Synopses & Reviews
If you can work your way around a mouse, you can be a digital scrapbooker. No more hunting for the punch you just had a minute ago, no clutter on the dining room table, no endless supplies, no costly gotta'-toss-it mistakes...you're going digital. This book will walk you through the transition to digital with design techniques, image-editing tips, and troubleshooting advice. Making the switch is easy when you start to see the endless creative possibilities and remarkable results — you won't be able to tell a scrapbook page created the scissors-paper-glue way apart from one crafted the exciting new digital way. Point and shoot, then point and click, and have some fun with Digital Scrapbooking.
Picture-perfect ways to preserve and showcase your memories the digital way!
- Down-to-earth, step-by-step, reassuring advice from scrappers who went from self-proclaimed "digi ditzes" to "digi divas," eager to share their newfound passion with you
- The ultimate guide whatever your level of computer (or scrapbooking, for that matter) skill and comfort level
- Works as well with scanning traditional photos onto your computer as shooting and uploading digital photos
- Best-bet cameras, printers, scanners (including scan-tastic tricks)
- Organizing your digital scrap
- Digital layouts 101: sensational backgrounds, awesome accents, tried-and-true text tips, including jazzy journaling
- Finessing photos - cropping, rotating, flipping, adjusting, "brushing," special effects
- Filled with terrific sample scrap pages to spark your creativity
- An awesome value, a great gift!
Synopsis
Scrapbooking Digitally takes readers through every step of the scrapbooking process — from picking the right camera to working with software to learning creative tools. Featured are sample pages and tips on how to go beyond paper to create one-of-a-kind clothing, jewelry, and home decorations.
Synopsis
Forget about traditional scrapbooking! Throw out the scissors and glue and save your memories in a whole new way."" Scrapbooking Digitally"" is a complete reference book for people of all ages. A step-by-step guide, ""Scrapbooking Digitally"" takes readers through every step of the scrapbooking process--from picking the right camera to working with software to learning creative tools, like altering images, typefaces, and backgrounds. It even offers inspirational sample pages and tips on how to go beyond paper to create one-of-a-kind clothing, jewelry, and home decorations. Complete with a CD of downloadable ""paper"" patterns and ornaments to help replicate what's on the page, this book is just what the savvy scrapbooker interested in going digital is looking for.
About the Author
Kerry Arquette and Darlene D'Agostino worked as editors, and Andrea Zocchi as art director, for Memory Makers magazine. Now the three bring their awesome expertise and boundless love for scrapbooking into the digital age, and you're invited!