Product Description

Are you a traditional scrapbook enthusiast looking for a way to organize your memories electronically? Have you never tried scrapbooking because you’re not sure where to start? Digital Scrapbooking is here to start you on your journey! Cover the fundamentals of digital photography and digital scrapbook elements—incorporating existing elements or even creating your own. Even if you’ve never put together a scrapbook page, you’ll get the tips you need to start organizing your photographs into vibrant, exciting scrapbook pages right on your computer. When you’re finished, you’ll get tips for sharing your newly created memory pages in print or online.

Quickly introduces the paper scrapbooker or non-scrapbooker to the fundamentals of digital scrapbooking.

Explains basic photo and photo editing concepts and techniques to help the reader produce better photo.

Provides instruction on using and creating non-photographic graphical elements in the reader’s own designs.

Covers topics that both novice and experienced scrapbookers will find helpful.

CD-ROM includes graphical elements that the reader can use in his/her projects.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #461134 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

About the Author
Sally Beacham teaches intermediate and advanced level Paint Shop Pro classes, Xara X classes devoted to Photoshop-compatible plugin filters, and a new Memory Page Fundamentals class which focuses on converting traditional paper scrapbook techniques to digital scrapbooking. Beacham is coauthor of "Paint Shop Pro 8 Zero to Hero". Currently residing in Maine, Beacham has been a private beta-tester for Jasc Software and other software companies for a number of years, as well as a contributor at Psppower.com. Her Web site, Dizteq.com, is primarily devoted to Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop-compatible plugin filters.

Lori J. Davis is a former college teacher and technical writer who first developed a passion for computer graphics several years ago when developing a personal Web site. She has taught many computer graphics classes online, has been a beta tester for several graphics-related applications, has served as the technical editor and occasional contributor to psppower.com, and has contributed a series of articles to Digital Camera Magazine. Currently residing in New Jersey, Davis has also authored several books including "Paint Shop Pro 7 Solutions" (Muska & Lipman Publishing, 1929685483) and "Paint Shop Pro 8 Power!" (Muska & Lipman Publishing, 1929685386).

Customer Reviews

Digital Scrapbooking Step-By-Step
If you are thinking of making the move to digital scrapbooking you will do well to read this book by Sally Beacham and Lori J. Davis. Assuming that you have not committed to one image editor, the authors use five popular image editors in the examples throughout the book. They demonstrate the similarities and differences between Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Microsoft Digital Image Pro, Serif Photo Plus and Ulead Photo Impact. But this book is not about imaging software. It is about digital scrapbooking.

The authors begin by discussing the pros and cons of digital scrapbooking and what you will need to get started. Besides showing how to make completely digital scrapbook pages, the authors also show many ways to integrate digital scrapbooking with traditional scrapbooking.

Next, they cover scanning photos into the computer and what can be done to correct and enhance your photos once they are in digital form. They discuss image corrections such as cropping, alignment, noise reduction, red eye removal and color correction.

The authors discuss two popular styles for scrapbook pages. The first style, faux-paper, emulates the textured paper, fibers, tags and other embellishments of traditional scrapbook pages. The second type, graphic design, has a more commercial look which emphasizes enhancement of photos and elaborate word art. They discuss how to use pre-designed layouts and how to design your own pages digitally.

Next, they begin to build a digital layout. They discuss color and how it should relate to and enhance your photos. Once you have chosen a color and texture for the background of your layout, you add your photos.

Text techniques and word art are a natural extension of digital scrapbooking. The authors discuss the importance of fonts and the digital effects that can be applied to the titles and journaling on your scrapbook pages.

There is a large section on plug-in filters and how they greatly expand the creativity of your image editing software. The special effects from these filters can be applied to your photos, digital background papers and embellishments.

The authors discuss how to save your digital page in the various formats for printing, burning to CD, emailing or posting on the web.

The accompanying CD contains several tutorials, clipart, over 100 fonts, trial versions of popular plug-in filters, sample layouts and page kits.

Lori J. Davis is a technical writer and author of many books on Paint Shop Pro. Sally Bracham is an author and teacher of Paint Shop Pro and related subjects.

An Awesome book for Digital Scrappers!
What an Amazing book! It's for everyone that keeps asking "when will we have a book for digital scrapbooking?" This is THE digital scrapping book to have. There is something for everyone from the beginner to the advanced digital scrapbooker. There are almost 300 pages packed full of information and color photos. An added bonus is a CD that includes Tutorials, Page Kits, Templates, and Alphabets. That's not all either, there are over 100 Fonts, Clip Art, free and shareware Plugins, and Sample Layouts that were featured in the book. It is not program specific and covers Digital Image Pro, Paint Shop Pro, Photo Impact, Photoshop Elements, and Photo Plus. I work at a large digital scrapping website, Digital Scrapbook Place, and will definitely be recommending this book to our members.

I am also using "Digital Scrapbooking" as a reference book and keep it on my desk. There is an index so it's easy to find whatever you're looking for quickly. I only wish this book had been available when I was struggling to learn how to digital scrap. Thank you Sally and Lori for an awesome book! It's obvious that a lot of thought went into this book to give digital scrappers exactly what they have been asking for.

sandi

Great digital scrapbooking resource packed with info!
This is a wonderful book about digital scrapbooking! They cover of course the what and why, but most importantly they covered the how! Many books gloss over how to do the scrapping or show very low quality pages that wouldn't encourage readers to try it. But this book has it all. There's meat, there's info, it's just a wonderful resource - perfect for those who want a book they can hold and read that will really help them learn the digital concepts. And along with all this information, there is a CD full of goodies! The CD alone is worth more than the price of the book! Whether you want to learn about digital scrapbooking, get better at it, just want a CD packed with fonts, page kits, embellishments, filters, etc, or all of the above, buy this book!