Basics of Digital Scrapbooking Software

Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking Software

Barbara Eastwick demonstrates the basics of using digital scrapbooking software in this video, and it’s a good video to study because the software functions she access are routinely found in all types of graphics packages. As your scrapping skills improve you will be to frequently call on these elements as you grow. As your digital scrapbooking skills improve, your creativity will flourish. You will be amazed at the unlimited number of options that will be available to you!

If you’re new to scrapbooking software, you’ll need to know how to locate, open, place and size images to make your backgrounds, which are like the paper pages. Equally important, you’ll need to know how to select and place embellishments on your page to add character to your creation. You’ll want to know how to add photographs and descriptive text so you can journal your memories and enhance the book’s value. Barbara skillfully shows each step and how easy it is to do.

Once you learn the fundamentals you can acquire other digital scrapbooking packages offering various themes and styles. Although the functions may be called something different than what you’ll see in this example, the capability to accomplish the task will be there. Better yet, many of the software functions you learn here will be found in other programs that you may use aside from scrapbooking.

Here’s a link where you can see the digital scrapbooking software that Barbara was using.