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Digital scrapbooks are a take on regular home made scrapbooking with a technological twist. There are many wonderful things that you can do with digital scrapbooking. It really is only up to your imagination.

There are plenty of scrapbooking software programs available in the market. They come equipped with great templates for almost any occasion or you can create your own. You can also add media to your scrapbooks such as your own pictures, sound clips and video. Digital scrapbooks really make your book come to life with all the rich media that you can add.

If you don’t have all the media that you would like to add to your scrapbook you can easily find it over the internet and add it to your scrapbook. There are plenty of web sites that offer free pictures, sound clips and emoticons. You can make a great digital scrapbook with materials found on the web and practically on any subject that you find interesting. So if you are feeling creative and have a personal interest or would like to create a scrapbook about your family or friends, then check out digital scrapbooking.

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Scanning Photos For Your Digital Scrapbook   by Pete Fontaine

The art of digital scrapping is soaring in popularity. A quick online search will give you an idea of how many free or low cost tools, templates, and tutorials there are for the taking. It’s easy to find design concepts, creation software, and personalized help. Online scrapbooking chat rooms and communities help with technical information and ideas. It’s never been easier to produce gorgeous custom creations.

Restricting yourself to using just your digital photographs is no longer necessary. You can add hundreds of your older photos to your digital photo gallery for as little as 5 cents each. By sending your pictures to an inexpensive scanning service you can fill in those missing decades in your digital scrapbooks.

Scanning photos for your scrapping hobby has the added advantage of preserving them from deterioration due to moisture, mold, or age. Saving your photos to a DVD also allows you to store a copy in two or more places permanently shielding them from loss or damage. Scanning services make it possible to give a complete set of all your pictures to family members.

Once you’ve gotten your photos scanned for scrapping you can use them to build photobooks online and upload them to a free photo sharing site to share with your friends. Online businesses that sell photo novelties like cards, calendars, and T-shirts are easy to find and use. With a few services you can even build a slideshow with music that you can view on a TV or on a digital picture frame.

Make sure your photo scanning service will scan at 300 dpi. No more, no less. 300 DPI is the best choice for almost all photo scanning purposes, so don’t pay for more. Also make sure that your photos are saved as a high quality jpeg. You will be using jpeg files in your scrapbooking efforts, and though high quality jpegs have bigger files, you can always use your photo editing software to reduce the file size for a copy of the original.

Automatic photo enhancement can improve many of your photos. But don’t pay a lot for this service because it won’t perform miracles, and it won’t make a difference on some photographs. Insist that your photo enhancement is performed on a copy of your master scans. Manipulation of your scans causes them to be recompressed and that, if repeated, will cause quality issues. Make sure your scanning service provides both set of master scans and a set of enhanced scans.

The web is loaded with digital scrapbooking accessories, communities, and educational materials. You can find e-books and embellishments of every kind. Put these tools together with scans from an economical photo scanning service and you’re on your way!

When you’re incorporating pictures of any kind into your scrapbook, why not set them off with an unusual finish? This could be an original idea for a border or frame — or an arrangement of several items on the page to add a little drama. Here are a couple of tips that might do well for a children’s album — perhaps a keepsake baby scrapbook, or just a page for a boy or girl.

Adding Dimension To Your Photos

One good way to add dimension to images is to use double stick foam squares. These are pieces of double stick foam tape that literally allow items to pop out at your reader adding realism to items. This trick is especially useful in children’s art and educational scrapbooks.

Simply cut the foam tape into whatever shape and size you want. Then, attach to shape onto your scrapbook page. These 3D foam squares are available from most craft suppliers.

Pop Up Windows To Enhance Baby Scrapbooks

Everyone who has ever read with children knows how much they love pop-up books. And very young children adore those books in which they ‘lift the flap’ to find what’s hidden in the picture underneath. So why not build some pop up windows into your baby boy or girl scrapbook?!

This fun trick allows items to be viewed and then hidden once again. It’s a great technique for educational scrapbooks where text outside the window asks a question and the answer is held inside the window.

To make a pop up window, divide a piece of paper into three sections. This paper can either match, complement, or contrast with your background color. Next, paste the middle section of your pop up window to your background. Place your object or photograph on top of this middle section. Then, simply close the window.

A nice bow or other embellishment can also be added onto the outside of these windows to add an elegant touch.

About the Author: Nigel Patterson is a writer on arts and crafts and the publisher of ‘Create Your Own Scrapbooks’. Visit his website at http://www.all-your.info/scrapbook/ for new and imaginative scrapbooking tips and ideas — so you can maintain your most treasured mementos and present them artistically for you, your family and your friends to enjoy.

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