Digital vs Hand Scrapbooking Costs

Posted on July 20th, 2010 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Site Information, Training.

One of our new friends here at PrincessCrafts had a question about printing digital scrapbook pages.  Since this is a question we get now and again, I thought that I would post our answer here too.

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Hi Lois,

Kathy passed this on to me as I do most of the tech support for her.

If you want hard copies of your scrapbook pages, then yes you will need to get them printed.  You don’t need to print them yourself though.  Many photo printers, including Wal Mart now offer 12×12 print services since digital scrapbooking is such a big thing now and is becoming the #1 way to scrapbook.  They can be a bit pricey on the surface, but when you consider that the average hand scrapped page now costs more than $4.00 and go more than 5 times that depending on what you put on it… it all becomes relative.  If you don’t have a large format printer and even if you do, we recommend you check out www.Realbooks-Scrapbooks.com.  Bill and Colleen are very good at turning your digital scrapbook pages, even the 12×12 size into the most beautiful real hardbound books you will ever see.  And the cost is amazingly low.  We have them do all our books for us.  The quality beats anyone else out there hands down.  You even get to design your own custom cover… something you can’t do at all with the old hand scrapped books.

Sorry if it sounds a bit commercial, but they really are terrific and do such amazing work.

On the other hand, many of our clients don’t make hard copies at all any longer.  They create the pages and put them on DVD or Video CDs.  Others incorporate them into slide presentations using PowerPoint or Open Office (which costs nothing).  Still others add sound and transition effects using movie software and turn them into actual video DVDs and CDs.  We have an example of our granddaughters doing the Twas the Night Before Christmas a couple of years ago on our www.PrincessCrafts.com site.  This one is still a big hit with the family and gets played every Christmas.

As you can see, you can create your scrapbooks for as little as the cost of a blank DVD or you can have a full size 12×12 hardbound book with custom cover done (in multiple copies if you want) for just over a buck a page through Realbooks Scrapbooks.  You can also shrink the 12×12 pages down to 8×8 and print them yourself.  Our Cannon printer, that can use ink refills you do yourself prints 8.5×11 pages for less than 25 cents a page.  It’s also a large format printer that prints up to 13 inches wide and we get prints for as little as 80 cents a page including the paper cost when we buy in bulk. 

Hope this helps you out.  If you still have any questions, please let me know and I’ll do my very best to get you the info you need.

Happy Scrappin’

Wes

PrincessCrafts.com

(877) 751-6368

28115 N. Spotted Rd.

Deer Park, WA 99006

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com – Digital Scrapbook Memberships

www.Free-Stationery.com

www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com

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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:

 

 

 

 

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

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Adobe PhotoShop Secrets… Excerpt

Posted on March 16th, 2009 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Training.

Hi Digital Scrapbook Friend,

Kathy just put her latest eBook – PhotoShop Secrets: How to Get Great at PhotoShop – onto the internet yesterday.  I thought the I would post an excerpt from one of the chapters here for you so you can see just how really great this book is.

PhotoShop Secrets:

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Using PhotoShop Selection Techniques

When you use selection techniques, essentially you are setting apart a portion of an image so that you can make changes to it.  Or you may want to include that portion with other images.  That portion is considered a selection. 

 

With the selection, you can still utilize the tools used to edit images and other commands.  The selection portion is protected and is considered a “mask”.  This part of the image is protected in Photoshop.  You will see an outline of the selection on the screen. 

 

Using a selection tool icon, you can make a selection.  Whatever tool you will be using will be in the Options bar.  Use Windows and Options if you don’t see t hem.  You will not see all of the tools right away.  You may have to click on some tools in order to see the ones that are hidden.

 

Use the Ctrl-H function to show and hide the selection outline.  Using Select, then Inverse will make the selection inverted.  If you wish to reverse the selection, choose Select>None.  To save a selection, choose Select, then Save Selection. 

 

If you need to include more on a current selection, use the Shift key.  To remove from a current selection, use the Alt key.  If you need to add more to a current selection because of color, choose Select, then Similar.

 

If you need to move a selection or part of it, use the move tool and drag it to where you want it.

 

If you want to feather a selection, use the Feather checkbox.  Using this will allow your selection to look softer.

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Now, how easy was that to follow?  The eBook is just chocked full of tips like this one and can make learning PhotoShop as easy as step… one… two… three!

Check out the 11 most commont PhotoShop tools and more at:

http://www.princesscrafts.com/photoshop_secrets/

You’ll be learning PhotoShop in no time…

P.S.  Would you like to get PhotoShop Secrets for FREE?

For a very short time, we are including the complete book as part of our PrincessCrafts Platinum Membership.  Not only do you get access to more than 5000 digital scrapbook templates in hundreds of themes, you also get PhotoShop Secrets as a complete part of the package.

OH, YEA… we have also put the Platinum Memberships on sale right now.  So, hurry over to:

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com

and check out the sale and all the details while we still have the recession deal active.  It could be gone tomorrow, so don’t wait.  We don’t want you to miss out on this.

Kathy Waddell

www.MyPrincessCrafts.com and http://www.princesscrafts.com/photoshop_secrets/

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