Help with scrapbook decissions and double prints

[Merandab4]

Okay, I must admit that this is a stupid question to ask on a scrapbook thread, but I'm going to ask it anyway.

Has anyone ever regreted making a scrapbook?
I know I have expressed my feelings on this before, but I just have a hard time cutting and cropping pictures. All of you who do this, do you ALWAYS have duplicate prints of the ones you put in your scrapbook?

I only used my digital camera for only a few shots of my last wdw vacation, (only because I ran out of film on the last day). It is easy to print out as many of those pics as I want whenever I want, although the quality is not as great. As for my photos that I took with my 35 mm, I also have them developed on CD because I wanted to be able to make copies. But to get great quality prints I have to go to CVS or Walmart and use the picture make and this is getting to be an expense.

I have decided to only make scrapbooks for major vacations (and my wedding) and all other "family" and "everyday" pictures I will put in an album and journal beside it. Do any of you who make scrapbooks also put those same photos uncropped in an album? I really want to do this but it seems like so much extra work.

Sorry if this post sounds confusing, I hope it makes sence.

 

[bananiem]

I usually have double prints made so I can send some to grandparents and such. I don't crop a lot of my pictures. I've learned to "fill the frame" and at most I may use my corner rounder. I also like to see the background in pictures so I can tell where we were or what so-and-so's house looked like 30 years ago.
My albums tend to be themed...Baby's first year, vacations, the kids' activities. I could never scrap every picture I took of the kids. There are WAY too many!
I keep my photos that I don't use in chronological order in photo boxes.

 

[pjlla]

I ALWAYS, ALWAYS (worth repeating) do my scrapbooks with duplicate pictures (unless, of course, they are digitals). I keep a regular photo album with all of our family photos from 1992 (marriage) through 20001, when we got our first digital camera. As I scrapbook (I am caught up to about 2000) I make copies of the photos to scrap. I don't scrap every single photo... just not enough hours in the day. Until I am caught up I am just doing major events (Christmas, birthday, first day of school, vacations). I have been good about being organized all along with my photos and negatives, so it is not difficult for me to get copies made.... but I usually just scan them and print them at home.

Anyhow, my word of advise would be.... never scrap with original photos that you don't have negatives for. Sometimes the cutter just seems to have a mind of its own. And scrapbooking is about PRESERVING memories... not losing them!..........HTH................P

 

[nicurn]

there is a coupon out there for the cvs kodak picture maker that doesn't expire until march 31st.... pm me and I'll look for it. maggie

 

[wtpclc]

Merandab4 - You don't HAVE to crop your pictures. Only if there's something you don't want in there. If you only cut out what you dont' want, why keep copies? Keep the negatives/electronic files in case someone else wants a re-print, but I don't understand why you would keep copies. Once I have an event in a book, I'd nver look at teh unscrapped picturs. Come to think of it, the reason I need to scrap is that I won't look at phtos just lying around. I doubt I'd have much use for a book of copies either. JMO. It's you who has to be happy with how you scrap and how you keep your pictures.

 

[Merandab4]

The biggest reason of why I would crop a picture is so I can fit more of them on one page. I have way too many pics to only put 2 on a page.

I have however tried to keep the photos in their original form and just "frame" them or put them on cardstock so if ever in the future I want to replace it or do something else with it I can.

So are most of you saying that you also do Photo albums of the same events that you scrap?

Thanks for your advise.

 

[Cruise04]

Since I'm fairly new to scrapbooking, the pictures that I have done I have only scrapbooked. I haven't put them in another album or anything. When we took our trip in 1999 I did get duplicates because in the event that my daughter wanted copies of the pictures she could have them because there was NO WAY I was going to make two scrapbooks.

Now have I ever regretted making a book - no not really. But I don't really "like" how the book came out and I did it like 2 years ago. It was my first book, I was in learning mode and not very experienced. You can see as I go along that the pages get better and better. But, I don't know it's just weird how I feel about the book. It was an awesome trip and it shows that but it just looks strange to how my books look now. I won't ever redo it, just not happy with it.

 

[Spinning]

Back in my film days. I use to always get doubles. and would put them in pocket albums in order. But then I started to get busy and side tracked and now I have stacks of the ones that need to go in the album. I think the most important thing to do with 35 mm is save the neg in a sleeve. Of course I havesn't always done this....
I think you have to figure out first how you want your pictures saved. Great that you know you only want to do the big trips. That will help you wiht the over all amounts of pictures.
Scrapping for me isn't just about getting pictures on a page. It is about the journalling, the memory and the craft. I like to create and do crafts. So this allows me to be creative with my pictures and have fun. You dont' have to crop any of your pictures. I crop less and less because as I take more pictures my skills have gotten better. Plus I am finding I use to over cropped and took out things that might be of interest in the future.
Now I am totally digital and only use film in a blue moon. (never ever thought I would be saying that !) So I just burn my pictures to a cd and save it. And if down the road I want a picture I print it. I can crop and edit and still save the original in tact.

 

[FantasticDisFamily]

A) I use film and generally have double (sometimes triple) prints made at the time the film is developed. It is a lot less expensive than having even a handful of reprints made. I figured it out once and if I had just 4 reprints made per roll it equals the cost of the second set of prints. Some I trade with other moms/scrappers with interest in the event and others I send to grandparents and other relatives out of town/state. Some the kids take to their friends. And with 2 kids now in high school and participating in some of the same events I will need 2 sets for scrapping each of their books.

B) As soon as the film is developed I put the prints in a pocket album. As I get to work on a particular event (right now it is DS high school) I pull the photos from the albums and organize them in an accordian file to be scrapped. Periodically I rearrange and pull empty pages from the pocket albums and reuse them later - sort of a rotation plan.

C) I am anal about filing my negatives and labeling the envelopes so that IF a disaster happens I can find that negative and have another print made.

D) Once I have scrapped the event any photos I didn't use get pitched. Yep, straight into the trash. Usually these are the ones that didn't turn out as well, etc. Sometimes I pass on the extras much like the doubles. Since so much of what I shoot is events at school the kids love the "photo fairy" as they have dubbed me! And family gatherings, etc are shared with family.

Bottom line - I now scrap every event, but not every photo. Sometimes I don't have pics of an event but other memorabilia and I work with that. My purpose is to preserve memories. The photos are only one way to do that.

Deb

 

[christinadei]

I used to get doubles when I used film. After I scrapped it, I'd send the extras to family, or just keep them filed in chronological order in photo boxes. I don't do a regular photo album along with a scrapbook. To me, my scrapbooks are my photo albums. I started with my son's 1st year, and I have a vacations album, a disney album, my son's school album, and then a regular album for everyday events adn holdiays. If there are things that I don't scrap, I will put them in a photo album, but I don't do both. I feel like that's just too much repetition. I don't really show peopel photo albums, I show them my scrapbooks. I just look at scrapbooking as a fun way to make photo albums!

 

[b&bdiscruisers]

Long before I ever even started thinking about scrapbooking, I put ALL my pictures in photo albums. I'm a big picture taking person. Then a couple of years ago I decided to start scrapbooking. Never did I even think of stop putting ALL of my pics into those photo albums. My scrapbooks consist of a few pics & lots of memorabillia & some embellishments (by the way, a long time ago that's what "scrapbooks" were, a few pictures & lots of memorabillia not at all what's going on today!) I feel no guilt in continuing those photo albums & a few pics in scrapbooks, I don't want to have to go through boxes to look at all my pics of family & events & no way can they all go into scrapbooks. I feel that when I want to show family members or friends the pictures I've taken I don't want to "bore" some people (& some want to look at pics. quickly) with scrapbooks just to look at at an event. If they want to see the scrapbook, then great. Scrapbooking is a very fun & creative hobby for me & if nobody else enjoys looking at them, then that's OK because it's mainly for me as I enjoy looking through them & remembering.

 

[Twigs]

If I have special pictures that I don't have the negatives for, I will put it in my book with photo corners so that I can remove it if I want to.

 

[scrapcreator]

I used to get double prints, but now I get 1 set and a CD. It's a little bit more expensive, but now I can get duplicates of just the pics I want (and as many as I want). And I can upload them to my computer, email them to family, etc.

I don't scrap all the pictures that I take, so I keep a picture album (or sometimes a photo box) of the ones I don't use. Right now all of my Disney Cruise pics are in a photo album because I haven't scrapped them yet.

Jeanne

 

[Fire14]

I save to CD and print ones I want. I usually use the other machine (not kodak one) at Walmart or Sam's club. I pay .18/print at Sam's. I scrapbook only but I do have a photo album with wedding pics in it.

 

[mokehil]

I get doubles. I scrapbook the best one and then sort the rest among my four children and they create their OWN books.

I make the family album and they make one they can keep and take to college and share with their kids. Mine will stay with me. I am temped to put in my will that I want all the books to stay together and then rotate though the four families every 10 years or so. Breaking up the set would seems wrong to me. I create one book per year since 1990.

I am almost to the day we bought a digital camera in which case i will print what I want and whatever the kids want.

As for cropping, I too fill the frame and there's not much need to crop.

A friend of mine prints all her digital photos a 3x4 size and can fit tons on a page. They are great and I think they really are big enough to see, although they are not my most beautiful kids in the world if you know what I mean!