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What is EasyDigitalScrapbooking.com?

June 9, 2010 By Marie Leave a Comment

Thanks so much for stopping by EasyDigitalScrapbooking.com! I am so excited to share this new site with all of you. My name is Marie Stones. I am a wife, Mom, scrapbooker, digital/computer scraper, designer and web master.

Before we get started I wanted to share with you a little bit more about EasyDigitalScrapbooking.com, what we offer and how we can help you become an expert digital scrapbook artist.

If you are one of those people who as always been interested in scrapbooking, but just don’t know where to start this is the site for you. If you are an experience scrapbooker looking to go digital this is the site for you too!

Basically, EasyDigitalScrapbooking.com is a subscription site where for a small monthly fee you will receive monthly advice, tutorials, paper packs, page title, alphabets, embellishments, page template, full digital kits and more. We will walk you through the steps of becoming an expert digital scrapbooker each week with new ideas and supplies.

EasyDigitalScrapbooking.com is the easiest way for you to get started digital scrapbooking today and keep scrapbooking tomorrow!

Currently we are featuring tutorials for Scrapbook Max. I’ve tried almost every digital scrapbooking software out there and found this to be easiest and most versatile for the price.

Thanks again,

Marie
marie@easydigitalscrapbooking.com

P.S.

Don’t forget to sign up for RSS feeds by email so you don’t miss out on any of our great free digital scrapbooking resources.

Filed Under: Basic Info

Page Titles 1 – Inspiration

May 11, 2010 By Marie Leave a Comment

I love page titles, and while it is fun to create custom ones using fonts and alphabets, finding the perfect pre-made page title is a great way to quickly complete a page. I’m so excited with how these digital page titles turned out. They should make a great addition to any page. I tried to come up with a variety of sayings for your first few pages. Each saying comes as a shape template so that you can add any color or paper to it you like and as a pre-made sticker.

Enjoy,

Marie

Filed Under: Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Elements - Week 1, Uncategorized

Lesson 1 – Organization

May 9, 2010 By Marie Leave a Comment

This lesson is going to be very brief, because I want to get you scrapbooking as quickly as possible, but before you get started making pages and download elements I want you to have place put them.

EasyDigitalScrapbooking.com

As a digital scrapbooker you are going to be juggling tons of files. You will have to keep track of your pictures, your kits and embellishments, your pages and your page templates to name just a few. Organization is key!

If your new to digital scrapbooking this is pretty easy. If you already have downloads all over the place it could take a little longer to clean everything up.

Start by heading to your My Document or User folder (this will vary depending on your operating system). You should already have a folder called My Pictures or Pictures. (This is where you should be keeping all your digital photos) If the folder isn’t already there you can create it by right clicking within an empty area in the window, selecting New and then Folder.

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Repeat those steps to create a new Scrapbooking folder as well.

You should now have a Pictures and Scrapbooking folder. Right click each folder and choose Create Shortcut. Then drag the new  Short Cut Icon to your desktop. With the Short Cuts on your desktop it will makeall your supplies easy to find.

From here on out all your digital scrapbooking supplies and pages in progress will go in your Scrapbooking folder and all your digital photos and finished digital scrapbooking pages will in you Pictures folder.

We will have many more lessons on organization in the future. This was just to help use stay organized as we get started.

To finish things up I want you to create two folders within your Scrapbooking folder. Again just right click on an empty area within the folder window and select New then Folder. Name one EasyDigital and name the other  Projects in Progress. Now open the EasyDigital folder and create a folder for papers, page templates, alphabets, embellishments, kits, page titles, and other information. Anything downloaded from our site should go in the EasyDigital folder and as we start to create new projects they can can be saved in the Projects in Progress folder.

Filed Under: Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Elements - Week 1, Tutorials Tagged With: digital scrapbook club, digital scrapbook template, digital scrapbook templates, digital scrapbooking, folders, organization

Template 1

May 7, 2010 By Marie Leave a Comment

Post first template

Filed Under: Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Elements - Week 1, Templates

Adobe Photoshop Elements Free Trial Tutorial

May 1, 2010 By Marie 1 Comment

If you are really interested in getting started digital scrapbooking today you don’t need to run to the store or order something online and then wait days for it to show up. Instead head on over to Adobe.com and download the free trial version.

It’s super easy and will only take about 10 minutes to get up and running.

Just follow this link to the free download of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Then just let the videos below walk you through the steps of download and installing your new software.

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Filed Under: Software, Tutorials, Uncategorized

Downloading Free Trials

April 18, 2010 By Marie Leave a Comment

The first step to digital scrapbooking is choosing and installing the right software for you. There are three main things to consider when choosing your digital scrapbooking software. The good news is many of the top software brands offer a free trial. I show you links to those later in this article. First I want you to think about what will be important to you as a digital scrapbooker.

  1. How much time and money do have to devote to digital scrapbooking? The more advanced the program, the more it will cost and the longer it will take to learn.
  2. Are you interested in being able to edit, adjust and crop your photos before adding them to your pages? If so you will want a photo editing software, not just a digital scrapbooking software.
  3. How creative do you want to get? Do you truly want to create something of your own or is adding your own pictures and text to already stunning pages good enough. If the later is true a program with ready made pages may be the way to go.

If you already know the answers to these questions check out our review section for the basics of each program. If not, it is time to get your hands dirty. As I said before most top photo editing/digital scrapbooking programs offer free trials. Below are links to the actual downloads and our tutorials to help you with the process.

SmileBox Free Trial
SmileBox Free Trial Tutorial

Scrapbook Max Free Trial
Scrapbook Max Free Trial Tutorial

Adobe Photoshop Free Trial
Adobe Photoshop Free Trial Tutorial

Filed Under: Software, Tutorials

Quiz – What Type of Digital Scrapbooker Are You?

April 15, 2010 By Marie 1 Comment

What type of digital scrapbooker are you? Take the quiz below to find out if you are a casual or die hard digital scrapper.

How much time do you have to devote to learning a new digital scrapbook program?



How important is the color, clarity and quality of you photo's to you?




Are you a "control freak" and is controlling tiny details important to you?



Do want to be able to do more then just create simple scrapbook pages?



Is digital scrapbooking something you are just trying out for now or to create a few projects or is it something you would like to make a life long hobby?






Filed Under: Freebies, Quizzes Tagged With: casual scrapbooker, choosing digital scrapbook software, die hard scrapbooker, digital scrapbooking

Is Digital Scrapbooking For You?

April 15, 2010 By Marie Leave a Comment

Is digital scrapbooking for you? Take our quiz to find out.

Please go to Is Digital Scrapbooking For You? to view the quiz
Filed Under: Freebies, Quizzes Tagged With: digital scrapbooking, quiz, Scrapbooking, Traditional Scrapbooking

Choosing The Right Software

April 3, 2010 By Marie Leave a Comment

Choosing the right digital scrapbooking software is the biggest and most important decision you will make as a digital scrapbooker. I know, just thinking about it can be completely overwhelming.  There are so many programs out there to choose from. To simplify things I’m going to break it down into three “scrapbooker” categories – Casual, Intermediate and Advanced and then give you my top software picks for each.

Casual -
Smilebox

Intermediate -
Scrapbook Max
MemoryMixer

Advanced -
Adobe Photoshop Elements

Not sure what program would work best of you. Take the Digital Scrapbooker Quiz to find out what kind of digital scrapbooker you will be.

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: Adobe Photoshop Elements, casual scrapbooker, choosing digital scrapbook software, die hard scrapbooker, digital scrapbooking, Scrapbook Max, Smilebox

Supplies

April 3, 2010 By Marie Leave a Comment

First Supplies Post

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Filed Under: Supplies
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