When I digital scrapbook, I create a whole layout on one document in Photoshop.  After I am finished with the page, I copy and paste each half of the layout onto separate "pages."  That way I can place them in my "books" that are later published.  You'll notice that I leave margins around the edges of each page to make room for "bleeding." Bleeding is where the picture is printed all the way to the edges, and some of the picture is lost in the printing.  

The most pages I have done in one week was about 160, which was a book I made of my family reunion in July 2006.  For the most part, the pages were very simple, and I used very few embellishments (not only because of time constraint, but also because I have five brothers who aren't really into "frills").  It was quite a task.  My mom came out to take care of my kids so I could finish the project before Christmas.  NOTE TO SELF: Don't attempt to do that many in a week again.

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Brooke's 3rd Birthday

For this page, I just used two shades of pink, and took advantage of the different brushes I had in photoshop.  One of the fonts I used, which is my favorite, is spharty girl, and the other one I can't remember the name of.  I used the stroke/outline feature in photoshop to make the borders around the edges of each photo.
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JoAnn said...

Your digital pages are stunning. I started scrapbooking when I was pregnant when my now 8 year old. I quit when she was 4 months old and have only scrapped one event (a trip to Disneyland) since then. I want to get back to it but all of our photos for the past 6 years are digital and need to be printed. I've wondered about digital scrapbooking...the cost to print and how they turn out...so I haven't tried it yet. I probably should. I've just discovered DVD slideshows and am finishing up a 30 minute one for my daughter's birthday present.

January 18, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Dana said...

Don't worry, I just discovered blogs. There is a little bit of a learning curve, but once you get over that, you can create pages pretty quickly. If you don't have the time to "catch up," you could always load them in a book service that has templates already made for you. My favorite is blurb.com. Their prices are the best, and I am very happy with their printing quality.

January 18, 2008 at 2:35 PM

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