What are the advantages of digital scrapbooking?

Keeping past memorabilia safe in order to relive the past is something we’ve been doing for centuries if not decades. It’s not just the photos that make those memories complete but also words, objects, poetry, phrases; they all add up to create a special book that is very pleasing to look at and is also a memoir. Scrapbooking started as early as the fifteenth century as a means of collecting poems and recipes etc. Later on it gathered fame as people started adding different materials and objects into their scrapbooks. Creating different motifs by drawing or by adding cutouts, using buttons and dried flowers, writing poetry and phrases, placing pictures and even adding fabric are all a part of crafting a scrapbook. Looking at a scrapbook after a couple of years is always a pleasure as each and every item holds a significant value in its own way and helps you remember and relive the past more vividly. Scrapbooking has been around for ages and it’s not just the owner who receives pleasure from it; future generations also get a lot of education in terms of the family tree. Various items can be used to create a scrapbook such as embroidered fabric, buttons, broken earrings, marbles, pebbles, chipboard, lace, ribbons, sequins, cut-outs of letters, photos, beads, stickers, you name it and it can be used as embellishments to beautify the page.

Nowadays, because of technological advancement, everything has been made a lot easier. Though we carry on the same traditions, we’ve made everything digital which takes less time to create and is easy to share. The new generation has taken quite an interest in digital scrapbooking as they get to create albums and pages that they can later share on social networks. Softwares such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw and Microsoft Digital Image Pro provide everything that is needed to create the scrapbook look. Digital scrapbooking is a lot easier as there is no need for collecting any materials. Everything is available online and with a bit of practice, you can create a scrapbook page for each day. Materials, textures, fonts, pictures can all be edited and even created in these softwares and the options are endless. It is easier to create a digital scrapbook as there’s no hassle in terms of cut outs, printing photos or using glue. Everything is done digitally and you can find many embellishments online. There are various stores on the internet that provide scrapbooking materials to be used digitally. If you have any printed photographs that you might want to use in your scrapbook, you can simply scan them; even photos taken from your camera can be easily transferred to your pc or laptop. If you want to create another scrapbook, similar to the one you already have, all you need to do is take multiple printouts and you can create as many layouts as you want. Photos can be enhanced, old photos can be added, various fonts can be used, there’s so much that the internet has to offer. Digital scrapbooking is definitely a hobby that is worth looking into. There’s no mess and you can never run out of supplies as there are many websites that offer downloadable materials even for free.

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Helping you create your own personal memoir, digital scrapbooking is a new way of keeping those memories alive by passing on an old tradition, in a new medium.