Digital Scrapbooking

After you make a digital page do you print it out or place it in some kind of digital album?

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Scout Lady
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I print mine out, put them in sheet protectors & then in an album wide enough for sheet protectors (the cheaper binders are wide enough for

8.5x11 pages with 3-hole punches in the paper, but often not wide enough so the sheet protectors don't stick out the right side). I have a PDF of each page so can view it on screen (or print it elsewhere). If I were a Powerpoint person, I could make a slideshow of the pages using that (or other program), but haven't (yet ).

Some of my albums have lots of text (some pages all text -- family stories), so when I get around to putting them into something that can easily be viewed by others on the computer, I'll need it to be set up so they can control when to flip the page.

The big advantage for me of digital is the ability to make multiple copies. My least distributed album only has 2 copies but my 300 page (& growing) album has 7 copies.

Alicia

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Alicia

Either... I generally print mine at 12x12, at home on my wide-format printer. I use Super B sized photo paper, which is 13x19 inches, allowing me to print 2 little 6x6 layouts at the bottom of each sheet - giving me 3 album pages for the cost of a single sheet of photo paper.

If you don't have a wide-format printer, but you like to design "square" it's very easy to do 8x8 or 6x6. There are also ways to get relatively cheap copies of 12x12 (or nearly) layouts printed at photo processors and places like Staples and Kinko's.

Lot's of people do 8.5x11, but that requires a full-bleed photo printer, or else you get something slightly smaller and trim off the excess. Also, 8x10 is very popular because you can have it printed as a standard 8x10 photo.

Some people love to place their layouts in a Web gallery, so they make a small Web-sized version for that, and also to email to others. I've done slideshows with PowerPoint (very easy, PP loves digital scrapbook files!) and other slideshow software. Some folks burn those to CD or DVD and send them off to loved ones. Basically, whatever you want to do, there's a way to do it.

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Sally Beacham

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