Digital scrapbooking – The wave of the future

Digital scrapbooking is one of the latest trends in the scrapbooking hobby. Scrapbook makers use the computer in many ways to enhance their scrapbook pages or create their pages entirely on the computer.

Some people use the computer to enhance their photos and scrapbook pages. With the rise of digital photography, many scrapbookers are editing their photos on the computer before putting them in the album. They’re removing red-eye, erasing distracting backgrounds, and enhancing the color of your photos. Some scrapbookers are even printing their own photos at home. Doing this allows you to customize the size of the photo to fit perfectly on your page.

Some scrapbookers use the computer to make elements for their traditional scrapbooking pages. They’ll create journal boxes, titles, enhancements, and more on the computer, then attach it to the page. The most common use of the computer in this regard is to create titles and text boxes for the page. This is because you have a wide variety of fonts and colors to make your text when you use the computer. There is even a type of software on the market today that allows you to make text in your own handwriting. This will allow you to save time using the computer to create your text without losing the custom factor of the page by including your own handwriting. You can create amazing titles on the computer, using thousands of fonts.

The biggest trend in digital scrapbooking is creating your page entirely on the computer. Using digital images or scanned images and scrapbooking software, you can create stunning pages entirely on the computer. These pages will look a lot like the paper pages you see everywhere. One of the benefits of creating your pages on the computer is that you can share them with friends and family, no matter where they live. If grandma and grandpa live two states away, they can see the grandkids’ last page with a click of the mouse. Not only that, but digital scrapbooking is much less time consuming than traditional scrapbooking. You can create pages much faster, and if you make a mistake, just delete it and start over. You haven’t wasted expensive supplies or ruined priceless photos.

If you are going to enter the field of digital scrapbooking, it is important to acquire a photo-quality printer. If you want 12 x 12 albums, there are printers made specifically to hold 12 x 12 paper. Make sure the paper you’re printing on is acid-free. You don’t want your pages to fade over time. Consider printing on photo paper, as this will allow your pages to look like a traditional photo.

With digital cameras becoming the norm, so will digital scrapbooking as the industry develops. You can do a lot of things on the computer that you might not be able to do on paper. However, don’t think that digital scrapbooking will replace paper scrapbooking. The camaraderie that women feel when they get together to make a scrapbook will be lost on the computer, so paper scrapbooking will continue to be popular.