Product Description

With Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer, you can bring the beauty of your family treasures to family and friends across the globe with digital scrapbooks or simply intensify your traditional scrapbooking techniques with enhanced digital artistry and new ways to create special effects.

Carla Rose, photographer and best-selling Photoshop author, shows you how to scan photos or use pictures from a digital camera, retouch and repair old photos, and then design scrapbook pages using artistic filters and clip art. She¿ll teach even the most digitally-challenged reader how to build beautiful scrapbook pages and then email them to friends and family or print them out for use in a photo album. Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer covers easy-to-find software products like Photoshop Elements, Scrapbook Factory, and Hallmark Studio Deluxe used to create stunning scrapbook pages that can be stored on CD-ROM or the Internet and viewed electronically or printed for traditional usage.

Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer provides you with step-by-step instructions on:

• Traditional and Digital tools (software and hardware) used in creating digital memories.
• Page Layout and Design and Backgrounds.
• Working with old photos and digital photos.
• Turning Photos into Art.
• Adding video clips, sound effects and music to Web/CD-based Scrapbooks.

Packed with new approaches to this popular activity, Digital Memories: Scrapbooking with Your Computer, brings the power of the computer to the wildly popular world of scrapbooking.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #420582 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

About the Author

Carla Rose, a photographer, artist, and award-winning writer, is the author of more than 20 computer books, including Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop in 24 Hours and Sams Teach Yourself Digital Photography and Photoshop Elements All in One.

Customer Reviews

An answer to all my problems!
An answer to all my problems! My husband bought the family a new digital camera last year and we have been taking hundreds of pictures. I have many stored photos on the computer that I'm trying to figure out how to use in my scrapbooking. Not only do I now have all kinds of easy to use techniques to enhance these photos for use in my scrapbooks, but now I'm working on pages for the internet to share with grandparents that live out of state. There are many books and magazines that show you creative scrapbook pages but none that really show you how to make more of your photographs and computer to create better scrapbook pages. Techniques that used to take me hours by hand are now done in minutes on the computer. The instructions are easy and the author covers several different types of software (we've purchased Photoshop Elements). We have a very special photograph of my great grandfather that had been damaged. I've now designed a special scrapbook page using the photo as a centerpiece thanks to the help I got in fixing the photograph.

Blend Digital and Traditional Scrapbooking
Digital scrapbooking has become very popular and in this book the author, Carla Rose, shows you how to blend digital and traditional scrapbooking to expand your creativity.

Your first step to creating a scrapbook is deciding on a theme or story to tell. Based on that, you choose a style that reflects your project and yourself. Now you are ready to gather your tools and get started creating. Rose discusses the tools for traditional scrapbooking and what is needed to go digital. She covers the advantages and limitations of several software programs.

Moving on to page design, Rose discusses aspects of page composition such as the use of white space and leading to enhance the readability of your pages. Next she explains the rule of thirds and how to use grids to help you design your pages around a center of interest which is usually, but not always, a photo or photos.

She discusses each page design element individually starting with background color and texture. She suggests creating background papers from scanned objects such as candy canes, leaves and fabric.

Rose then talks about photos. She discusses various corrections that you may need to make to old photos. She shows you step-by-step how to fix a badly damaged photo and how to turn a regular photo into a vignette (oval) shaped image. Next she covers correcting and enhancing your digital photos. She shows you how to blur the background area to enhance the subject of a photo. You may also need to make corrections to perspective, color, contrast or red eye.

She explores having fun with your photos by applying special effects and filters. Using plug-in filters and your software program, you can turn your photos into watercolor paintings or line art. You can also create a composite or collage from several photos.

Rose discusses the basics of typography and how to choose a font that will reflect the theme and style of your scrapbook. She discusses the special digital effects that you can add to your text such as drop shadows and embossing.

Publishing your scrapbook on the Internet has become very popular and Rose discusses the basics of webpage design and HTML. She has included the HTML code for a sample webpage to get you started.

Carla Rose is a professional photographer and Photoshop expert. She has written several computer books.

Now I have the best pictures to work with!
I received this book as a mother's day present this year (after griping that I didn't know what to do with my digital pictures in my scrapbooks). The book is amazing and very easy to read and follow. Though I'm still exploring the huge amount of information, I've already used some of the techniques like turning photos into watercolors (you'd swear I spent hundreds of dollars having an artist do an original watercolor of my daughter when actually it only took me about 20 minutes to do it with Photoshop Elements). I am also going to get a lot of use out of the sections on using clip art instead of stickers or stamps and computer fonts instead of rub off letters. I'd recommend this book to anyone who needs new scrapbooking ideas!