How To Begin Scrapbooking Online

Digital scrapbooking, if you have a site, a few of the programs, a few of the forums, basically everything you need to know to start Digital Scrapbooking. So reading glasses on or computer glasses and let's get going. Right, if you've never used a digital program, there are several that you can download.

www.smilebox.com is a free one.

You can download that straight to your C-drive and use as normal. www.photoscape.

org is another one that you can also download and use. This one is brilliant for little things like, different tricks and tips that you can do with it. It has a fantastic little thing with tutorials on.

www.gimp.org is very similar to Photoshop but again it's an open source therefore a free program and they actually also have tutorials online.

Another one is serif. Serif is a UK scrapbooking company and if you go on onto www.freeserifsoftware.

com they actually have a free version of their digital free scrapbook artist. So you can get straight in there and you can start playing and all the little tools and toys. The resizing, the fading, the blurring, different colors, funny photo effects and all of the programs will do that.

You want it to look something like an oil painting you can do it. If you want the black and white sketch you can do it and so on. Now here's some more that you can actually put write-up on your screen that you don't need to download.

And, hang-on a second. www.splashup.

com this one has a lot of tools similar to any digital program you may or you may not be used to. And you come out with it right on your screen. www.

photoshop.com/tools has a new thing called Photoshop express editor. To work with this you simply tell it where you work with something and it will offer to browse your C-drive and it will take-up a photo, put it right on screen, run your cursor along the bottom for the different effects.

Down the side you've got another screen panel telling you more effects and then if you want to save it, it pops straight back into you're My Pictures photo right through it into your computer. It's magic. Also www.

picknick.com this one again you can work with straight online. You can save it if you want.

They have got a pay program if you want to be more sophisticated, if you don't then just stick with the free onlineone and also lunapick.com. Now there are more free online editors.

These also have storage for your photos online so that if you got a clock C drive or you want to share your photos with people say oversees or in a different town. You can do this, you can email to them or they can access yours. And this is www.

photobucket.com, www.picasa.

com which in the Google family and www.flickr.com this is owned by Yahoo.

All of these you need to had an account for all of them free and all of them do have simple editing effects. Now also I think you had some sites for ideas, layouts and tutorials. www.

photo-collage-software.com has a free site for wedding scrapbook ideas which is very useful. www.

shabbyprinces.com is another one. Great tutorials, freebees, layouts.

You can look out layouts. You can able even copy. www.

twopeaseinabucket.com and www.shimelle.

com. And shimelle also writes for scrapbooking magazine. Forums, again more tutorial, www.

digiscrapaddicts.com, www.scrapgirls.

com, www.studio-scrap.com and www.

twopeaseinabucket.com. I think if you get online with any of this, bookmark these sites and I think you will be up and running in no time what's so ever.

Have fun with your digital scrapbooking.