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BrightkiteDigital Scrapbooking
One of my many hobbies is Scrapbooking. It goes along with my photography hobby well. A few years ago I came across Digital Scrapbooking and fell in love with it. It pulls together another of my hobbies of working with graphics and such.
Some of the benefits of Digital Scrapbooking are:
- Reuse, reuse, reuse. With digital you can reuse all your ‘papers, elements, photographs, etc’ over and over again
- Cheaper – even with purchasing of the digital kits it is usually cheaper than a kit at the store that you can only use one time
- You can save your layouts on a cd to view at anytime.
- You can take your finished layouts to Kinkos and print it to put it into your albums
- You can add extra embellishments after it is printed for a more ‘textured’ effect
- You can print multiple copies or a whole book at Shutterfly.com and give it as a gift (I printed one of my layouts, framed it, and gave it to my parents for their anniversary – you can see it here: http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=84309&ppuser=44895 )
If anyone is at all interested in Scrapbooking and wants to try out Digital Scrapbooking check out these sites:
http://www.digiscrap101.com - good lessons
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com - great site with challenges and a place (gallery) for you to post your layouts and get advice or comments on. They also have lessons here too and purchasable and free layout/kits.
http://www.rakscraps.com/forums/index.php - another great site for digital scrapbooking with purchasable and free layouts and tutorials.
I use PaintShop Pro (PSP) to work with my scrapbooking. It is a great software, easy to learn and doesn’t cost nearly as much as Photoshop (full version). Photoshop Elements works well too. There are tutorials all over the internet for PSP and Photoshop. Some of my favorites are:
http://www.pspug.org/tut/beginclass.shtml
http://www.psptutorials.org
http://scrap-stuff-with-psp-tutorials.blogspot.com
Oh thanks for these sites! It’s always better to have a wide selection of layouts and other add-ons you can incorporate in your scrap book.
Digital scrap booking is cool as it allows to change lay-outs and add other designs quickly and you save on the cost as well for you can just grab some free layouts online. However, scrap booking the old-school way is, I think, more fun.