3 Tips To Make Your Digital Scrapbooks Stand Out - By: Peter S. White

With all the tools, effects and resources available to you in digital scrapbooking, you can create almost anything. Using computer software to build your album, rather than more traditional methods, gives you much more flexibility. There is a wealth of quick and easy-to-use resources and tools available at your fingertips.

But it's one thing to create a digital scrapbook and another to create a great one. Here are three tips to help yours stand out.

Apply stylish effects
Go one step further than correcting the photos in your scrapbooks by enhancing them with a range of professional effects. Blending allows you to fuse an image with a texture or background behind it - this is particularly useful and will attract attention because it is nigh-on impossible to achieve in traditional scrapbooking.

Stencils are another great way to enhance your digital albums. This technique is quick, simple and has a high-quality end result. Simply place your stencil on the page and brush or spray over it. Achieving the same effect in traditional scrapbooking would be time-consuming and difficult to replicate.

Another great thing about digital scrapbooking is that you can apply a wide range of effects to your photos. With one click of the mouse, your photo can have a completely new look.

Experiment with the design
Playing around with tools and effects in digital scrapbooking programs is a much easier and more effective process than experimenting or changing elements of your traditional scrapbook, and can ultimately be more fruitful.

Editing, undoing and altering the elements on your page is achievable in a matter of clicks and non-destructive adjustments mean you can dabble with adjusting colour balance or reducing noise, as well as effects such as those previously mentioned. You can play around until you've got the best atmosphere for your scrapbook and you'll never lose or damage original images.

Add music and video
A great way to create an attention-grabbing scrapbook is to include video footage and music clips. Obviously unachievable in traditional scrapbooking, adding other media is a great advantage of digital scrapbooking. With technology developing all the time, it follows that scrapbooking will also change.

Digital scrapbooking makes the sharing of videos and music much more personal and relevant. Rather than just being a clip uploaded to a site such as YouTube™ or Facebook©, a digital scrapbook can provide details, with video or music adding another dimension to your scrapbook.

You have so much freedom when it comes to creating a digital album which really stands out. There are no rules to adhere to - you can indulge your design fantasies as much or as little as you want.

You're not competing with anybody or trying to get anyone's attention. You are creating an attractive insight into past memories or occasions for you, your family and your friends to enjoy. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; therefore you can play with all the tools and effects until you know you've achieved a great digital scrapbook.

About the Author

Peter White is employed by Serif, owner of the Daisytrail website which specialises in software for making digital scrapbooks. Their CraftArtist Platinum software suite enables the creation of a range of digital projects, from baby photo books to DIY wedding invitations.

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