Printable Scrapbook Frames

Let's do something different with our collection of photos, with the use of Paintshop. In this article I want to discuss printable scrapbook layouts and more specific; digital photoframes.

First, you will need to scan your photos and save them on your harddrive. This either requires access to a good scanner plus software, or finding a company that can scan photos for you. Perhaps your local copyshop offers this service? 

When you already use a digital camera, then obviously all your photos already are digitally available on your computer. But all those photos from earlier years will have to be scanned onto your pc first.

When digitally adding photos to frames, you want to make sure, that the photo fits the frame. Also be careful resizing your original photo; the result when printing the finished photo, may be disappointing.

Once you have a chosen a frame for a particular photograph, the next step is to insert it in the frame. You need to make sure that you can click inside this frame using the "magic wand" tool in Paintshop. Next, you click on your photo plus Ctrl+A which will select the complete photograph. Followed by Ctrl+C (copy) after which you then left click in the frame and choose: "Paste into selection". Hence, your photograph is now framed! Save the framed photo to your pc as JPEG-file.

You have now created a new digital file of one of your photos. You can then insert this file for example in a Word-document and create a card. You can send it to friends as attachment to an email. Another option is to upload your framed picture to your own photo-gallery on your website, or resize the photo to thumbnailsize and paste it on a stickersheet. 

I am certain that you can come up with some ideas of your own. And if you'd like to share them with me, you can always contact me!