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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Newbie

Hello Friends;
     I would like you to know I am new to this sort of past time. Scrap booking is a work in progress, the new machine they have out, called the Cricket-one word-Awesome! Please take you time and view my site, but have to let you know up front I am promoting the "click here" products. I have found them to being very useful for beginners. Please do take advantage of the products I have picked out, and let me know if there is something else you are interested in-I will find that product just for you. Thank you for referring this site to your friends that love scrap booking-I truly appreciate the business.
Mary Belle

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Digital Scrapbooking Made Easy

One of the bonuses of creating a digital scrapbook is the fun of using many photos. When working on scrapbook pages online, it's a cinch to download digital photos, color correct and add them to your project. However, even with this easy technique, sometimes your photo well will still run dry. (Click on links above)
Finding unique photos online can solve your problem. Everyone has that moment while creating digital scrapbook pages where they wish they could include a celebrity to give their pages a comedic or glamorous tone. "Oh, if only I could Photo Shop Brad and Angelina into my digital scrapbook, these scrapbook pages would be perfect," is not an uncommon thought. (Click on links above)
Or, maybe you need a picture of a business to beef up your scrapbook pages. Perhaps you just took a trip to Hawaii and were having so much fun drinking the frozen lava flows that you forgot to take a picture of the restaurant that was a key part of your trip. You wish you had the picture on file to include it in your digital scrapbook and are kicking yourself that you do not.
Well, there are solutions to these problems. Many web sites can help you add to your scrap booking crafts with the pictures they already have posted. It's super easy (but not always legal, so don't stop reading yet) to snap up all the photos you want for your digital scrapbooks, right clicking them and adding them to your Save As pile. Once you have the shot of the restaurant in Hawaii you were patronizing it's easy to use your scrap booking tools to jazz it up. (Click on links above)
Many of the online software programs you buy support this feature. They can even help with screen shot importing, allowing you to take screen shots and paste them in without having to pull up the Paint site. This makes it easy to pull up all of the visual information you need to make your digital scrap booking layouts unique.
However, before copying anyone's work, it's critical to ask for permission. Although this practice of beefing up your scrap booking pages with online photos will probably not get you in hot water or the clink, it's a best practice to get permission before nabbing any of the photos or sites off of the web. (Click on links above)
To do this, get in touch with the site that posted the pictures or page. If the site is that restaurant you ate at in Hawaii, your odds are good the site won't care if you use it for free scrap booking. But if it's a place with a copyrighted photo of Angie and Brad, for example, you might get the turn down - and won't even be able to offer to pay. (Click on links above)
If you can't get permission to use the photo you want, check stock photography sites for similar options. These sites are awesome to find pics to use for your scrap booking pages. Sometimes, you will have to pay a small fee and yes, this could cut into your free scrap booking budget.
Marie Perrow is a scrap booking queen extraordinaire. She has been digital scrap booking since she was 5.