In addition, if you want to access any one individual photo on one of the pages you can do that too. Be sure however, to preserve your original edited scans on a thumb drive. Why? If anything happens to the hard-copy books you can easily access the images and recreate. You will be happy to send off the original creative memories scrapbooks with your kids and display your new versions. Once you have received your books back from the printer you will be IN LOVE with the outcome. I like this process because it breaks up the monotony of any one step.ĥ) Preserve. Once the pages are perfect save and upload to the digital photo book software. Give yourself time to establish a process that works for you. I like to scan one scrapbook at a time (page protectors removed), and then import the images into Photoshop. Experiment with the best way to clean up the pages, re-size the DPI (dots per inch) to meet the printer’s guidelines for the book vendor, allow for the printer’s bleed (this is the part of the book that gets cut off in the print process) and then export to your upload folder. A trick here – be sure to build two sets of actions in Photoshop – one for the even-numbered page and one for the odd number page – the clean-up is different for the different page sides. To perfect the process you need to allow for a learning curve. Depending on the page restrictions of the vendor you might need to eliminate a page or two of the original book or be “ok” with a blank page.Ĥ) Time. ![]() flexibility in the number of pages – count the pages first.a lay-flat option because if you use the magazine-style option anything on the inside edge of your pages risks getting stuck in the seam of the book.ideally a book size that matches your original album/page dimensions.I believe Photoshop Elements also has this capability.ģ) Photobook vendor. You will want to pick out a photo book company that offers the following I used Photoshop and automated some of the clean-up and re-sizing that was needed via the ‘actions’ function. You will need good editing software to clean up the pages and remove any area of the scan that you do not want – like the hinge staples – on the books I was scanning. I considered photographing the pages however the source of light provided by a camera in the time-frame you will be photographing will change and result in pages with different lighting.Ģ) Software. ![]() ![]() ![]() You will need a scanner that has a bed that is at least 1/8th of an inch larger than the size of the page to ensure that nothing gets cut-off. Recently I had the opportunity to convert Creative Memories scrapbooks into digital photobooks and the five key things I learned I would like to share with you to help you get started: (If you already know this information skip to my followup post on converting scrapbooks into digital photos books part 2)ġ) Scanning the pages. All that hard work, the laughter and tears, it was for them, but that doesn’t mean you don’t want a copy of it for yourself. What happens, then, when your children want to take your ‘labor of love’ with them when they start their own families. Your Creative Memories scrapbook creations required a faithful devotion to put together and the results were a beautiful keepsake documenting your precious family photos and stories. Do you have a cabinet full of Creative Memories scrapbooks?
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