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Monday, September 5, 2011

Poyomi Photobooks - Your Digital Images Brought Home

Posted by Angelina Purpura in "Digital Home Printing" @ 09:00 AM

Poyomi Photobooks are a simple and elegant solution to the problem most of us have these days: What do I do with all of my digital photos? My own Flickr account alone currently has nearly 22,000 photos,and will surely exceed that soon. I love every photo I've taken, but not enough to print them all, and it's difficult to justify the time of moving all of my favourites to a USB drive and going to the photo store at the mall. But I do wish that I could have copies of some of my more precious images, to show my friends or reminisce over. What better way to order a physical copy of your photos than though your computer/the Internet, where most of them are likely to be stored? Better still, Poyomi allows to to print them directly into scrapbook form, saving you yet another time-consuming process. And for as little as $5.99 for a 20 page book, Poyomi has made it quite affordable too. Read more...


Thursday, July 15, 2010

Scrapbook MAX 2.05 Released

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Software" @ 10:00 AM

http://www.photographyblog.com/news...apbook_max_2.05

"The new Scrapbook MAX v2.05 is billed as "the first digital scrapbooking software program to combine ease of use with an archival quality graphics engine". With this new version, users can bend and stretch text, and fill characters with patterns and images. Photos and elements can be accurately re-coloured with a colour-picker tool, and users have complete control over the angle, distance and colour of shadows. Additionally, a new eraser tool allows scrapbookers to extract people and objects from photos with precision, or add artistic blurred edges to photos and embellishments."

I've had Scrapbook Max on my "maybe review this someday" list for a while now, and I hope eventually I'll get to it. It's unfortunate that scrap booking has such a frilly, feminine stereotype to it. Anyone that's into digital photography is likely to have a strong "memory keeper" streak, and putting photos onto paper is a natural extension of that. I'm proud of the digital scrapbook I created of a vacation to Japan in 2008 (though this was my first such project), and I hereby reclaim the word "scrapbooking" for men everywhere so we don't need to feel ashamed of putting our photos into books accompanied by text and even, gasp, little graphics. :-)


Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Create Custom Page Layouts With Scrapblog

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Articles & Resources" @ 11:00 AM

http://www.scrapblog.com/

"Whether you're looking for something tangible to share your memories with or you're looking for the perfect gift for family and friends, Scrapblog's printed products are the way to go. Now you can create stunning high-quality books, postcards and greeting cards with the same drag-and-drop ease you've come to love from Scrapblog!"

Long-time readers of this site know that I'm a huge fan of FotoFusion from LumaPix, and it's a unique piece of software that's unmatched by anything I've seen on the market...until now. Scrapblog is a browser-based scrapbooking (page layout) tool that uses Flash to create a really flexible, powerful tool. In essence Scrapblog is giving away access to the software in order to sell books - but that's not a bad business model since most people will want to have hard copies of their end product. The templates in particular are impressive - they have impressive depth of choice in terms of backgrounds and objects. I'm going to stick with FotoFusion myself since I have a few big projects underway with it, but Scrapblog is a very impressive tool that's worth checking out if you want to get creative with your images.


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