Intro and question

[trisharawles]

Hello everyone, just a quick intro. My name is Trisha and I am married to a wonderful man. He has two daughters and we have a son together. I am a LPN attending RN school - 1 yr left!! WOOHOO :D

I am just venturing into digital scrapping. I have seen some really cool layouts on one of the Clubscrap groups and thought I would try my hand at it.
I have created one very simple layout myself using online directions on another site. Just 3 layers. :) (Using PSP)

My question is this... after you create your layout do you print it or post it in cyberspace for friends and family to see? I have seen some really nice layouts here as well and was wondering what you do with them after all the hard work??

Trisha

[Chevellegirl]

Welcome Trisha...I do both, print & share. I'm mainly working on a memory book to give my daughter when she gets older. But I've started venturing into other albums.

[Emma]

Welcome, we're so glad to get to know you!

The answer to what we do with them is as varied as the scrappers are! Some of us print them on 8.5x11" paper and put them in page protectors in an album, some take to the copy shop and print there, others to the photo developer for 8x10 prints they mount to standard size cardstock to put in an album. Others order coffee table hardcover books for special albums. Some do all their layouts hardbound.

Then there are some like me who just have them all on the computer while learning to make DVD slide shows for the TV! Just start scrapping, and you'll discover what YOU want to do. I let that indecision hold me up for awhile, so I just decided I didn't care and scrapped standard 8.5x11 size. Then I decided to do DVDs and now scrap whatever size I feel like: round, square, portrait, landscape, panoramic, whatever fits! I still don't make the DVDs, I don't know how yet. So don't get hung up, just start scrapping! If you're like me, I went back and redid all my original 10 or so layouts anyway!

There's a thread in the Design Place forum on DVD slide shows, and paper discussions in the Printing Place forum.

Do you also need help resizing for the web and uploading to DSP? We have some tutorials on that too.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/resizingpsp.shtml
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/Scrapping101/navigate.shtml
look under the "gallery" subtitle to learn how to upload.

And as always, post here with questions if you get stuck!

[trisharawles]

Thanks to you both for the welcome, I've been on just checking out this and that and reading other posts on different forums. Emma thanks for all the info on printing out of layouts, I had no idea there was a whole digi world and totally digi scrappers.

Trisha