Why Digital Scrapbooking is Much Faster

1. Just Add Photos
If you think you're not the creative type and you dread staring at a blank page, digital scrapbooking is perfect for you. Most digital scrapbooking software come with many pre-made templates for you to simply insert your photos, then add your own captions or journalling.

2. No Need to Print Your Photos First
The process is also quicker because you no longer need to print your pictures before you put them into your scrapbook pages. Just download your digital camera pictures to your hard drive, then add them to your digital scrapbook pages.

3. All the Colors of the Rainbow at the Touch of a Button
Trying to find a paper with a background color that matches your daughter's Easter dress? Many Digital scrapbooking software, Memory Mixer for example, has an eyedropper that lets you match a background color to any color on your photo.

4. Digital Software is becoming so much easier and intuitive to use.
No more steep learning curve trying to pick up the creative craft of scrapbooking. Everyone I've spoken with that's made the switch to digital says they love how much faster they can complete pages.

5. Saves Setup Time
For some traditional scrappers, the idea was whoever dies with the most tools and supplies wins. But this also means that getting ready to scrapbook takes time with all the huge collection of tools and supplies

The only physical space required in digital scrapbooking is for your computer, scanner and printer. The other "space" requirement is the size of your hard drive in your computer. Digitized images do take a lot of megabytes of drive space, but have you seen the price of hard drives lately? You can get a 500 gigabyte drive (that's 512000 megabytes) for under $100 these days.

6. Saves Clean Up Time
If you have young children, you don't want to leave your traditional scrapbooking stuff - stickers, cutters, glue sticks, precious paper stock lying around too long. But it takes time to put them all away and take them out again to resume. With digital scrapbooking, when you need to pull away from your project, you just press the Save button.

7. The Undo Button
If you make a mistake, you don't have to redo the page or reprint a photo or get more supplies. You just press the Undo button.

8. Duplicate copies are a anap to produce
If you have 3 kids and want each child to have her own family scrapbook of highlights that year, you just order duplicates of your digital scrapbook . With traditional scrapbooking, you will have to recreate each book painfully, or make color copies which come out looking like … copies.

9. Last but not least, it last longer.
When you do traditional scrapbooking and journalling, you have to be very careful to use archival quality materials. Use a glue stick that's not acid free and your pages will turn yellow or photos will fall off before your kids grow up. Digital scrapbooks can be printed by many online printers in high archival quality and bound in hard cover to look like a professional coffee-table hard cover book.

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