If you love creating personal scrapbook pages as a way to preserve fond memories and family history, digital scrapbooking may be your next hobby. Sure, digital cameras are great for viewing and e-mailing pictures without waiting, but can you truly create the same intimate heirlooms in a virtual album?
Well, digital scrapbooking is definitely a sign of our times, and some of the benefits can't be ignored. Who can say no to clearing out those cobweb-covered boxes of pictures and albums lurking in the corners, attics and closets of the world? Still, there are drawbacks as well. Here is a breakdown of some of the pros and cons of going digital with your scrapbook album.
Save the World!
OK, maybe you won't actually save the world, but there is an environmental bonus.
Online cropping uses no supplies other than your computer and any CDs you create. Surely this will save a few trees. Even the amount of materials used to create all those albums that take up space in your home is saved.
Of course, you're not likely to cuddle up in front of the computer to look through baby pictures. So you can have your online photos bound into a beautiful traditional album. These can run any where from $30.00 to $100.00 depending on the size of your album.
Ooops! No more
If you've ever ruined a special photo with a slip of the cutter you will be comforted to know that the Undo button applies to online cropping. Unlike the physical world, in the virtual one you can test out different shapes, tints and sizes on your pictures, with nothing to lose.
Whether you want to crop, rotate, enlarge, add borders or switch from color to black & white, doing it digitally is far easier and faster than the traditional way. You can even choose between font and labels without having to buy added stickers, stamps and stencils.
Share the Wealth
One of the best parts of digital scrapbooking is the ability to share it with Grandpa in Missouri, or Aunt Heidi in Montana. Making copies on CDs is a breeze as well. For anyone whose relatives don't live next door, the ability to instantly send pictures is a great way to keep in touch.
Downside to Digital?
Well, you do need a few tools for digital scrapbooking. The most basic requirements are a good computer and a camera. While you don't have to have a digital camera, you will also need a scanner for non-digital photos. Then you will need to purchase either a Layout Program, or a Photo Editing Program. The Photo Editing Programs tend to offer more options and capabilities, but are also more difficult to navigate. Of course, these costs have to be measured against those spent on cropping tools and supplies.
The other downside to digital seems to be a product of our technical age: the social aspect. Scrapbooking has become a social gathering event for many women. Many moms use it as an excuse to get out the house a night or two a month, there are scrapbooking meet-ups online where strangers bond and become friends over the hobby. Once you move your cropping to the computer in your office, that social aspect is gone.
Although, with the advances of technology, and the popularity of digital scrapbooking, I have to wonder how long it will be before scrapbookers are meeting up with their laptops, rather than a tote bag of cutting implements and photgraphs.
Digital Scrapbooking For Dummies
The very word scrapbooking brings back all my childhood memories. Scrapbooking was one activity that used to fascinate me and I would always find time to indulge in making my scrapbook. Today, times have changed, but making a scrapbook is something which has not changed, in fact today you will find many new additions which have made the whole process of creating a scrapbook, all the more interesting and appealing. Scrapbooking is one of the most popular hobbies and even today this is one hobby which is not on the wane. In fact, with the new innovations in the field of technology, you will find that more and more people are getting interested in making a scrapbook. This is one hobby where you can give vent to all the creativity through the personal touch that you can put in the scrapbook. Digital scrapbooking is one of the newest styles in the field of scrapbooking and as compared to traditional scrapbooking method, this is easier to do.
In digital scrapbooking you can make use of a computer to enhance the pictures that you use for the scrapbook. Due to the increase in the use of digital photography, you will find a large number of scrapbooking enthusiasts using pictures taken by a digital camera for scrapbooking. With the help of digital scrapbooking, you can retouch the pictures, perhaps you would like to remove certain elements in the picture, enhance some aspects or probably blur some other aspects of the picture. This will help you in making a scrapbook in just the way you like and that is one of the major advantages of digital scrapbooking. Whenever a new thing enters the arena in any sphere, it is natural to find some people who welcome this and some people who vehemently oppose this. So, it is very natural to find scrapbook enthusiasts who are dead against digital scrapbooking.
In digital scrapbooking one can also come across many types of software which help them in making a beautiful scrapbook. There are also free layouts available on the web which can be used for making a scrapbook of your choice. Since these things are available online, one can actually use the trial and error method to make the scrapbook just like they want. You can choose different backgrounds and see how things look with the collection of pictures and words that you have selected. A scrapbook is all about putting up pictures, words, phrases, events and happenings in an attractive manner, so that you can preserve all those memories for a lifetime.
Digital scrapbooking has another advantage which is perhaps best among all the advantages that one can enjoy with this type of scrapbooking. You can upload the scrapbook online and invite friends and family from all over the world to see this. For this you can go to sites which allow you this facility and let me tell you, there are several sites that do so. You just need to browse the web and find out such sites, or probably you could join an online community for scrapbooking and from there you can easily find out the information that you are looking for.
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