Digital scrapbooking is gaining in popularity rather quickly. However, to someone who is just getting started, it can seem like a daunting project to start. It doesn’t have to be this way. You can start digital scrapbooking in 5 easy steps.

Step 1. Gather your gear. You’ll need photo’s on your computer. They can be photo’s you’ve taken with your digital camera, photo’s others have emailed you or old photo’s you’ve scanned and imported to your computer. It doesn’t matter how you got them on your computer, what’s important is they are there!

Step 2. Decide which software you’ll be using. There are two types of software for digital scrapbooking. Layout programs and photo editing programs. There are a host of layout programs for digital scrapbooking. Layout programs allow you to assemble and make digital scrapbook pages easily. They help you organize digital photo’s, page themes and journaling. Sadly, many of these programs leave something to be desired for serious digital scrapbooking. If you really want to try a layout program, give Pixel Magic a try.

The other type of program for digital scrapbooking is the Photo Editing software like Photoshop, Corel’s Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop Elements or Microsofts Digital Image Pro. Paint Shop Pro and Adobe’s Photoshop Elements are two of the most popular and easy to use Photo Editing software for digital scrapbooking. You can find online tutorials for each program if you don’t already know how to use them.

Step 3. Create Your First Digital Scrapbook Page. Here is where the fun starts. You’ll want to find some tutorials about laying pages out (layering), resolution count and creating your first basic page. You’ll be choosing templates, photo’s, embellishments, decorations and other elements for your first page. Don’t get carried away, keep it simple until you get a few pages under your belt. You can then try new things and techniques.

Step 4. Store you newly created scrapbook page. There are a number of ways you can choose to store your digital scrapbook pages. You can save them as a high resolution JPG image, in the native format of the program you’re using or as a low resolution JPG. Also, make sure you create proper folders on your computer for you digital scrapbook pages. Nothing is more frustrating than hunting for pages you know you created but can’t find!

Step 5. Show off your pages. There are many services where you can choose to share your newly created digital scrapbook pages with friends, family and the whole Internet! You can also email them to other people, but be warned, the size of the scrapbook pages can get huge and you could fill up someones email box by sending them a huge file.

It really is this simple to get started with digital scrapbooking. There are many, many places on the web where you can get ideas for you own page. There are galleries of other scrapbookers finished pages, forums and blogs. There are no limits to the resources for a beginning scrapbooker!

Delores Robinson is an experiences scrapbooker. She spends her time helping newcomers to scrapbooking, designing scrapbooks or reading stay at home mom blogs. You can find advice, tips and helpful advice as well as the latest scrapbooking supplies. In her spare time, she works on the Internet and searching for ways to make money at home

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