Looking for a good gift for your Teen-ager? Digital scrapbooking and photo editing might be that perfect teen gift! Many teens are searching for things they can be good at and are usually attracted to hobbies that are both creative and self-expressive. Digital scrapbooking and photo editing combines these two! Digital scrapbooking can help teens express themselves and can assist them in creating their own digital works of art. They can also use photo editing to fix photos for their websites, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter accounts, or other social networking profiles. Combine digital scrapbooking and photo editing, and teens can create full-featured journals, cards or digital scrapbooking pages of their friends and family, or even use their new computer skills within school presentations and projects!
If you are trying to introduce the digital scrapbooking and photo editing hobby to a teen, you might start with the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Digi MakeOver Madness Photo Editing Tutorials (available at the Scrap Shop). Each MakeOver tutorial is pretty short, most are only a few minutes long, but teach fun virtual makeup lessons. These videos might be very encouraging for teens if they struggle with acne or other teenage-issues that make them shy away from the camera! With some easy training, and a few clicks on the keyboard, they can feel confident smiling at the camera and making quick tweaks to pics to feel comfortable in their photos (which means you can send family photos to family and friends again without your teen feeling embarrassed or putting up a fight!). Go directly to these photo editing tutorials to learn more! Each tutorial is only $1.99 or less, making it affordable on any kind of teen-allowance!
With Photo Editing or Digital Scrapbooking, you will need a graphic program, such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. But if you are not sure if your teen will stick to this new hobby or not, then you might want to start with the FREE 30 Day trial of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements at Adobe.com before actually buying and investing in the software. At the Adobe website you can get a trial-version of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and then evaluate if your teen would really use the software after a month of playing with the trial-version.
After your teen has tried a few simple photo fixes, such as removing blemishes from a photo, then they might be interested in really developing their creativity and self-expression and looking forward to learning more about diving into digital scrapbooking.
The Digital Scrapbooks and More digital scrapbooking training teaches all about using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements in artistic ways. It can show a teen how to manipulate pre-made graphics, and in more advanced training, they can learn to make their own graphics!
A great training program to get started in Digital Scrapbooking is the Getting Started Series for Digital Scrapbooking in either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. This training program was created for many types of learners, as it has the auditory and visual, hands-on training videos; the Step-by-Step guides with pictures and detailed instructions; as well as the text-based Cheat Sheets for a quick lesson reference!
Not only that, but this training program allows you to buy the lesson chapters one by one, by buying the instantly downloadable lessons, or you can buy the whole training series at once through the CD version! The CD is perfect as giving as a gift, and the downloadable version is great for starting as soon as…now! The choice is yours!
The Getting Started Series is different than other brands because it has an entire introduction chapter lesson which reviews the must-know basics of the software (Photoshop or Photoshop Elements), and then dives immediately into learning digital scrapbooking!
Once your teen has these photo editing and digital scrapbooking skills, the sky is the limit and it is all up to their imagination as to what they can create! Who knows, learning photo editing and digital scrapbooking as a teen may inspire them to go into a graphic design-type career when they get older! And you might be surprised by learning photo editing an digital scrapbooking can help all kinds of careers! Read this article: Could Digital Scrapbooking Help Your Career?
After your teen knows how to digitally scrap, they might be interested in getting some digital scrapbooking kits and supplies. Digital Scrapbooks and More has plenty of easy-to-use and affordable kits and supplies (take a look in our Scrap Shop for Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Supplies) that range from about about $1.99 to $5.99, and you can often find many items on sale for even less!
Plus, if you sign up for our FREE Digital Scrapbooking and Photo Editing Newsletter, you’ll receive FREE digital supplies and discounts for the Scrap Shop ….for members only! Join for FREE!
Getting your teen started in a life-long hobby is a great gift a parent can give to their child.
Having a way to express feelings and experiences helps teens feel happy and more confident in their abilities.
If you have a teen, you too might want to consider introducing them to Photo Editing and Digital Scrapbooking! You might even want to try it out yourself for the same reasons!
If you have a teenager you might want to check out these blogs and get more ideas!
Blog Article 1: What Graphic Program is the best for Photo Editing and Digital Scrapbooking – Photoshop vs.. Photoshop Elements
Blog Article 2: How to Become More Photogenic: 5 Tips for Improving Your Digital Photos
Blog Article 3: 5 Tips for Creating Personalized Teen Binder Covers and Friendship Books
Blog Article: 4: Picture-Perfect Pretty with Nothing But Pocket Change
Blog Article: 5: Get Kids Excited for Back to School: 6 Tips for Adding Fun Design to Lockers!
Blog Article 6: 4 Steps to Make Digital Scrapbooking Pages into School Locker Magnets!
Blog Article 7: Six Tips to Taking Your Own School Photos
Blog Article 8: Keeping Starving Students Fed: 6 Tips for Digitally Scrapping Your Recipes!
Take some time and check out these blogs and see what creative things you or your teenager can do with digital scrapbooking and photo editing!
Have a wonderful holiday and give your teenager a lasting gift of creativity this year!
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