Digi Scrapping Background Pages

Scrapbook paper, also called scrapbook background, is an important part of digi scrapping. The traditional scrapbook layouts may employ a background paper with cut edges. For digital scrapbooking, selecting a fabulous background paper is a good start for any scrapbook page. But you may also need other scrapbooking resources, such as a scrapbook maker software, scrapbooking templates, scrapbooking embellishments, and so on.

All these scrapbook backgrounds come with Photo Collage Studio's resource packs, but you could also use them in other digital scrapbook software for totally free if it's personal use. You could click thumbnail to enlarge. To download scrapbook papers, right click thumbnails, and select "Save Target As ..." for Internet Explorer, or "Save Link As ..." for Mozilla Firefox.

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Get more free scrapbook papers from these links,

• Wedding Scrapbook Papers
• Love Scrapbook Papers
• Family Scrapbook Papers
• Travel Scrapbook Papers
• Baby Scrapbook Papers
• Christmas Scrapbook Papers

The best scrapbook maker and digital scrapbooking software i had used is Wondershare Photo Collage Studio, with tons of free premade scrapbook pages and fabulous scrapbook embellishments. With it, you could save your precious memories on printed scrapbooks, photo collage and for every occasion, like Wedding, Kids, Family, Travel, Graduation, Love, Christmas etc. Download scrapbook paper software now for free trial.

Printable Family Collage Cards for Kids

When Santa's sleigh bells ring, the kids are expecting the presents wrapped in red and green. Fortunately,you manage to get to the toy store and buy a gift for your honey kids before the herald angels singing. But it couldn't be better that you customize a card with your own message and pack up with gifts for your kids on Christmas Eve.

Christmas cards is only as far away as your computer and your printer. Printable kids cards can be made only a few minutes with family picture collage maker. Kid picture cards for print in a number of formats and with a wide variety of images and greeting, and if you have a color printer, you can print cards free in full color at home. If not, print collage cards in black and white and let your kids color it in :)-

Step 1: Install the Family Picture Collage Maker

Here we use the family picture collage maker called photo collage creator as an example, since it offers a bundle of cool theme templates for family, wedding, love, baby, kids, friendship and Christmas,Happy New Year or other holidays to satisfy your any demands. Want to have a glance of these free templates, please check here for free kids digital scrapbooking templates. Applying templates, you can make a fabulous wedding, baby and family picture collage only in three steps, that convenient for the green hands and busy persons. Now let's install the program and start the fun.



Step 2: Select and Download the template

When you start the software, select "Create from Template". If you want to create Christmas cards, pick the first "Christmas(30)". The popup window is just as follow.



Step 3: Import kid-photos into the template

Carefully select the photo which can express and then double-click the center area to add from your computer disk. Or select a path from left of digital scrapbook software, and drag the photo from the left to the center area of printable kids picture cards.

Step 4: Add your own Message for Christmas Cards

Click the Taskbar of "Decorate Collage" button,and choose the "Text" tab. Type out the title in the text box, and select the font,color and text size in the center of printable kids cards. Or you can move it as a whole. What's more, you can set the shadow,halation or texture for your printable cards for kids as Christmas Gift.

Step 5: Save as image or wallpaper

An Christmas card has been simply design out, and save it as image. If you are not satisfied with it, you can decorate the printable kids cards with digital scrapbooking embellishments,such as clipart,stamp or doodle some knickknacks for further embellishment. What'more, you can use free digital scrapbooking kits to adorn your family picture collage.


Step 6: Print Out the family picture cards

If you have a color printer, you can print cards free in full color at home. If not, print the cards in black and white and let your kids color it in. From family picture collage card, you will have a more festival Christmas.

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Digital Scrapbooking Kits

Use digital scrapbooking kits when making photo collages

What's Digital Scrapbooking Kits

A digital scrapbooking kit is a collection of scrapbooking elements such as papers, tags, buttons, ribbons, alphabets, etc. Most of them are in png formats. You can use all or part of the kit, adding your photos, to create a personalized digital scrapbook or photo collage. Kits are most often offered for download in zipped folders. Search "digital scrapbooking kits" from Google, and you will find various digital kits for purchasing or presenting.


The upper kit includes 4 papers, 4 ribbons, 2 bowknots, 2 flowers, 2 frames, 8 buttons, 1 tack and other elements.

Use digital scrapbooking kits in Photo Collage Studio

If you are familiar with Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, all you need to do is open a background, drag over some photos, scrapbooking embellishments, and save! But for those without basic knowledge of PS or PSP, the best choice is to select one small "scrapbooking" program. Here is a short guide to teach you how to use digital scrapbooking kits in Photo Collage Studio ( an easy and fun photo collage and scrapbooking tool step by step).

Step 1: Download and unzip digital scrapbooking kit

Here is a Spring Green Kit from Scrappin Texas Style Freebies/Shop. Download Now. Unzip the kit and you will get a file including every elements displaying on the upper kit snapshot.

Step 2: Download Photo Collage Studio and install

Go to http://www.photo-collage-software.com/download.html and type into your email address to download trial version of Photo Collage Studio. Complete installing according wizard.

Step 3: Create digital scrapbooking from a blank page

The program offer you two ways to make a digital scrapbook: one is from blank page, the other is from collage template. Here choose "Create blank collage" button and a blank page will be generated on the workspace. If you are unsatisfied with default of collage setting, click "Set" button and customize collage size, orientation and background in the pop-up window.



Step 4: Add and edit your photos

Simply drag and drop your photos from left panel to the collage. If needed, make use of photo edit tool to do some basic operations for your photos such as adding shadow, crop, flip, rotate, lock, etc.



Step 5: Import digital scrapbooking elements from the kit and decorate the collage

Simply drag and drop your photos from left panel to the collage. If needed, make use of photo edit tool to do some basic operations for your photos such as adding shadow, crop, flip, rotate, lock, etc.

Switch to "Decorate Collage" and find "Clipart" tab. There are eight clipart types in list box. You should select the "Customize" type. Now you can add digital scrapbooking elements that you prepare to use from the unzipped kit through the "Add…" button at the bottom of clipart tab. Check that your imported elements will be showed at left panel. To apply the elements to your created collage, just drag and drop to the position you want. Look!

The scrapbooking is decorated with one bowknot and four ribbons from the Green Spring Kit. In order to indicate the theme of the collage, here make use of the "Text" tab to add the caption "Hugs for spring".




Step 6: Save collage as picture formats or directly print

After completing the collage, you can save it as different picture formats such as jpg, png, bmp, tiff, etc. or directly set it as your wallpaper. Using "Print Collage" button, the fabulous photo collage will be delivered to you immediately. If you like the layout your designed, just take advantage of "Save project" or "Save as project" in "File" menu to get project file for next use.

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Newborn Baby Digital Scrapbooking

Original four digital photos - Before:




Baby Digital Scrapbooking made with Photo Collage Studio - After:



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To realize it with Photo Collage Studio

Step 1. Create a new scrapbooking from template(the software supplies four ways to start the design including from template, from layout, from blank and from image) and select your favorite pre-designed template; here we choose the template named as General 20.

Step 2. Double click or drag photo from the left list box to the frame of template.


Step 3. Move and adjust the size of photo in the frame to the best effect by using the editing toolbar upper of the selected photo; The first button is used to move the photo in the frame;are used to enlarge or reduce the size of photo in the frame. If you only want to import a part of the photo, the fifth button for cropping can help you realize it easily.

Step 4. Retouch the photo with the effect tab to make it look perfect; there are many effects offered by the program, such as old picture, oil, blur and more; here we choose Brightness Contrast to apply in order to let the photo match the background.


Notice: double-click a thumbnail to apply the effect to your photo and right click to cancel.
Drag the other two photos into the relevant position and do some adjustments to make them look better.

Step 5. From the upper figure you can notice that the orientation of frame on the right bottom is landscape but we need import a photo of portrait orientation. What we should do? Don’t worry! The frame and other objects in the template all can be moved and adjusted freely by selecting frame and dragging the green point to move.

Step 6. Publish or print; after importing the last photo, you can use publish tab to preview the collage and save it as jpeg format, wallpaper, or email it directly to the person you want to share with. Also you can show off your masterpiece with the high-quality print function.

You can do many other things to decorate your scrapbook such as adding wordarts, cliparts, stamps, frames or masks. More details you can get from the program tutorial. But you can image that using any other more embellishments in this digital scrapbook really gild the lily.

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Free Scrapbooking Embellishments - Cliparts

Besides various free scrapbooking templates, it also offer you a bundle of other freebies such as free cliparts and free background pictures to spread your creation with photo collage studio. Watch the thumbnails of cliparts below, and select your favorite categories to download clipart pack of original size images. Download Photo Collage Studio now to create your own scrapbook by well-designed templates and embellish it with free cliparts downloaded.


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Using free cliparts as Digital Scrapbooking Embellishments

Step 1. Open the program and create a new page from template or a blank page.
Step 2. Switch to the "Clipart" tab and you will find eight clipart types in the list box.
Step 3. Select "Customize" type and load your download cliparts through the "Add…" button at the bottom of clipart tab.
Step 4. After loading, your cliparts will be showed on the left panel. Just simple drag and drop to make use of them.
Want detailed tutorial on how to use these elements to your collage creating? Just click here now.

Want detailed tutorial on how to use these elements to your collage creating? Just click the " Add clipart to adorn your scrapbooking "now.

Tips:
1. If you want to delete your loading clipart, just select it and click the "Delete" button at the bottom of clipart tab. Note that the cliparts only in the "Customize" type can be deleted.
2. If you wanna your scrapbooking more blazing,you can apply filter effects in digital scrapbooking.
3. For every cliparts on the collage, you can use Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+V to paste.

myspace flash layout

Create a MySpace flash slideshow for business

MySpace is more and more popular. An elegance profile page or blog with flash photo slideshow will help you catch lots of eyeballs from tons of Myspace users and attract like-minded individuals in the next place. This tutorial will mainly show you how to create a MySpace flash photo slideshow to make your MySpace profile and Blog more attractive in just simple steps.

Only simple 3 steps will teach you how to add flash gallery slideshow on MySpace profile for sharing with your friends.

Here's what you'll need:

Myspace Account
Photos related to your business
Flash Slideshow Software ( Say Flash Gallery Factory )

In the following how-to, I'll create a MySpace flash slideshow banner for an outdoor sports organization to show their concept about "Sports Make Life Easier!" which may attract the amateurs to join in.

Step 1: Get the Flash Software

Download the Myspace flash maker, then install and run it.

Step 2: Browse

Import the pictures related to your business, and then process with the built-in editing tool if needed, which include some basic functions like crop, rotate, filter, etc. Especially, you can add a hyperlink for each picture here. Below are pictures about outdoor sports.

Step 3:Template & Effect

Here I choose the Template "RedRight" and "Fade" transition effect. After that, right click on one photo on the Story Board to set the "Duration Setting". Set "Picture Duration" as 2 sec and "Transition Duration" as 1 sec, then check the option "Apply all settings to all pictures". See more flash photo gallery templates.

Step 4: Decorate

"Decorate" each picture with texts. Click "New Text" to add texts, select font, size, color, text effect, etc. for your photos. Here I select Font "Happy", Size "22", Color "Gold", Effect "Fade"..

Step 5: Publish

Modify some "Publish Settings" to make the flash banner the best and then click "Create SWF Movie". A pop-up window will prompt you to save your created work.

Step 6: Upload SWF and get Flash URL
After the flash is created, just upload your album on your HTTP server, online or other free swf file hosting sites. Here takes Google site for example. After login Google site with your google account, Check the option "I agree to the terms", click the button "I am ready to create my pages" below, and login.

Click "Choose File" button at the bottom, then browse and select the SWF slideshow on your local hard disk, upload it. Now, the uploaded file will be listed in the "Attachments". Then you have to get the URL address of the SWF slideshow and note it. In Internet Explorer, you can simply click the file, open it with IE, and copy the link address in the address bar. If you are using Firefox, you may right click on the file, in the popup menu, click "Copy Link Location", and get the link address.

The link address should look similar to: http://sites.google.com/site/wondersharefamily/Home/index.swf

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="264" width="550" data="http://www.flash-gallery-software.com/images/tutorials/flash_banner/banner550.swf">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.flash-gallery-software.com/images/tutorials/flash_banner/banner550.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
</object>

Done! Let's see our great work. Wanna a try? Just follow the steps and making your own Myspace photo slideshow now.

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New Year Song Suggestions for Slideshow

New Year is the time for us to say goodbye to the ending year and welcome the brand new year. All the unhappiness will go away and everyone hopes for a good future. New Year is also the time for people to get together, drink way too much, dance, kiss each other and enjoy festival new year songs.

Could you imagine a New Year without traditional or christian songs for slideshow? If you want to make slideshow for youtube to celebrate the coming new year, you are recommended to pick out a proper new year song from your song library. If you don't have one, below are our new year song suggestions. Or watch slideshow with new year song to get inspired for your new year idea, especially the New Year party.

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New Year Songs Suggestions List

A Change is Gonna Come - Otis Redding

A Long DecemberCounting Crows

A New Time - Unn

Arrival - Sarah Brightman

Auld Lang Syne - Kenny G

Beautiful Day - U2

Berlin - Alaska In Winter

Changes - David Bowie

CloserNine - Inch Nails

Do You Realize? - the Flaming Lips

Fire on High - ELO

Flamenco Sketches - Miles Davis

Happy New Year - ABBA

Heaven Is A Disco - Patti Lupone

Home for a Rest - Spirit of the West

I bet you look good on the dancing floor - Artic monkeys

I Wanna Be Sedated - the Ramones

I Wish I Had A Wooden Heart - David Holmes

It's Just Another New Year's Eve - Barry Manilow

It's the End of the World - (I Feel Fine)REM

January - Broadway Project

Let it snow - Dean martin

Let There Be Peace on Earth - Seymour Miller and Jill Jackson

New Year's Day - U2

New year's kiss - Casiotone for the painfully alone

New year - Azure ray

New Years Resolution - The Limousines

Record Year - The Decemberists

Ring the Bells - Anyone

Something is Happening - Peter Frampton

The Best Day-Taylor Swift

The end has no end - The strokes

The Final Countdown - Europe

The New YearDeath - cab for cutie

The Parting Glass - Anyone

The partyJustice - ft ufire

The Theme for the Godfather - Coppola's uncle

TimePink - Floyd

Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers

We Didn't Start the Firs - Billy Joel

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve - Ella Fitzgerald

Will2K - Will Smith

Among these songs, some are festive, whilst others are sentimental. When people have to farewell an old year, there will be distinctly different respond. Some of them could be in good mood because every thing is new. A new and wonderful future is waiting for them. However, others could be very sad due to the elapsed time and be afraid of something in front of them. Anyway, you could always find your desired new year song ideas here. Now, choose a song from the suggestion list and make christian slideshow with video maker for youtube to celebrate or commemorate New Year 2010.