*UPDATED TechnoGeekery Show #10: Scrapbooking… Taking it Techno with Digi-Scrap
Click HERE to leave Chassy Cat a RAVE REVIEW at iTunes for her Podcast O’ TechnoGeekery.
CLICK HERE to download iPhone version.
NOTE: Chassy Cat is a Mac Girl all the way, and uses Pages, which is part of Apple’s new iWork ’08. Video tutorials about how to use Pages ’08 (a fab beginner program) for digi-scrapping are in the works, so stay tuned!
Music in this podcast provided by the Podsafe Music Network, with Lonely Boy and Remember by Black Lab, and Save the World and Strange Day in Mexico by The Clintons.
List of Top Digital Scrapbooking Software Programs
These include (for beginners): Pixel Magic and Microsoft Digital Suite; (for intermediate): Ulead Photoimpact, Corel Paint Shop Pro, and Adobe Photoshop Elements; and (for expert-types) Adobe Photoshop.
Other digi-scrap program options:
For the PC: Picasa2 (FREE from Google! No cost to you! Yours for nothing! No money changes hands! Freebie!)
For the Mac: Pages ’08
Brilliant Beginner Digi-Scrap Resources and Stuff:
Digital Scrapbook Place: Digital Scrapbooking 101.
Designer Digitals: Getting Started in Digital Scrapbooking
Scrap Girls: 15 Things You NEED to Know to Become a GREAT Digital Scrapbooker (FREE Starter eBook)
Two Peas in a Bucket: How To Get Started in Digital Scrapbooking (NOTE: need User Account for this one, but it’s FREE to sign up!)
Creative ways to SHARE your digi-scrap pages:
(NOTE: You can visit Shutterfly.com OR Costco Photo Center for prices and more information. Feel free to comment if you know of other good places!)
Prints & Posters
Photo Books
Cards
Calendars
Keepsakes
Apparel & Accessories
DVD
Digital FREEBIES and Stuff:
(Kits, Sketches, Clip Art, Fonts, Word Art, Wallpaper, the WORKS! For FREE! Hence the name “FREEBIE.” See?)
Designer Digitals
Digital Paper Tearing
Digital Scrapbook Place
My Scrap Blog
Scrap Artist
Scrap Girls
Scrap Wow
Scrapbook.com
Scrapbook.com Forums
Shabby Princess
Sketch Lover (sketch links)
Two Peas in a Bucket
Hee! Chassy lost her pimp! And William – the wink? Totally for me.
Really good resources on the list, Cat. You really are about the research.
Congratulations on another great show! I LOVE the pages you have done and I am totally going to SCRAPLIFT! Hope you don’t mind. *wink*
Love ya!
I just love this show!
Cat, you are so talented and I never know what to expect coming from such technowizard as yourself
Go girl!
Ok girl, did Paige help you with these links that I helped her with? I should add that one program I purchased for $35 was Lumapix Fotofusion…it makes really great collage pages in seconds. Sometimes you just have a zillion pix that need to get scrapped and no interest to do it…this is the perfect program. I also have a lot more links from favorite places that I just found this weekend. I will email my list to you.
Jen in Utah
Loved this show! I am sending the link to my friends!
I have heard all about Ashby’s great pages….can I see more of her stuff for some inspiration? If she wants she can email me privately….puulllleeeaaaasssseeee?
Thanks much!
Jen in Utah
Digi-scrapacholic
Cat you are a SUPERSTAR! I swear your shows are just so entertaining and you share great tips mingled with humor. Love it! Congrats!
Daria