Digital Scrapbooking

Digital scrapbooking is taking the country by storm!  For those of us who don't feel that comfortable around a pair of scissors, wrestling with glue or lack the skill to put together a book that looks professional, digital scrapbooking on your computer is the way to go.  Basically, you use your computer with a graphics program such as Paint Shop Pro to create your scrapbook pages.  There are lots of advantages to doing a scrapbook this way and we will try to explain all the ins and outs to you with this article.

One of the main advantages to constructing a digital album rather than a paper form is that digital costs significantly less.  With digital your main costs are for discs and copies of photos to scan if you don't have a digital camera.  A disadvantage is that if you choose to print it you will not have the same 3D effect as a paper version.  Another advantage with digital scrapbooking is that you will be able to make copies of your book to share with family and friends either by emailing the finished product or printing them off a copy.  These days, with the imaging software such as Photoshop and Corel you can do your own photo editing by manipulating, cropping and changing the colors of your photos to give them a custom look that is not possible with paper scrapping.  If you make a mistake with your cropping you can Undo your error - something you can't do with paper.  Scrapbooking software will give you an endless number of options for color, pattern and size.  It is much easier to size a picture in a graphics package than to figure out how to size it to a paper page.  Good graphics packages will have different clip-art options and layouts.  It really is one stop shopping without the hassle of searching through shops for just the right color or pattern.

If you hate to have to put all your scrapbooking supplies away each time you have to leave your project for a little while you will like to do your book in digital format.  All you have to do is save the pages you are working on onto your hard drive or a disc.

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