Want to try out digital scrapping? You need a guide. This free digital scrapbooking mini-guide will bring you into the colorful world of digital scrapbooking where possibilities are wide and endless.
Digital scrapping can be very fun and highly addictive. I know because I've switched from traditional scrapbooking to digital scrapping in mid-2007. Don't get me wrong, I still love traditional scrapbooking, nothing beats feeling the textures of papers and embellishments. Traditional scrapbooking is what got me interested in scrapbooking in the first place.
But space constraint took away my desire to scrapbook in 2007. I've given up my craft table to house my new computer.
From then onwards, I jumped onto the digital scrapping bandwagon. It opened up a new way for me to continue scrapping and to keep recording my favorite memories.
For beginners, getting started on digital scrapbooking can seem like a daunting task at first... Don't we all feel like lost birds at times, especially when all we know is of sending emails and reading blog posts?
So easy and step-by-step tutorials are what we need to get started on the right digiscrapping path. I've compiled a short but very useful list under this free digital scrapbooking guide to some of the best Internet sites, where you can get your hands on many excellent digital scrapbooking tutorials for free.
First off, to start digi-scrapping, you'll need an image editing software or scrapbooking program like Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel Paintshop Pro, etc.
But don't go running to look for tutorials for your specific scrapbooking program. They can be confusing as many of these online tutorials aren't prepared specially for digital scrapbookers.
Save your time and speed up your learning curve by learning from these listed sites where their tutorials are geared towards digital scrapbookers like you!
Happy digi-scrapping and enjoy this free digital scrapbooking guide!
Free Digital Scrapbooking Guide to Great Tutorials
Scrapbook-Bytes is a fabulous site for learning digital scrapbooking and creating your own digital elements. It's one of the top digital scrapping sites in the world.
For a quick overview of the site, you might want to click on the "View a summary of all the digital scrapbooking tutorials" on the site to get a quick reference to what's available. Under this summary page, there's even links to forums for each specific section. Isn't that helpful?
This site offers detailed tutorials for various scrapbooking programs such as Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Digital Image Pro, Photo Impact, Corel Draw and Photo Paint. To find out what's available under the different scrapbooking programs, look out for the left navigation bar.
You'll also find fantastic tutorials on learning how to create your very own digital elements for your digital layouts! How cool is that?
This is a must-visit site if you're wanting to learn digital scrapping. Look out for their "For Beginners" section. Be digital-scrapping-inspired here!
This is a great site for tutorials too. Ranked among one of the top digital scrapping sites, all the tutorials here are neatly organized and you can easily find what you want under various scrapbooking programs. Very easy to navigate.
If you're a total beginner and want easy tutorials to help you get started quickly, check out this site!
Another great feature is that most tutorials are in the pdf files, meaning you can easily print them out for your reference!
From creating your first digital layout, to scrapping techniques, to element creation, DSP covers it all.
You can easily translate the tutorials into other programs as they are general enough to do so. If not, under each tutorial, there'll be program abbreviations to let you know which program it's applicable to.
As I look through their tutorials, I spotted many yummy scrapping techniques that you can use for your digital layouts. And if you're adventurous enough, you can try your hand at creating digital elements by learning from these tutorials.
DSP is one comprehensive site and one of the best places to learn digital scrapbooking.
If you have Photoshop Elements (PSE), you gotta visit this site!
There's a total of 5 courses to get you familiar with using PSE to create gorgeous digital layouts. From getting started with PSE to learning to design your own elements, Hummie will show you step-by-step on how to create magic with PSE.
I hope the sites listed under this free digital scrapbooking guide will help to answer your questions about digital scrapbooking. There's certainly a lot that we can learn from these sites!
Let's remember to have heaps of fun and act now to create your very first digital layout!
Once you get started, there's no turning back. Usually. ;)
