Quantity Problem: Traditional vs. Digital

[bwilliamsjones]

We have recently returned from our first trip and I have picked out all the pics I want in my book and there are 850! I was planning on traditional scrapping, but am not sure I can fit that many in one album. Has anyone ever used this many pics in traditional or digital?

Thanks for any info/advice!

 

[Lisa]

Done an album (actually it turned out to be two) with that many pictures for a five day trip. I bet you could easily use that many pictures in a digi album.

 

[SharonLovesMickey]

I have the same problem...and who really needs 5 shots of the elephants on the safari?....but I solve it by doing collages. I have started doing a lot more collages and printing pictures in wallet sizes or smaller (sometimes in a variety of smaller sizes just for fun). If you are a "straight line" kind of scrapbooker like I am and it is hard to do something abstract you can always cut your photos to 3x3 squares and do a 4 square by 4 square collage page (the whole page would be photos...also a great "cheap" page because you need little if any embellishments)

I am currently doing a 5 day trip for family and plan on highlighting one of two photos from significant events on the left page in a more traditional and dressed up scrapbook page and put all the rest in a blocked photo grid like I described above. It's a nice dramatic presentation and it gets a ton of photos in one album.

I happened to be on this trip with a photo-crazy (at one point she was taking 3 photos a minute) who documented everything so narrowing things down is nearly impossible.

 

[bwilliamsjones]

Thanks for the info! I like the collage idea. I thnk that is a great idea...then you only have to decorate the one side of the "spread". I am trying to not crop in on most of my pics so I can cut them down quite a bit. I like the idea of cutting 3x3 or 4x4. I always have trouble cutting exactly perfect squares with the person in the center, so I think I might make a template that is a little bit bigger than the square I want and make marker dots in the corners to use as guides. Now the only question is can I still fit it all into one book...we'll see. I am ordering the pics this weekend. Thanks again!

 

[wenrob]

One of the great things about digi is you can "block" your photos and get a lot of them on one page. If you have a look at Christy's pages (DisneyCruiser) she is a master at this. I think she posts mostly in the CM-SBC thread: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1826831

Here is an example of what I'm talking about but you could easily fit twice as many pics and on 12x12 they're good size.

 

[RRBB]

I've pretty much gone digital in the last year - mostly out of necessity - and I love it. I always have a hard time narrowing down vacation pics to use in my layouts. But I've found lots of great templates for loads of photos. Here's one I used for a character breakfast, got 20 pics on just this side of the 2 pager.

The nice thing about digital is that it's so easy to resize and/or crop photos when making layouts. And if you don't like the way it looks you can just undo it and start over again.

 

[bwilliamsjones]

Robin and wenrob,

What software are you using to do your pages? I really need to be going digital because I like sitting on the couch with my laptop and not having scrap stuff all over my dining room. I just want something a little more than what most photo sites offer for their books, but am not ready to do any major digital designing.

Thank you!

 

[wenrob]

I use Paint Shop Pro and buy digital kits to put it all together. The pages I posted are using kits made by designers but the page itself is designed by me.