How To Scrapbook: Digital Scrapbooking Tips

Scrapbooking is a wonderful, creative, messy hobby. You need photographs, paper, stickers, ribbons-bows-and buttons, glitter, glue, scissors, die cutters, bits and bobs and tools of every description, just to create the one perfect page you envision in your head. So where do you keep all this growing pile of supplies? You need a dedicated table, or corner, or room – if you’re a real fanatic, practically a warehouse – just to store the detritus of your scrapbooking obsession.

It’s not just the amount of supplies in itself, but the time it takes to collect them and lay them out, ready for use. By the time you get everything together that you need just for one scrapbook session, you may have wasted ten to twenty minutes, precious minutes you could have used building that beautiful page you’re imagining. And that’s not even counting the time spent looking for the one vital piece of the puzzle that you know for sure you have, you just can’t remember where you put it…you know it’s around here someplace….

Have you ever thought about learning how to scrapbook, digital style? Digital scrapbooking is the perfect solution to the hassle of hunting for missing supplies, or that perfect but elusive tool. Everything you need is right at your fingertips, electronically.

Don’t worry about a lack of computer skills. It’s easy to figure out how to scrapbook using digital means. It can make designing pages and crafting albums go much more smoothly and quickly, allowing you more time to get on with the other important things in your life! Or, create even more albums. It depends on whether you have a life outside of scrapbooking, of course. When you follow just a few steps telling you how to make a scrapbook page digitally, you’ll find you’ve picked it up in less time than it used to take pulling out all those supplies.

First, find out how to get your scrapbook pictures made digital. If you use a digital camera to take your pictures, it’s easy to transfer them to your computer. But if you have some hard copy photos that you want to use, or aren’t sure how to transfer your digital photos to your computer, it’s a simple matter of putting your pictures on a CD, which can be done at any photography center. While there, you can also scan your pictures, adding those to the CD as well.

There are other cool methods you can learn about how to scrapbook beyond the basic digital steps outlined above. For instance, you can register online at any number of photo sharing sites and swap photos with family and friends. You can even use photo-editing software to enhance and alter the look of your photos – some of these programs are even free to use. But if you’re just beginning, don’t worry about any of that. Once you’ve gotten your pictures on your computer, they’re perfectly ready and usable for you to create your scrapbook page.

There are many excellent and inexpensive digital scrapbooking software programs on the market right now. Just do a search for “how to scrapbook digital” or “digital scrapbook software” and check out the choices. All of them will help you design, edit and print your pages, and most offer a ton of customizable themes, background and graphics options built right in to help you get started. Be sure to do your homework – compare prices and services before making a decision, so you know you’ll be getting the program that’s right for your budget, skill level, and needs. Once you’ve made your choice and bought or downloaded your perfect software, be sure to read through the tutorial and familiarize yourself with how it works and what it’s capable of, as this will save you a lot of time fiddling around trying to figure stuff out when you’d really rather be making your page.

Once you’ve learned how to scrapbook, digital-style, you’ll discover a lot of options that paper and cloth scrapbooking don’t provide, like being able to add audio, voice narration, and music, posting your scrapbook online so everyone in your family can see it, even if they can’t travel to your home. Fix scratches and “red-eye” in your photographs with the click of a button, and change your mind about your design in an instant, without having to waste expensive supplies.

Best of all, your scrapbook is secure. Whatever terrible thing may happen to the originals, they will be preserved online for you to print out and re-cherish. It’s like having a backup of your whole life!

Take your scrapbooking in a whole new direction. You don’t have to give up the tried and true (and fun!) way of building a scrapbook. But exploring a new option that gives you tons of alternatives that you can’t get with traditional methods could give your scrapbooking passion a real shot in the arm.

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