Printing Your Digital Scrapbook Layouts - Make Them Real
I don't know about you but I'm an old fashioned girl I like to be able to touch my scrapbook pages in printed form
Patterning and Spacing in Your Scrapbooks
How can you arrange your scrapbook page to best show off your mementos and embellishments? You can place everything in the center of your page, place a single focus item in the center, or divide the page into sections adding items to each section. You may also choose to lay the items out in a standard recipe or calendar layout.
"You" In Your Scrapbooks: Plan To Picture Yourself In Your Pages
Sometimes we are so busy scrapbooking our children and family that we forget to include ourselves in our pages Are you lacking in photos and pages of yourself
Choosing Craft Paper For Scrapbooks
Now that you have your pen, glue, protectors, etc, you will need to choose paper for your scrapbook. Craft paper with seals of approval is ideal when creating scrapbooks. Craft paper includes the CK OK products. Paper designed for photocopying, journals, or albums are the choice papers. The paper that most crafters use is the pH that does not go over 8.0. The ideal level is 6.5 and/or 7.5. Un-buffered paper is the choice for many crafters, yet some recommend buffer paper with alkaline base. Paper should have an acid-base; therefore look for the lignin-free products. Paper without dyes, and are colorfast are choice products also. P.A.T. approved paper is the Photo Activity Test products, which is ideal for scrapbooks.
Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials - Making a Living Memoir Through the Use of Scrapbooks
There is one ultimate intention for the creation of a scrapbook It should be borne in mind that at almost everyday of our lives; we are faced with one or two experiences that we will want to live with
Making The Perfect Craft
Making crafts are a wonderful way to spend a day at home. Leisure activities such as ping pong, board games and making crafts are different activities to do in your home. Painting, coloring, writing, making music, and making crafts are all creative activities. The process of making art and the process of making crafts are related but different.
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Special Occasions Scrapbooks
When people start scrapbooking, they often document their lives one page at a time in chronological order. While this is a perfectly fine way to scrapbook, it can sometimes be overwhelming especially if your children are older or you have a lot of pictures that you want to document. Instead of putting scrapbooks in chronological order, try creating special occasions scrapbooks!
Use Tags and Embellishments to Give Your Scrapbooks that Personal Yet Professional Touch
Tags are a little added touch of professionalism that adds to the overall well thought out look to your scrapbook. Tags can be used for accents, captions, and thought bubbles as well as dedications.
Digital Scrapbook Place collaborates with Adobe Systems and Epson to demonstrate a solution for digital scrapbooking.
Digital Scrapbook Place, Adobe, and Epson have collaborated to share with retailers a complete approach to creating beautiful hybrid and digital scrapbook pages.
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Printing Your Digital Scrapbook Layouts - Make Them Real
I don't know about you but I'm an old fashioned girl. I like to be able to touch my scrapbook pages in printed form. Looking at them on the PC screen just doesn't do it for me. I'm sorry, until they're printed out they're just not real.
But I don't want to go to the trouble and expense of taking my 12?12 inch layout files to a professional printer to get it done. Hey, this is the new millennium. I want instant gratification.
However, as is the case with most of you I expect, I only have a regular A4 or Letter width ink jet printer. But you can still get your scrapbook layouts in printed for on your home computer. Here's how:
Step 1: When you have completed your layout, resize it to 8?8 inches (in PSE5, Image>Resize>Image Size and change the height and width fields).
Step 2: Print it on your regular printer. I recommend using a good quality photo card in either a satin of glossy finish and set your printer quality to the highest quality setting available. And extra tip on choosing photo paper for your print outs, choose a good thick weight paper -- say 230 grams -- and if possible select your paper brand to match the brand of your printer. Each manufacturer's inks seem to work best with their own brand of paper.
Step 3: Don't save the reduced size unless you want to keep the file at 8?8. I just resize, print and then use the Undo button to get back to my 12?12 size.
Step 4: You can leave your layout with the white borders around it or, like me, you can trim off the white edges and there you have your digital layout'real!
Now here are a few things you might like to do with your print out:
* Slip it into an 8?8 album (make sure it is in a protective sleeve, or the print will rub and wear off. And let it fully dry off for 24 hours before putting into the protective sleeve or the plastic will 'stick? to the print.)
* Mount it on a 12?12 piece of cardstock and store it with your other hand scrapped pages (if you are bi-scraptual)
* Mount it on a canvas or in a frame and hang on the wall (makes a lovely gift)
* Or, my personal favorite, combine the two scrapbooking worlds by adding some 'real? embellishments such as brads, silk flowers or ribbons to it to give it an extra level of dimension.
I find that the reduction of size from 12?12 to 8?8 has very little impact on the quality of the layout (especially if you scrap at a minimum of 300 dpi). It's probably a good idea to use a crisp clear font style if you're going to include a lot of journaling or at least use a reasonable font size (but you'd have to do that anyway if you want to read it clearly on the screen).
And now your virtual creation is 'real?.
Karen Bellamy, a dedicated scrapbooker for over five years, has created the Step by Step Digital Scrapbook web site, specifically designed to help beginners to digital scrapbooking get started turning their own special photos into creative art works to share with all your friends & family everywhere.
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