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Digital Scrapbooking is all about using a computer to enhance and showcase a photograph. Many scrapbookers already use a computer to create titles or journalling, this is just a part of what you can use your computer for when scrapbooking. Some people use their computer to create papers or embellishment that they can print out to use in a conventional scrapbooking layout. Others create completed pages on the computer, which then are either printed to put into an album, kept on the PC or written onto a CD.

To try digital scrapbooking, all you need is an image-editing programme such as Jasc Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop. Using a small number of tools you can create so much. You can design your own background papers, crop and alter your photographs, create accent papers, add embellishments and effects such as shadows, and add journalling and titles with ease.

When creating complete digital scrapbooking pages, you will find your own style just like when conventionally scrapbooking with paper. Some people like to keep their pages very clean, something very similar to a magazine layout, others decide they wish to recreate the look of a conventional scrapbooking page using torn effect ‘papers’ and traditional embellishments such as brads and eyelets. Following simple tutorials, all these things are easy to do.

If you are a beginner to digital scrapbooking and wish to learn more about constructing your own digital elements you can take a look at the digital scrapbooking tutorials, which give you simple step by step instructions for you to follow. Members of the Lisa's Crafts forum can also download free digital scrapbooking elements.