{"id":31,"date":"2009-03-25T02:45:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T02:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowcosttech.wordpress.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2010-01-22T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:45:42","slug":"digital-scrapbooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Digital scrapbooking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talking about scanners<\/a> made me think of a project this last summer.\u00a0 I made a scrapbook on a family event.\u00a0 Counter to my usual policy, I’m not going to make fun of physically making a scrapbook.\u00a0 It requires you to get pictures developed, buy material and meticulously laying out your scrapbook.\u00a0 If you can do it, I applaud you.\u00a0 This post is only presenting a computer based method to create a book of your favorite family memories and have it printed into your choice of hardback or softbound book.<\/p>\n

What do you need for digital scrapbooking:<\/p>\n

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  1. Digital photographs or a scanner (to make digital photographs)<\/li>\n
  2. A computer<\/li>\n
  3. Bookmaking software (Online or offline, it doesn’t matter).<\/li>\n
  4. Patience<\/li>\n
  5. (Optional) An older relative to tell you who everyone on the photos are<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s pretty much all the equipment you need.\u00a0 No scissors, glue, rules or colorful material.\u00a0 (I apologize to those of you who want those things.\u00a0 Please ignore this post in its entirety.)\u00a0 The look and feel of your final product is left up to the software you have, your technical expertise and imagination.<\/p>\n

    At this point, you’re taking stock, and realize you have items 1, 2 and 5.\u00a0 I can’t help you with 4 (patience), but I can tell you more about bookmaking software.\u00a0 First, you have a decision.\u00a0 Are you more comfortable with working on your scrapbook online or offline?\u00a0 I like offline because there are definite situations where you want to work on a book without internet connections.\u00a0 Think grandma’s (internet-less) house while asking her who all the people in the pictures are.\u00a0 If you choose offline software, you typically make your book then upload the finished digital product to the bookmaker website.\u00a0 After determining the type of software you want, you need to consider how large of a book you want.\u00a0 Most publishers make you pay for a minimum number of pages (20) then charge you per page or block of pages after that.<\/p>\n

    If you want to save money, compare prices between the vendors, and read customer reviews on book quality.\u00a0 After doing all that, pick your vendor.\u00a0 My prior quick tip on reviews<\/a> mentioned a good review site.\u00a0 Take a look at vendors, try out some of the software, look at the prices and make a choice.<\/p>\n

    :).\u00a0 Ok.\u00a0 I recognize you have a life, and don’t have the time to do all of that.<\/em><\/p>\n

    For those of you who don’t have the time for your own search, I’ll share my experience.\u00a0 Personally, I’ve used two bookmakers at this point.\u00a0 Both were of the offline variety.\u00a0 I’ve never been patient enough in my workflow to wait for 20-50 jpgs to upload before I could keep working.\u00a0 Offline makes that a lot easier.\u00a0 The two bookmakers I’ve used were MyPublisher<\/a> and Blurb<\/a>.\u00a0 Blurb strickly handles books.\u00a0 MyPublisher gives you the option of books, cards and calendars.\u00a0 If you google ‘MyPublisher vs Blurb’<\/a>, you’ll find hundreds of comparisons on the two.\u00a0 For my purposes, Blurb won out.\u00a0 MyPublisher was good for making photobooks, but Blurb surpassed it in the number of page templates and layout capability.\u00a0 Also the Blurb website allows you to make a book public and set a price (in addition to the printing cost) to sell the book for.\u00a0 You could publish your own work and start a little online bookstore.\u00a0 Did I mention the Facebook integration?\u00a0 The Blurb Booksmart app in Facebook allows your friends to drop pictures in one place and lets you pull those pictures into a your computer client to make a book.\u00a0 Oh, the forums and tutorial videos also help a lot.<\/p>\n

    That’s all for now.\u00a0 Enjoy your bookmaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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