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Digital Scrapbooking is the new and exciting way to scrapbook, and it's really catching on! Hundreds of thousands of traditional scrappers already rely on their computers for enhancing their scrapbooking pages, whether it's to edit flawed photos, to "journal" with creative fonts, or to design unique embellishments. With the popularity of digital cameras and photos, the shift toward digital scrapbooking - making complete scrapbooks on the computer - is a natural one.

Digital Scrapbooking is the new and exciting way to scrapbook, and it's really catching on! Hundreds of thousands of traditional scrappers already rely on their computers for enhancing their scrapbooking pages, whether it's to edit flawed photos, to "journal" with creative fonts, or to design unique embellishments. With the popularity of digital cameras and photos, the shift toward digital scrapbooking - making complete scrapbooks on the computer - is a natural one.

Traditional scrapbookers like the creative control image editing programs give them over problems in their digital photos, like red-eye, glare, and even the size and shape of their images. Scrapbookers also like to use their home printers. A scrapbook layout might demand that a photo be a certain size; the scrapbooker has complete control over this when using their own home printer. Using your own computer sure beats calling up the photo lab everytime you need to fix a flawed photo or order prints at a particular size (and it's cheaper, too!).

Scrapbookers have long used their computers to create personalized graphics that they can print out to give their pages a signature style. Captions and other flourishes can be created in various computer programs, then printed and adhered to a scrapbook page. Text like titles and journaling are often done on the computer because there are so many cool and creative fonts available.

A lot of traditional scrapbookers have realized the benefits of their computers for their scrapbooking hobby, and so are making the logical switch to making entire scrapbook pages on their computers. It's a natural step in the evolution of this hobby! First of all, it's easy to get your hands on decently-priced, creative digital scrapbooking software that gives you beautiful results without the investment in traditional scrapbooking tools. Never mind that pages made with the digital scrapbooking method can even outshine what you can do with paper. Digital scrapbooking just makes good sense!

Using your computer to scrapbook has many benefits over traditional scrapbooking. One benefit is how artistic you can get. With a digital scrapbooking program, you can arrange your photos, elements and text in all sorts of ways until your page looks just right. If it doesn't work out the first time, just click and start again. You can't exactly do that when you're dealing with scissors and glue, not to mention expensive paper embellishments and printed photos. Digital scrapbooking software gives you complete control of your page and how it looks, and the ability to let your inner artist truly shine.

The ability to "undo" crops and arrangements that you don't like with the click of a mouse leads to the second advantage: cost. Traditional paper scrapbooking can get very expensive when you consider the cost of all the tools, papers, and supplies you are going to need. It gets even more expensive when you make a mistake with the scissors or the glue and have to re-print a photo or purchase new element. With digital scrapbooking, you just need a creative, reliable software program, and you're good to go. Creating a page on the computer is a lot faster and cheaper than the traditional way of working with paper, photos and cutters and all the set up and clean up that comes with it.

Here's another benefit of digital scrapbooking: it's easy to share with friends and family. Think about it - even if your family lives halfway across the world, you can email them your digital pages or post scrapbooks on your blog, and be in touch in mere seconds. It's also easy to print your digital pages - just turn to your home printer. Even if you want to make large pages like 12 x 12, there are lots of affordable home printers that will do the job.

It seems that everyone uses a digital camera nowadays, and digital scrapbooking issimilarly on its way to becoming the preferred way to scrapbo.ok Digital scrapbooking offers endless creative possibilities, and digital scrapbooking software would ceratinly make a terrific item to give as a gift to a paper scrapbooker or newbie scrapbooker alike.

If you want to try out digital scrapbooking software to see what it's all about, you're in luck - there are free downloadable trials available for "test driving". And don't be alarmed if you're new to digital scrapbooking as there are plenty of hints, tutorials and helpful digital scrapbooking communities available all over the Web. The main thing is to remember that digital scrapbooking is a creative hobby and a way to express yourself, so give yourself permission to get artistic with your pages!