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Title: Create A Photo-Scrapbook
Author: John Gibb
Article:
An ordinary photo-album can be transferred into your own life's journal pages by
spending some time to transform it into a visual storyboard. By adding comments
under the pictures and revealing hidden memories and emotions, the creation of a
scrapbook can be a wonderful experience that will make you smile when recalling
your past adventures. Most importantly, creating your scrapbook from scratch and
using your personal touch to turn your photo-album into something very special,
can be a unique experience in itself.
Journaling a photo-album and creating a scrapbook makes one think of the most
essential elements of someone's life stories.
With numerous digital and traditional hand scrapping supplies available on the
market, creating your own scrapbook does not need much more effort than
recalling your own story and memories.
Personalizing a photo-album according to your imagination is as easy as 1-2-3.
First, all you need to do is to buy or collect the materials you will need to
finish your project. All of that can be found online these days. An empty album,
some glue, a pair of scissors, and of course your collection of photographs,
stickers, tickets and newspaper clippings. With today's new digital or
computer
scrapbook techniques... you don't even need much in the way of artistic ability.
You can also select to use any type of fabric, ribbon, or bits of leftovers from
other projects, which can be used to embellish your personal journaling
photo-scrapbook.
If you go with the more traditional methods instead of the easier
digital
scrapbook programs, you will also want some more professional tools, like an exacto knife's versatile cutting blade. This will allow you to accomplish a
professionally perfect
cutting outcome with some practice. In addition, a pair of tweezers can assist
you picking up and placing smaller photographs and objects into exact positions
before you glue them on the scrapbook pages without getting glue all over your
fingers. Of course, with traditional hand scrapped pages, even the glue you will
select to affix your choice of photographs, phrases and quotes on the pages
should be carefully selected to be acid free.
Some of the glues sold today will dry rather quickly and are less messy. Alternative
options include glue dots, two-sided tape, Xyron, acid free photo tabs and
polypropylene corners. Digital Scrapbook fans won't need to worry about any of
that as they can just build the pages on the
computer and print as many copies
as they need when they're done. Much easier and a lot less expensive.
Finally, keep in mind that if you purchase an acid- and lignin-free album you
will increase your scrapbook's duration preserving your paper treasures intact
for years. Most photo albums these days found on the market are already heritage
quality. It's getting hard to find papers and albums that still have acid and
lignin in them. Good news for all of us!
If you are creating your album on your own, you'll want to plan it all out and
have it laid out in order before you start to add your choice of content. Think
of it as a story line from beginning to end and then imagine some of the people
who will read your creation. In most cases, they were not participants of the
activity, so you'll want to take extra care when you journal the story. I
think it's better to assist your readers by providing them with as many details
as possible, so they can relive your memories and stories. It's like bringing
them into the story and making them feel as if they were there watching it
unfold.
Using the five "W's" is the best method in this case (Who, What, When, Where and
Why). Name the people appearing in each photo and state the purpose of the
photograph. By describing what was happening you assist the readers
understanding of the situation and help them experience the feelings and
emotions. They become a part of the story. Mentioning where the event took place
and when the photograph was taken is also important to complete the perspective.
Finally, consider stating why you decided to use this particular photograph for
the story. Explaining what makes it so important to you will assist the viewer's
in stepping into your shoes and into the event.
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