HP's site and its own scrapbooker page
...and quilting page...holy cow.
I've now seen it all...Microsoft's page for scrapbookers.
... uses the computer for all of her photo captions and text boxes. "It's so much neater than writing it out yourself. I like to use formal fonts that look like handwriting."
Everybody wants a piece of this market.
"If you want it to look like a swirl, like a candy rolled up, it'll pull it into that shape for you," she says...scrapbookers think font and text layout are the most important parts of the page-making process. "The fonts reflect what is happening in the photos and the page layout,"
...photos and drawings look best when edges are straight and when they're placed on mats that bring out the colours in the image. "When you look at my early albums, I hardly matted anything. Now I triple-mat the focal point of the page and I can't tell you how much better it looks," ... also experiments with oval and circle mats to create variety on her pages. You can create mats with your computer using colourful border images or placing a photo inside a shape pattern.
... recommends paying attention to opportunities for cropping photos. Cutting out all that extraneous stuff often makes for a cleaner, more pleasing image. See URL above.
Posted by Amanda McCoy Bast at February 16, 2004 10:15 PM