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Making use of Digital Scrapbooking Templates To Boost Your Creativeness

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Digital Scrapbook Templates is a great resource for scrapbookers.
Several scrappers thinks that making use of templates is "cheating" or that they are good only for starters. I could not disagree more!

Digital Scrapbooking Templates can be for both newcomers and more experienced scrapbookers. A few people just cut their pictures and papers and throw in a number of elements when they make use of templates And thats all right, in case that's what you want. But for an experienced scrapper you may use a template to start out, and after that bring your own style to them by including elements and journaling to them. A template can be flipped, rotated and turned upside down to suit your needs. When you have added background papers and pictures to the template, use your own imagination and creativity so that you can create a unique page from it.

A Digital Scrapbooking Template is usually created as a psd or a tiff file. These file formats support layers which is the overall point by using them. You simply include your own backgrounds, pictures and elements on the layer above the layer in the template, and then you group your paper or image with the underlying layer. Are you wondering what exactly I am talking about? It might sound like a foreign language before you learn how, but do not worry. It isn't as difficult as it sounds.

Digital Scrapbooking Templates are also perfect for creating photo books. You can find template sets meant for photo books in a lot of scrapbooking shops online. Photobook templates are often designed in numerous styles, it could be a minimalistic style or a more whimsical style. When you use templates like that, you can make sure that your photobook will get a similar design througout the whole book.

When you start learning digital scrapbooking it can be quite intimidating and frustrating before you get the hang of it. Using templates can make it much easier to start out.

You will learn the basic principles quicker by using templates If you have tried paper scrapping, you will soon find out that digital scrapbooking techniques are very similar. You start with the background paper and then add photos, frames and finally the decorative elements. And not to ignore the most important part of a digital scrapbook layout, journaling! At least, that is what I think is most important, even if some scrappers might disagree and prefer to use scrapbooking as a form of art to create fantasy layouts. For me, digital scrapbooking has always been all about telling a story, and I always follow a simple rule to answer these questions: Why, where, when and what's the story about the photo.

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