10. how to make a scrapbook?

Before you learn how to make a scrapbook, you need to get a basic idea of what a scrapbook is. For different people scrapbook will always have a different meaning. For some a scrapbook is an album with cuttings, pictures, images and other pieces of data about a favorite music group, for others a scrapbook is a collection of family memories organized in an album. Merriam Webster dictionary provides the next definition of a scrapbook:

This is a blank book which keeps various collected items such as newspaper cuttings and pictures.

Wikipedia provides a something different definition of a scrapbook:

It is a book preserving, presenting, organizing and styling personal and family history in different forms and styles. Typical pieces of information and memories collected in a scrapbook are photographs, artworks and cuttings from printed media.

Scrapbooks are often decorated and contain lots of journaling.

Basically a scrapbook is a book or notebook with stiff binding with blank pages which you may fill with any information you want to preserve as precious memories. Scrapbooks can be manufactured by printing houses or handmade. From this guide by RonyaSoft you will learn how to make a scrapbook in 4 simple steps.

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Using RonyaSoft Poster Designer for as scrapbook maker you will create any scrapbook style you want and to fill your scrapbook with types of pages you need. Some scrapbooks may contain only blank pages to keep stickers and cuttings, pieces of cloth or other items stuck to the pages, while other scrapbooks may contain pages for free writing or simple short notes. With our scrapbook maker you will be able to create scrapbook pages which ultimately meet your needs!

There are no strict style and creation rules for scrapbooks. You can choose any page size, any number of pages and any style of a page. However there is the only thing in common for all scrapbooks, no matter professionally manufactured or handmade: they all tell a certain story.

Thus, to make your own scrapbook you will need:

  • A story to arrange and preserve.
  • Initial data and materials to fill your scrapbook with.
  • Scrapbook maker.
  • Scrapbook ideas for styling your piece of handmade artwork.

Poster Maker is a simple design and editing tool for making scrapbooks and other pieces of handmade printed art. It contains a gallery of templates of pages and different convers as well as all necessary tools for creating your own scrapbook from scratch. This guide will tell you how to make your own scrapbook with RonyaSoft tools.

A final version of your own scrapbook will look like this:

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Mind, that with RonyaSoft poster maker you will be able to choose any color schemes, any backgrounds and any styles for your scrapbook. This is only an example illustrating you a possible result if you follow this guide!

1. Downloading and installation

Get RonyaSoft Poster Designer downloaded to your PC right from download page. The installation process is completely automatic and does not require any additional actions. Follow the wizard and confirm installation. For your convenience check the box to place an icon for fast launch of the application. After the installation is finished, and scrapbook maker will start.

It is a demo version of the scrapbook maker, however it provides you all necessary tools to complete the task and it is much more powerful and efficient than any online scrapbook maker. Also you can buy one of the full version license at this page.

After launching Poster Designer, please, choose 'Start from a Blank Document' and set a desired size. You can choose a vertical or horizontal page orientation.

The Document Size Dialog

The Document Size Dialog

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To make a correct decision, please, estimate the types of data pieces you want to collect in your scrapbook.

2. Scrapbook ideas and background setting

RonyaSoft offers you simple, yet original and amazing ideas of scrapbook decoration. If you have no ideas, of how to make a scrapbook, you can choose ideas provided in the gallery of templates or you can upload your own pictures and photos to make them serve as background for your own scrapbook.

Typical backgrounds are provided in the right hand menu Background Collection. In this how to make a scrapbook guide by RonyaSoft we use a picture uploaded from a PC. Lower green lines are created with 'Rectangle' element.

Pro Tip. If you select various elements of the same type, then all the edited effects will be automatically applied to all the chosen elements.

Colorful circles are also uploaded from PC in PNG format and styled with 'Opacity' (17%) effect. We organize the circles in a way we like. You can place them as you want in any order. The scrapbook maker applies familiar drag and drop editing for moving, rotating and resizing the elements. Play with the circles and make them really different!

The Background Setup Dialog

The Background Setup Dialog

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3. Elements inserting and text editing

In order to make your own scrapbook we will place your own photo on its cover. But before we recommend to place a background for your pic. Using the same 'Rectangle' element we have made a photo background from various rectangles placed one over another. As a story for a scrapbook we have chosen a vacation in Asia. Thus the main photo is showing one of the landscapes of the destination and other elements of the cover are selected according to the main theme.

The pages of the scrapbook may contain not only vacation pictures, but the places you are willing to visit, leaves and flowers from visited countries as well as small souvenirs from vacation. To create your own scrapbook in Asian vacation style you will need add several pictures and elements placed on the cover of the scrapbook.

We arrange all the elements imitating layer effect. You can do the same using 'Outline' and 'Shadow' effect, choosing them in the right hand menu and setting in specific control boxes for each effect. Follow the provided links to learn more on how to create a scrapbook and use each of the mentioned effects.

The Image Properties Window

The Image Properties Window

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To add a text block to your scrapbook cover, please, click a text adding option in the 'Insert' menu and style it in the 'Properties' menu. First, you type in necessary text and then you get down to changing the fonts, effects and position of each piece. Specific text effect controls are located in the lower toolbar.

'My scrapbook' text is made with Arc Text, for example. However you can choose any fonts and any tools from RonyaSoft scrapbook maker to edit and style your text.

The Text Properties Window

The Text Properties Window

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4. Saving and printing

Now your scrapbook is almost finished. You need just to save the scrapbook and to print it using your home device.

You can just save your scrapbook to your PC or use 'Save As...' option choosing a necessary document format. You can also save your scrapbook as a template to use it further for other variations.

The Printout Setup Dialog

The Printout Setup Dialog

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Printing a scrapbook is standard. RonyaSoft Poster Designer is completely compatible with most brands of home and office printers, thus just click an upper menu 'Printer' button and set necessary options as margins, orientation, etc. Make sure you use high quality paper for printing of your own scrapbook cover.

With our tutorial you will learn how to make a scrapbook in 4 simple steps. And with this scrapbook maker you will easy make your own scrapbook. This tutorial describes how to make a scrapbook cover, but using the same tools you can create and print inner pages. You can leave them blank or add some lines for text and notes, borders and frames for pictures, quotes and captures.

RonyaSoft offers an extensive Help Desk and other tutorials explaining how to create poster, certificates, CD labels and DVD covers with CD DVD Label Maker and print large banner using Poster Printer. You will discover dozens of templates and explanations on how to edit text and images, helpful usability and readability tips as well as many other recommendations from professional designers!

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