Digital Scrapbook

Digital Scrapbooking Based on Microsoft PowerPoint

If you are a big preserver of memories like me, you may also want to make scrapbook based on photos. Involved in such a digital era, photos are usually stored in a digital way. So, digital scrapbooks become a new choice to us. Digital scrapbooking is just a fun and easy way to create scrapbook pages on the computer.

Here we look at some main benefits of digital scrapbooking first:

1.Save your time – once you learned how to use the marvelous Internet to make your digital scrapbook conveniently, you will find digital scrapbooking works quicker

2.Save your money – digital scrapbooking helps you save the money to buy gadgets such as scrapbooking papers, and punches

3.Focus on pictures – you can adjust the size of pictures with many free tools online, also, you can make your pictures more delicate

4.Share conveniently with others – digital scrapbooking helps you share scrapbooks in most popular ways, such as in DVD, video, or through email

Okay, then, let’s discuss how to make a digital scrapbook in details. For doing this, you will need a digital scrapbooking software. If you're a beginner and you have PowerPoint, you can easily create digital scrapbook based on digital photos and video footages with it.

A family reunion or any other holidays for that matter can be recorded with such a digital scrapbook. Below are the main steps of how to create one with PowerPoint.

1. Choose a Great PowerPoint Template for Digital Scrapbooking
There are many free templates resources for us to choose. However, it is worth customizing our own PowerPoint template.
You can shot a picture of your house and make it as the background. Here below is a sample screenshot.

Here are the steps of how to make a PowerPoint template yourself: Open PowerPoint -> View -> Slide Master -> in the center of the first slide, paste the picture you want to set as the main background and adjust the size of it to make it look suitable. Design the inner slides using the same way. After that, click Close Master View.

2. Insert Photos and Easily Edit the Frame of them
Insert photos you want to put onto a slide as the follow: Insert -> Images -> Choose the photo. You can adjust the size of a photo by dragging it. By double clicking it, you can see the Picture Tools options in the tool bar. In it, you can set the picture style and picture shape (frame). There are more than a hundred shapes for you to choose. Compared with other photo editing tools, I think it is the easiest. Here is a sample I made:

3. Add Video Clips into your Digital Scrapbook
To animate your scrapbook, you can insert any funny or meaningful video clips took at your special event. Do it simply by clicking Insert and then Movies.

4. Add Text
To some pictures, you may want to add your own descriptions. Just Insert a Text Box under the picture, and then input the words you want to say. After that, you can adjust the word font by double clicking on it.

5. Put Decorative Items on your Digital Scrapbook
You can scan various decorative items and add them to your page using Insert > Picture. Anything you think that is worth adding in can be considered.

6. Bring More Life by Adding Music
With a pleasure music playing through your digital scrapbook, that’s enjoyable. According to the theme of your scrapbook, you can add different kinds of music into it by clicking Insert -> Sound -> Sound from file

6. Bring More Life by Adding Music
With a pleasure music playing through your digital scrapbook, that’s enjoyable. According to the theme of your scrapbook, you can add different kinds of music into it by clicking Insert -> Sound -> Sound from file

About the Author

Charlene Qu is an expert of PowerPoint converter software who concentrated on giving you the best solution of PowerPoint to Video and PowerPoint to DVD; also include some tips and tricks about presentation which will make your life and work easier. Want to learn more about PowerPoint to Video and PowerPoint to DVD with her? Visit the website now Acoolsoft .

what kind of paper do you print your digital scrapbook with?

i just started doing my scrapbooking on the computer and i usually do 12+12 sheets but my printer doesn't print pages that big any ideas?

If I understand you correctly, your pages are 12" x 12" in size. If that is so, there is only one consumer printer that will print 12 x 12 borderless prints, and that is the Epson R1800. It is not an inexpensive printer, as the suggested price is $549 http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=53540919. I did a Google search and I couldn't find it cheaper, it is a new printer that was just released by Epson, so it may take 6 months for the price to drop. BYW - it takes 8 ink cartridges.

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