Digital Scrapbooking - Create Scrapbooks With a Computer
Digital scrapbooking involves using the computer and graphics software or desktop publishing software to manipulate photos and fonts, create backgrounds, and design scrapbook page layouts. Get tips and templates here for digital scrapbooking and computer-generated family albums, journals, and memory books.
Both digital scrapbooking and desktop publishing utilize software to aid in the arrangement of text and images for a page layout.
You can use Photoshop and other graphics software to create photo-filled pages that preserve your memories in fun ways that you don't get with traditional photo albums. Learn how to use your computer and photographs for digital scrapbooking.
Many traditional scrapbookers use their computer to create Word Art, manipulate photos, and create other embellishments for use in their traditional scrapbookers. But you can take it a step further and do the entire layout right in the computer and print it out.
You don't have to wait for a holiday or special event to snap pictures for digital scrapbooking. Capture those everyday moments for posterity.
These free printable scrapbooking cutouts from About Parenting of Adolescents Guide Denise Witmer can be printed on cardstock and used how ever many times you wish. Some of the styles include wood, leaves, school colors, and plaids.
Most of these fonts are free for non-commercial use and many make great decorative additions to digital scrapbooks and journals.
About Graphics Software Guide Sue Chastain has several galleries of free digital scrapbooking kits - graphic elements to download for use in digital scrapbook layouts.
Some basic tasks outlined in a few easy steps by About Scrapbooking Guide Rebecca Ludens can apply to both traditional and digital scrapbooking.
Dream Maker Software has a section devoted to scrapbooks with sample layouts for birthdays, kids, and holidays you can use in your traditional or digital scrapbooking.
Watch some free QuickTime/Media Player video tutorials on digital scrapbooking.
Offers alphabets and other page elements you can print out and use in traditional or digital scrapbooking.
