Digi Scrappers Corner has many premium digital scrapbook kits that will take your computer scrapbooking to a new level. The kits include patterned and textured papers, realistic ribbons and embellishments and often an alpha. Click here to view the details of the beautiful kits offered.
What Is an Instant Album
Instant albums are collections of quick pages that are co-ordinated to give a scrapbook album a unified theme. They are a wonderful time saver and an ideal addition to computer scrapbooking colections.
Quick pages are scrapbook layouts that are completely finished except for the pictures, journal and titles. All the design work is done including the layout , papers and embellishments. These albums are very useful for the beginner to computer scrapbooking as well as for those that do not have much time but want to preserve their families memories in a professional and beautiful way.
Vacation, birthday and holiday memories are just some examples of pictures that are perfect for instant albums.The Quick pages can be used over and over. Adding different pictures, embellishments and journaling completely changes the look. It is possible to complete many albums in an afternoon with one or two instant album packages.
How To Use an Instant Album
All instant album quick pages form Digi Scrappers Corner are in PNG format. Photo editing software that supports PNG and layers is necessary to add your pictures to the quick page. Photo Shop Elements or Photoshop are examples of software that the instant album will work with but there are many others.
To use, open the quick page in photo editing software. Drag the photos to be used on the layout underneath the quick page layer. Position each photo in a picture opening and re size or crop as necessary.
Sometimes there will be a spot meant for a journal on the quick page. If this is the case, add text above the quick page layer. Position the text in the journal area.
If no specific area for a journal has been provided, a journal can be added by placing text above the quick page layer and positioning where desired. Text could also be added to a tag and dragged on the layout and placed above the quick page layer.
Add a title and other elements if desired. Layer titles and embellishments above the quick page layer.
That’s it! The first page of the album is finished. Repeat for additional pages, print and show of your album! This is truly computer scrapbooking at its best!
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I started scrapbooking in the last year and love it. As I have horrible handwriting, so I would like to use computer print-outs. I would also like to use photos printed at my computer. Here's the question. I know it's important to use acid and lignin free items in a scrapbook. Are computer printed items (such as photos and messages) scrapbook safe? Is it usually the paper or ink that is unsafe? If they aren't safe, is there a special safe photo-paper or ink available?
A lot depends on what kind of printer you use.
Most people use an ink-jet printer, where the ink will run when it gets wet.
If you use one of those, think again, because there are so many ways of your work getting damaged either before the book is made or by water, (damp,) getting in later.
If you use a laser printer check with your supplier or the website of your printer. I think most laser-printer inks will be safe enough.
Paper can be more of a problem, but spending a little more in a good shop will help you out there.
If you use an ink-jet printer you can still use a print-out for your texts, but have it photo-copied (xeroxed?) by a good machine.
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This video shows you how to make a digital scrapbooking page layout using a digital scrapbooking kit and the popular digital scrapbooking software Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Designer. This is a very user-friendly program that comes with digi art, but with all the digital scrapbooking kits available online today, the program becomes virtually unlimited in what you can do with it.
Attention Digital Scrapbookers. Please visit http://www.Scrapwow.com to get free digital scrapbooking kits that you can use with Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Designer just like in the video.
Duration : 0:9:27
This video is nearly an hour long and had to be broken down into parts of
less 10 minutes each. Therefore, the cut offs are in odd places. Original
videos are in my forums. Recorded in Photoshop Elements 6.
Duration : 0:9:37
I have been doing traditional scrapbooking for 9 years. I now want to start digital scrapbooking. The trouble is I have no clue on how to procede. I am also fairly cyber challenged. I do not just need a book for dummies but one for complete idiots. I have a photoshop CS2 program that I am just learning. I also have Corel Paint Shop Pro XI. Can anyone recomend a few books that will take me through each and every little step?
There are tons of good message boards out there that will help you. Scrapgirls is a very good one that comes to mind. They also have online tutorials for some of the software. Check them out! www.scrapgirls.com
Anyone know of a website or a computer program where you can scrapbook online (or through the program) and lay out all your pages on the computer and then through the website order a book of the pages you created?
I've found sites where I create scrapbook pages and then print them out, but I'm looking for one make a binded book for me.
Thanks!
Picaboo looks great, only they are not Mac compatible, windows only
what about picaboo?
To watch a high resolution version of this video, click on
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Duration : 0:9:6
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This video shows you how to make a digital scrapbooking page layout using a digital scrapbooking kit and the popular digital scrapbooking software Print Master. Print Master is a very user-friendly program that comes with digi art, but with all the digital scrapbooking kits available online today, the program becomes virtually unlimited in what you can do with it.
Attention Digital Scrapbookers. Please visit http://www.Scrapwow.com to get free digital scrapbooking kits that you can use with Print Master just like in the video.
Duration : 0:5:36
This video is nearly an hour long and had to be broken down into parts of
less 10 minutes each. Therefore, the cut offs are in odd places. Original
videos are in my forums. Recorded in Photoshop Elements 6.
Duration : 0:6:2