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Digitizing Scrapbook Pages
By Alison McGregor

Taking pictures of your scrapbook pages with your digital camera is the quickest and easiest way to share them electronically. Many scrapbook page contests and online layout galleries require you to have digital images of your scrapbook pages so you can email them for entry.

Making digital images of your scrapbook pages are not that hard to make as long as you follow a few rules. If your scrapbook pages contain no protruding embellishments, and is A4 in size, then use a scanner instead to capture your scrapbook pages into digital format. Best setting is 75dpi. For personal use, printing and archiving, use 300dpi.

Scrapbook pages are usually 12x12 in size and are too big for the standard scanner. Even after you have scanned in your 12x12 scrapbook pages, you will still have to stitch them together afterwards using photo imaging software.

Taking digital photos of your scrapbook pages are the solution to this problem. You can also use this technique to save digital copies of your scrapbook pages in case of disaster such as fire or flood. Once cropped your scrapbook pages will look like the real thing !!

Photographing Indoors: Normal lighting is not suitable for shooting your scrapbook pages indoors since this will give a brownish, yellowish finish. The best way is to create a framework with three small fluorescent tubes mounted on a white glossy painted background for reflection. Always mount your scrapbook pages on a board with a darker background than the pages you are currently shooting. This is to make cropping lighter pages easier. Prop the board upright against a wall, chair etc. Set up your lighting frame to illuminate your scrapbook pages without throwing shadows. Switch off all interior lights before taking your photo. If you have a photo studio with a “true-light” lamp, use that instead. Mount your camera on a tripod or any other way to give it a stable base. With handheld cameras you always will get an angle mixed in somewhere and will not get that perfect 1:1 shot. Start with your camera set to Auto, with the flash switched off. If you do not get the desired effect, play around with your manual settings.

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