Do you know just how easy it is to digital scrapbook?
You probably have noticed that digital artwork is becoming more and more popular than ever and along with that comes digital scrapbooking. But do we really know what it is all about?
We now have the traditional and the digital ways to create your projects and they are very different in many ways. We will discuss the differences between the two methods.
First is the traditional scrapbooks that you will make by hand, with cutouts, adhesives, and other embellishments you can think of. The main ideas is to create colorful, decorated scrapbooking pages that would showcase your subjects and their stories. And second is the computer scrapbooking that works on the same principle only you create your scrapbooking pages online or through a scrapbooking software.
What sets these two apart is how you achieve your scrapbooking projects. One is hands on with all of the materials in hard form and the other is hands on with a computer using computer graphics. And to be honest they are both much the same only different applications.
What's The Difference?
With the traditional scrapbooking you will work on a background or layout (sometimes called a template), pictures, texts, and embellishments. The process goes like this: you place the pictures on the background, place some embellishments of your type, and write some texts.
With the digital scrapbooking you will work on scrapbooking software with all the available digital embellishments and texts. You will use your scanned pictures or you photos from your memory stick to be placed on a chosen background. Put some texts and add more design. Then, with some more editing on the colors and borders, you have created a great scrapbooking page.
You will find that it can be much easier to create a digital scrapbook than a traditional one. This is because software that lets you create a your pages with ready to use templates for texts and backgrounds, not to mention the editing tools you need. These features make it easier to create one unique page. Downloadable templates are readily available over the internet to widen up your choices on text, embellishments, and background. This is quite different form the traditional scrapbooks that every thing is yours to make; from the background to the cutting of the decoration.
Here are a few steps that you can follow to start creating your digital pages:
· Create a new image from a blank canvas
· Define the size of the page you will use.
· Enter the settings you want to adapt.
· Add the photo
Photos will usually determine the color scheme of your scrapbook layout, so, you may want to see first what picture will you going to use before determining the mat of the canvas.
To add a photo, you must first save one on a file. You can either scan pictures or take them from your digital cameras or memory sticks.
· Create the background
Now that you have a chosen your canvas and photo, it is time for you to select your background. Here, the choices are endless. You can download images from the internet or use your photos to be the background itself. You can edit the texture of the background to match the theme you want to achieve.
· Create the photo mat
Photo mats let the background and the photo meet on a certain point.
· Add the text and embellishments
Ready made texts and embellishments are one good feature of digital scrapbook software. This helps you to put important touches fast and easy.
· Apply some finishing touches
Final editing is as important as placing everything in order. Make use of built in features such as shadows, emboss, effects, and others. This would help your page look more attractive as it highlights whatever you want to be highlighted.
