Digital Scrapbooking with Photoshop

I meant to post these masterpieces a long time ago and kept forgetting.  I mentioned in a previous post that I signed up for Smilebox for the year where I intend to organize photos and create some large prints for photo albums.  I am going to buy them through Costco or something like that rather than spend all that money on ink cartridges.  Smilebox basically provides a large selection of pre-made pages that you can just add your photos into.   It's quick and convenient which is a very good thing for me right now.   Another fun feature of Smilebox is that it can create digital slideshows that you can share with friends and family.  Here's the one I created using our Christmas Photos.

Before I knew about this convenient service, I created the pages I posted here using Adobe Photoshop with the help of some free online scrapbooking elements.  It was very time consuming but I am proud of the finished products!   Honestly, I am very happy to use an actual digital scrapbooking program now but I can see how creating pages yourself is a fun way to express creativity.  There is also a certain level of accomplisment you feel when constructing the pages youself too.  However, in reality, I just don't have the time to do it.  Ironically, it probably looks like I just threw these together in a few minutes but it actually took about two days to create all three pages.  Everything was done manually...well, as manual as you can get with a computer anyway.  Enjoy!

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For anyone that has been procrastinating and hasn't entered the lia sophia Jewellery giveaway yet, here's a link to the post.  The contest will end tomorrow night and then I'll announce the lucky winner on Saturday.