MNE-09- posted:


Im NOT doing digital scrap booking..im actually making one. but ive looked in magazines and saw where tiny pictures make up letter or they have great fonts or neat tricks and i need to know what a good website is where i can put picture into a letter and then im able to print it off for my scrapbook..please dont put any digital scrapbooking websites because they are no help to me..THANKS!

love my baby posted:


I am already tired of cutting & pasting on it. I would like to continue this scrapbook by adding pages from some type of digital scrapbooking (that I design with some type of software & someone else prints). I don’t want a complete bound book… Just somewhere I can design & order prints 1 page at a time. Any ideas?
I don’t see 12×12 as a printing option anywhere… Is that an option?

Abhishek Agarwal posted:


Our personal memories are precious treasures. They recall laughter and tears. They allow us to relive the most important events in our lives. Be they good or bad, they belong to us and are part of who we area.

You can’t put a value on memories. You can’t buy back good times, and you can’t pay someone to make bad times disappear. Childhood memories, happy celebrations, and past wild times and the stuff that formed our personalities. Many people want to document those memories and share them with loved ones and friends.

There are many ways to collect, store, and recall our memories. Modern technology has made it possible to preserve those times in electronic formats that don’t have to be packed, can’t be lost, and never age or deteriorate. Memories last a lifetime, but they fade when stored in the human mind.

Today, people use a variety of things to capture these future memories while they are happening: photographs, video recordings, audio tapes, and correspondence are just a few examples. Photo albums have been popular since the first camera was invented, and they’re still a favorite choice for keeping memories close to the heart. But now, there are many additional choices that a photo album can’t contain.

Scrapbooks are a popular way to gather memories in different formats into one spot and preserve them. They have the advantage over photo albums of being a great way to create an artistic theme and add a very personal touch to your memory bank. Scrapbooks are more interesting and more entertaining that the traditional photo album. But even scrapbooks get lost or damaged.

When you create a scrapbook, you combine your treasured photos with other reminders like tickets, letters, and other reminders and frame them with color, design, and style. You can include memorabilia, stories, quotes, and testimonials in your scrapbook. And embellishments like buttons, beads, locks of hair, lace, ribbons, and yarn add variety and interest as well as memories to your scrapbook.

From the 1990s on, scrapbookers have applied scientific techniques to help preserve photos and memorabilia. Not only have photographs become more durable, but preservation techniques are more effective. You don’t have to settle for faded photos with that old-fashioned yellow tint. Modern science and technology has made it possible to greatly increase the life of photographs and other materials.

Now, modern scrapbooking is a million-dollar industry, and new products and tools are constantly being released to help make the job easier and the scrapbook more appealing. And the Internet is not missing a beat. Hundreds of scrapbooking sites have sprung up across the web, offering tips and techniques, advice, and supplies and materials to web users. Many of these sites offer free help and information, so you don’t have to trek to the bookstore for reference materials.

The advent of digital media has made Internet scrapbooking easier than ever! Software that allows you edit digital materials and transfer photos allows even greater creativity. The combined technologies of digital media, software, and the Internet have created a whole new type of scrapbooking. And because the materials can be stored on the web indefinitely, we now have the ability to create “permanent” scrapbooks that can’t get lost and can’t get damaged.

The Internet makes it easy and convenient to gather, share, and preserve photographs and video recordings. It also ensured that the scrapbook is easily accessible to anyone on the Internet. No matter what time of day or night, and no matter where a person is, they can get to their electronic scrapbook and cruise memory lane as fast as electricity and broadband will allow.

Now, you can replay that video of Uncle Bob’s birthday, your grandparents’ golden wedding anniversary, or little Suzy’s entrance into this world as many times as you want. And you can do it at the same time as others. You can collect, store, and preserve these memories as long as you are willing to pay the often-nominal web hosting fee. You can even use a free service to house your scrapbook.

You can choose to scrapbook in the old-fashioned way and have great fun letting your creative juices flow to create an interesting, artistic permanent paper record of the important times in your life. You can also choose to apply your computer skills and electronic media and let technology help you create a permanent electronic record of those same times.

Whatever approach you want to use is available, affordable, and easy to do. You can create a paper version of your scrapbook as an heirloom for your home and family, and you can add an electronic version to the Internet so that other family members and friends can enjoy your creativity at any time. And if your paper version ever gets lost or destroyed, you’ll have the electronic version as a great insurance policy!

Paul Lindberg posted:

Digital scrapbooking is becoming so popular that even traditional scrapbook enthusiasts are making the switch. Read why so many are learning to scrapbook on the computer and why you should give it a try.

1. Saves Time

As in all things digital, there are many ways scrapbooking digitally saves you time.

If you’re really lazy or think you can’t even combine two elements without messing something up, you can buy pre-made pages with spaces for your photos and journaling and just drag and drop your pictures onto the page.

Printing your pictures before you put them into your scrapbook pages is no longer necessary. Just download your digital camera pictures to your computer.

No need to spend hours going from one store to another looking for the right color paper to go with your daughter’s Easter dress. Shopping the Web is faster or you can create your own paper. This also eliminates those unwanted 2-year-old tantrums in the paper aisle of the local store.

Everyone I’ve spoken with that’s made the switch to digital says they love how much faster they can complete pages.

2. Saves Space

For some traditional scrappers, the idea was whoever dies with the most supplies wins. Setting aside a permanent corner, room, basement or annex for your supplies was a way to beat your husband at his game of collecting tools.

On the other hand, the only physical space required for digital scrapbooking is for your computer, scanner and printer. The other “space” requirement is the size of your hard drive in your computer. Digitized images do take a lot of megabytes of drive space, but have you seen the price of hard drives lately? You can get a 500 gigabyte drive (that’s 512000 megabytes) for under $100 these days.

Many digital scrappers also like the fact that printed digital scrapbooks are just like any other book. No bulky pages filled with buttons and ribbons.

3. Clean and Tidy

With your supplies on the computer, there’s no need to physically sort through all the punches, paper, ribbon or other embellishments you might have lying around. No worries about leaving a project partially done and laying out where kids can spill a soda on it. No need to get supplies out on the dining room table only to put them away later so you can serve dinner. Just click save and don’t leave your computer screen where someone can accidentally delete your work.

Since you don’t have to worry about the hassle of getting supplies out and cleaning up afterwards, you will find many more opportunities to work on your pages than ever before.

4. Saves Money

You already own a computer, now all you need is the right software. Cost of software such as Adobe Photoshop Elements is $75 – $100.

Digital scrapbook kits usually go for around $5.00 to $7.00 and have lots of paper and embellishments included. The equivalent in physical paper and embellishments costs $20 to $35 and are “consumable” meaning once you use them, they are gone. Digital kits can be used over and over to your heart’s content.

Once you learn how to use your digital scrapbooking software, it’s not hard to create your own supplies if you feel adventurous.

Oh, and saves a lot of gas money too since there’s no need to spend hours going from one store to another looking for the right color paper to go with your daughter’s Easter dress.

5. Waste Proof

This naturally follows number 4 because you can literally re-use any digital scrapbook element as many times as you like. No more buying extra paper to avoid running out of a certain pattern or color. No more keeping piles of leftover paper scraps. Imaging starting each new project with a complete new scrapbook kit. With digital scrapbooking, you can.

6. Mistake Proof

The most precious items in your scrapbooks are your photos. So why take the chance of butchering them with scissors. With digital scrapbooking, there’s no worry of ruining the only photo you have of Great, Great Grandpa. Scan the photo and make as many copies as you need. Resize and crop as many times as you like. Don’t like it? Back up a few steps with the Undo function or start over.

Ever place a sticker on a page and didn’t quite like it? Oh well, it’s stuck on the page now. Digital scrapbooking allows you to experiment with a multitude of possible combinations until you get it just the way you want.

7. Photo Manipulation

Restore vintage photos to make them look just like new. Take current photos and purposely make them looked aged. Remove the red eye in that otherwise perfect candid shot. Get rid of ugly ****** blemishes (the proverbial pimple in the Prom portrait) or too much sweat making the face glisten. Crop, enlarge, tint, age — there are so many options to make your photos even more attractive, you’ll be absolutely amazed. Photos you thought were hopeless are given new life.

8. Easier to Share

Ever create a scrapbook page only to duplicate it once again for your mother? Not anymore. In addition to being another time saver, digital scrapbooks can be shared so easily in so many ways. Print multiple copies of your completed books to share with family. Upload pages to your family blog. Email pages to relatives wherever they live. Use the same digital template for multiple photos. Get the idea?

9. Archival Quality

Remember when everything had to be acid free? First it was the paper, then the sheet protectors, the inks, the glue. Then came all the embellishments. Were they acid free too? Wait a sec…with digital scrapbooking, everything is acid free because there is no ink or glue to mix with your photos. Everything is preserved digitally either on your computer hard drive or on CDs or DVDs. Print as many copies as you need as often as you like. Not only is this archival, but keeping extra copies of your photos digitally either in a fire-proof safe or in a second physical location is the best way to ensure against your keepsakes being destroyed by a disaster such as a fire.

10. Unlimited Styles

With traditional scrapbooking, you’re limited by whatever paper you can find in your local store or on the Web. Even then, you might find a pattern you like but sometimes the color isn’t quite right.

Not a problem with digital scrapbooking. It’s so easy to adjust the paper color from one hue to another so you can always match your daughter’s Easter dress perfectly.

11. Trendiest

Scrapbook paper manufacturers use designers to create a new line of products. Then they decide which designs go into production. From there, retail buyers decide how much of the line to carry in their stores. By the time you get around to shopping, you’re lucky if the product is in stock and in the right color.

Digital paper is not limited by any of the above. There’s a multitude of online purveyors of digital scrapbook kits and there’s no waiting for the product to hit the store. New designers don’t have to have a big company behind them to sell their own designs. You get the trendiest designs and they are guaranteed to always be in stock.

12. Makes Anyone an Expert

So what if your handwriting looks as bad as a doctors prescription. That’s what computer fonts are for…to make you look like a professional calligrapher. But the best part is, there’s no commitment, so if you misspelled a word in your journaling, you’re free to go correct it without damaging your layout. Cropped photos always have perfect edges and text is always straight. Using a computer to scrapbook brings out the real artist inside you when you don’t have to worry about making mistakes.

13. Flexibility

Try this exercise: Take a piece of pattern paper and attach a photo. Now add some ribbon and some journaling. Now go back to the pattern paper and change it to another style to see if it will look better. Can’t do it? You can when doing it digitally. That’s what layers are for. It’s like making a big Dagwood sandwich and deciding you want relish instead of pickles after the sandwich is already built. With layers, you can change any element on the page at any time.

14. Professionalism

Sure we like homemade stuff, but if we can make it look professional, it makes us all the more proud we created it. Submit your digital scrapbooks to printers like Viovio to have them professionally printed and bound. Then show everyone how talented you really are.

15. Versatility

Take any design you like and turn it into just about anything you want. Change the opacity to make it look like vellum. Tweak the colors to add a little more blue or red. Increase the color saturation or decrease it. Change it into anything you desire.

16. Endless Supplies

Never, ever run out of the letter “S” when using a sticker set again. And always have it in the right size, color and style. With digital scrapbooking, you will never run out of supplies again.

And who knows, maybe you’ll start designing your own paper lines.

17. Easy on the Furniture

No more hammering eyelets! No more dents in your oak dining table. Enough said.

Abhishek Agarwal posted:

Scrapbooking is one of the most popular hobbies around these days. Scrappers are well-acquainted with the craft, working with the materials and tools like pros. Combining cutting lots of paper shapes, gluing photos, and sticking a collection of ribbons, die-cuts, and stamps on each page is their passion. It’s hard for an experienced scrapper to imagine doing it any other way.

But computers can invade anything – even scrapbooking. Modern technology introduces a whole new approach to scrapbooking that uses grahics programs to create the basic scrapbook elements and page layouts. Using a computer to create scrapbooks, known as digital scrapbooking, involves creating page layouts with the help of computer software that edits photos, creates graphics, inserts borders and text, and allows you to “paste in” digital embellishments.

Using high-quality paper, you print your scrapbook pages on a high-resolution printer and then attach your traditional scrapbook materials. More tech-savvy scrappers can even save elements and pages on the hard drive or store them to DVD or CD to share with others electronically. These days, several websites give you the ability to create an online scrapbook by uploading your photos and images to their prepared digital scrapbook albums.

There are several computer programs that are great for scrapbooking. Most popular are Adobe PhotoShop Elements 2.0 and CS, Microsoft Picture It!, Lumapix, and JASC’s Paint Shop Pro. They are all effective for manipulating designs. The features that scrappers will appreciate include cropping photos, replacing backgrounds and colors, adding text, and inserting borders and graphics.

The programs we’ve mentioned weren’t created for scrapbooking, but they offer many features scrapbookers will find useful. It’s easy to isolate and “cut out” specific images from a photo. You can apply color schemes to your designs. Cropping photos and trimming page elements is easy and quick, and the programs allow you to create your own design elements.

The major obstacle to applying these high-end programs to scrapbooking is in learning how to use the software. For people who haven’t used graphics programs, there can be a steep learning curve, and becoming adept may take some time. They’re expensive too. You can expect to pay several hundred dollars for one of these software packages.

Once you are familiar with the programs, though, using the software for other projects is interesting and fun. Their great value for scrapbooking lies in their versatility. You’re only limited by your imagination in what you can create to make a super scrapbook. You can blend your own colors, create your own borders, and add texture digitally. These programs offer a variety of virtual textures: marble, canvass, cobblestone, leather, silk, and a range of natural color-texture combinations.

Easier programs dedicated to scrapbooking are also available. They include Hallmark, CK, Scrapbook Studio, and Scrapbook Assistants. Designed specifically for digital scrapbooking, they’re easier and faster to learn and much less expensive. However, they are not as flexible as the high-end programs, and your options can be limited to a prescribed set of colors, pre-set page settings, and canned layouts. But they do make the job easy, and you won’t spend weeks to months trying to figure out how they work.

An in-between solution might be a program like Microsoft Digital Image Pro. Less expensive than Adobe PhotoShop, it’s easier to learn and has more features than the digital scrapbooking programs.

If you’re not sure whether you want to try digital scrapbooking, you can try it out by downloading free digital scrapbooking programs from the Internet. Be aware, though, that these programs may not be as effective as those you purchase. That’s because free downloads are often used as product samples, and not all menu features are turned on in the free trial offers and downloads. They will give you a sense of what the software can do, and trying out free digital scrapbooking software may help you make your decision.

Most programs come with tutorials and help features that teach you how to do major tasks. The step-by-step instructions allow you to explore features and sharpen techniques as you learn the software. You can also probably get online help through blogs and forums run by scrapbooking websites.

Sam posted:


Sierra Home / Print Artist / Photo Expert is the program used to save photo scrapbook albums. It is not compatable with XP and I can’t open them to save in .jpeg. I need to find software that will open them.

John Foster posted:


Scrapbooking is perhaps one hobby that has a universal appeal. No matter, in which corner of the world you stay, you are bound to come across people who are passionate about scrapbooking as a hobby. Scrapbooking as a hobby is done by people all over the world, perhaps the way they do it is different, but the basic idea is to make a book where they can preserve all the special memories of their life. As we grow old, memories are the only thing that remain with us and that is why we are so keen to preserve those memories which will last for a lifetime. Apart from preserving your memories, scrapbooking is the perfect means to use your imagination and creativity. This is the ideal platform where you can experiment with colors, words and pictures and perhaps you can find out your new abilities, which you never realized that you had in you.

Today with so many innovations happening in the field of science and technology, for people who are doing scrapbooking as a hobby, things have improved drastically. They have a whole lot of option, which earlier, scrapbook enthusiasts did not have and memory scrapbook scrapbooking has become pretty easy. There are also softwares available that has made the task easy, you just need to know how to use the software, so that you can make the scrapbook just as you want. The photographs that you use in your scrapbook can also be changed as you like, with the help of some of the photo editing software that are available in the market. You just need to know what software you can use and also how to use that properly.

There are several sites on the web that act an ideal platform for all those scrapbook enthusiasts, who wish to try their creativity at making a good scrapbook. The sites offer different types of layout from where you can find a layout which matches your choice. One can use the trial and error method to find out the perfect layout that they are searching for. Scrapbook can be created, based on a certain theme, so it can be about a wedding, about your school picnic, a family gathering that you have been part of, or any other aspect or occasion. So if you are one of those who love to indulge in this hobby, irrespective of what your age is, the web can be of a big help to you.

Memory scrapbook scrapbooking is especially appealing to people who have loads of memories and want to preserve them at all costs. Some sites also give the option of loading the scrapbook online. Here, you can do that and invite your family and friends from anywhere to see your scrapbook. Only those who have access can see your scrapbook, so you can easily choose whom you want to show and to whom you do not want to show your scrapbook online. Scrapbooking is the one hobby that can help us in preserving all our memories in just the way we want.

Erik H posted:


Hi i was using a mac the other day and saw the iPhotos slidshow themes! i liked the scrapbook theme n was wondering if i can recreate that on a windows pc? what software can i use?? anyone know??

CathRun posted:


Looking for Christmas present for 11 year old who wants to make stickers, calendars, t-shirts and scrapbook pages at beginner level for herself and friends?

mcgirl7 posted:


I am looking into buying a software program to do digital scrapbooking with. I own a Mac but since it’s a brand new I also have Windows installed on it. I prefer to use the Mac part of the computer.