Computer Scrapbooking Techniques

Basically, Digital Scrapbooking is just another form of capturing & preserving your memories. You use a graphics or photo editing program to design your pages.
The most commonly used programs are Adobe Photoshop (PS), Adobe Photoshop Elements (PSE), Jasc Paint Shop Pro (PSP), Microsoft Digital Image Pro (DIP) or Ulead Photo Impact (PI). It is also possible to use other programs such as FotoFusion, but does not have the same capabilities as the other programs.
We are surrounded by email, the internet, computers, digital cameras, iPods, etc.
Technology is all around us. So, naturally, the next step in scrapbooking is digital scrapbooking!

Whether you want to incorporate 1% or 100% digital in your scrapbooking, 2PS digital experts are here to help.

What are some advantages of going digital?

Photo Enhancement: Photos can be uploaded from your digital camera right into your computer. Or, you can scan your photos & edit them in your photo editing program. Using your computer to digitally edit the photos is half the fun. With the programs that are out these days, you can apply various techniques, filters, add text or even create collages with your photos. You can change a color photo to black & white, leave it black & white but only have a spot of color for added interest, create a sepia photo, or add designs & artistic photo edges to your photos. And what about Photo Restoration?
Yes. You can do that as well & we are here to teach you. How about enhancing your photos’ colors, or taking out a distracting backgournd. Yes, you can do it all, digitally!

Here's you a good link for more info
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HI! I love scrapbooking and I've done both traditional scrapbooking and digital. Some people prefer one method over the other, while others combine the two. Digital scrapbooking is best described as designing a page using a photo editing program (I use Photoshop Elelements) and saving it to a disk or to your computer. The ultimate goal here is to print it out either at home or using a professional photo lab to print it and then put it in an album. I don't do this very often, but I do like to combine the two scrapbooking methods by printing some of my journaling and titles and even embellishments that I created and cutting them out and putting them on a traditional page. There are really endless possibilities. Some people who prefer digital say it is faster and cheaper and they feel more creative. Others prefer traditional scrapbooking because they love the hands on aspect of it and choosing all the papers etc. I like both. Here is a really good link to get you started with digital scrapbooking or just to find out more info on it. Hope I helped!

http://digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/Scrapping101/basics.shtml
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