Digital Scrapbooking and Stories in Hand
Ξ October 10th, 2008 | → 4 Comments | ∇ Scrapbooking |
Thanks so much for the comments on my digital scrapbook page. I got several questions about it, so I thought I’d answer them here, as well as share an exciting (free!) class with you.
If you aren’t a scrapbooker don’t skip this post! Scroll down to th bottom to learn about a (free!) online class that could help you better tell the stories of your life, called Stories in Hand.
Or I guess you could skip this post and just click on the link I just gave you.
I am still learning digital scrapbooking using Photoshop. The “Dino Dig” layout I made is the first one I’ve made from a blank document and is from the “Now We’re Rockin With Photoshop” class at Jessica Sprague.com. I’m currently in the second week of the four-week class, and I’m having so much fun with it!
I actually made an entire digital album from a real-life class that I took with her. I’ll see if I can find a way to share it here at some point. After I’ve caught up with all the household tasks that take a back seat to kids throwing up.
I’ll never be a completely digital scrapbooker- I like the feel of paper so much. I also don’t have a printer that I can print anything of quality on. Well, actually I don’t have a printer I can print anything on right now since our desktop PC just broke, and I don’t have our old printer installed on my new Mac, but that is a frustration for a different post! But one day in the (probably distant) future, I’d love to have a printer that can print 12×12 so that I have the freedom to print full digital pages as well as hybrid. But I do like that there is no mess or supplies to clean up with digital scrapbooking, and it can be done anywhere.
Like on the couch when you’re watching Toy Story 2 with your kids for the eleventy seventh time.
For all those who expressed an interest in digital scrapbooking, Jessica Sprague has great classes, from complete beginner all the way up to advanced, as well as digital photography classes and even classes on how to store and organize your digital photos.
And on October 20 she’s opening registration for a completely free class called Stories in Hand. The class is for scrapbookers and non-scrapbookers, and helps you “develop a system for capturing the stories that matter most.”
And what blogger couldn’t use that?
I’ll definitely be taking it. And if you’re interested in digital scrapbooking but don’t know where to start, this could be a great way to take a (free!) class and get a feel for the way her classes are run.
on October 10th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
so, do you have to have a Mac, or just photoshop. i know Macs handle graphics better, but wondered if a pc does fine too.
on October 26th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I too have signed up for the Stories in Hand class. Looking forward to it.
I am 95% digi now, still add the odd ribbon and stuff to digi-cards I print out, and enjoy the odd hybrid gift, but I LOVE the lack of mess with digi.
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