| Digital scrapbooking is catching on fast. You can make | | | | wonderful way to make albums for friends and family |
| digital scrapbook pages unique by using your computer. | | | | on your Christmas gift list. Many different varieties of |
| With photo editing programs you can remove red eye, | | | | textures and paper designs as well as ink can be |
| crop pictures, touch up colors, brighten, sharpen, and | | | | used. You can even print pages 12 inches by 12 inches |
| perform other functions to make your photos better | | | | if the printer you own can print in wide format. An 8 |
| and more fun. Digital scrapbooks can easily be made | | | | inch by 8 inch can usually be done very well by a |
| by applying sayings or scenery that fit the motif of the | | | | regular printer. Printouts of your digital scrapbook |
| subject. Using the text tool of your editing program, it is | | | | pages, compiled in an album or coffee-table book, |
| possible to add the date and location of the picture. | | | | provide instant gratification. |
| When working on birthday pages on your digital | | | | Digital scrapbooking has several other advantages as |
| scrapbook you can add a cake, candles and even the | | | | well. If you mess up while laying out a digital scrapbook |
| persons age if you like. You can accent your pictures | | | | page, a simple click on Undo gives you a second |
| with Christmas trees and date them accordingly. You | | | | chance--or as many chances as you need--to get it |
| may continue the theme with every holiday occasion | | | | right. It is less messy doing digital scrapbooking too. |
| since there are so many themes offered online now. If | | | | You just print what you want on your pages instead |
| your child is graduating high school, put caps and | | | | of cutting and pasting paper or hand writing on the |
| gowns for the background to your pictures and don't | | | | pages, of course you can still add these personal |
| forget the year. There are endless ways to add | | | | touches if you so choose. All of your pictures can be |
| special effects to your computer scrapbook pages. | | | | handily kept on your computer or on a CD-R or |
| One great option with digital scrapbooking is the ability | | | | DVD-R. |
| to print more than one copy of your page. This is a | | | | |