Scrapbooking is a way to preserve memories and create a record of occasions, holidays, birthdays or hobbies. In many cases, scrapbook is like a souped-up photo album and a perfect marriage of digital photos and digital graphics.
This is becoming the favorite hobby of many around the world. It just goes to show that people everywhere like finding ways to record precious memories and also ways to share them.
When starting your scrapbook album, you need to narrow down your ideas and sort your photos into groups to decide what goes into your album. You could pick a theme and scrapbook about it, such as babies, sports, birthdays, holidays, vacations, pets, trips, fishing, grandparents, genealogy (and the list can go on).
Let’s say you want to make a baby scrapbook. Of course you would use your own photos or any digital photos that friends may have taken.
Pick out several images – Enough for several pages where some pages would used groups of photos (called collages or montages) and other pages may only need one image. You might plan out your photo groups before you get on the computer. Once you start using software your plans can get forgotten by the distraction of all the software features.
Plan your backgrounds: Then you could find a digital images with baby-themed designs to use as a backgrounds behind the photos. You can either buy them online or find free downloads. There are even digital kits with backgrounds and other decorative elements that are inexpensive to buy. One of the greatest reasons to do computer scrapbooking is the way you can make your own graphic images. For example, you could put wrapping paper or some fabric on a scanner to create an image. It might require some basic editing to use as a background, but it would be 100% unique to your book and no one else’s.
Plan your page layouts: where the pictures will go, whether they will have a frame or border treatment around them, and leave areas to add text if you want to make labels for the photos or pages. Also think about finding a fun digital font to use.
Another thing to think ahead about is whether you will add digital elements and decorations to pages or traditional die cuts or ribbons (that you will glue on later). Save some room for those things if you plan to use them. You can use anything on the pages: beads, flowers, cards, stickers, stars, or anything you want to.
Remember, there is no limit on what you can do with your computer scrapbook!
