Online Digital Scrapbooking

Traditional scrapbooking is food for the soul! Handling past memories and creating new ones at the same time. Allowing creative juices to flow and letting the left brain rest and the creative right brain to take over. The touch and smells of cutting and pasting. These are just a few of the many reasons that traditional scrapbooking is so popular.

How can Digital Scrapbooking ever replace these?

In many ways! Foremost with the rise in popularity of digital cameras, most new memories are being captured digitally so digital scrapbooking will be the best way of working with these new images.

But this is not all, Digital Scrapbooking brings so many new benefits to help stimulate the important creative right brain and give the euphoria that comes from the art of scrapbooking. For instance - how many times can you "crop" a physical picture with scissors? Digital images can be worked with over and over until it is "just right".

Digital layouts are easy to change and easy to organize.

In todays world of email it is far easier to share images and layouts and get just the right elements. There are tons of sites with free or low cost designs and artwork - the internet is to digital scrapbookers as an endless mall of scrapbooking stores are to traditional scrapbookers.

Scrapbooking is a dish best - shared! Scrapbooking a way of communicating, it is a way of gaining the approval of ones peers, it is a way of sharing the highs and lows of ones life and helping others through these same life moments. Digital scrapbooking extends this! Online communities, forums, chat and other sharing options extend the emotional aspect of traditional scrapbooking to a new level.

Traditional Scrapbooking will continue in popularity for many more years but Digital Scrapbooking will grow at an astounding rate in the coming years.