What Is a Scrapbook
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
What Is A Scrapbook
Let's start with "What's a scrapbook?" For countless generations,
people have documented life's experiences by saving memorabilia and photographs in albums for themselves and others to enjoy. Often these pages include decorative accents and text called journaling by scrapbookers. Traditionally, these pages, also known as layouts, are stored in albums of many sizes and types.
Scrapbooking is a very personal concept, and some consider it personal art. It's also flexible, and encompasses a multitude of techniques, both artistic and craft-oriented. Scrapbooking
encourages even the most inexperienced photographer to create beautiful and meaningful arrangements, and challenges the experienced designer to make some magic.
Some scrapbooks have themes, such as weddings or a new baby. Some scrapbooks document events; an entire scrapbook devoted to a cruise vacation.
You can capture moments celebrating everyday events, sports, and friendships. Heritage scrapbooks are popular. These are journals that record genealogical information and incorporate family pictures, sometimes with antique photos as well as period memorabilia. Creating a scrapbook can be a relaxing hobby, an interesting avocation, and an important record of past and current history for future generations. Many scrapbookers enjoy meeting for communal events called crops-a reference to cropping photographs to fit the available layout space. Scrapbooking is popular in many countries, although supply
sources may be somewhat limited. Sometimes the communal events involve using Web forums, e-mail lists, and chat applications.
It's become increasingly popular to use computers to assist in creating scrapbooks. The simplest form is creating journaling and heading banners. The sheer variety of available fonts makes this task not only easy, but extremely flexible. However, today's scrapbooker can go as far as to create entire layouts from start to finish with a computer and
various types of software. It's also easy to print the entire layout in one fell swoop, or
save it to a CD-ROM for storage purposes or to share with others. Sometimes, layouts
are shared via Web galleries.
Traditional Paper Scrapbooks
Paper scrapbookpages can be created in a variety of sizes, and more styles than one can even imagine. Commonly, a scrapbook layout is placed in a plastic sleeve protector to help safeguard it from dust, dirt, and fingerprints (people do actually look at their scrapbooks). The sleeve protectors are stored in an album, oftentimes with a decorative cover.
Albums can be purchased in a variety of sizes. Most often, you'll find 12 × 12 inch and
8.5 × 11 inch (the dimensions of the paper layouts, not necessarily the external dimensions
of the book itself). Other available sizes include 12 × 15 inch, 8 × 8 inch, 6 × 6
inch, and 5 × 7 inch. You can even create your own custom size using a binding machine.
The album binding itself is also a variable. The most popular binding types are straphinge
(a metal strap goes through holes in the pages and the binding) and post-bound
(expandable metal posts create the binding.) Page protectors usually are top-loading-
the layout is inserted from the top of the sleeve, making it more difficult for attachments
to fall out of the protector if they become dislodged. If you choose to create
digital layouts and print them out, you can still use the same types of albums and page
protectors to showcase them.
Journals and Altered Books
There are a number of variations on the scrapbook concept. A couple of those are journals and altered books. A journal is a scrapbook that concentrates on the text aspect; it still incorporates photos and images, but generally tells a cohesive story from beginning
to end. Journals are easy for the digital scrapper to create-all it takes is a word processor and some clip art.
Altered books are actual books that become the bound medium for collage-style scrapbooking.
You can find them at second-hand stores, yard sales, and flea markets. Sometimes the book itself is an intrinsic part of the scrapbook theme. The altered book format can be an interesting way to display computer-generated scrapbook
art.
Learn the insider secrets to create beautiful scrapbooks!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
What Is A Scrapbook
Let's start with "What's a scrapbook?" For countless generations,
people have documented life's experiences by saving memorabilia and photographs in albums for themselves and others to enjoy. Often these pages include decorative accents and text called journaling by scrapbookers. Traditionally, these pages, also known as layouts, are stored in albums of many sizes and types.
Scrapbooking is a very personal concept, and some consider it personal art. It's also flexible, and encompasses a multitude of techniques, both artistic and craft-oriented. Scrapbooking
encourages even the most inexperienced photographer to create beautiful and meaningful arrangements, and challenges the experienced designer to make some magic.
Some scrapbooks have themes, such as weddings or a new baby. Some scrapbooks document events; an entire scrapbook devoted to a cruise vacation.
You can capture moments celebrating everyday events, sports, and friendships. Heritage scrapbooks are popular. These are journals that record genealogical information and incorporate family pictures, sometimes with antique photos as well as period memorabilia. Creating a scrapbook can be a relaxing hobby, an interesting avocation, and an important record of past and current history for future generations. Many scrapbookers enjoy meeting for communal events called crops-a reference to cropping photographs to fit the available layout space. Scrapbooking is popular in many countries, although supply
sources may be somewhat limited. Sometimes the communal events involve using Web forums, e-mail lists, and chat applications.
It's become increasingly popular to use computers to assist in creating scrapbooks. The simplest form is creating journaling and heading banners. The sheer variety of available fonts makes this task not only easy, but extremely flexible. However, today's scrapbooker can go as far as to create entire layouts from start to finish with a computer and
various types of software. It's also easy to print the entire layout in one fell swoop, or
save it to a CD-ROM for storage purposes or to share with others. Sometimes, layouts
are shared via Web galleries.
Traditional Paper Scrapbooks
Paper scrapbookpages can be created in a variety of sizes, and more styles than one can even imagine. Commonly, a scrapbook layout is placed in a plastic sleeve protector to help safeguard it from dust, dirt, and fingerprints (people do actually look at their scrapbooks). The sleeve protectors are stored in an album, oftentimes with a decorative cover.
Albums can be purchased in a variety of sizes. Most often, you'll find 12 × 12 inch and
8.5 × 11 inch (the dimensions of the paper layouts, not necessarily the external dimensions
of the book itself). Other available sizes include 12 × 15 inch, 8 × 8 inch, 6 × 6
inch, and 5 × 7 inch. You can even create your own custom size using a binding machine.
The album binding itself is also a variable. The most popular binding types are straphinge
(a metal strap goes through holes in the pages and the binding) and post-bound
(expandable metal posts create the binding.) Page protectors usually are top-loading-
the layout is inserted from the top of the sleeve, making it more difficult for attachments
to fall out of the protector if they become dislodged. If you choose to create
digital layouts and print them out, you can still use the same types of albums and page
protectors to showcase them.
Journals and Altered Books
There are a number of variations on the scrapbook concept. A couple of those are journals and altered books. A journal is a scrapbook that concentrates on the text aspect; it still incorporates photos and images, but generally tells a cohesive story from beginning
to end. Journals are easy for the digital scrapper to create-all it takes is a word processor and some clip art.
Altered books are actual books that become the bound medium for collage-style scrapbooking.
You can find them at second-hand stores, yard sales, and flea markets. Sometimes the book itself is an intrinsic part of the scrapbook theme. The altered book format can be an interesting way to display computer-generated scrapbook
art.
Learn the insider secrets to create beautiful scrapbooks!
Getting The Right Picture Resolution
Resolution is a concept that stumps and stymies a lot of people.
Resolution is a concept that stumps and stymies a lot of people. We've discussed resolution as it relates to taking digital photographs and scanning film photos and memorabilia, but now let's look at resolution for print and Web images. Print resolution refers to the capability of the printer in use to produce a finely-detailed image. A printer capable of high resolution will produce a better quality image than a low-resolution printer.Print resolution is referred to in dots per inch, or dpi, and this is a measurement of the size of ink drops that the printer will apply to paper. It's possible to set different print resolutions for inkjet printers, but it's a function of the printer software and not the application you use to produce a layout. The higher the dpi a printer is capable of, the better quality print possible from that printer.
Image resolution for Web images is a completely different animal from print resolution. (In this book, we'll most often refer to image resolution.) Image resolution is the term used to describe the pixels that make up a computer-generated image. All digital images are made up of pixels, and can be viewed on a computer monitor screen. The computer doesn't know inches or centimeters-it only knows pixels, and it doesn't even know how big those pixels are. A computer monitor displays a pixel based on its own settings. If an image is 800 pixels wide on one monitor, it's still 800 pixels wide on any other monitor, no matter how big it might look on the screen. Here's the confusing part. We want to design a layout that prints out in inches or centimeters, which are physical terms of measurement, but we need to design it on a computer monitor that only reads pixels. Our objective is to produce a layout that will print out nicely, but also not tax the computer resources so much that we can't process images quickly. For this reason, all layouts in this book are produced at an image resolution of 200 pixels per inch, which produce an excellent quality print layout, while still creating reasonably small-sized image files to work on with the average home computer. All resources found on the accompanying CD-ROM are also created at 200 pixels per inch.
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