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New Scrapbook Set Downloads for September…
Posted on September 21st, 2011 by admin.
Categories: Scrapbook Ad, Scrapbook Articles, Site Information.
Hi Scrapbook Friend,
There’s new Summer Theme Scrapbook Sets, New Autumn Themed Scrapbook page sets and Halloween digital scrap theme sets either there or coming by months end.
We even have new Halloween Stationery Downloads coming in the next couple days to our totally FREE www.Free-Stationery.com site.
If you are a member just log into your Members Home page for full access to the 8.5×11, 12×12, or Landscape format scrapbook page sets at:
If you want more details on how you can save $100′s with our Membership -vs- everyone else… check out the details at www.MyPrincessCrafts.com or at www.PrincessCrafts.com.
You’ll also find our totally FREE Scrapbook Photo Calendar page downloads over at: www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com
Hope to see you all there,
Kathy & Wes
Review of FREE Pho.to App for Droid and Your Computer
Posted on May 3rd, 2011 by wwaddell.
Categories: Digital Photography, Free Downloads, Scrapbook Articles, Training.
Review of FREE Pho.to App for Droid and Your Computer
Before I get started, here’s a couple of notes that Kathy wanted me to pass on.
First, there are 12 Brand New Mother’s Day Digi Scrapbook sets in the Members Area. Just log into your Members Home page at: MyPrincessCrafts.com to get all three sizes.
We have several FREE Mother’s Day Stationery Downloads (and free training) for you at: http://www.free-stationery.com/
Mother’s day is only a few days away, don’t miss the chance to tell your mom how much she really means to you… put it in writting so she can treasure it always!
Now, on with our review.
Recently I’ve been playing with the new Pho.to app on my Droid 2 Global phone and I’ve been having so much fun with it that I just had to share.
I got my new DROID for my Birthday in January and loved the new 5 Megapixel camera, but needed a way to edit and crop the photos on the road without a computer.
Long story short… after several apps I didn’t like, I found 
Pho.to. It not only works live with the camera, but will edit any photo I have on the phone and let me save and share the results. I fell in love with the app the minute I used it.
Here’s one of the first images I made with Pho.to of one of the photos I took last Halloween of Kathy (right) and her sister Kris. The frame is one of the hundreds that come with the app. New ones are being added all the time too.
It’s so easy to use. Just open the app, choose a frame or effect and then choose the photo from the camera or stored on your phone. Some frames even allow multiple images such as the photo book image here of my grandson, Nick helping feed the horses.
Once you have picked the frame and photo or photos, you have the opportunity to crop the images. If the photo has multiple people in it and the affect just needs the face of one person, you can crop the image to choose which person to apply the affect to.
For example, the Jackie Chan frame image of Kathy’s sister Kris, on the left, came from a group shot of her and all her siblings. What do you think?
All in all, it’s a great app and it’s so easy to use. All the processing is done over the wireless web and that keeps the app small and keeps the abilities large. You can even turn off the Pho.to mark and add text to many of the frame effects such as I did for Kris’s image. My favorite effects are the Celebrity collages such as this next one…
That’s my niece Jessica in this one.
I use this all the time for my grandkids now. My grandson thinks it’s cool to be Iron Man:
Since I loved this app so much, I wanted to see if they had a version for my computer. WoW! They do and it’s web based so it works with all computer operating systems, windows, mac, linux, what ever.
Just go to www.Pho.to and you can use it with no signups needed.
The web based version isn’t as easy to use as the one for the DROID, but it still is easy enough to figure out and you won’t need a manual to learn it. Just play and have fun.
The biggest advantage to using the online version is that it also does animated Avatars and photos such as the one here of me. I just added the effect to an image Kathy took at Lake Perrigin State Park last year. Looks pretty cool here on the web, doesn’t it?
Let’s sum is all up.
Likes:
The Droid version app is easy to use, let’s you save the results as well as share them via email, Twitter, FaceBook or what ever other social site you are in to.
The Web based version also lets you animate many of the frames and effects.
The DROID version also connects to your phone’s camera so you can take images for frame effects in real time.
Hundreds of Frames and Effects to choose from in both versions.
Needed improvements:
I’d like to be able to upload my own .png frames to use with the app. That would make all our PrincessCrafts digital scrapbook pages available to use.
Would love if the DROID version also allowed me to create the animated effects and had the Avatar function. My .jpg versions that it creates can be used as avatars, it would just be nice to have them sized to start with so I knew exactly what the final avatar would look like.
That’s it, I have nothing bad to say and only just two items on my future capabilities list.
I’m having a ball playing with the app and I know you will too.
Wes Waddell
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Digital Scrapbook News for May
Posted on May 19th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Site Information.
PrincessCrafts Digital Scrapbook News for May
Have we been busy or what? As always, the free goodies are listed at the bottom, but you have got to check out all the great stuff we have been doing in our Scrapbook Members area too.
What’s going away soon:
I will be replacing the Father’s Day categories on both the 8.5×11 and 12×12 areas by the 31st of May.
We have already replaced the Mother’s Day category for Soft Expressions and Printable Pastels with brand new sets.
We also deleted all the Silhouettes and Memory Pockets from both the 8.5×11 and 12×12 areas. The new sets will go into the categories they belong with.
We will be removing the no-art templates from both the 8.5×11 and the 12×12 areas at the end of May also. I will also be replacing the numbers category with individual number elements.
What’s New:
Added 3 new Teddy Bear clipart in the Animal category.
Added 3 new sets of floral recipe cards to the journaling category for Mother’s Day and also added a new mom’s day alphabet in the Members Elements area.
Just added to Scrap of a Lifetime, our Landscape format area:
Baby 58 thru 63 along with Mom 37 thru 42 which match the newly added Baby 58 thru 63 and Mom 37 thru 39 we just put into our 8.5×11 and 12×12 areas.
We also just Added a new winter category to the Landscape)format area.
The FREE Goodies:
Replaced the free mini-scrapbook page on www.PrincessCrafts.com with a New Spring page.
I’ve also added some printable stickers, clipart and free scrapbook pages to our new www.FreeTravelScrapbook.info Travel BLOG, so be sure and book mark it and check back often. We are adding free goodies with each article we publish there.
Never forget the new stationery and/or scrapbook background added to www.Free-Stationery.com either.
What’s still to come this month:
Kathy has been working really hard and has completed 30 New Wedding (2-page sets) in 12x, 8.5x as well as in landscape format.
The new Wedding area will also have a Bonus: 12 journaling sets in all 3 formats (2 page sets with photo areas and journaling areas on them) plus another Bonus of: 6 wedding element tags in Silver and the same 6 in gold.
Our Platinum Members get instant FREE access as always and we’ll also be offering that one as a stand-alone membership as well. Look for it to come online by the end of the month.
If you want a sneak preview, check out www.WeddingScraps.com Just understand that it’s still under construction, so not everything is working yet. Watch us grow and help out by giving us feedback on what you see.
As always, this is your biggest and BEST digital scrapbook membership on the Internet and your opinions and feedback count big time in keeping it that way.
Happy Scrappin’
Wes and Kathy
FREE Digital Scrapbook Software
Posted on April 16th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Site Information.
Hi Computer Digital Scrapbook friend,
We just got an offer from the folks at Daisy Trail Software to let our readers have a FREE copy of their Digital Scrapbook and Greeting Card software (the lite version) absolutely at no cost.
I have all the details and the link to get it for you, but I need to get the rest of our site updates for this week out of the way first. It will only take a minute as I’ll get you just the abrieviated notes and you can check out the complete details on the sites and in your Members Areas.
Just the Facts:
- Added a new spring alphabet to both the 8.5×11 & 12×12 areas
- Replaced the Easter category for Soft Expressions (ComputerScrapbookLayouts.com) and Printable Pastels.
- I will be removing the silhouettes category and the memory pockets category from the members area (Part of the Site Remodel).
- I will be removing the scrap templates category from the members area the end of May.
- I will be replacing the numbers category with individual number elements.
- Added a Winter category to the Scrapbook of a Lifetime (Landscape) format
How’s that for a weeks worth of updates for our members?
OK, now on with the FREE Digi-Scrapbook software download info…
- There are currently 20 FREE high quality content packs (digikits) for you to download to use with Digital Scrapbook Artist Compact.
- You’ll be able to upload your designs to share quickly and easily.
- Invite friends and family to view your work.
- Create and join public and private forums to share ideas with other scrapbookers.
- Use powerful zoom technology to see intricate layout details.
- Watch fantastic video tutorials to learn all the tools and techniques for Digital Scrapbook Artist.
- Enter competitions and win great prizes.
Digital Scrapbook Artist Compact is NOT a trial and it’s completely free, so download now and you’ll be able to create beautiful keepsakes and photo albums, scrapbooks, cards and invitations without spending a dollar on materials!
Click here to go to DaisyTrail now!
Then, once you get your computer digital scrapbook software up and running, let us know how it works for you and what you think. Tell others about what it does a great job with and where it could use some improvement.
Don’t forget to let us know how well it works with all the Free PrincessCrafts scrapbook page sets and the 5000 plus sets in our members area.
Happy Scrappin’,
Free Scrapbook Downloads & Member News
Posted on April 7th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Site Information.
Hello Scrapbook Friend,
I know, it’s been a full month since we last updated you on all your scrapbook pages. So much going on here. We’ve moved PrincessCrafts to a new faster server. With all the new sets and members, we wanted to make sure you didn’t see any slow downs or interruptions. Just let us know if you find anything missing or not working.
Just in case you are here onl for the freebies, then just skip right to the bottom and you’ll find them there. For our members and close friends, here’s what all we have added in the last month.
- Added new scrapbook elements:
- 2 sets of balloons
- 5 Easter Egg Sets
- Added 9 New Easter sets to both the 8.5×11 and 12×12 areas
- Added 9 New Easter Landscape sets (Scrapbook of a lifetime area)
- Added 23 New cliparts to the Members Clipart area
- Added the St. Patrick’s Day category for Scrapbook of a Lifetime (landscape)
- Replaced the entire Soft Expressions and Printable Pastel St. Patrick’s Day categories
- Added the St. Patrick’s Day category to the Landscape sets.
For our Freebies this last month:
- Brand New free mini page added to the PrincessCrafts.com home page
- New Printable Stickers downloads at: Free-Stationery.com
- New Easter Stationery downloads at: 1-Computer-Stationery.com
- New Scrapbook Page Embellishments at: FreeScrapbookTraining.com
Next month look for a brand new Wedding Scrapbook area added to our Platinum Membership area. Also look for a new simplified menu system as we move even more scrapbook page sites under the PrincessCrafts Digital Scrapbook Membership umbrella.
We were the 1st Scrapbook Membership site on the Internet and we are still the largest. If you are getting your digital or even your traditional scrapbook pages anywhere else, we guarantee you are paying way too much for your scrapbooks.
Happy Scrappin’
Kathy and Wes
Turn Holiday Cards into Treasured Keepsakes
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Site Information, Training.