Getting Married? 10 Essential Tips For Making A Perfect Wedding Scrapbook!
Marriage is a big step for any happy couple
Marriage is a big step for any happy couple. Planning the wedding is a very important step in the process of arranging that big day. Couples will want to walk down memory lane in a few years and a great way to do that is to have photos. Making a scrapbook is the perfect way to keep photos organized so that a couple can look at the keepsake and remember the wonderful day. Wedding Scrapbook Software is a way to make this project one that is fun and easy to complete. It keeps everything organized on your computer, and you can share your scrapbook in many different ways - both print and digital.
Wedding scrapbook software is a fairly new idea. Before utilizing the computer, people would make the scrapbook by hand. They would compile photos and memorabilia from the wedding and reception. They would create a book of these items devoted to this day. Now with assistance from digital scrapbooking software, one can create these things even easier and faster.
Digital cameras are more popular than ever. Today most people have digital cameras. They take photos and share pictures by email, websites and CD/DVD's. Making a digital wedding scrapbook is easy. Generally a bride needs to run the program, import the photos, add some additional embellishments, make some designs and the scrapbook is complete. Once completed the bride can save, send it electronically or print it out for others.
There are a lot of scrapbook programs out there to choose from, but some of them are much easier to use and more powerful than others. Sit down as a couple and take a look at a few websites. Look for a free trial download so you can try out the software and make sure it's what you want. Make sure the product you choose has free scrapbooking tutorials, lots of expansion packs, a scrapbook layout gallery to upload your pages to, and a large vibrant discussion forum - it's a great place to see how real people actually like the software and really use it. Also, don't fall for free digital scrapbooking software giveaways. How often is free, really "free" in the end? Often those products have advertising and/or limited features. Your time is worth more than that!
An easy way to start your scrapbooking project is to first gather photos of the big day. The bride may have many from the photographer to look through. However do not forget the guests who may have nice candid shots of the bride and groom. It is so much easier to get these photos from others nowadays. The bride can email the guests. She can ask for any photos that the guest may feel could go into the scrapbook, be emailed to her as an attachment. After reviewing the photos, the bride can download the ones she would like to use in her scrapbook.
If a bride is using printed photos, she can take them to the local photo booth, scan the photos and have them made into a compact disc.
The steps in completing a scrapbook on your computer are easy. Once photos are selected, the bride can edit the photos as she wishes. She can fix any red eye problems, crop, rotate the photos or change some colors. The bride can even add text or graphics to the photos.
Once all pictures are edited, the bride will begin with making her scrapbook pages. The best digital scrapbooking software products come with full editable templates so you can totally customize your pages. Some software packages allow the user to pick a whole album to customize. The album would have a theme in which the pages and accents would all be the same throughout. Once this step is complete, the user will add their photos. Each program is a little bit different. The user needs to research the programs and weigh the pros and cons of each before diving in to making the scrapbook.
Once the photos are in place, the user can then add embellishments to their pages such as embellishments, paper scraps, etc... If you chose a good software product, this is an easy task. Make sure the company has lots of freebies on their website (look in the digital scrapbooking discussion forum for a "sharing corner"), plus lots of extra digital scrapbooking kits that you can expand your software with. Styles change and everyone has different tastes, so the more choice your software has the better. Beware of products that say they come with 50,000 or 100,000+ items. Do you really believe that all of that content is top-notch "artistic" quality scrapbooking content, or is it just generic clipart? Look for top quality kits by scrapbook designers instead!
Once this work is completed, the user will save the scrapbook project and can share with guests. One of the most important tips is to save a backup file of the project. If there is a backup, then the bride does not have to worry about all of her hard work vanishing if there is a computer crash. Once completed, the bride can print off the keepsake, email the digital scrapbook to others or upload it to their blog or other social network sites like Facebook and MySpace.
A wedding is a once in a lifetime event in a person's life. Saving memories in a scrapbook is a wonderful way to preserve the day, and you have many more options by using wedding scrapbook software. It can be a fun project that will last forever and it's also something that can easily be shared with friends and family.
by: Rhonda Doran-Neil
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