Saturday, October 11, 2008

How to Create Digital Scrapbooking With Adobe

Modern-day software users have a variety of products to choose from now.  Adobe offers is range of software products that allows you to create documents and graphics.  Their photo-editing software is considered one of the best available, and offers the ability to enhance your photos in your digital scrapbooking.  Digital scrapbooking with Adobe gives scrapbookers a way to add more interest to their own scrapbooking page layouts.

Getting started with digital scrapbooking with Adobe doesn't need to be difficult.  You might have many questions about the basics and how to begin.  Taking the time to learn Adobe Photoshop can add more interest and variety to the page layouts in your scrapbooks.

When talking about digital scrapbooking with Adobe, chances are you're referring to the Adobe program of Photoshop.  Photoshop is a program that many people use to crop, edit, and otherwise work with photos on their computer.  If you have ever seen some funny pictures that have obviously been doctored - the President's head on a weightlifter's body or a dog riding the space shuttle - chances are that person used Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop has many useful tools, including the selection tool.  With this tool you can remove any area of a photo or graphic from it's original file, expand it, or enhance it in many ways.  You many want to take a photo of both of your children and separate them into two photos with each individual child.  Now you can use these two new photos on your scrapbooking layouts.

An original photo can become entirely new photos with Photoshop.  You can manipulate any part of an original photograph and use it to make a new picture for your scrapbooking pages.  This is why scrapbookers love digital scrapbooking with Adobe.  You can expand upon the photos you have, and aren't limited to how the original pictures were taken.

Some of the most creative scrapbooking pages are those that have more than one copy of the same picture, or several shots that were taken right after one another, and so on.  When digital scrapbooking with Adobe Photoshop, you can copy your pictures, reduce their size, expand their size, and add as many other pictures as you want, all with the click of a mouse.  This way there is no damage done to your original photos, and you don't need to keep copying, cutting, pasting, and so on, until you get it right.

What is your level of computer experience?  When considering digital scrapbooking with Adobe Photoshop, you need to decide which version is right for you.  Most professionals use the full versions of Photoshop.  However, for most scrapbookers those programs are too expensive and more than they need for digital page layouts. Adobe Photoshop Elements is a much better choice. It's less expensive and easier to learn.

Digital scrapbooking with Adobe is a terrific and versatile tool for creating beautiful photos and attractive scrapbooking pages.  You can use the special effects to add interest to your layouts.  It's worth the time to learn Adobe Photoshop and add new techniques to your scrapbooking skills.

Christine Perry invites you to her website, for more scrapbooking tips and information on how to become a scrapbook consultant.

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