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Magnus · 22nd June 2007, 21:52

Digital Scrapbooking
by Crystal

Scrapbooking has been around as long as there has been printed material, and it is a way of story telling. People used it to keep record of things that happen in their personal life, in their family’s life, or maybe a way of keeping memories of some special events. Today people use creative ways to showcase their displays of photos, text, journaling and their memorabilia. People also use it more of a way to tell their family stories in a creative way, to pass down to their children. Another reason people scrapbook is as a baby book, they keep all of their child’s memories in one special book.

This creative way of scrapbooking took on a life of its own, many years ago. Wikipedia says the first store that opened for just scrapbooking, was opened in 1981 in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA. So scrapbooking as we know it today is over 25 years old. This way of scrapbooking was to use different items to make the page have different textures and almost makes the pages 3-D to the touch and the look. The embellishments can include stickers, stamps, eyelets, brads, washers, chipboard elements in different shapes, letters, ribbon, and that doesn’t include the different textured paper that they can use. People even made special book covers to match the design of the their pages on the inside. The things that you learn in scrapbooking are also true for cards and even posters.

Today scrapbooking has taken a different direction in that some people are making all of their books online in a digital format. If they are not finding different die cuts, they are finding different fonts to tell their stories, and with that the resources online have grown. If you do not use the die cuts online, you sure can use all the wonderful ideas that you find online. With digital scrapbooking you can design and print your scrapbook page from your computer. There is no need to go and find all the supplies and then the sometime have to deal with the messy glues, you just do it from your computer. With the new digital way of scrapbooking there are a lot of software choices that you can use to build your page.

I just received software called iRemember 2.0 Digital Scrapbooking, which works on your Mac. This form of digital scrapbooking allows people to have very professional-looking layouts, that they can then get published into a book or print them to add to their album. Some people just keep them in completely digital format that they can use on their website or to just keep in their “digital scrapbook” on the computer.

After playing around with it for a couple of hours, it does seem to be a simple scrapbooking piece of software to use and it is a good start, if you want to do digital scrapbooking. I like the drag and drop feature that we are use to when using a Mac, and it makes for easy use here as well. This was my first attempt at digital scrapbooking, and I have to say that I miss the hands-on feel and touch of creating my page. So I have to say that I am not totally sold on only doing digital scrapbooking, but I do like using it for the clip art, templates, the drag and drop affect in creating some of my pages, and with all the different ideas, I can stay busy for a long time. iRemember 2.0 is a tool in my scrapbooking kit now, and even better for my card and poster making. Making my own cards and posters, make them that much more personal, and this software helps me do this. What is also nice about iRemember 2.0 is that I can save my digital page as jpeg, so that it is easy for sharing, or I can save the page in iPhoto.

The cost of iRemember is $39.95 and you can find it at their website MacScrapbook.com Home Page, Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more, and Apple. Their website MacScrapbook.com Home Page has a wealth of information to help you and to give you even more ideas for your digital scrapbooking.

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Magnus Administrator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Dubai Posts: 8,536	Digital Scrapbooking Digital Scrapbooking by Crystal Scrapbooking has been around as long as there has been printed material, and it is a way of story telling. People used it to keep record of things that happen in their personal life, in their family’s life, or maybe a way of keeping memories of some special events. Today people use creative ways to showcase their displays of photos, text, journaling and their memorabilia. People also use it more of a way to tell their family stories in a creative way, to pass down to their children. Another reason people scrapbook is as a baby book, they keep all of their child’s memories in one special book. This creative way of scrapbooking took on a life of its own, many years ago. Wikipedia says the first store that opened for just scrapbooking, was opened in 1981 in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA. So scrapbooking as we know it today is over 25 years old. This way of scrapbooking was to use different items to make the page have different textures and almost makes the pages 3-D to the touch and the look. The embellishments can include stickers, stamps, eyelets, brads, washers, chipboard elements in different shapes, letters, ribbon, and that doesn’t include the different textured paper that they can use. People even made special book covers to match the design of the their pages on the inside. The things that you learn in scrapbooking are also true for cards and even posters. Today scrapbooking has taken a different direction in that some people are making all of their books online in a digital format. If they are not finding different die cuts, they are finding different fonts to tell their stories, and with that the resources online have grown. If you do not use the die cuts online, you sure can use all the wonderful ideas that you find online. With digital scrapbooking you can design and print your scrapbook page from your computer. There is no need to go and find all the supplies and then the sometime have to deal with the messy glues, you just do it from your computer. With the new digital way of scrapbooking there are a lot of software choices that you can use to build your page. I just received software called iRemember 2.0 Digital Scrapbooking, which works on your Mac. This form of digital scrapbooking allows people to have very professional-looking layouts, that they can then get published into a book or print them to add to their album. Some people just keep them in completely digital format that they can use on their website or to just keep in their “digital scrapbook” on the computer. After playing around with it for a couple of hours, it does seem to be a simple scrapbooking piece of software to use and it is a good start, if you want to do digital scrapbooking. I like the drag and drop feature that we are use to when using a Mac, and it makes for easy use here as well. This was my first attempt at digital scrapbooking, and I have to say that I miss the hands-on feel and touch of creating my page. So I have to say that I am not totally sold on only doing digital scrapbooking, but I do like using it for the clip art, templates, the drag and drop affect in creating some of my pages, and with all the different ideas, I can stay busy for a long time. iRemember 2.0 is a tool in my scrapbooking kit now, and even better for my card and poster making. Making my own cards and posters, make them that much more personal, and this software helps me do this. What is also nice about iRemember 2.0 is that I can save my digital page as jpeg, so that it is easy for sharing, or I can save the page in iPhoto. The cost of iRemember is $39.95 and you can find it at their website MacScrapbook.com Home Page, Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more, and Apple. Their website MacScrapbook.com Home Page has a wealth of information to help you and to give you even more ideas for your digital scrapbooking.