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Conventions Used in This Book |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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Part I: Getting the Lowdown on Digital Scrapbooking |
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Part II: Brushing Up on the Basics |
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4 | (1) |
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Part III: Taking Your Digital Scrapbook to the Next Level |
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4 | (1) |
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Part IV: Getting Creative with Fun Projects |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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Part I: Getting the Lowdown on Digital Scrapbooking |
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A Bird's-Eye View of the Digital Scrapbooking Scene |
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Considering the Advantages of Going Digital |
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Finding the Tools You Want and Need |
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Handling the hardware issues |
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Choosing beginning-level software |
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14 | (1) |
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Exploring Popular Digital Scrapbook Styles |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (3) |
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Organizing and saving individual photos as you take them |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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Storing your digital images |
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17 | (1) |
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Preparing your printed images for storage |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (1) |
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Get Ready, Get Set . . . Scrap! |
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Creating a comfortable and functional workstation |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (2) |
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Gearing Up to Scrapbook Digital Style |
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23 | (14) |
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24 | (9) |
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Calculating your computer needs |
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24 | (3) |
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27 | (2) |
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Pondering printing possibilities |
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29 | (2) |
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Deciding on a basic digital camera |
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31 | (2) |
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Adding Extra Tools over Time |
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33 | (4) |
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Upgrading computer capabilities |
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33 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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Experimenting with specialized printing |
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34 | (1) |
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Enhancing the functions of the digital camera |
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35 | (2) |
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Exploring Your Software Options |
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37 | (12) |
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Identifying Your Operating System |
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38 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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39 | (1) |
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Scoping Out the Scrapbooking Software Scene |
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39 | (7) |
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40 | (2) |
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Stepping up to intermediate software |
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42 | (1) |
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Scrapbooking on a whole new level with advanced software |
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43 | (3) |
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46 | (1) |
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Investing in Software Extras |
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46 | (3) |
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Forging ahead with far-out fonts |
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47 | (1) |
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47 | (2) |
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The Digital Design Process in Brief |
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49 | (16) |
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Creating a Digital Design Library |
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49 | (4) |
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50 | (1) |
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Keeping an eye out for embellishments |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
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Exploring other design resources |
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52 | (1) |
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Setting Up a Digital Scrapbook Project |
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53 | (5) |
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54 | (1) |
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Selecting materials from your design library |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (1) |
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Sketching tips for your pages |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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Working with photos and images |
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57 | (1) |
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Creating the Digital Layout |
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58 | (4) |
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Starting with a base or a template page |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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Positioning items on the page |
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59 | (3) |
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Keeping Your Computer Happy: Discarding or Relocating Leftover Files |
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62 | (3) |
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Exploring Popular Digital Scrapbook Styles |
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65 | (18) |
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Looking at the Major Scrapbooking Styles |
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65 | (12) |
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Getting a digital handle on the heritage style |
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66 | (2) |
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Using digital tools to concentrate on the crafty style |
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68 | (2) |
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Putting some pop into your digital layouts |
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70 | (2) |
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Finding ways to digitize shabby chic |
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72 | (1) |
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Using digital tools that help you achieve the exacting standards of a classic style |
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73 | (2) |
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Making digital pages in the modern style |
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75 | (1) |
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Analyzing the digital artist style |
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76 | (1) |
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Surveying Other Scrapbooking Styles |
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77 | (6) |
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77 | (1) |
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Designing with favorite fantasies |
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77 | (1) |
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Experimenting with the eclectic style |
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78 | (1) |
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Tying in to specific time periods |
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78 | (1) |
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Fooling around with fashion |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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Designing for sports lovers |
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80 | (2) |
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Even more scrapbooking style ideas |
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82 | (1) |
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Part II: Brushing Up on the Basics |
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83 | (64) |
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Mastering Basic Digital Photo Processing |
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85 | (18) |
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First Things First: Taking Great Digital Photos |
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85 | (4) |
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Shooting at maximum resolution |
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86 | (1) |
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Creating your own interesting photos |
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87 | (1) |
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Planning your photographic time table |
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88 | (1) |
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Taking Advantage of Your Digital Equipment's Built-In Processing Features |
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89 | (3) |
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Looking into your digital camera's picture viewing program |
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89 | (1) |
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Cultivating the camera cropping habit |
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90 | (1) |
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Enlisting the help of your scanner's hardware and software settings |
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91 | (1) |
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Utilizing Editing Programs to Improve Your Digital Images |
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92 | (10) |
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Adjusting size and resolution |
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93 | (3) |
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96 | (2) |
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Changing your photo's position with the Rotate tool |
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98 | (1) |
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98 | (1) |
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Selecting brightness and contrast |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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Sharpening your photo images |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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Exploring Layout and Design Options |
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103 | (18) |
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Brushing Up on Visual Design Principles |
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103 | (5) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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Positive and negative space |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (1) |
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Applying Design Principles to Your Digital Scrapbook Pages |
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108 | (6) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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Using lines and shapes to create structure, depth, and dimension |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (1) |
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Enhancing Your Design Strategies with Digital Operations |
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114 | (7) |
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Using scanners and cameras to prepare unusual design elements |
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114 | (1) |
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Descreening printed photos |
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115 | (2) |
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Making your photo a background |
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117 | (1) |
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Tiling your images and photos |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (1) |
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Collaging or montaging your images and photos |
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119 | (2) |
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Enhancing Your Pages with Digital Graphic Elements |
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121 | (14) |
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First, a Few Technicalities |
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121 | (4) |
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Understanding digital graphics types |
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122 | (1) |
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Reviewing the importance of resolution for digital graphics |
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123 | (1) |
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A word about copyrighting |
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124 | (1) |
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A cautionary tale about the Internet |
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125 | (1) |
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125 | (3) |
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Looking for printed clip art |
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126 | (1) |
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Gathering clip art from the Internet |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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Incorporating Illustrations and Drawings |
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128 | (3) |
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Using Photos from the Internet |
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131 | (4) |
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131 | (1) |
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Stocking up on stock images |
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132 | (3) |
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Making a Statement with Basic Text |
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135 | (12) |
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135 | (2) |
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137 | (5) |
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Going over some font basics |
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138 | (1) |
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Exploiting the design possibilities of body and display fonts |
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139 | (1) |
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Understanding how your computer stores and copies fonts |
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140 | (1) |
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Forestalling font problems |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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Incorporating Text into Your Scrapbook |
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142 | (5) |
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Keying text into your digital layout |
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143 | (1) |
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Using handwritten text in digital scrapbooks |
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144 | (3) |
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Part III: Taking Your Digital Scrapbook to the Next Level |
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147 | (64) |
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Tackling Advanced Photo Correction |
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149 | (12) |
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Making Sure Your Photo-Editing Software Is Up to the Challenge |
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150 | (1) |
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Introducing Cloning and Healing |
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151 | (1) |
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Attack of the Cloning tool |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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152 | (2) |
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Retouching with Digital ``Painterly'' Tools |
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154 | (4) |
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Dodging and Burning tools |
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154 | (1) |
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Playing with the ``brush'' tools |
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155 | (1) |
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Breezing through airbrushing |
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155 | (2) |
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157 | (1) |
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Practicing with the Pen tool |
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157 | (1) |
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Cutting Out Unwanted Objects |
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158 | (3) |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (2) |
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Getting Creative with Advanced Effects |
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161 | (24) |
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Enhancing Your Page Design |
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161 | (5) |
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Making the most of montage |
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162 | (1) |
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Creating a panorama layout |
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163 | (3) |
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Trying Out Some Commonly Used Color Variations |
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166 | (1) |
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Converting color images to grayscale images |
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166 | (1) |
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Saturating and desaturating images |
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166 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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Creating Special Effects with Filters and Plug-Ins |
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167 | (5) |
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168 | (3) |
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171 | (1) |
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Making Exciting Embellishments |
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172 | (4) |
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Making hand drawings to use as embellishments |
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172 | (1) |
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Creating embellishments from found objects |
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173 | (1) |
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Scanning with 3-D embellishments |
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173 | (1) |
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Making your embellishments look more ``real'' |
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174 | (2) |
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Creating Unique Backgrounds |
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176 | (9) |
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Using your own photos as backgrounds |
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177 | (2) |
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Texturing page backgrounds |
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179 | (2) |
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Concentrating on background color |
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181 | (1) |
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Finding other ways to create impressive digital backgrounds |
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182 | (3) |
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Trying Your Hand at Artistic Text Techniques |
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185 | (14) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (3) |
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Wrapping text automatically |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (1) |
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Creating Curvy or Wavy Text Lines |
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189 | (1) |
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Stretching and Skewing Text Boxes and Letters |
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189 | (2) |
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Outlining and Filling Letters with Patterns and Colors |
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191 | (1) |
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Outlining around a letter in whatever color you choose |
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191 | (1) |
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Filling the letter with a pattern or with a photo |
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192 | (1) |
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192 | (1) |
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Changing Text from a Horizontal to a Vertical Format |
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193 | (1) |
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194 | (1) |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (1) |
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Waxing Poetic: Incorporating Long Journal Entries |
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195 | (4) |
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Incorporating Sound and Video |
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199 | (12) |
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Looking At Multimedia Merchandise |
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199 | (4) |
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Keeping it (relatively) simple with presentation programs |
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200 | (2) |
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Over the top with authoring programs |
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202 | (1) |
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Creating a Multimedia Album |
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203 | (4) |
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203 | (2) |
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Adjusting sizes of digital images |
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205 | (1) |
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205 | (2) |
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207 | (4) |
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Part IV: Getting Creative with Fun Projects |
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211 | (72) |
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Creating a Digital Wedding Scrapbook in the Classic Style |
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213 | (14) |
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213 | (3) |
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Incorporating a journaled story into the album's overall design |
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214 | (1) |
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Finding the right font for your story |
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214 | (2) |
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Making a quick mock-up for your wedding album |
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216 | (1) |
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Choosing Photos for Your Classic Album |
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216 | (3) |
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Creating your own classic photos and images |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (1) |
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Altering your photos to suit your design |
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218 | (1) |
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Collecting classic photos and images from other sources |
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219 | (1) |
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Selecting Your Wedding Album's Color Palette |
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219 | (1) |
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Designing the Classic Wedding Layout with Digital Tools |
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220 | (2) |
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Lining up classic page items with the Snap To Grid feature |
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221 | (1) |
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Using the Sizing tool for balancing your classic composition |
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221 | (1) |
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Assembling Your Wedding Album |
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222 | (5) |
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Deciding on your page size |
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222 | (1) |
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Bringing in your digital backgrounds |
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223 | (1) |
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Putting on the finishing touches on your digital wedding album |
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224 | (3) |
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Putting Together a Digital Family Album Using the Heritage Style |
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227 | (16) |
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Telling the Heritage Stories |
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227 | (2) |
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Focusing on a single ancestor, place, event, or time period |
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228 | (1) |
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Tracking down the stories |
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228 | (1) |
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Using digital tools to enhance your writing |
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229 | (1) |
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230 | (4) |
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231 | (1) |
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231 | (1) |
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Aging your photos to get a uniform look |
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232 | (2) |
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Creating the Color Palette |
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234 | (2) |
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234 | (1) |
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Using digital tools to get the colors you want |
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235 | (1) |
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Designing Digital Heritage Layouts |
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236 | (2) |
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Adding memorabilia and accessories to your heritage pages |
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236 | (1) |
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Using and resizing embellishments and other items to fit your layout designs |
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237 | (1) |
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Assembling a Heritage Album |
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238 | (5) |
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Finding the right page size for your journaling |
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238 | (1) |
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Creating heritage-style backgrounds |
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239 | (4) |
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Celebrating the Here-and-Now with a Pop-Style Digital Reunion Scrapbook |
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243 | (12) |
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Figuring Out Your Pop-Style Story |
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244 | (2) |
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Incorporating current pop trends |
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244 | (1) |
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Short stories? Long stories? |
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244 | (2) |
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246 | (3) |
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Creating pop photos and images |
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246 | (3) |
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Drawing on pop publications and characters |
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249 | (1) |
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Creating the Color Palette |
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249 | (1) |
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Using your photos to ``find'' a color palette |
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249 | (1) |
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Getting your main color elements from your backgrounds |
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250 | (1) |
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Designing Pop-Style Layouts |
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250 | (4) |
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Creating pop page backgrounds |
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250 | (2) |
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Using the ``non-art'' pop style |
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252 | (1) |
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Incorporating memorabilia, accessories, and embellishments into your pop design |
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253 | (1) |
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Completing Your Digital Pop Album |
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254 | (1) |
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Working with Digital Theme Projects |
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255 | (10) |
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255 | (2) |
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Gathering Scrapbook Theme Materials |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (1) |
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Exploring Popular Theme Page Ideas |
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259 | (6) |
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259 | (1) |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (2) |
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263 | (1) |
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263 | (1) |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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265 | (18) |
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Printing Your Digital Pages |
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265 | (3) |
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266 | (1) |
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Adjusting your printer settings |
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267 | (1) |
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267 | (1) |
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Digitizing Your Traditional Album Pages |
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268 | (7) |
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268 | (4) |
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Using your digital camera |
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272 | (3) |
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Transmitting Your Pages Electronically |
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275 | (5) |
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Preparing your pages for e-mail by using PDFs |
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275 | (3) |
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Publishing your pages on the Web |
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278 | (2) |
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Burning Your Books on CDs and DVDs |
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280 | (3) |
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283 | (28) |
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Ten Tips for Every Digital Scrapbooker |
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285 | (8) |
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Pinpoint the Kind of Digital Scrapbooks You Want to Create |
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285 | (1) |
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Work with the Hardware You Already Have |
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286 | (1) |
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Select Software That Meets Your Needs and Skill Level |
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286 | (1) |
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Master Your Hardware and Software |
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287 | (1) |
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Keep Your Computer Healthy |
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287 | (1) |
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Set Up a Workable File System |
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288 | (1) |
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Take Advantage of Your Digital Camera |
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289 | (1) |
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290 | (1) |
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Manage Your File Sizes and Resolutions |
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291 | (1) |
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Share Your Scrapbook Pages |
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291 | (2) |
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Ten Digital Scrapbooking Pitfalls to Avoid |
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293 | (6) |
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Don't Rush to Replace Equipment |
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293 | (1) |
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Don't Put Too Many Programs on Your Computer |
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294 | (1) |
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Don't Forget to Bring Your Camera |
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294 | (1) |
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Don't Forget to Create a Morgue File |
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295 | (1) |
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Don't Ignore Copyright Laws |
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295 | (1) |
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Don't Start Too Many Projects |
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296 | (1) |
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Don't Print on Colored Paper |
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296 | (1) |
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Don't Abandon Traditional Scrapbooking |
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297 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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Ten Creative Ways to Integrate Digital Techniques into Traditional Scrapbooks |
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299 | (6) |
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299 | (1) |
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Customize Special Background Papers |
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300 | (1) |
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Support Your Embellishments |
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300 | (1) |
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301 | (1) |
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301 | (1) |
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Scan in Handwriting or Drawings |
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302 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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Replicate Letters and Documents |
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303 | (1) |
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Use Digital Tools to Share Traditional Scrapbooks |
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303 | (1) |
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304 | (1) |
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Ten Fun Ways to Involve Kids in Digital Scrapbooking |
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305 | (6) |
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Give Your Child a Digital Camera |
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306 | (1) |
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Help the Kids Download Free Clip Art |
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306 | (1) |
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Scrapbook School Assignments |
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306 | (1) |
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Scrapbook a Special Event |
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307 | (1) |
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Create a Child's Family Tree |
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307 | (1) |
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Photograph and Write about Favorite Possessions |
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307 | (1) |
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308 | (1) |
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308 | (1) |
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309 | (1) |
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Teach Scrapbooking at Your Local School |
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309 | (2) |
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311 | (8) |
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Exploring Scrapbook-Specific Web Sites |
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311 | (3) |
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Locating Clip Art and Images on the Web |
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314 | (2) |
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Finding Fonts Images on the Web |
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316 | (1) |
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Checking Out the Chat Rooms |
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316 | (1) |
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317 | (1) |
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317 | (2) |
| Index |
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