Free Digital Scrapbook Photo Frame Elements

Posted on January 25th, 2012 by wwaddell.
Categories: Digital Photography, Free Downloads, Site Information.

Hi Digital Computer Scrapbook Fans,

Had to let you know that I just uploaded 6 brand new Digi-Scrap page photo frame elements. They are a nice sea side or sea shell design set and a wonderful Floral or Flower themed photo frame set.

Get them now at: www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com

Perfect additions to the Valentines Day themed digital scrapbooking paper set downloads that we just added a few days ago.

Oh, and for the kids… we just added a wonderful collection of School Valentines Day card printables. Print them on card stock and cut them out, the guidlines are already included for you to make it really simple. Even your kids could cut them out with safety scissors.

See you there: www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com

Kathy and Wes

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com

Largest Digital Scrapbook Membership on the Internet!

 

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Free Kids / Children’s Valentines Day Printable Cards

Posted on January 20th, 2012 by wwaddell.
Categories: Free Downloads, Scrapbook Tips.

We just added 3 sets of Brand New Children’s School Printable Valentines… just in time for your kids Valentines Day party.

Colorful, cute and best of all, you can download and print all that you need.

Each page comes with 9 different valentines on it that you just print and cut out. With 6 different pages and 9 valentines for each page, that’s 54 different valentines so no one has to get the same one.

For our adults and teens, we also have some great photo Valentines Day Cards that you can add your own photo or artwork to to make just the perfect Valentines Day Keepsake.

Happy Valentines Day!

Kathy and Wes

www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com

www.Free-Stationery.com

 

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New FREE Valentines Day Digital Scrapbook Paper Downloads Added

Posted on January 17th, 2012 by admin.
Categories: Free Downloads, Scrapbook Tips.

We just added 4 Brand New Digital or Computer Scrapbook Paper Downloads for you.

They each come in 12×12, 8.5×11 and Landscape format.

As always, there are no hassles and no signups needed, just go and download all you want. We just hope that you’ll visit a couple of our sponsors when you are done as this helps support the site and keeps it FREE.

www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com

Happy Scrappin’

Kathy and Wes

www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com

 

P.S. We also have hundreds of Totally FREE Digital Stationery and Free Kids Cookbook Recipe’s and Photo Memory Journal page sets.

 

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Free Christmas Scrapbook Page Set Downloads for You

Posted on December 15th, 2011 by admin.
Categories: Free Downloads, Site Information.

Hi Scrapbook Friend,

Tis the season for giving and we have added some new Christmas Holiday Scrapbook Page sets for you to download at: www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com in the Scrapbook Page section.

No hassles, no signups and best of all, no limits! So, just go there and download all you want.

Then, look for our New Years Scrapbook digi-scrap sets to be there in just a few days as we continue the holiday giving.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Kwanza everyone!

Kathy and Wes

www.Free-Stationery.com

 

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Free Photo Greeting Cards Template Downloads Added

Posted on December 5th, 2011 by wwaddell.
Categories: Free Downloads, Site Information.

That’s right,

I just added 6 more New Years Photo Greeting Cards to www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com

No signups and no hassles, just go and download all you want. Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, New Years are just a few of the themes you’ll find in the Card section.

Don’t forget to check out all the Free Digital Scrapbook Page set downloads we have for you there too, not to mention the Yearly Photo Calendar sets with extra pages for months with different holiday themes.

If you need staterionery for your Christmas letter to Santa or for your Holiday and New Years family letters, we have that covered for you too at:

www.Free-Stationery.com

Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your co-workers… but be sure and tell yourself to get there and get started NOW!

Happy Holidays everyone,

Kathy and Wes

www.TwasTheNightScrapbook.com

 

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Scrapbook Photography 101 Part 2 of 3

Posted on November 16th, 2011 by wwaddell.
Categories: Digital Photography, Scrapbook Articles, Training.

Title:  Scrapbook Photography 101 Part 2

Author:  Wes Waddell

Article:  Scrapbook Photography 101 Part 2 Basic Photo Composition

Now that you have the basic photography equipment and a better understanding of your camera, its’ different modes and how they affect your images… it’s time to start learning how to best use this knowledge to take photos that are not only in focus, but tell the right story and fit into your scrapbook of memories.

Basic Scrapbook Photography Composition:

Anyone can easily, in just a few hours, learn to operate a camera, point it at something and take a clear, in focus image. But it takes lots and lots of practice to have that image composed so that it also tells the story, preserves the memory and fits onto your scrapbook page the way you need it to.

In all your standard photography courses, they teach you the basic principal of: Use all the available space!

For your scrapbooks… this is sometimes the totally WRONG ANSWER!

Yes, if you are going to print an image of your child’s smiling face and hang it on the wall, you want to get in closer and capture the face close up. The difference with the scrapbook or memory journal is that while you may want to have a close-up on the page, you are also going to be adding captions, journaling and other artwork that not only tells of your child’s wonderful smile, but that it’s their 1st birthday and they were smiling at grandma for the very first time.

Scrapbook Photo Technique: Take the close-up image, but also take one with grandma in the image and one of the child’s profile from the front of the ears forward on the very edge of the frame. (great to use as a scrapbook background) In short, think page background, and how you will tell the story on the page or page set. Then take the images needed for that one part of the story.

Photos of the birthday cake in the lower corner of the photo with a solid color wall or background and photos of the presents off to one side or along the bottom of the picture make wonderful scrapbook background images with plenty of empty space to fill with photos and journaling notes.

Landscapes are different:

When you travel or go on family outings, a lot of people take beautiful images of the landscapes and scenery.

The problems you run into as a scrapbook photographer is that these landscapes don’t make for good backgrounds in many cases because you will be covering much of it up with other photos and stories. And if you just put the images on the scrapbook page by themselves, they make for some very boring scrapbook page sets.

So, what do you do about it?

There are a couple of techniques that you can use to help jazz up your scrapbook scenery pages.

First, keep your family in the images but off to the side or near the bottom of the image and don’t be afraid to use the fill flash mode (if you have one) to highlight their faces. This keeps the story about them and that they were there.

Second, use the viewfinder and look at the image as if it were a background page. Imagine your images, titles and journaling over the top of the image you see. Now, move the camera around, turn it on end for portrait style and capture several images that work as backgrounds with the most important parts of the scenery around the sides of the photo.

Third, use a tree, some plants, a fence post or other close object to frame all or part of the image. Grandma and Grandpa holding hands and you shooting between them with just their shoulders, arms and hands framing the scenic is a really cool way to tie the family into the story.

Scrapbook Photography Tip: If your camera doesn’t have manual focus or it’s hard to use, then almost all cameras today allow you to point the camera somewhere else (like into the distance or at the sky), press the shutter button part way down so it activates the focus and light settings, then without releasing the shutter, point it where you want the photo taken and finish pressing the shutter. In this way you have the camera set to shoot a different setting than would be otherwise. You may need to practice this a bit, but it really works great at sunset and to place focus on other thanthe close up face or object.

Now it’s time again for the fun part… practice all these principles and techniques at the same time.

It’s not as easy as you might think! At least not at first anyhow.  Now you get an idea of why photographers take years to really learn their craft well.

This week’s assignment: Create 2 complete scrapbook pages using only your images and journaling/titles.

Go out in the morning or early afternoon with your friends or family. Take photos of backgrounds, people and nature.  Then, that evening go out again and take images in low light and of the sunset with someone as the focus of the story. Now, put the images onto your computer and using a digital scrapbook or photo editing program (you can print and do it by hand too, but that will cost you money for the prints and paper), create one page that tells the story of your morning and one page that tells the story of your evening. You can only use the images your took and titles/journaling boxes.

Show the results to family and friends that were not there and see if they understand the story and like what they see. After all, it’s only through the minds of others that we know we have told the complete story.

In Part 3, we’ll cover mood and some more tricks to make your photo’s look like a pro.

Until then, practice, practice, practice!

Wes Waddell

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