Discover Your Artistic Skills - Create A Digital Scrapbook!

Digital scrapbooking is the use of computer technology instead of traditional scrapbook cutting and sticking. If computing is one your skills, then a digital scrapbook could be for you.

How many times have you been unable to find that precious baby photo you so carefully stored on your computer? The very one that would make your scrapbook album just that little extra special. Think of all those hours of frustrating searching through a hodgepodge of photo files when you have forgotten which name or number you saved it under. Perhaps it is amongst all those boxes of loose photos prints you have stored in the spare room.

Digital scrapbooking could be the solution to your organization problems. Creating a digital scrapbook using photo or image-editing software will make it easy to find your photos just when you want to see them.

You don’t have to print your digital photos and so save on photo shop or ink and paper costs.

Digital scrapbooking software will help you enhance and arrange your photos on digital scrapbooking pages. You can introduce digital frames, borders and graphics etc. to artistically create your scrapbook album. Journaling can be added also to highlight and preserve your memories. Any hard copies of photos or memorabilia can be scanned and saved to your computer.

You can reduce your scrapbook supply items and save money.

Digital scrapbooking software means scrapbook paper, glue, scissors, stickers and all the other scrapbook supplies are no longer necessary. The software packages include templates, photo enhancing tools for cropping etc., fonts and other embellishments to aid in your journaling and decorating. In fact, everything you need to create your digital scrapbook.

Storage space for your scrapbook albums is reduced.

Traditional scrapbooking albums and supplies do take up space whereas with digital scrapbooking, everything is stored on your computer.

Never lose any of your irreplaceable photos and memorabilia again.

You can back-up your digital scrapbooks by using an archiving program to compress large files, enabling them to be stored on a CD or other removable disk.

What if you want to show your digital scrapbook to others?

Unlike traditional scrapbooks, digital scrapbooking allows you to send your scrapbook albums to friends or relatives via your email network or save them on a CD or a DVD and give them as presents.

What digital scrapbooking software should you use?

There are various software packages available from a basic kit for beginners to a ‘bells and whistle’ kit for the more advanced computer user. It is a matter of seeing what the different packages have to offer, deciding if the features are what you require and if the price is right.

What are the benefits of digital scrapbooking?

As previously mentioned, it saves money on your scrapbook supply consumables. Once bought, it can be used forever.

Digital scrapbooking saves space by storing your albums in files. Even if you print the scrapbook album, they have less bulk.

Digital generated scrapbook albums are safe from fading and deterioration. You can have multiple back-up copies also.

Copies can be easily sent to others.

Less time. Once you have mastered the digital scrapbooking software, you will be able create your scrapbook albums relatively quickly.

If you enjoy using a computer, then digital scrapbooking may just enhance further your pleasure of scrapbooking.