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Scrapbooking Digitally: The Ultimate Guide to Saving Your Memories Digitally

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This is an amazing book! I'm typically skeptical when it comes to books on technology because I'm a technology teacher. Often these books are far too "Beginners Based" for me to stay interested. However, this book is totally different. I found myself reading through it like it was a best selling novel!

This book comes with a CD that has three complete digital scrapbooking kits. For each kit you get backgrounds and embellishments to add to your scrapbooking pages. Also on the CD is a free trial version of Photoshop Elements which is a wonderful program to use when creating digital scrapbooks.

What makes this book so wonderful is that it's easy for beginners to use but it's also great for those who are avid scrappers but haven't reached "Expert" status yet. It gives you step by step guides in completing tasks in Photoshop. The CD even has some lesson files that you can use to follow along in the book to practice. It's simply amazing!

It's also a wonderful book to get layout ideas from. Purchase this book without hesitation, you won't be disappointed!

I love this book! I've learned so much from it even though I'm actually using PSE6 and not 5. (PSE5 comes with it) I've made about 20+ layouts in about a week's time and until opening this book I had zero experience with PSE. The scrapbooking goodies that came with the DVD are so beautiful and I've gotten so many different looks from them. Great book all around!

This is a great book. The software featured in the book is Photoshop. I have taken one Photoshop class and used the software for about a year. This book covered things NOT covered in the class I took. It is easy to understand and use. I'm NOT doing my scrapbooking digitally but I still love the book.

Was looking for a book that highlighted how to scrapbook digitally (not scrapbook on paper with digital items added). This book is absolutely great. So many great ideas and pretty pictures. Easy to do layouts with Photoshop Elements. Great ideas for how to enhance layouts by scanning. All around great book.

The material is very imaginative and creative with many stimulating ideas and it is much more than scrapbooking alone. The scrapbooking concepts are accompanied by a concise decsription of the editing procedure (photoshop, etc) . I found it handy and useful for the editing info in itself. Amazon delivered exactly as promised.

Fantastic book on doing scrapbooking digitally. Easy to follow and lots of good ideas. My instructer at the local community college has a collection of books on the subject and after seeing mine bought one for herself. She now says it could be the textbook for the class and is the best one she has seen yet.

I've become increasingly drawn to digital scrapbooking. Traditional scrapbooking is cool, but I don't want to get heavily involved with all the supplies, needing to clear out a space and so on. So it's digital scrapbooking for me. I am an experienced user of Photoshop, Illustrator and other graphics editing and design software.

So why do I find an introductory book like this so appealing? Because scrapbooking is an art form unlike what I've done in the past. I need to develop new ways of seeing and not be bound by the restrictions of the kind of stuff I've been doing.

The authors provide that introduction based around Photoshop Elements ("PE"), a trial copy of which is on the included CD, but you'll want to download the current trial version from Adobe's site.

They take you through all the main features of using PE, but everything is centered on digitally scrapbooking.

The approach is very casual. Quick basic introductions first to camera vocabulary, cameras, scanners (and scanning ideas), printers (with an excellent short section on papers and specialty media).

Next is an introduction to "Digital Layouts 101", which is thorough, entertaining and educational. This is also a guide to your first steps in using Photoshop Elements.

After that, the book flows well into sections on image editing, using text, backgrounds and accents (the latter both digital and analog) and using digital kits.

The authors really do this well. The book is profusely illustrated with very striking and creative layouts that go beyond simply demonstrating the techniques described, but rather serve to illuminate and inspire. Unlike the work I've been doing, scrapbooking lets you throw traditional rules out the window and create to your heart's content.

"Scrapbooking Digitally" would be an excellent intro just to Photoshop Elements. Coupled with its focus on digital scrapbooking, it is an excellent introduction to both subjects.

Jerry

This is one of the best written manuals on any computer subject I have read. The instructions are truly step-by-step and the tips and general info is invaluable. What makes this book such a bargain is the fabulous digital scrapbook page templates and art in the back of the book. In fact one of the artists that created the art on the CD sells her work on the website "thedigichick."
I just wish they would come out with another book!

i have PE 7 and this was written for a less recent version. It was quite good and had some nice digital kits. Needed to be more comprehensive and updated for me.

The CD that came with this product will not work. I have tried it on two different computers and it just keeps running but the computer doesn't recognize anything on the disk. I tried on XP and Vista.