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Creative Digital Scrapbooking: Designing Keepsakes on Your Computer | 
 enlarge | Author: Katherine Murray
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 850632
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0321269101
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.593
UPC: 785342269109
EAN: 9780321269102
ASIN: 0321269101
Publication Date: August 9, 2004
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Product Description
With the explosion of digital cameras and the wealth of accompanying digital images, digital scrapbooking has emerged as an activity that brings people together to tell their stories, preserve their memories, and perhaps share a little gossip over the act of creating digital scrapbooks. Here to help you do so with creativity and panache is one of the first books on the topic from veteran technology and lifestyle writer Katherine Murray. Using a combination of friendly how-to instruction, full-color illustrations and examples, personal anecdotes, and a grab-bag of creative tips, this high-energy volume takes you through each of the steps in creating a digital scrapbook--from planning and capturing quality photos to choosing fonts, collecting clip art, telling the story, laying out pages, sharing the scrapbook, enhancing it with video, and more. Also included are a resources appendix and a guide to scrapbook-friendly hardware and software.
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 Very nice, comprehensive introduction to digital scrapbooking June 13, 2008
Though getting a bit old (2005 copyright in my copy) and some of the programs mentioned have had several new versions, this is still a very nice introduction to digital scrapbooking.
The design itself is a standout: many of the introductory and divider pages and the covers are examples of digital scrapbook pages and all are very well done. Many other scrapbook pages are used as samples throughout the book. Literally the book practices what it preaches. Overall the design is very appealing and pulls you immediately into the spirit of scrapbooking.
The author's approach is well thought out. She begins, unsurprisingly with an introduction. Then moves into the actual basics of digital scrapbooking with a well-done chapter on the history of the craft, getting ready for the digital way and so on.
Murray's style is non-technical and oriented toward the fun of doing and sharing. Very nice style.
Next in order are planning, design, image enhancement, working with words, creating and using embellishments (a super-important and vital chapter for my typical male brain), creating your page, sharing your scrapbook and utility chapters on protecteing your files, suggestions for scrapbook themes and a couple of chapters on resources.
Overall, this is a fun, inspirational easy-to-follow guide to the craft (and in many hands, art) of digital scrapbooking. Well worth it.
Jerry
 Hard to hold but can be useful September 12, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book is published in square format, hard to hold to read but book fulfills the stated purpose of focusing on digital scrapbooking. If you have purchased Jasc products such as Paint Shop Pro then the "how-to's" are useful. If you are using different image editing software, the principles are the same but not the details. Book includes mini-interviews with many of the well known & published experts of the scrapbooking world. With reference to various products, book felt a bit commercial. Author clearly is an expert and shares her expertise with novices.
Perfect for Beginners January 29, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was great for me because I am a beginner, and I needed step-by-step instructions. It was easy to understand- not too wordy. This book is a must-buy for people interested in starting digital scrapbooking.
 publish on the Internet November 24, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Once, scrapbooking was a totally low tech hobby. No computers in sight. But Murray tells what massive cheap disks and RAM and scanners, and fast CPUs and high bandwidth have done to create a digital version of the hobby.
You can regard the book as a long exposition of how to use Paint Shop Pro in a domestic context. The example images that she provides are often of family events. She writes in a reassuring, nontechnical manner for you. The key tips she supplies are not really about a sequence of steps in Paint Shop to achieve a desired effect. These are of secondary importance. Instead, she writes about what makes a great image. How you should capture what inspires you or your family. The advice is timeless and could have been given about a traditional scrapbook.
The main qualitative difference now is in how you can publish your scrapbook on the Internet, so others can enjoy your work. One of the main drivers of the hobby's growth.
A Much Better Way to Save Pictures October 28, 2004
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
When the baby was born we took about a roll of pictures a day. That was a long time ago, and the pictures were slides. Now I go look at the slides and the glue has come off, the slides are peeling apart and they tend to stick in the projector.
Digital cameras are probably worse. You've got to get the image out of the camera so you can take more pictures. You can keep them in some kind of digital storage, like on your hard drive - until it crashes or you upgrade the computer. Better is to produce a scrapbook that you can print out, pass along to the kids, keep in a file, and look it the pictures together.
Producing a scrapbook is an interesting project in its own right - if nothing else you get to go look at the pictures again. But you really get to put the story together. The result can be quite attractive, especially if you use some of the special papers and other things that are available.
This book is a how-to, a tutorial on putting the scrapbooks together. It is an introductory level book talking about the first plans through final production. The format doesn't lend itself to being a reference book, but by the time you're finished your first scrapbook or two, you probably won't need a reference book.
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