Digital Scrapbooking

The latest trend to hit the scrapbook world is digital scrapbooking. With the arrival of the photo editing software programs such as: Photoshop Elements, MicroSoft Publisher, JASC Photo/Paint, and Corel Paint Shop, there is the capability to now work with digital photos that you have on your hard drive of your computer. With these programs, you simply insert a photo into a premade scrapbook page template. Although you can get a very slick looking image, by making "virtual" scrapbook pages, I prefer the "real live" look of a binder that you can actually hold in your hands and share sitting with loved ones and flipping the pages together.

In my opinion, the digital scrapbooks are more for computer and photo editing literate people. There is nothing like laying everything out on the dining room table and going over the photos taken out of the family momento box and "dreaming" of how you are going to assemble all the elements of the binder or album!

For more information on beginning with digital scrapbooking, go to:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/digitalscrapbooking/ss/beginnerintro.htm