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December Digital Scrapbooking and Photo Taking Ideas

Blog Admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:08:00 +0000

As a scrapbooker and photographer I am always trying to look for new scrapbooking and photo ideas, if you are like me then check the list below for lots of great ideas! Once you have an idea you can be on the look out for taking photos or getting scrapbooking supplies that match!

How did it happen? December already! Can you believe it is here so fast?!

December is a wonderful month for getting photos for great digital scrapbooking pages and projects!

So much is going on in this month – keep a digital camera in your purse, on your kitchen counter, in your car and every where you go.

Perfect December photos are going to surprise you everywhere!

Here are some ideas to keep in mind so you have a camera ready for the perfect shot or also so you can prepare and have the right digital scrapbooking supplies on hand for making wonderful winter digital scrapbooking projects.

December Ideas to get you started. Take Photos and Digitally Scrap these Events:

Snowball fights
Making Gifts
Scrapbooking
Making angels in the snow
Building snowmen
Ice sculptures
Ice sickles
Ice skating
Hockey games
Holiday Baking
Visiting Grandparents and family for the Holidays
Baking Cookies
Hot coco or Apple cider by the fireplace
Family gatherings
Holiday activities and preparations
Selecting a Christmas tree
Holiday decorations
Holiday recipes
Holiday Parties
Visiting Family and Friends
Images of Holiday travels like on airplane or road trips
Family dinners
Family in Winter clothing
Snow falling
Family Photos for Holiday Cards
Dogs and Kids playing in the snow
Visiting Friends
Helping others and community services projects
Canned food drives
Menorah being lit
Kwanzaa
Other Winter Holidays – find out about one you don’t celebrate and learn more about others
Nativity scenes
Decorating the house
Christmas activities
Decorating the Christmas Tree
Hanging Christmas stockings
Children writing to Santa Claus
Making Cookies for Santa Claus
Wrapping presents
Opening presents
Shopping events and Holiday Sales!
Nature in Winter

These are just a few December ideas to get you thinking about some of the fun things you can take photos of and then turn into wonderful digital scrapbooking projects!

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See Holiday kits!

Digital Scrap Kit: Christmas Polka Dots Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 is a fun holiday kit designed with adorable Christmas-flare! Mix and match papers, supplies, for wonderful Christmas Scrapbooking projects! With this kit is easy to make a recipe album or Holiday Journaling project – with this easy-to-print-at-home kit! (8.5×11″ paper size)

Decorate your digital scrapbooking projects with holly, adorable Christmas-themed buttons, or even a Christmas tree and Candy Cane! From sipping hot cocoa, making Christmas cookies for Santa, or opening presents Christmas morning, create digital masterpieces to cherish special holiday memories!

Digital Scrap Kit: “Let it Snow!” Scrapbooking Kit is a digital scrapbooking kit full of snowflakes for Winter Scrapbooking! Includes digital papers, frames, embellishments, and Alphas!

Celebrate this year’s winter festivities with the “Let it Snow” Digital Scrapbooking Kit! Turn your holiday photos and special memories into a digital Winter Wonderland! Whether you prefer to digitally scrap a romantic evening curled up next to the fire on a cold winter day, or the joy of building a snowman with the kids, this digital scrapbooking kit is filled with beautiful digital supplies to make all of your frostiest moments look fabulous!

Digital Quick Page Scrap Kit: Christmas Polka Dots Quick Page Digital Scrapbooking Kit 3 includes pre-designed holiday Quick Pages so you can create Christmas digital scrapbooking projects quickly! All you have to do to finish this scrap page is add your photos, and you’re basically finished! (11×8.5″ home printing paper size)

Quick Page kits allow you to spend more of your holiday having fun, making memories, and snapping special Christmas photos, instead of spending all that time on scrapping! The Christmas Polka Dots Quick Page Kit 3 has paper that is sized at 11×8.5″ – which is perfect for your printing your digital scrapbooking pages on a home printer or even creating calendar pages, mouse pads, aprons and scrapbooking albums!

Thanksgiving before the Holidays?!

Denise Bell — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:46:00 +0000

by Denise Bell

Celebrate Thanksgiving the Whole Month of November by Giving Service to others!

Thanksgiving is around the corner and before we know it we will be rushing around the grocery store, baking up a storm and visiting with family and friends.

Sounds like fun, however for many family members, neighbors, and acquaintances the holidays are anything but fun.

Some of these wonderful people don’t have family close by to share a meal with, some may have lost a loved one during this time of year and it brings back those memories, and some may have financial struggles that keep them from celebrating in a manner that brings them peace and joy.

How can we make the holidays pleasant for those around us that may struggle through them for one reason or another.

We can start looking around right now to see whose life we can try to brighten up and whose load we can lighten before the holiday is here.

Some suggestions I would like to make are simple but meaningful.

Giving service to a person in need is a wonderful way to lighten a burden. Rake leaves, sit and visit, invite them for a family activity or meal.

Maybe help someone by offering to babysit while them go to the grocery store. Do a Craft with your children and then take a neighbor a simple gift such as a homemade placemat made from autumn leaves and contact paper.

Read someone a story or how about helping a child with their homework? There are so many things we can do to be of service to people of all ages that are around us.

So as I think about how busy my life is and how insanely busy the holidays become, I have a goal to slow down just enough to serve somebody else.

More ideas might be as simple as making cookies for a friend, and take some time to talk to them, listening to what they have to say —which is sometimes the greatest gift!

Ask about their family and sit and look through old photo albums with them, offer to scan some of those photos for them.

You might put some of the scanned photos on a digital frame for them so they can enjoy their photos!

Also it is big help to help someone organize their digital photos, maybe even offering to scrap some of digital photos for them, and show them how to get them printed out into albums!

(Note: see the training for fixing scanned photos, training for organizing digital photos and see a mobile scanner that is handy to take to out – see these at bottom of this blog!)

Maybe in the process of doing service we will make a new friend, for sure making a happy memory, and will spread some sunshine around.

Get your children involved, get your whole family part of the service, and when it is possible gather your friends to help out too!

Remember that no matter what your holiday looks like, it will always be happier if you can bring a smile to someone else’s face.

Also remember to take a camera to capture their smile, and yours of course!

Denise

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Wondering how to make these improvements in your scanned photos?No problem, get the training that would help you do all of these things!

Get this Photo Edit Training for fixing scanned photos using Elements! Have you just scanned some precious photos and have them on your computer? But sadly they have are damaged, have dust, need to be rotated, cropped and fixed but you don’t know how? Well then we have the training for you! Photo Edit Training for fixing scanned photos using Elements, can help you get the training you need to fix those scanned photos!

This training, Photo Edit Training for fixing scanned photos using Elements 10 contains 4 downloadable video tutorials, and a Cheat Sheet for helpful tips and quick reference.

Scanned photos have special needs that other digital photos might not need so take this training to learn how to:

* Duplicate
* Rotate
* Straighten
* Crop
* Separate
* Fix — (Red Eye, get rid of dust, clean up blemishes, and fixed some damages!)

After all that scanning don’t ruin your original photos, make a duplicate copy to work on!

Many scanned photos need to be rotated and straightened after the scanning learn how in this training! Sometime while scanning you pick up parts of extra photos or the album, so crop these unnecessary items out of your photo!

Save time and scan several photos together, now learn a quick way to separate them! The scanned photo needs to be fixed, lean these first fixes in this training — take out Red Eye, get rid of dust, clean up blemishes, and fixed some damages!

Buy this training now!

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Get a Mobile Scanner to turn your old photos into digital photos!

Need to scan some old photos too? Get a mobile scanner to turn your old photos into digital photos to add to digital scrapbooking pages today!

If you would like to see more about this scanner visit Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner Website and check them out!

Also, see this article for more information about this neat little scanner – Scan your Photos with a Mobile Scanner for Digital Scrapbooking Projects

Or see this article: Get Rid of the Clutter and Scanning Photos and More!

Or check this article for scanning ideas: Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner Helped me turn Old Photos into Digital Photos for Digital Scrapbooking!

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How to “Get Organized in the Organizer: A Simple Start in Photoshop Elements, Lesson 1” is a great Intermediate 3-part tutorial set that will teach you all about the basics of using the Organizer! This Simple Start Lesson Set teaches you easy and simple ways to begin organizing with the Organizer in Photoshop Elements!

Now that you know how to use Photoshop Elements in the Editor Mode, there’s no doubt that you have plenty of photos and edited photos, digital scrapbooking supplies, and digital scrapbooking projects! After a while, all your photos, supplies, and projects can become a nightmare to sort through and find. So what do you do, you ask? You can easily clean up the digital mess using Photoshop Elements’ Organizer!

That’s where Organizer training comes in! Learn the basics about the Organizer and how to use it. Learn simple, but helpful, steps to get your photos, supplies, and projects neat and tidy within the Organizer with this 3-part tutorial training!

How to “Get Organized in the Organizer Using Organizing Features in Elements, Lesson 2″ is a great Intermediate 4-part tutorial set that will teach additional tips and organizing features within the Organizer!

Lesson 2 takes your digital organizing to the next level, by pushing past the basics of the Organizer! Make your digital photos, digital scrapbooking supplies, and digital scrapbooking projects neat, tidy, and incredibly easy to find with more secrets revealed about the Organizer!

Get this coordinating all-about-the-Organizer training and learn how to do more advanced organization within the Organizer, like add keyword tags or create albums and categories to bring some much needed order to all of your many digital things! While other companies may focus their Organizer training specifically on photos (and only photos!), Digital Scrapbooks and More reviews organizing both digital photos and digital supplies – for the best of both worlds!

Continue your organizing training with How to: “Get Organized in the Organizer Using Organizing Advanced Features in Elements, Lesson 3.” This 4-part tutorial set will teach you all about advanced Organizer secrets!

Lesson 3 is a great fit for anyone interested in advanced organizing techniques within the Organizer. Learn how to rate your favorite photos, or even find your photos with actual faces! Find out how you can easily compare similar photos side by side to decide which ones are better with additional Organizer tools. Advanced organization within the Organizer can make your digital photos, digital scrapbooking supplies, and digital scrapbooking projects incredibly easy to find and use!

Get this coordinating all-about-the-Organizer training and “go to the next level” in your organization skills using the Organizer! Learn how you can use the Organizer to help you make much-needed back up copies of your most-treasured photos in case of an emergency or computer-crash, or learn how to make a back up copy of your favorite supplies to use on a newly purchased computer or separate laptop.

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See this Autumn Digital Scrap Kit used in this blog:

See the Orange Pumpkin Spice Digital and Lace Scrap Kit 1 features a digital scrapbooking kit filled with beautiful autumn colored-inspired digital papers, embellishments, and WordArt! This kit you can use for Fall Events, Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Autumn digital scrap pages! Also you can use this kit to scrap Tea Party activities, or Fall recipes! Use this digital kit for journaling too, as this kit has some journaling blocks and pen as a bonus to record all those Fall thoughts on your scrap pages! Paper size is 12×12″. This size of paper is great for large scrapbooking albums. Comes many digital items including a digital recipe card, WordArt, and Bonus Journaling Embellishments!

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Fun Halloween Photo Editing Tricks!

Jennifer Barlow — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:14:00 +0000

Halloween is a great time to get photos for digital scrapbooking, here are 3 tips to get better Halloween Photos!

Three Tips For Better Halloween Photos

– By Jennifer Barlow

It won’t be long until Halloween is here, so start getting prepared! If you’re excited to get camera-happy with those adorable little ghouls of yours this Halloween, then try these three digital photography quick-tips for super-spooky pics of your precious trick-or-treaters:

1. Play Before the Full Moon Comes Out. To capture the true, vibrant colors of special costumes and makeup within your Halloween photos, you may want to take pictures of your little trick-or-treaters before it becomes dark outside. Taking photos while the sun’s still up will ensure great photos and will offer additional pictures of your kids in their costumes if your digital camera’s flash or other settings are less than ideal when it becomes dark outside.

2. Take a Random Photo or Set a Funny or Spooky Scene.

If you come across a funny or spooky scene in your Halloween adventures, make sure and get the shot!

Use carved pumpkins, Halloween decorations, and holiday candy as props in the background of your exciting Halloween photos.

Ask your children to pretend as though they were ringing the doorbell at your own doorstep or pose with a favorite black cat for additional “action” trick-or-treating photo shots.

3. Use a Camera with Fast Shutter Option on Your Little Super Heroes. Costumes and candy can make for excited trick-or-treaters and blurry photos.

Lose the blur by either using a faster-shutter digital camera, or setting aside some special time before the holiday activities begin to take photos with a slower-shutter camera.

Remember: With slower shutter cameras, the kids and the photographer need to stay completely still for three seconds after clicking the button.

Use Photo Editing to Enhance your Halloween Photos!

After your have your Halloween Photos then see if you can make then even scarier with Photo Editing tricks!

After Halloween is over, and you are ready to scrap all the Halloween photos, add some “spooky” Halloween effects to favorite photos using Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Halloween Photo Editing Tutorials! Convert a favorite photo to black and white and then add a touch of color, for an exciting Halloween photo-effect!

“Halloween Tutorial 1: Black and White Digital Photos with a Touch of Spooky Color “ is part of the Digi MakeOver Madness Training Series with Photo Editing focusing on making your Halloween photos look fabulous and spooky! This Series has lots of Tips and Tricks to make your Digital Photos great for all your Halloween digital scrapbooking projects, or for posting your spooky photo on Facebook or your Website!

In this particular tutorial, you’ll learn how to convert a photo into black and white and add back a touch of color! Use this creepy photo editing effect on your Halloween pics giving them a “dark-feel” by converting them to black and white, and then add back some color to make an object in the pic seem to “pop!”

Whether you want to add color back to an evil grin, or some glowing eyes, adding color back to selected areas of your photo will make them look great on Halloween-themed digital scrapbooking pages and projects!

Get More Halloween Editing Training!

If there were some scary kids’ costumes, add even more dramatic effects by emphasizing “scary” eyes in the pics!

In this particular tutorial, you’ll learn how to create zombie-looking bags underneath the eyes, for an effect that can only be created by master makeup artists, or by a master at Photoshop Elements! Next, learn how to add an eerie tint over the eyes and even add super-scary effects to pupils in Halloween pics!

Make your scariest trick-or-treater even more intense with eye-tricks that don’t require additional (and expensive) makeup or eye-contacts!

Check out Digital Scrapbooks and More’s special seasonal tutorials for adorable Halloween photos for digital scrapbooking projects or “thank you” cards for all the kids that attended the party!

Save Your Family Halloween Memories

Don’t let your precious family memories fade into a distant past dream.

Get those photos out of your digital camera and onto digital scrapbooking pages so you can share and save your families special times!

Happy Halloween and Happy Scrapping!

Jennifer

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For fun photo-editing tutorials, see the Digital Scrapbooks and More Digi Makeover Madness Tutorials and make Halloween pics extra “spook-tacular!”

For Halloween-inspired Digital Scrapbooking Kits, check out the Scrap Shop and get digi-ready for a very happy Halloween!

Get Digital Scrapbooking Supplies to Make your Halloween Digital Scrapbooking pages and projects:

Save your families Halloween memories by turning all your digital photos into digital scrapbooking pages using Halloween Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Supplies.

You can get your Halloween scrapbooking supplies by visiting Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Scrap Shop.

Check out the Holiday Kits to get a look at some nice Halloween digital scrapbooking kits or Halloween Quick Pages!

Check out the Halloween Spider Book Digital Scrapbooking Kit which is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 12 Halloween Spider-inspired digital papers, and lots of Halloween embellishments! Get creeped-out with the super-spooky Halloween Spider Book Digi Scrapbooking Kit! Filled with digi-spiders and cobwebs, this kit is great for journaling and scrapping holiday festivities! Paper size is 8.5×11″ which is perfect for home printing!

Create your own web of digi-masterpieces with a spider-inspired Halloween kit! This kit was made especially for journaling all the excitement of Halloween! It’s filled with tons of places to add spooky stories and creepy captions! Also, you can write down your Halloween recipes and make a digital scrapbooking Halloween recipe book too!

This adorable Pumpkin Patch Digital Scrapbooking Kit has the perfect look for all of your Fall or Halloween-festivities. Whether you want a project with images of you and your loved ones at the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, or just celebrating the fun of Halloween or Fall Activities, this pumpkin filled kit, can helps set the mood!

This beautiful Pumpkin Digital Scrapbooking Kit can create gorgeous pumpkin themed digital projects. Kit includes digital papers, frames, and tags. Perfect Digital Scrapbooking Kit for any true- Halloween and Pumpkin Lover!

With a Pumpkin Fall-inspired Digital Scrapbooking Kit it is easy using a graphics program such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to create a gorgeously Fall or Halloween looking digital projects.

As you digitally scrap all of your Halloween traditions with the kids this year, use the Halloween Digital Embellishment Kit to add extra spooky fun to all your digital scrapbooking projects!

Use this ghoulish digital embellishment set and add adorable Halloween-detail to pages and projects! This kit is filled with Halloween-essentials that can add a little excitement to holiday projects, from scary spiders with sticky webs, to a haunted house filled with spooky ghosts, and even a few holiday pumpkins too!

The Halloween Spider Book Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 with 12×12″ paper is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 8 Halloween Spider-inspired digital papers, and lots of Halloween embellishments! Buy this super-spooky Halloween Spider Book Digi Scrapbooking kit for all your digi Halloween projects! This Kit is filled with digi-spiders and cobwebs, and is a Halloween kit that is great for journaling and scrapping holiday festivities! Paper size is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digi scrapbooking needs! Create your own web of digi-masterpieces with a spider-inspired Halloween kit! This kit was made especially for journaling all the excitement of Halloween! It’s filled with tons of places to add spooky stories and creepy captions! Also make a large digital scrapbooking Halloween photo album too!

Interested in our Digital Scrapbooking with HalloweenCustom Brush Sets?

Want to buy the Halloween Brush Set? Click Here

It so fun to use a custom brush to stamp a Spooky ghost from the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Halloween Brush Set. Or choose the a bat, spider, cat or pumpkin!

One of the exciting things to do when Digital Scrapbooking within Photoshop or Photoshop Elements are to use Custom Brushes! Custom Brushes are basically a digital version of a rubber stamp, and can be “stamped” on Digital Scrapbook Projects as adorable embellishments!

Other Halloween Custom Brushes:
The Spooky Halloween Words Brushes for Digital Scrapbooking are a super-fun set of digital brushes, perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Halloween-related themes!

Use these custom brushes to “stamp” Halloween themed words or phrases on your Halloween tags or Digital Scrapbooking pages!

Like the Next Custom Brush Set that we used to “stamp” on a tag

The Halloween Witch Brush Set, is so fun to use a custom brush to stamp a Spooky Witch Hat from the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Witch Brush Set.

Or choose the Witch’s Broom or Shoes, a creepy tree, or even a Halloween set of a moon with stars!

A custom brush can add detail, personality and little bit of “spice” to your page digital stamp that really stand out.

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Photo Fixes to make to Photos that you have Scanned – See a Video about it.

Blog Admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:18:03 +0000

I am so excited about my new Flip-Pal scanner as I have scanned so many old photos, and then I have made the photo editing fixes to really improve those old photos too!

Now my scanned photos are ready for digital scrapbooking, back-up and sharing! I can really improve the original photos and quickly make a duplicate copy too!

Whether you use this scanner or another one after scanning your photos like mine might need to be improved!

Now my Scanned Photos need some fixing!

Here are 6 of the fixes that my scanned photos needed, check out this video and see if your scanned photos need these fixes too!

Note: Some mobile and eReaders may not be able to see this video – please go directly to blog to view: http://blog.digitalscrapbooksandmore.com/

Fix those Scanned Photos NOW!

One thing that is good to know about scanned photos is that if you have a graphics program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements it is easy to photo edit and fix my scanned photos before I use them in digital scrapbooking, genealogy, print them, or even before I make a final back-up copy for family. Why not look have your photos look good when you use them in genealogy projects, digitally scrapbook pages, or when you make backup copies, and add to Facebook, MySpace, Websites, or even just Email them! Make your scanned photos look good with easy and fast fixes that you can do Photoshop or Elements!

Not sure how to do these easy and fast fixes?

Wondering how to make these improvements in your scanned photos?No problem, get the training that would help you do all of these things!Get this Photo Edit Training for fixing scanned photos using Elements! Have you just scanned some precious photos and have them on your computer? But sadly they have are damaged, have dust, need to be rotated, cropped and fixed but you don’t know how? Well then we have the training for you! Photo Edit Training for fixing scanned photos using Elements, can help you get the training you need to fix those scanned photos!

This training, Photo Edit Training for fixing scanned photos using Elements 10 contains 4 downloadable video tutorials, and a Cheat Sheet for helpful tips and quick reference.

Scanned photos have special needs that other digital photos might not need so take this training to learn how to:

* Duplicate
* Rotate
* Straighten
* Crop
* Separate
* Fix — (Red Eye, get rid of dust, clean up blemishes, and fixed some damages!)

After all that scanning don’t ruin your original photos, make a duplicate copy to work on!

Buy this training now!

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Also, Get the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner to turn your old photos into digital photos!

In 2 weeks I have scanned at least 7 photo albums and over 1000 old photos! I have done all of this in a few evenings while watching TV! This little mobile scanner (Flip-Pal) has really got me motivated to get all of my old photos turned into digital photos. I scanned many of the photos right in the photo album without taking them out, and I thought the result was as good as my scanner attached to my computer! If you would like to see more about this scanner visit Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner Website and check them out!

Need to scan some old photos too? Get a mobile scanner to turn your old photos into digital photos to add to digital scrapbooking pages today!

If you would like to see more about this scanner visit Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner Website and check them out!

Also, see this article for more information about this neat little scanner – Scan your Photos with a Mobile Scanner for Digital Scrapbooking Projects

Or see this article: Get Rid of the Clutter and Scanning Photos and More!

Or check this article for scanning ideas: Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner Helped me turn Old Photos into Digital Photos for Digital Scrapbooking!

Another Article: Fix Scanned Photos with 6 Easy Steps!

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Fix Scanned Photos with 6 Easy Steps!

Cheri Barlow — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:50:00 +0000

If you are like me you have a box or two of old photos that you wish were digital.

So one day you get ambitious and pull out one of those boxes stored in the basement, attic or closet and start scanning some of those old photos.

It is so nice to have those precious photographs turned into digital images.

As for me, I just got a mobile scanner and this has made scanning so easy that I am scanning everything all the time.

So, I am not standing by my computer and scanner and putting one image in after another – BORING!

With my mobile scanner I scanning while I am watching TV! I can get a photo album completely scanned while I watch one of my favorite TV shows! This makes it easy! (See info at the end of this article on this type of mobile scanner)

Scanning photos to make them digital photos allow the photos to be enjoyed in many more ways than traditional printed photographs, and when they are turned into a digital photo then it is easy to preserve those memories forever!

Also, with photos in a digital format it is easy to organize them, share them, backup them, retouch them, digitally scrap them, and to reprint them too!

After scanning I want to save and share my old photos with family and I want to digitally scrap some of them to enjoy in new ways too!

However, sometimes after scanning photos and before I share, scrap, or organize my scanned photos I need to fix them up a bit.

Fix those Scanned Photos NOW!

Scanned photos have special needs that other digital photos might not need. Here are 6 things you should do to your scanned photos before you start using or sharing them. So, after you scan a photo follow these steps in this order to go from a simple scanned image to a great scanned photo!

Step 1: Duplicate It! After all that scanning don’t ruin your original scanned photo by editing it and losing the original scan, make a duplicate copy to work on!

If you use the copy of the original scan then you can make all the edits you like and if you ever want to go back and start over you have the original!

Also each year the technology to restore photos improves so if you have the original scan you can apply the newest technology at any time to the the original untouched scan! If you are using a graphics program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements then you can manually duplicate the photo or have Photoshop or Elements automatically copy all your scanned photos in a certain folder and then put the new copied ones in another separate folder too!

Step 2: Rotate It! After scanning a photo it may need to be rotated! Often scanned photos are saved in the wrong direction, this is not a big deal just use your graphic program to orientate the photo in the right direction.

Photos need to be rotated before using them in projects like genealogy.

Or rotated photo before you use them in a Digital Scrapbooking page.

Step 3: Straighten it!
Even after rotating a photo it might need to be straighten. Use the special tools in Photoshop or Elements to straighten the image.

Now the photo is straighter! Don’t worry about aligning it perfect in the scanner, just fix that afterward!

Step 4: Crop it!
After rotating and straightening the photo, next you might want to crop it. Sometime while scanning you pick up parts of extra photos or parts of the album, so to improve your scanned photo crop these unnecessary items out!

Now the photo is cropped you can use your precious photo in lots of ways! Digitally scrap it and even back it up and share it with other family members!

Step 5: Separate It! Save time and scan several photos together, now learn a quick way to separate them!

Go from this ….

To this….

When you scan more than one photo, have your graphic program automatically separate them into individual photos! Imagine how much time this will save you!!!

Step 6: Fix it!
The scanned photo needs to be fixed, make basic photo editing fixes like — take out Red Eye, get rid of dust, clean up blemishes, and fix damaged photos!

Why not look have your photos look good when you use them in genealogy projects, digitally scrapbook pages, or when you make backup copies, and add to Facebook, MySpace, Websites, or even just Email them! Make your scanned photos look good with easy and fast fixes that you can do Photoshop or Elements!

Not sure how to do these easy and fast fixes?

This training, Photo Edit Training for fixing scanned photos using Elements 10 contains 4 downloadable video tutorials, and a Cheat Sheet for helpful tips and quick reference.

Scanned photos have special needs that other digital photos might not need so take this training to learn how to:

Duplicate
Rotate
Straighten
Crop
Separate
Fix — Red Eye, get rid of dust, clean up blemishes, and fixed some damages!

After all that scanning don’t ruin your original photos, make a duplicate copy to work on!

Buy this training now!

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Get a Mobile Scanner to turn your old photos into digital photos!

Need to scan some old photos too? Get a mobile scanner to turn your old photos into digital photos to add to digital scrapbooking pages today!

If you would like to see more about this scanner visit Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner Website and check them out!

Also, see this article for more information about this neat little scanner – Scan your Photos with a Mobile Scanner for Digital Scrapbooking Projects

Or see this article: Get Rid of the Clutter and Scanning Photos and More!

Or check this article for scanning ideas: Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner Helped me turn Old Photos into Digital Photos for Digital Scrapbooking!

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The Tea Party Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is filled with pretty pastel colored papers laced with Victorian-style flowers. This adorable digital scrapbooking kit is a perfect match for spring projects, baby showers, Mother’s Day events, and a great way to scrap an “any-time” tea party celebration!

Use the Tea Party Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 to preserve special memories of you and your favorite girls enjoying a hot glass of tea and desserts! Tea time is a great way for us ladies to talk and bond, and certainly an event that deserves to be digitally scrapped! Use this precious tea party kit to remember all your favorite girly, tea moments!

The Lavender and Lace Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is filled with pretty lavender colored papers decorated with Victorian-style lace patterns. This adorable digital scrapbooking kit is a perfect for lots of fun digital projects! This kit includes 8 different floral colored digital 12×12″ papers created at 300 dpi, nice to use for those large scrapbooking projects or for putting into traditional scrapbooking albums. Use to scrap garden projects, a day at the spa, or girls scrap pages, a birthday, any lavender adventures, baby showers, Mother’s Day events, and a great way to scrap an “any-time” tea party celebration and so much more! Use the journaling block embellishment to create great journaling and scrapbooking pages!

The World Traveler Digital Scrapbooking Quick Page Kit 2 is a great traveler’s digital scrapbooking Quick Page Kit! This kit is filled with Quick Pages that are designed with travel accessories like cameras, a world globe, tickets, passports, luggage, and so much more!

And because this kit has Quick Pages, almost all the work is done! Just add your photos and some text, it only takes a few seconds scrapping and you are ready!

These Quick Pages (11×8.5 size paper) are great for home printing projects, or to turn into a digital album to email to family and friends, or to use in calendar projects.

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Scan your Photos with a Mobile Scanner for Digital Scrapbooking Projects

Blog Admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:33:00 +0000

Scan those old photos and make them digital!

Have you been looking through your old photo albums, and wish those photos were digital? If so then you might be thinking that you might want to scan those photos so you can use them in your digital scrapbooking projects, keep a backup or just have them turned into digital to preserve them.

Here is a new way to scan those old photos!

Every once in awhile we come across a gadget the is nice to share with other digital scrapbookers.

This product seems especially interesting to us. If you are like us and have loads of old photos sitting around then you might want to try the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner

Here is an exciting tool to scan your photos because this scanner is compact, doesn’t have to be attached to a computer, and stores scanned images on a memory card!

According to the maker, the Flip-Pal mobile scanner can scan photos safely while they are still in the album or frame!

Also according the the maker you can scan Photos, drawings, quilts, even small objects like coins or jewelry. Also they claim to scan Newspapers, bound books, albums and magazines!

We just ordered one and when it comes we will test it and let you know.

But here is how we imagine using first, is to take old photos in our album and make them digital then make a back-up copy so I can give my family copies too! Then digital scrapbooking any of the new digital photos!

As soon as we get our we will let you know how it goes!

In the meantime you might want to take a look at some of the Flip-Pal videos below:

Take a look at this and see how the manufacture of Flip-Pal uses this nice little scanner!

(This Video Shows more Information about Flip-Pal! Some eReaders, tablets, and other mobile devices might not be able to see video. Please use a computer and go to http://blog.digitalscrapbooksandmore.com/ to have a better view)

See the training you can get to help you organize in Photoshop Elements:

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After you have scanned your photos you might want to fix a few things!

See these Photoshop Elements and Photo Editing Tutorials to help you edit your digital photos after you have scanned them:

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Quick Tip: Multiple views of image in Photoshop for Photo Editing or Scrapbooking – Part 2

Blog Admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:18:00 +0000

If you have been following along with our blog articles then you know that we talked about Quick Tip: Double vision in Photoshop Elements to make Photo Edits – Part 1, this article talked about Photoshop Elements and Photo Editing and how to do a certain trick in Photoshop Elements.

So, today we will explain how to do have multiple views in PHOTOSHOP! Photoshop, can have multiple views of the same image or project! However, in Photoshop it works a little bit different than if you where using Photoshop Elements to do this task! In Photoshop we will use the Navigator Panel to help us have multiple views of an image to edit.

Also, in this example we are going to show how to use this the Navigator feature and we will be using a digital scrapbooking project instead of photo, but this feature works the same if you use a photo or a digital supply or a digital scrapbooking page!

Multiple views of image in Photoshop for Photo Editing or Scrapbooking using Photoshop!

When you are editing digital scrapbooking pages or supplies in Photoshop some precision digital scrapbooking tasks may require you to work on your digital scrapbooking page while zooming in quite a bit. Using the zoom feature in Photoshop is the only way to see the image in enough detail to work effectively.

However, while zooming in is needed to see the area you are scrapping, you might also need to see how the area you are working on fits into the overall image or digital scrapbooking page. To do that you might find yourself zooming in to the scrap page, making part of the corrections and then zooming out to see how that looks. This can be a difficult task, but if you know one of the secrets inside of Photoshop then you can actually have two separate windows, both showing the same image. Not just a copy of the image, but the actual image or digital scrap page.

Here is how to do it in Photoshop CS5….

To open dual windows of the same image, do this in Photoshop: go to the top menu and select Window > Navigator from the drop down menu.

This opens the Navigator panel

Now you can move the slider bar on the Navigator to zoom into the area you want to work on.

Then use your mouse to click onto the red box and move it exactly where you want it to focus in on. When you do this is makes the mouse curser look like little hand that is holding the red box while you move it into place.

Now your image or digital scrap project will show be zoomed in to the correct location so you can work on your photo or scrap page. In this example we want to get a good look at the text we are writing and make some corrections.

We will zoom in so we can see how to add to the text and make the correct alignment of the text in the digital scrapbooking tag. See the image below:

This is a very helpful Photoshop tip. So you can zoom into your project and make adjustments while also being able to see the overall image and how the change impacts the whole. Remember, this tip is so helpful to use in when editing photos and even when you are scrapping too.

If you need the Navigator to be larger to have a better view of the the overall image, then just go to the corner and drag the Navigator Panel to the size you would like – see the image below.

If you need the Navigator out of the way then just click on the double triangles – see below. This will collapse the panel and give you more working space.

Now if you need to open the Navigator Panel just click on the icon.

Now the Navigator Panel will open up to use again when you want to zoom into your project or photo and still have a whole view image too!

Once you try this Photoshop tip you will probably fall in love with the Navigator, and use it most the time you are doing close up work with photo editing or scrapping!

Have a nice day and try this Photoshop tip today!

Enjoy!

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It’s time to join in all the Party fun when using this digital scrapbooking kit! Start scrapping all the birthday party fun with these digital scrap supplies for the perfect birthday and other celebrations. Use to make scrap pages, or even digitally scrap invitations and other party items! The Birthday Balloon Scrapbooking Kit 2 is a digital scrapbooking kit full of digital Papers that are12×12″ size which are perfect for the large traditional scrapbooking sized pages and projects. This Digital Scrap Kit also includes digital Birthday Party themed embellishments and WordArt too! Use this kit for scrapping a Birthday, a party, even other celebrations or festive themed parties!

The Birthday Balloon Scrapbooking Kit 1 is a digital scrapbooking kit full of celebrations and set for parties and birthday fun! It’s time to join in all the Party fun when using this digital scrapbooking kit! Mix and match bright colored papers with other birthday party scrap supplies for the perfect celebration, and use to make scrap pages, or even digitally scrap invitations and other party items! The digital Papers in this kit are 12×12″ size which are perfect for the large traditional scrapbooking sized pages and projects. This Digital Scrap Kit includes digital papers that are party colored, and Birthday Party themed embellishments too! Use this kit for scrapping a Birthday, a party, even celebrations or festive themed parties!

The Birthday Balloon Scrapbooking Kit 3 is a digital scrapbooking kit full of fun for parties and birthday celebrations! It’s time to join in all the Party fun when using this digital scrapbooking kit! This Digital Scrap Kit includes digital papers that are party colored, and Birthday Party themed embellishments too! Use this kit for scrapping a Birthday, a party, even celebrations or festive themed parties! With the included digital recipe card embellishment, use to scrap a recipe book, photo album or even a journal! Includes 11×8.5 or 8.5×11 digital papers depending how you rotate, great for home printing projects!

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Quick Tip: Double vision in Photoshop Elements to make Photo Edits – Part 1

Blog Admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:59:00 +0000

When you are editing photos in Photoshop Elements some precision tasks in such as retouching may require you to work on your photo while zooming in quite a bit.

Using the zoom feature in Elements is the only way to see the image in enough detail to work effectively.

However, while zooming in is needed to see the area you are editing, you might also need to see how the correction fits into the overall image. To do that you might find yourself zooming in to the image, making part of the corrections and then zooming out to see how that looks. This can be a difficult task, but if you know one of the secrets inside of Elements then you can actually have two separate windows, both showing the same image. Not just a copy of the image, but the actual image.

Here is how to do it….

To open dual windows of the same image, do this: select View > New Window for DOCUMENT from the menu, the DOCUMENT or IMAGE is the name of the file you’re working on. For example our image is named “Girl_Hair.jpg” so the New Window will include that name on the menu too! See the image below.

This will open another window of your image up in the work space. Notice that the new view of your image will be named the same and will be highlighted (See #1) and the other one the name will be faded (See #2)

Now that you have both windows are open at the same time, try zooming in on one image. You’ll notice that the other stays at the same magnification while you are zooming in on the other.

When you make edits in one image, then they will appear in both windows. Now you will have a close up view and a whole image view.

In the image above we took some of the extra fly away hairs off this girls neck with the spot healing tool. It was really helpful to have both the close up view to work with and also see how the whole image would be affected as well while making the edits.

Now save your image and close them.

This tip is so helpful to use in when editing photos and even when you are scrapping too.

Once you try this tip you will probably fall in love with it and use it most the time you are doing close up work with photo editing or scrapping!

Have a nice day and try this Photoshop Elements tip today!

PS. Check back soon to find out how to do this in Photoshop!

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Have a camera ready for unexpected surprises

Denise Bell — Mon, 30 May 2011 11:20:00 +0000

Cougar Visits the City! This was the title of our home town newspaper this morning. You might think Cougar?

Yes, Cougar, as in Mountain Lion! Who would have thought that a visitor like this would come wandering down the street. It did though, and as surprising as it is, it is not the first time.

A couple of years ago my neighbor called me and said he had something I had to check out over in his garden. So I went over expecting to look at a beautiful tomato. Did he ever surprise me.

Right next to his house, next to my garage there was a Mountain Lion print in the mud. It was clear as could be, but to be sure, we called Fish and Game out to see it. They confirmed our suspicions and told us that it probably had come down out of the mountains or from the near by Indian Reservation and followed the empty canal that is across the street from our houses.

Yesterday however was a big deal. They were not letting any kids ride the buses or walk home because of the Cougar out by the bus stop. At first I laughed, and then it hit me, this is real, if one can be in my yard, why not at the bus stop. So we left the school and the rest of the day was spent looking out the window for the Cougar. As my daughter said, the entire city changed it’s behavior because of one wild animal. I arrived at the school to pick up my 5^th grade daughter and all of the parents were there picking up their children. They were going into the school and escorting the kids to the cars. I guess I had missed the call from the school asking me to pick my daughter up.

I chuckled at one of my friend’s posts on Facebook. Her husband is a local Police Officer. She said her husband had spent the day hunting, “for cougar”. The reality really hit when I looked at the news report on the internet. My friend that lives less than a forth of a mile from me had gone into her basement to light a fire in the wood burning stove. She glanced at the window that lies underneath her front deck and two shining eyes were staring back at her. Imagine the shock.

She ran upstairs and grabbed her camera and took a picture. She took another and the big animal started hissing and clawing at the window. She was done, she ran upstairs and called the police.

Well, it’s a great story to tell, but the point is, my friend had a camera handy. So now, all of us that didn’t get to see that big cat get to see the pictures she has posted.

You never know what might happen in your home town, so keep that camera handy! Wishing you adventure in you photo taking!

Denise

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After the photo is taken you can edit and fix it or take it an edit it for more dramatic and lovely affects! Learn more about photo editing using Photoshop and Photoshop Elements

Check out these Photo Editing Tutorials:

Airbrushing Portrait Photos in Photoshop Elements 7

Removing Shadows and Lightening Photos in Photoshop Elements

Convert Photos to Black and White in Photoshop Elements

Removing Demon-Looking Red-Eye in Photoshop

Removing Demon-Looking Red-Eye in Photoshop Elements

Getting Rid of Wrinkles, Zits, or Moles in Photoshop Elements

Whitening Teeth within Photoshop Elements

Adjusting Skin Tones and Digi Tanning in Photoshop Elements

Removing Wrinkles, Lines, and Bags in Photoshop Elements

Also see these baby editing tutorials:

NEW: Baby Series- Removing Baby Red-Eye, Converting to Black and White, and Adding Artistic Effects to Baby and Pregnancy Photos

Happy Scrapping and Photo Editing!

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3 Tips for Halloween Photography and Get the Training for Super Fun Halloween Photo Editing Tricks too!

Jennifer Barlow — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:34:00 +0000

Halloween is a great time to get photos for digital scrapbooking, here are 3 tips to get better Halloween Photos!

Three Tips For Better Halloween Photos

– By Jennifer Barlow

2. Take a Random Photo or Set a Funny or Spooky Scene.

If you come across a funny or spooky scene in your Halloween adventures, make sure and get the shot!

Use carved pumpkins, Halloween decorations, and holiday candy as props in the background of your exciting Halloween photos.

Ask your children to pretend as though they were ringing the doorbell at your own doorstep or pose with a favorite black cat for additional “action” trick-or-treating photo shots.

3. Use a Camera with Fast Shutter Option on Your Little Super Heroes. Costumes and candy can make for excited trick-or-treaters and blurry photos.

Lose the blur by either using a faster-shutter digital camera, or setting aside some special time before the holiday activities begin to take photos with a slower-shutter camera.

Remember: With slower shutter cameras, the kids and the photographer need to stay completely still for three seconds after clicking the button.

Use Photo Editing to Enhance your Halloween Photos!

After your have your Halloween Photos then see if you can make then even scarier with Photo Editing tricks!

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If there were some scary kids’ costumes, add even more dramatic effects by emphasizing “scary” eyes in the pics!

Make your scariest trick-or-treater even more intense with eye-tricks that don’t require additional (and expensive) makeup or eye-contacts!

Check out Digital Scrapbooks and More’s special seasonal tutorials for adorable Halloween photos for digital scrapbooking projects or “thank you” cards for all the kids that attended the party!

Save Your Family Halloween Memories

Don’t let your precious family memories fade into a distant past dream.

Get those photos out of your digital camera and onto digital scrapbooking pages so you can share and save your families special times!

Happy Halloween and Happy Scrapping!

Jennifer

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Save your families Halloween memories by turning all your digital photos into digital scrapbooking pages using Halloween Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Supplies.

You can get your Halloween scrapbooking supplies by visiting Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Scrap Shop.

Check out the Holiday Kits to get a look at some nice Halloween digital scrapbooking kits or Halloween Quick Pages!

With a Pumpkin Fall-inspired Digital Scrapbooking Kit it is easy using a graphics program such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to create a gorgeously Fall or Halloween looking digital projects.

As you digitally scrap all of your Halloween traditions with the kids this year, use the Halloween Digital Embellishment Kit to add extra spooky fun to all your digital scrapbooking projects!

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It so fun to use a custom brush to stamp a Spooky ghost from the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Halloween Brush Set. Or choose the a bat, spider, cat or pumpkin!

Use these custom brushes to “stamp” Halloween themed words or phrases on your Halloween tags or Digital Scrapbooking pages!

Like the Next Custom Brush Set that we used to “stamp” on a tag

The Halloween Witch Brush Set, is so fun to use a custom brush to stamp a Spooky Witch Hat from the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Witch Brush Set.

Or choose the Witch’s Broom or Shoes, a creepy tree, or even a Halloween set of a moon with stars!

A custom brush can add detail, personality and little bit of “spice” to your page digital stamp that really stand out.

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