What’s Digital Scrapbooking All About?
September 6, 2008 by Loretta
Filed under Misc Happens
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Scrapbooking is all the rage in the craft industry these days. From being considered a trend to being given its own holiday, scrapbooking continues to excite crafters and draws more people to it each year. What is digital scrapbooking? And will it change the craft for the better?
For anyone who may be new to scrapbooking, here’s the basic idea. You take photographs and mementos and save them in a book. That’s the traditional use of a scrapbook. However, the craft of scrapbooking includes using themed paper, stickers, journaling boxes, and more to make the page do more than display photos. It also can tell a story.
Many people have digital cameras now rather than the kind that you have to have developed. By having the photos in a digital format, they are much easier to manipulate and edit, and you don’t have to worry about ruining the photograph. You can save changes made as a separate file, so you’ll always have the original version.
Another benefit of using digital cameras is that you can make multiples copies of the photographs that you can pass out to friends and family on CDs. They may then choose to have the photos printed out, or they can use them as a screensaver on their own computer. You have so many more options with digital photographs.
With digital scrapbooking, you can still incorporate your pictures into scrapbook pages, you’re just doing it all on your computer. You may have to purchase a digital scrapbooking software program. Head over to your favorite search engine and type in ‘digital scrapbooking software’ and you’re likely to find there are many. Some of them are available for free.
Most digital scrapbooking software creates templates, or has templates you can use, that are already planned out and ready to put your photo into. This is much easier than grabbing glue, paper, stickers, and other supplies to create a similar page. With this type of software the possibilities are endless!
After you’ve completed your digital scrapbook pages, you can print them out in order to have a “hard” copy of your pages to put into traditional scrapbooks. You can also frame them individually. In addition, you can create CD copies of your digital scrapbook to share with loved ones who may live far away.
Besides software to create digital scrapbooks, you can also find a number of websites that are dedicated to sharing information about this type of craft. You’ll find that others who are interested in scrapbooking, traditional or digital, are more than willing to share their knowledge with you.
If you’re thinking about starting to scrapbook, you may want to give digital scrapbooking a try. Of course, you can try traditional scrapbooking first to see what the craft entails. You may be surprised when you switch over, how much easier and how much cheaper digital scrapbooking is.
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This does sound like a lot easier way to share pictures. I have a few aunts that do digital scrapbooking and they always post the pictures on their blogs. It’s adorable but I never knew how to get started. Thanks for all the info on how to get started!
I like all the money I have saved by switching to digital scrapbooking. My friend showed me a great program that is free to download and use. Check out avatree.com
saving money is definitely a perk, and less space required for all those papers! Although, digital scrap sets can add up fast in the money spent column too if we’re not careful!