scrapbooking is just another form of capturing & preserving your memories. You use a graphics or photo editing program to design your pages. The most commonly used programs are Adobe Photoshop (PS), Adobe Photoshop Elements (PSE), Jasc Paint Shop Pro (PSP), Microsoft Digital Image Pro (DIP) or Ulead Photo Impact (PI). It is also possible to use other programs such as FotoFusion, but does not have the same capabilities as the other programs. (see our other articles on each program) We are surrounded by email, the internet, computers, digital cameras, iPods, etc. Technology is all around us. So, naturally, the next step in scrapbooking is digital scrapbooking! Whether you want to incorporate 1% or 100% digital in your scrapbooking, 2PS digital experts are here to help. What are some advantages of going digital? Photo Enhancement: Photos can be uploaded from your digital camera right into your computer. Or, you can scan your photos & edit them in your photo editing prog
