Digital Family Album Basics: Tools for Making Digital Memories [Paperback]

Janine Warner (Author), Tom McCain (Author), Mindy McCain (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2006

With the boom in digital cameras, video cameras, and computers, Americans are making memories by the truckload. And they're organizing those memories in increasing numbers—scrapbooking has become a $1.4 billion-per-year market. Where digital cameras and scrapbooking meet, there's only one book: Digital Family Album Basics. This easy-to-use, easy-to-understand handbook shows how these two trends are a match made in heaven, because the ultimate tool for storing, manipulating, and displaying photos, text, and graphics is the computer. Author Janine Warner is an expert at making technology inviting and nonthreatening, even to non-techies, and her warm, straightforward approach is completely family friendly. Parents, grandparents, and kids can work together on dozens of wonderful projects to create lasting family treasures. From clicking the shutter to printing out family albums, personalized baby books, holiday letters, greeting cards, and more, Digital Family Album Basics makes it easy to create, capture, and share priceless memories.




• An estimated 40 percent of all American households own a digital camera. More than 20 percent of households do scrapbooking. Put 'em together and what have you got? Digital Family Album Basics!


• Ideal for everyone who wants to showcase digital memories


• High tech and high touch

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Janine Warner, best-selling author of Dreamweaver for Dummies, Managing Web Projects for Dummies, and Creating Family Web Sites for Dummies, is an internet consultant, speaker, and a regular guest expert in the media. Inspired by her own family, she combined her award-winning journalism skills with her background as a technology executive to create Digital Family Album Basics. She lives in Los Angeles. Coauthors Tom and Mindy McCain are both professional graphic designers (and Janine's aunt and uncle). Their beautiful illustrations make this book a lively, heartfelt guide to creating calendars, cards, online albums, and other digital memories that are sure to engage and inspire family and friends for years to come. They live in Indianapolis.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Amphoto Books (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817438017
• ISBN-13: 978-0817438012
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,715,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hi, I'm Janine Warner, and as you might have guessed, my life revolves around the internet - teaching it, designing it, and always, always learning from it.

Because not everything you read on the Internet is reliable, you can expect that at least two of the following facts in my biography are completely made-up.

1. I'm a journalist turned geek. Sometimes I call myself a 'techy translator' or a 'digital alchemist' -- my favorite made-up titles so far. I imagine future generations will remember us the way we look back on Medieval wizards trying to turn lead into gold.

2. I was bitten by a radioactive computer bug, which gave me my amazing web powers... (Okay, that fact may not be from a reliable source.)

3. I started out as a reporter and editor and got hooked on the Internet early. Since 1996, I've written more than a dozen books, including Web Sites DIY For Dummies, Dreamweaver For Dummies (every edition), and Mobile Web Design For Dummies.

4. I've created and recorded more than 50 hours of training videos on Web design, Dreamweaver, CSS, and Expression Web for Kelby Training and Total Training. (You can learn more about my videos at DigitalFamily.com).

5. I'm fascinated by how mobile is changing the Internet and I'm now working on a book about designing for the iPad, iPhone and other touchscreen devices.

6. I spend most of my time running a consulting firm and writing books about Web design. I also travel all over the world for conferences and events and because I speak fluent Spanish, I've been fortunate to travel a lot in Latin America and Spain.

7. In 1998, I was hired by The Miami Herald, first as their online managing editor and a year later, as Director of New Media. I left that position to run CNET's Latin American operations in Miami. Since 2002, I've run my own consulting and writing business.

8. As a child, I trained my pet Siberian Snow Tiger to ski the steepest slope in the Alps, the dreaded Hannenkahm. Despite reaching speeds in excess of 80 miles per hour on the treacherous course, the Olympic Committee refused to admit him. (This point is so very, very true.)

9. I've taught courses in online journalism at the University of Southern California and the University of Miami and I've been a guest lecturer at more than 20 other universities.

10. I've served as a judge for several internet contests in the U.S. and Latin America, and in the course of that work, I helped create an Internet Literacy program for high school students in Latin America.

Learn more about Janine's books, videos, and Web design consulting at www.DigitalFamily.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic resource, February 5, 2006

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D. LaFontaine "Rex Luscus" (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Family Album Basics: Tools for Making Digital Memories (Paperback)

This book makes it easy to take all the hundreds of digital photos on the hard drive and turn them into something that looks good. Great illustrations, clear and concise directions - this book is really useful, even if yoiu've always shied away from using computers to do things for your family.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!, April 30, 2006

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J. Kammer "LibrarianSAHM" (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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Loved this book--inspirational and creative! Makes me want to do more with my digital photos! I found the discussion on using image editing software to be particularly helpful and simple. Great ideas for projects in this book--things I never would have thought of on my own. Great resource for beginner digital scrapbookers!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Such a helpful book!, March 3, 2007

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M. McCain (Michigan USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Family Album Basics: Tools for Making Digital Memories (Paperback)

This is a beautifully put together and helpful guide to making fun things on the computer. I have it myself and have given it to friends as gifts.