Product Description
This full-color, digital how-to book and CD takes Simple Scrapbooksâ popular âSimple Schemesâ digital! Whether or not you have ventured into digital scrapbooking before, you will appreciate the personal training you receive from Digital Designs for Scrapbooking. Editorial Board Member at Simple Scrapbooks, Renee Pearson, brings a friendly face to digital scrapbooking with clear step-by-step instructions and accompanying screen-shots that take scrapbookers through everything they need to know to complete four digital albums. Along the way, Renee offers additional tips and techniques for effectively using Adobe PhotoShop Elements to design beautiful scrapbook pages. Features include: 164 pages with 4 complete digital album projects (each project has its own tutorial with screenshots), accompanying CD contains the equivalent of 4 digital scrapbooking kits, a generous supply of Simple âDigital Schemesâ (scrapbook page layouts), over 400 individual digital page elements, bonus gallery of pages designed by Simple Scrapbooksâ celebrities, and a trial version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.
Customer Reviews:
AT LAST!!.......2007-08-15
I decided to give digital scrapping a try, but after attempting to approach it via trying to understanding Photoshop Elements 4, I was plowed under by techno-babble and almost gave up. Next I tried to find some tutorials online that were well-written or clearly-presented and easy to understand. Generally speaking, forget it. Thankfully I happened upon this book. Let me just say that any fool (even one as digi-clueless as I am) can jump into digital scrapping with Renee Pearson holding your hand. The book's clearly written. It's helpfully illustrated. It's methodically laid out. In short, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HECK SHE'S TALKING ABOUT!
OK if you have Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0.......2007-05-07
I purchased this book thinking it was a good introduction into digital scrapbooking. It seems like a nicely laid out book, but it is only for Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 users. There is a trial version of PSE 3.0 on the included CD, but PSE 3.0 is no longer available to buy anywhere. So although the layouts look nice and the included CD has a lot of goodies on it, I was looking for something that could give me a better overview of all the various softwares people use for digital scrapbooking, rather than a primer for Elements 3.0.
Great Product.......2007-03-13
This is a great product for anyone sho wants to do digital scrapbooking.
Very Much Worth It..........2007-03-12
I bought this book at a scrapbook store and paid lots more than $14. Renee Pearson does a great job of explaining things without boring you repeating or going so fast you can't figure out step 1 to step 2. Each chapter assumes you remember the previous step (which saves me from those boring reviews). The books and pages I ended up with were great, and it's easy to take the techniques and do even more with them. Go Renee!
Love the templates.......2007-02-08
I really liked getting the templates on the disc that came with the book.
Makes pumping some quick pages out really easy.
Book Description
Are you a traditional scrapbook enthusiast looking for a way to organize your memories electronically? Have you never tried scrapbooking because you're not sure where to start? "Digital Scrapbooking" is here to start you on your journey! Cover the fundamentals of digital photography and digital scrapbook elements-incorporating existing elements or even creating your own. Even if you've never put together a scrapbook page, you'll get the tips you need to start organizing your photographs into vibrant, exciting scrapbook pages right on your computer. When you're finished, you'll get tips for sharing your newly created memory pages in print or online.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent for beginners and more.......2007-05-07
I purchased this book before I committed to a particular software and it was so helpful. I used it to practice with free trial copies of various softwares to help me decide which one I wanted to go with. The examples are great. The text is easy to follow and thorough. I am very satisfied with this book and learned everything I needed to get started and even do some advanced techniques!
Great Ideas, Needs updated for Photoshop Elements 4.0.......2006-07-04
I bought this book for a start in digital scrapbooking. It is great for teaching some of the basics, but I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and the latest it includes is 2.0. Quite a few of the operations have changed when trying to do such things at adding shadows and combining layers. Needless to say I had to buy another book for 4.0. This has some great ideas however and some good information on filters.
The one book to buy.......2006-01-09
This is it, the one book you need to learn digital scrapbooking. Sally gives you clear concise step-by-step instructions that will take you from the basics of digital scrapbooking to more advanced techniques.
Chapter by chapter you will build your skills. Then have fun with the CD full of digital scrapbooking supplies. Paint Shop Pro is a great digital scrapbooking program and Sally is definitely a GREAT Paint Shop Pro teacher!!
(Sally's other books are great as well.)
Digital Scrapbooking Step-By-Step.......2004-10-22
If you are thinking of making the move to digital scrapbooking you will do well to read this book by Sally Beacham and Lori J. Davis. Assuming that you have not committed to one image editor, the authors use five popular image editors in the examples throughout the book. They demonstrate the similarities and differences between Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Microsoft Digital Image Pro, Serif Photo Plus and Ulead Photo Impact. But this book is not about imaging software. It is about digital scrapbooking.
The authors begin by discussing the pros and cons of digital scrapbooking and what you will need to get started. Besides showing how to make completely digital scrapbook pages, the authors also show many ways to integrate digital scrapbooking with traditional scrapbooking.
Next, they cover scanning photos into the computer and what can be done to correct and enhance your photos once they are in digital form. They discuss image corrections such as cropping, alignment, noise reduction, red eye removal and color correction.
The authors discuss two popular styles for scrapbook pages. The first style, faux-paper, emulates the textured paper, fibers, tags and other embellishments of traditional scrapbook pages. The second type, graphic design, has a more commercial look which emphasizes enhancement of photos and elaborate word art. They discuss how to use pre-designed layouts and how to design your own pages digitally.
Next, they begin to build a digital layout. They discuss color and how it should relate to and enhance your photos. Once you have chosen a color and texture for the background of your layout, you add your photos.
Text techniques and word art are a natural extension of digital scrapbooking. The authors discuss the importance of fonts and the digital effects that can be applied to the titles and journaling on your scrapbook pages.
There is a large section on plug-in filters and how they greatly expand the creativity of your image editing software. The special effects from these filters can be applied to your photos, digital background papers and embellishments.
The authors discuss how to save your digital page in the various formats for printing, burning to CD, emailing or posting on the web.
The accompanying CD contains several tutorials, clipart, over 100 fonts, trial versions of popular plug-in filters, sample layouts and page kits.
Lori J. Davis is a technical writer and author of many books on Paint Shop Pro. Sally Bracham is an author and teacher of Paint Shop Pro and related subjects.
An Awesome book for Digital Scrappers!.......2004-10-17
What an Amazing book! It's for everyone that keeps asking "when will we have a book for digital scrapbooking?" This is THE digital scrapping book to have. There is something for everyone from the beginner to the advanced digital scrapbooker. There are almost 300 pages packed full of information and color photos. An added bonus is a CD that includes Tutorials, Page Kits, Templates, and Alphabets. That's not all either, there are over 100 Fonts, Clip Art, free and shareware Plugins, and Sample Layouts that were featured in the book. It is not program specific and covers Digital Image Pro, Paint Shop Pro, Photo Impact, Photoshop Elements, and Photo Plus. I work at a large digital scrapping website, Digital Scrapbook Place, and will definitely be recommending this book to our members.
I am also using "Digital Scrapbooking" as a reference book and keep it on my desk. There is an index so it's easy to find whatever you're looking for quickly. I only wish this book had been available when I was struggling to learn how to digital scrap. Thank you Sally and Lori for an awesome book! It's obvious that a lot of thought went into this book to give digital scrappers exactly what they have been asking for.
sandi
Book Description
Revolutionize your Scrapbook!
With Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer, you can bring the beauty of your family treasures to family and friends across the globe with digital scrapbooks or intensify your traditional scrapbooking techniques with enhanced digital artistry and new ways to create special effects.
Carla Rose, photographer and best-selling Photoshop author, shows you how to scan photos or use pictures from a digital camera, retouch and repair old photos, and then design scrapbook pages using artistic filters and clip art. She¿ll teach even the most digitally-challenged reader how to build beautiful scrapbook pages and then email them to friends and family or print them out for use in a photo album. Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer covers easy-to-find software products like Photoshop Elements, Scrapbook Factory, and Hallmark Studio Deluxe, used to create stunning scrapbook pages that can be stored on CD-ROM or the Internet and viewed electronically or printed for traditional usage.
Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer provides you with step-by-step instructions on:
- Traditional and Digital tools (software and hardware) used in creating digital memories.
- Page layout and design and backgrounds.
- Working with old photos and digital photos.
- Turning photos into art.
- Adding video clips, sound effects and music to Web/CD-based Scrapbooks.
Packed with new approaches to this popular activity, Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer, brings the power of the computer to the wildly popular world of scrapbooking.
Download Description
Revolutionize your Scrapbook! With Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer, you can bring the beauty of your family treasures to family and friends across the globe with digital scrapbooks or intensify your traditional scrapbooking techniques with enhanced digital artistry and new ways to create special effects. Carla Rose, photographer and best-selling Photoshop author, shows you how to scan photos or use pictures from a digital camera, retouch and repair old photos, and then design scrapbook pages using artistic filters and clip art. She'll teach even the most digitally-challenged reader how to build beautiful scrapbook pages and then email them to friends and family or print them out for use in a photo album. Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer covers easy-to-find software products like Photoshop Elements, Scrapbook Factory, and Hallmark Studio Deluxe, used to create stunning scrapbook pages that can be stored on CD-ROM or the Internet and viewed electronically or printed for traditional usage. Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer provides you with step-by-step instructions on: Traditional and Digital tools (software and hardware) used in creating digital memories. Page layout and design and backgrounds. Working with old photos and digital photos. Turning photos into art. Adding video clips, sound effects and music to Web/CD-based Scrapbooks. Packed with new approaches to this popular activity, Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer, brings the power of the computer to the wildly popular world of scrapbooking.
Customer Reviews:
Great reference--easy to use--and Mac friendly.......2005-03-14
I hesitated to buy this book without seeing it 'in hand' first. I took the chance and I am *so* very glad that I did. This is an excellent reference book. It's an easy read, is extremely helpful, and it provided me with more information than I realized I needed. The author is experienced, opinionated, and direct; all of which lead to a book that is emininently useful.
One of my fears in buying this book was that it would be so biased toward PC users that it would be useless for me as a Mac user. I was extremely pleased to find out that was far from the case. In fact, the author has written several books on working with the Macintosh computer. That said, this book is meaningful to ANY computer scrapbooker, regardless of their computer platform or operating system.
Finally, the book includes reviews and recommendations on software, printers, etc, which I found very helpful.
Blend Digital and Traditional Scrapbooking.......2004-10-22
Digital scrapbooking has become very popular and in this book the author, Carla Rose, shows you how to blend digital and traditional scrapbooking to expand your creativity.
Your first step to creating a scrapbook is deciding on a theme or story to tell. Based on that, you choose a style that reflects your project and yourself. Now you are ready to gather your tools and get started creating. Rose discusses the tools for traditional scrapbooking and what is needed to go digital. She covers the advantages and limitations of several software programs.
Moving on to page design, Rose discusses aspects of page composition such as the use of white space and leading to enhance the readability of your pages. Next she explains the rule of thirds and how to use grids to help you design your pages around a center of interest which is usually, but not always, a photo or photos.
She discusses each page design element individually starting with background color and texture. She suggests creating background papers from scanned objects such as candy canes, leaves and fabric.
Rose then talks about photos. She discusses various corrections that you may need to make to old photos. She shows you step-by-step how to fix a badly damaged photo and how to turn a regular photo into a vignette (oval) shaped image. Next she covers correcting and enhancing your digital photos. She shows you how to blur the background area to enhance the subject of a photo. You may also need to make corrections to perspective, color, contrast or red eye.
She explores having fun with your photos by applying special effects and filters. Using plug-in filters and your software program, you can turn your photos into watercolor paintings or line art. You can also create a composite or collage from several photos.
Rose discusses the basics of typography and how to choose a font that will reflect the theme and style of your scrapbook. She discusses the special digital effects that you can add to your text such as drop shadows and embossing.
Publishing your scrapbook on the Internet has become very popular and Rose discusses the basics of webpage design and HTML. She has included the HTML code for a sample webpage to get you started.
Carla Rose is a professional photographer and Photoshop expert. She has written several computer books.
Meilleur livre de référence.......2004-07-23
J'ai adoré ce livre car l'auteur parle autant de scrapbooking sur papier que sur ordinateur. Après avoir lu une partie du chapitre 7, j'ai pu effectué des corrections sur de vieilles photos de famille avec un résultat époustoufflant et cela en quelques minutes. Très bon livre de référence pour les gens qui veulent apprendre à faire du scrapbook autant manuellement que sur l'ordinateur.
Now I have the best pictures to work with!.......2004-05-24
I received this book as a mother's day present this year (after griping that I didn't know what to do with my digital pictures in my scrapbooks). The book is amazing and very easy to read and follow. Though I'm still exploring the huge amount of information, I've already used some of the techniques like turning photos into watercolors (you'd swear I spent hundreds of dollars having an artist do an original watercolor of my daughter when actually it only took me about 20 minutes to do it with Photoshop Elements). I am also going to get a lot of use out of the sections on using clip art instead of stickers or stamps and computer fonts instead of rub off letters. I'd recommend this book to anyone who needs new scrapbooking ideas!
An answer to all my problems!.......2004-04-25
An answer to all my problems! My husband bought the family a new digital camera last year and we have been taking hundreds of pictures. I have many stored photos on the computer that I'm trying to figure out how to use in my scrapbooking. Not only do I now have all kinds of easy to use techniques to enhance these photos for use in my scrapbooks, but now I'm working on pages for the internet to share with grandparents that live out of state. There are many books and magazines that show you creative scrapbook pages but none that really show you how to make more of your photographs and computer to create better scrapbook pages. Techniques that used to take me hours by hand are now done in minutes on the computer. The instructions are easy and the author covers several different types of software (we've purchased Photoshop Elements). We have a very special photograph of my great grandfather that had been damaged. I've now designed a special scrapbook page using the photo as a centerpiece thanks to the help I got in fixing the photograph.
Product Description
Another in Simple Scrapbooks series of idea books for digital scrapbookers and paper scrappers who want to add digital skills to their creative toolbox. In this issue readers will find three huge and exclusive digital kits to download; easy how-tos for setting up photo shoots; scrapbooking on IPods and customizing digital papers; and the always appreciated product reviews that help readers choose the latest in cameras, printers and software. This issue also includes profiles and pages from the latest crop of new artists, tutorials, and a large reader gallery.
Customer Reviews:
Great New Magazine.......2007-07-31
This magazine is a great! Full of tips and examples from other scrappers. I shared it with a friend and she loved it too!
Worth even more once you download the freebies!.......2007-01-08
This magazine has great layouts and ideas for digital scrapbooking. Also which is worth it's weight in scrapbooking gold are all of the links to so many sites for freebies (as well as paid material). Once you start downloading, you won't stop. The great news is that theese issues are now going to be made into a Magazine Subscription. This is a very inexpensive must have for digital scrapbookers.
Book Description
Computer scrapbooking has taken the scrapbooking industry by storm. This user-friendly, hands-on guide provides simple tips and techniques for stunning digital layouts. Readers will:
-Learn how to create stunning faux patterned and specialty paper backgrounds, manipulate photos the easy way for professional results, create realistic faux page accents and embellishments, have designer success and fun with words and numbers and mimic traditional scrapbooking techniques--all with a computer!
-Find a wide spectrum of 100 fresh scrapbook pages--inspiration for every taste and style
-Acquire non-software-specific bonus tips from design experts and computer savvy scrapbookers across the country
Even noncomputer-savvy scrapbookers will welcome the clear instruction and innovative ideas in this timely and contemporary guide. Fun ideas for traditional scrapbookers are included as well.
Customer Reviews:
very good.......2006-08-07
I really liked this one, unlike another "digital" one I got which was actually about paper (Point and Click Scrapbooking). This one is 100% digital with lots of ideas and layouts to snag ideas from. One of the best things about it is that it doesn't waste pages with projects that I would never do. It's just page after page of full color wonderful layouts showcasing a subject/concept/idea. There are a few pages on equipment and such, but not enough to deter from the layouts/ideas.
Book Description
Get creative with graphic elements
Tackle photo techniques at any level
Ready to preserve your memories digitally? This interactive reference explains the basics of this fast, versatile new hobby, giving you the lowdown on the equipment and programs you need to create beautiful pages. You also get expert tips on digital photography, graphic design, scanning, journaling, filters, and fonts.
Discover how to
- Create a digital layout from scratch
- Select the best software
- Use popular scrapbook styles
- Digitize traditional photos
- Get the kids involved
- Share your scrapbook online
Download Description
Get creative with graphic elements Tackle photo techniques at any level Ready to preserve your memories digitally? This interactive reference explains the basics of this fast, versatile new hobby, giving you the lowdown on the equipment and programs you need to create beautiful pages. You also get expert tips on digital photography, graphic design, scanning, journaling, filters, and fonts. Discover how to Create a digital layout from scratch Select the best software Use popular scrapbook styles Digitize traditional photos Get the kids involved Share your scrapbook online
Customer Reviews:
Always reliable.......2007-01-10
As with all the "for Dummies" books, this one is logically laid out and easy to use. I recommend it for any one starting out in digital scrapbooking. It takes you from the very basic to the more complex and beyond, with clear illustrations and photos (even some in color.)
Beginner's Guide to Digital Scrapbooking........2006-04-01
Using the standard "For Dummies" format, the book explains the equipment and software for digital scrapbooking. It starts with the very basic, helping you decide if you need a newer computer and printer for this hobby. It reviews the various scrapbooking software available so you can choose the best for your situation.
It covers enhancing digital photos, considerations for page designs and how to fix damaged photos. Also covered is how to add texturing and how to make montage images. One part explains sharing your finished pages on CD or DVD or over the internet. There was much that was new to me (flattened image vs a native format file). They advise clearing out clutter from your computer (games, unused programs, defrag), since digital scrapbooking needs lots of storage space.
The final part of the book is in list format: 10 tips, 10 pitfalls, 10 ways to involve kids, 10 ways to use digital techniques with traditional scrapbooking.
Sprinkled throughout are cute cartoons, but few photos. Since scrapbooking is very visual, I missed seeing examples to match the design explanations.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful book.......2006-04-24
This is a great book! I am very new to using my digital camera and sometimes I find the manual EXTREMELY overwhelming. It was nice to look at this book and understand what some functions are on my camera as well as how to use them. I can't wait to see her next book!
Valubable book even if you don't scrapbook.......2006-03-28
Scrapbooking has become such a popular hobby and a wonderful way to preserve memories. Our best friends surprised us over Christmas by giving us a scrapbook detailing the exploits of my son in his first year of high school football. They know what they are doing but for us novices there are wonderful books like Digital Delights for Scrapbooking. This book provides many wonderful tips on getting the most out of your digital camera to produce stunning pictures for your scrapbooks. Many of the tips are so easy yet work wonders.
For instance to reduce glare and enhance color in your digital pictures you can place polarized sun glasses over your camera's lens to make a huge difference in glare reduction. The book also provides tips on producing perfect 8 X 10 pictures with your camera's resolution setting. Take advantage of your picture software and photo printer by using some of the various print modes like Black & White, antique, and sepia tone printing. Further enhance your pictures by creative use of specialty papers like transparency film, embossed paper, cardstock, pre-printed papers, and even cork.
Whether you are an active scrapbooker or not, you'll find many practical and fun ways to use your camera to produce brilliant and clever prints. A great buy and a valuable resource!
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Book Description
With the explosion of digital cameras and the wealth of accompanying digital images, digital scrapbooking has emerged as an activity that brings people together to tell their stories, preserve their memories, and perhaps share a little gossip over the act of creating digital scrapbooks. Here to help you do so with creativity and panache is one of the first books on the topic from veteran technology and lifestyle writer
Katherine Murray. Using a combination of friendly how-to instruction, full-color illustrations and examples, personal anecdotes, and a grab-bag of creative tips, this high-energy volume takes you through each of the steps in creating a digital scrapbook--from planning and capturing quality photos to choosing fonts, collecting clip art, telling the story, laying out pages, sharing the scrapbook, enhancing it with video, and more. Also included are a resources appendix and a guide to scrapbook-friendly hardware and software.
Customer Reviews:
Hard to hold but can be useful.......2005-09-12
Book is published in square format, hard to hold to read but book fulfills the stated purpose of focusing on digital scrapbooking. If you have purchased Jasc products such as Paint Shop Pro then the "how-to's" are useful. If you are using different image editing software, the principles are the same but not the details. Book includes mini-interviews with many of the well known & published experts of the scrapbooking world. With reference to various products, book felt a bit commercial. Author clearly is an expert and shares her expertise with novices.
Perfect for Beginners.......2005-01-30
This book was great for me because I am a beginner, and I needed step-by-step instructions. It was easy to understand- not too wordy. This book is a must-buy for people interested in starting digital scrapbooking.
publish on the Internet.......2004-11-25
Once, scrapbooking was a totally low tech hobby. No computers in sight. But Murray tells what massive cheap disks and RAM and scanners, and fast CPUs and high bandwidth have done to create a digital version of the hobby.
You can regard the book as a long exposition of how to use Paint Shop Pro in a domestic context. The example images that she provides are often of family events. She writes in a reassuring, nontechnical manner for you. The key tips she supplies are not really about a sequence of steps in Paint Shop to achieve a desired effect. These are of secondary importance. Instead, she writes about what makes a great image. How you should capture what inspires you or your family. The advice is timeless and could have been given about a traditional scrapbook.
The main qualitative difference now is in how you can publish your scrapbook on the Internet, so others can enjoy your work. One of the main drivers of the hobby's growth.
A Much Better Way to Save Pictures.......2004-10-29
When the baby was born we took about a roll of pictures a day. That was a long time ago, and the pictures were slides. Now I go look at the slides and the glue has come off, the slides are peeling apart and they tend to stick in the projector.
Digital cameras are probably worse. You've got to get the image out of the camera so you can take more pictures. You can keep them in some kind of digital storage, like on your hard drive - until it crashes or you upgrade the computer. Better is to produce a scrapbook that you can print out, pass along to the kids, keep in a file, and look it the pictures together.
Producing a scrapbook is an interesting project in its own right - if nothing else you get to go look at the pictures again. But you really get to put the story together. The result can be quite attractive, especially if you use some of the special papers and other things that are available.
This book is a how-to, a tutorial on putting the scrapbooks together. It is an introductory level book talking about the first plans through final production. The format doesn't lend itself to being a reference book, but by the time you're finished your first scrapbook or two, you probably won't need a reference book.
Jumpstart Your Creativity.......2004-10-22
This book is not just about scrapbooking on your computer. It is also great for creative inspiration. Unlike other books about digital scrapbooking the author, Katherine Murray, has included many useful ideas, tips and checklists that will jumpstart your creativity. This is not to say that the book does not thoroughly cover digital scrapbooking. Throughout the book Murray has numerous step-by-step examples of everything from creating digital background papers for your scrapbook pages to making a slide show of your finished scrapbook.
Before you even turn on your computer, Murray discusses the planning of your scrapbook. She helps you decide on a theme and style based on the story you want to tell. To help you, Murray has included a Digital Scrapbook Project Plan worksheet. Next, she covers what tools you will need for your digital workshop area. She talks about features to look for when choosing image editing software. Although she discusses this in a general context, most of the step-by-step examples in the book are for Jasc Paint Shop Pro.
Now that you have a plan for your scrapbook, Murray begins to explore page design. She discusses the use of color and how to choose a main, secondary and accent color for your pages. There is a step-by-step example of adding digital texture to a background paper.
Next, you are ready for your photos. Murray discusses digital photography and digital cameras. She offers good tips for photo taking and discusses organizing photos on your computer. Fixing and enhancing photos is a dominant feature of digital scrapbooking and Murray gives many step-by-step examples. She demonstrates how to resize and crop your photos and how to correct contrast, color and red eye.
Text and journaling is the next step in designing your page. Murray discusses choosing a font that will compliment your theme. She tells you where to find freeware and shareware fonts and how to install the fonts. She also covers the creative aspects of journaling. She has many inspirational ideas and writing tips.
Murray talks about how to use pre-made embellishments and how to make your own digital embellishments. She discusses thoroughly how to scan everyday objects and turn them into embellishments with Paint Shop Pro. She also covers other resources for embellishments such as clipart and stickers.
Sharing your scrapbook pages with others is another dominant feature of digital scrapbooking. Murray demonstrates step-by-step how to prepare your pages for email, CD, print and the web. But before you push the Print button, Murray helps you to evaluate your pages using her Page Layout Checklist and Page Rating Checklist.
The last part of the book is about archiving your photos and scrapbook pages with Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album and Adobe Photoshop Album. She shows you how to use keywords to organize and archived images. There is also an extensive resource section at the back of the book.
Katherine Murray is the author of many how-to books on digital photography, computers and many other subjects. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Book Description
It’s the hottest phase in the scrapbooking craze! This creative resource was the first of its kind to focus on the use of computer hardware and software to unlock an exciting range of creative possibilities—and it’s still the best. Crafters will explore the many ways digital elements can add pizzazz to their scrapbooks: they’ll learn to manipulate pictures with photo/image editing software, use scanners to create themed background papers, and draw on clip art for decorative accents. There’s also information on creating all-digital pages, putting together a slideshow on computer, and pooling various techniques to stage a “digital family reunion.”
Customer Reviews:
Not what I thought it would be..........2006-04-13
Luckily I didn't buy this book, because it did not provide any help to someone who already can use a computer. I was hoping for information on creating page layouts in photoshop or other editing software. Instead I got a lesson on scanning photos into the computer. Most of the projects in here involve editing the photo on the computer, then printing it out and making a regular scrapbook page. I wouldn't recommend it for people who want to do digital scrapbooking.
if you are an absolute beginner.......2005-09-12
This book turned me on to digital scrapbooking with its overview of what could be done. Most of space is projects--which I would never do, but suggested possibilities. The "how to" is mainly if you purchase scrapbooking software--which I also don't plan to do. So, if you know nothing, book is inspirational, although, being a hard cover, also expensive.
Not good for anyone except a complete novice.......2005-07-09
I was extremely disappointed in this book. It is for people who know basically nothing about a computer. I didn't want a computer lesson, I wanted digital scrapbooking info. I didn't get any. I completely wasted my money on this book.
Gets you started with digital scrapbooking.......2005-02-16
The author shows step-by-step how to remove red eye from a photo, or cropping a photo on the computer. I was impressed with the color photos, the 1-2-3 explanations, and the creative examples she shows.
I haven't sat down at the computer yet to put this into practice yet, but in reading the book, I felt I was ready to go.
My niece showed me what she was doing with digital scrapbooking, and you can get some really terrific pages using this method.
Too much of not enough.......2004-05-19
Not a good choice. Lacks detailed "how-to", lacks explanations, Lots of "stuff" mentioned, but not much on what to do with it. Sorry I wasted the money.
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Digital Scrapbooking in Easy Steps (In Easy Steps)
John Slater
Manufacturer: Computer Step
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Binding: Paperback
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Book Description
Digital scrapbooking has numerous advantages over the glue and paper alternative. It's cheaper; less messy; easier to store, share, and replicate; and, once you get the hang of it, more fun. And you probably already have a big head start: The average household has nearly a gigabyte of photographs stored in their PCs! Digital Scrapbooking in Easy Steps lives up to its title claim. In compact, easy-to-understand tutorials, this full color paperback teaches you the basics of putting pictures together; making and changing simple backgrounds; frames, borders, and mats; type and text options; journaling; embellishing and layering; and improving and enhancing your photos. This invaluable manual then walks you through three actual projects, enabling you to create your own digital scrapbooks before you have even finished the book!
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- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
Books Index
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- The Simplest Path to Personal and Planetary Awakening, Step One: FREE YOUR MIND: 10 Keys for Unlocki
- The Cat Who Brought Down The House
- The Boy Who Followed Ripley
- The Body Image Workbook: An 8-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks
- The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual: A Student's Guide to Techniques
- The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up
- Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990
- The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poety
- Defiant Diplomacy: Henrik Kauffmann, Denmark, and the United States in World War II and Cold War, 19
Digital Scrapbooking (Vol 5) (Simple Scrapbooks)
The Big Picture... Scrapbook Your Life and a Whole Lot More
Clean And Simple Scrapbooking: Ideas for Design, Photography, Journaling & Typography
Digital Scrapbooking
Digital Designs for Scrapbooking 2: Making Your Own
