Digital Scrapbooking??

[Kate and Pete]

Someone mentioned digital scrapbooking in another thread. What is it? What do I need to get started? Is it expensive? I did scrap booking for a while and have a ton of supplies, but I really hated cutting all that stuff out - is digital scrapbooking all digital?? I'd love any resources/links you all have. I still have all our WDW pics. from last year just sitting on my computer waiting for me to do something with them.

 

[mom2cinderella]

DST is where I started - it's a fabulous message board for digi-scrapping!

What is it? Scrapbooking exclusively on your computer. What do I need to get started? A computer, scrapping software - Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc, scanned/digital photos, and digital paper/embelliesIs it expensive? I think I paid $99 for Paint Shop Pro. Much like paper scrapping, you *can* go nuts with buying the latest and greatest kits, etc. The good part is you can reuse your supplies over and over and over. You can resize them, recolor them, reuse them. I did scrap booking for a while and have a ton of supplies, but I really hated cutting all that stuff out - is digital scrapbooking all digital?? YES!

I'll edit with some more links in a bit.


Michele


Just a few of my favorites:

Shabby Princess - *free* kits!

Peppermint Creative - free kit almost monthly!

Funky Playground Designs - new releases (Monday) are usually 20% off, throughout the week some designers will put stuff on sale for $1.

Little Dreamer Designs - has $1 Wednesdays with one item for $1.

The DigiChick - new releases (Thursday) are 20% off.

The LilyPad - new releases (Friday) are 20% off.

Tracy Ann - one of my personal all-time faves!

Gina Miller - has 3 quick page sets for Disney.

PolkaDot Potato - has some WDW Templates.

There are tons of sales throughout the year so watch for those if you start digi-scrapping.

 

[Kate and Pete]

You're wonderful!!!!! I have Adobe Photoshop Album Starter 3.2 - will that do it?? I'll research other programs in the morning if it won't...

 

[Kate and Pete]

bumping for myself....

 

[devalsam]

Subscribing because I've been wanting to start scrapbooking for awhile. Digital seems to be the way to go for me as I don't feel as creative as I think I need to be and that's what's been holding me back!

If I start with the digital scrapping, will I be able to print the designs to put in albums or is it just all on the computer?

 

[mom2cinderella]

I have Adobe Photoshop Album Starter 3.2

I *don't* think that will work but I don't have PS so I'm not sure.

If I start with the digital scrapping, will I be able to print the designs to put in albums or is it just all on the computer?

You can print them out on your own printer or a lot of people seem to have them printed at Costco, scrapbookpictures.com, etc. I haven't printed mine yet but from what I've seen digital layouts print beautifully.


Yay! I'm so excited to see new people get into digi! I can't recommend DST enough. It is not a fast message board like the dis but there are a TON of helpful, friendly people. My tip: play around with freebies at first and don't go on a buying spree until you have a good feel for your style.


some more links:

Sweet Shoppe Designs - new releases (Saturday) are 20% off.

Sophia Sarducci - The owners (one is matthewsmom) are big WDW fans. They have some darling photo corners and quick pages.

Designer Digitals - usually has weekly freebies and on Sundays the shop has two 25 cent items.

 

[mrsklamc]

There's a very long thread over on the scrapbooking board about this with lots of helpful info!

 

[Donnaksmj]

go to shutterfly.com and make photobooks online...it's easy, fun and very inexpensive....

 

[gardenhoe]

I was going to suggest starting by looking at Peppermint Creative to get the free monthly kit. Get as many free kits online as you can. They add up fast. lol I've hardly bought any "supplies" so far. Maybe 1 or 2 kits that I just loved.

I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 (PE5). Many of the scrapping sites write their instructions for PE5 because its so widely used.

If you don't want to completely design your own pages, Peppermint Creative has page templates on sale right now. You could buy a set of 4 & download some free kits & get started that way. You basically drag & drop your photos & paper into the pre-designed templates; and add your embellishments & journalling. You can still customize other things like shadows, but you can't move the layout around. Still a nice place to start. Their website has a tutorial link on the page of template for sale.

There are places online that you can send your file to for printing the 12x12 pages if you like. If you have them bound into some of the books however offered by photo printing places, just be careful. Some of those places trim your 12x12 layout to 11.5x11.5 & you lose some journaling or photos on the edge.

You can even do a hybrid version where you do some of it digital & print it out, then add some of your older "real" supplies so you can use them up.

I started digital scrapping in the 90's....if you want to call it that. We had to use clip art & make our own supplies. Then I joined the paper scrapping wave but was always frustrated by my inability to tweak a paper background color or resize a photo as easily as I could doing digital scrapping. Now I'm going back to digital. Less money & easier in my opinion.

Good luck. The DIS has a scrapbooking board in the Creative Community forum. Take a look.