Digital Scrapbooks

[jedi_librarian]

Hello, everyone!

I'm already thinking ahead on Christmas gifts (have to start making them now!) and I was thinking of sending out - to out-of-town family and friends - scrapbooks on CD's - kinda like virtual Christmas cards. So, these would be layouts I'd create but for digital-only purposes, so they're just for someone to view on their computer, but not to print out. Has anyone ever done this? I've created layouts that can actually be printed, and I've scanned my 12x12 layouts onto cd's, but I guess this is different because it would only be an e-scrapbook or something. I have Photoshop and Photoshop elements, which I know I can use to make the layouts, but how would people view them? Maybe if I just save them as jpeg images?

I guess I'm just wondering if anyone had actually done this before and if there's any advice you can give.

Thanks!

 

[Timon]

I have done digital layouts, some I've printed, some were just saved on my puter as jpg's. I've made a flash movie from all my digital layouts, kinda like a slideshow. I would recommend making a slideshow from them. You can do this in many programs, I think even Windows has one built in.

I've used Roxio to make a slide show from photos of my pets as well.

You can see my digital layouts and slide show on my site, click on the link below and go to
Scrapbooking-->digital layouts
and
Video--->Our Boys

 

[jedi_librarian]

Thank you! That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking to do. Very nice Digital albums, by the way.

 

[sjh801]

I have done digital layouts, some I've printed, some were just saved on my puter as jpg's. I've made a flash movie from all my digital layouts, kinda like a slideshow. I would recommend making a slideshow from them. You can do this in many programs, I think even Windows has one built in.

I've used Roxio to make a slide show from photos of my pets as well.

You can see my digital layouts and slide show on my site, click on the link below and go to
Scrapbooking-->digital layouts
and
Video--->Our Boys

Just stopping by from the Community Board - my usual spot. I absolutely love your wonderful photos of your scrapbooking room/office! I have bookmarked your site so I can return and look at more. I am looking forward to starting digital scrapbooking soon.

 

[Sandy22]

I think the most user friendly method and most accessible would be to create them as JPEG images.