Hi from the desert of California!

[DesertScrapper]

Hello everyone!

I am very new to Elements. I got it at Christmas but am just now finding the time (now that the kids are out of school) to sit down and play and learn it.

I hope to get to know you all and to learn a lot from you all.

Laurie

[mljrbg]

Welcome!! You will find very friendly and helpful people here and at the same time have fun and learn a lot. Enjoy PSE. You can do some pretty incredible things with it. Check out the PET (http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/index.php) website. There is a wealth of information there. It is very beneficial to subscribe. The challenges are a great learning experience and fun to be a part of as well. This info should get you started!!

Mary Lou

[DesertScrapper]

Welcome!! You will find very friendly and helpful people here and at the same time have fun and learn a lot. Enjoy PSE. You can do some pretty incredible things with it. Check out the PET (http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/index.php) website. There is a wealth of information there. It is very beneficial to subscribe. The challenges are a great learning experience and fun to be a part of as well. This info should get you started!!

Mary Lou

Thank you Mary Lou for the welcome and the link to PET.

My hobby is scrapbooking and I have been thinking of perhaps doing digital scrapbooking. I love my pages I make, but I just don't know if I could do as well in digital. I see some of the work that many have done online and it's breathtakingly beautifullll! I'm so envious! lol :-)

[vawitt]

Laurie, we would undoubtedly be jealous of your non-digi pages, too! :D

Think of big benefits of digital! No paper to store, no little bead thingies all over the place, and best of all, if you goof up, you haven't wasted any supplies! And when you are done for the day, just turn the computer off. AND...you can reuse everything!!!

Have a ball, and welcome!

~Val in sunny IL

[DesertScrapper]

Val, that is so true about the tiny beads being everywhere. Sometimes they are truly EVERYWHERE! I think I'm just getting a little burnt out and want something different.

What I haven't been able to tell, from some place online I have looked at, is if people combine the two... traditional and digital. Do you digi-scrapbookers do that, do you print your pages and then add elements such as ribbon, beads, etc to them at all? Or is it 100% digi?

[vawitt]

I'm really new to this scrapping stuff, so all I've done is digital. But I was browsing scrapping mags at Borders yesterday :rolleyes: and many of the articles discussed hybrid scrapping. It's your scrapbook - you are the person you have to please! :) To me, it sounds like a way to use up supplies while exploring the digital world. And don't discount the idea of scanning in some of your existing papers, elements, etc., to use digitally.

Many people compile their pages into books and send them off to be printed (there's a thread in the Scrapbooking section comparing the prices, quality and services of various printers. I've been happy with Viovio for a couple of projects I've done). Others just happily display them on their computers. I've taken pages over to office depot and used them in a calendar, and I've also sent some as 4x6 to Walgreen's and used them as greeting cards. You are really only limited by your imagination and the amount of time you can eek out on the computer. :D

~Val

[kevq]

Welcome to our digital world, you'll love it here.
Kev.

[DesertScrapper]

Thank you for the welcome!!

After getting help from Sharlamb (she is EXTREMELY nice and patient!!) I have actually created my very first (ever!!) digi-lo!!

Whoa was it fun!! I can see how this can be addicting!
Oddly enough, I think I actually enjoyed it more than my traditional scrapbooking. I really loved that I could move things around, delete, etc without the gluey mess or ruining of papers!!

Shar, again thank you soooooooooooooooooo much!!!

Laurie

[SharLamb]

Lauri, it was my joy. We all love "talking" about this hobby we are addicted to. I know you will "pass forward" to a newbie in months to come. I spent more time with you because I have so very recently "been there," and all that beginning terror is fresh in my mind. :D

Shar

[Aussie Nan]

Welcome aboard! I think I sense and addiction about to happen....:)

Toni

[Lesa]

Welcome to the village! You know, the ladies that run Simply Scrapbooking are friends of mine, and they just started a new magazine this year. They showed it to me at Photoshop World in Orlando this past April, so I think it's available now (the images in the sample issue were just amazing):

It's called Digital Scrapbooking (http://www.simplescrapbooksmag.com/shop/item.ihtml?idx=751).

[nkeevers]

Welcome! You are going to enjoy meeting people at this site and learning lots!