ONLINE SCRAPBOOKING

By: Brittany Bohannon

Smilebox•What is a smilebox?•What can I make with smilebox?•Is it free?•What are customers saying?•Want to see more?•Online Scrapbooking - Some Tips To Go Online With Scrapbooking by: Abhishek Agarwal•Reflection

Picaboo •What’s your background?•Layouts Galore•Fabulous Fonts and Colors•Photo toolsReady to have some Fun• Creating a Successful Tribute Bookby Anna Aspnes •Reflection

Vector Magic

•What are Bitmap images?•What are Vector images?•Why use Vector images?•VectorMagic BETA Online Vectorization by: Steven Clark•Reflection

Types of Online ScrapbookingMenu:

SMILEBOX: 1ST ONLINE SCRAPBOOKING EXAMPLE

What is a Smilebox? Smilebox is a exciting and engaging service that connects

you with family and friends using your photos and videos. What can I make with smilebox?

Smilebox is one of many online services that allows you to make digital scrapbooks, photobooks, postcards and ecards for any occation, and allows you to email them to anyone.

Is it free? YES! You can personalize and email or blog any

design for free! What are customers saying? "It's a new and creative way to send messages to family and

friends. It's much more personal and intimate." - Smilebox customer "Am I a Super Scrapbooking Mom? No, my secret is

Smilebox." - JoEllen Mitchell, Family Fun Magazine

Want to see more? Go to Smilebox - About Us

ONLINE SCRAPBOOKING - SOME TIPS TO GO ONLINE WITH SCRAPBOOKING

Article by: Abhishek Agarwal Scrapbooks describe things about our lives

(Agarwal) Scrapbooks were made to describe the

individuals imagination (Agarwal) Though in the present day the same can be done

online Allowing people’s work to be posted online There are almost100,000 templates which can be

downloaded, helping the users use more than one or two templates when making their scrapbook (Agarwal) These templates show the persons interests and

personalities Most sites, like smilebox offer these templates free

of charge!http://www.articlesbase.com/scrapbooking-articles/online-scrapbooking-some-tips-to-go-online-with-scrapbooking--739862.html

REFLECTION ON SMILEBOX/ ARTICLE 1

“Initially, scrapbooks were made considering the individual's imagination.” (Agarwal)

Three “a-ahs” Online scrapbooking has not changed the ideas and

traditions of “cut out” scrapbooking, but has simply helped the production time when you are trying to decide about what layouts seem right.

All websites that offer online scrapbooking are different and can help you decide how and what you want your scrapbook to be like: this helps with people’s different personalities.

Online scrapbooking is so much cheaper than going to craft stores and getting your material.

PICABOO: 2ND ONLINE SCRAPBOOKING EXAMPLE The next generation of album making

With picaboo you can choose from a wide range of backgrounds, layouts, fonts and colors, fix your photos, and add music in the background of your photo album slideshow.

http://picaboo.com/photobooks/index.html

“A Gift” The author (aspnes) says that a tribute with

photos is the same meaning as giving someone a gift.

Like the service of picaboo, Anna Aspnes used the application and wrote this article about her experiences in making a tribute book

She gathered her images, and made sure each image had a “story” to go along with it Anna mentions within the article that, “The

photos obviously play an integral part in a tribute photobook but equally important are the words you will choose to go with those images and the stories you will choose to tell.” (Aspnes)

CREATING A SUCCESSFUL TRIBUTE BOOK BY: ANNA ASPNES

http://ck.shutterfly.com/inspire/articles/tributebook.jsp

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“A tribute could span years, decades, or even generations, and the book provides sufficient space to tell those stories in whatever voice you choose.” (Aspnes)

Three “a-ahs”“Images tell stories”- I always thought of

images this way, but looking at it through an online advancement perspective, I can see how well images look and how more crisp they make the story that is inside of them.

Converting images to black and white or sepia, can really change the way you look at a picture.

People’s perspectives are laid out in the pictures that they take and share with others.

VECTOR MAGIC: 3RD ONLINE SCRAPBOOKING EXAMPLE

Vector Magic converts bitmap images to crisp clean vector art.

What are Bitmap images? Images that are described by pixals

What are Vector images? Images that are described by shapes, such as circles and

squares.•Why use Vector Images?• In most aspects vector images are used in graphic design, and

are used for when pictures need to be printed out, because to the human eye the picture may look fine on the computer screen but then be all pixilated when it is printed out.

http://vectormagic.com/home

VECTORMAGIC BETA ONLINE VECTORIZATION

BY: STEVEN CLARK At Stanford University Artificial Intelligence research

project made a website called VectorMagic. This allows the whole world of online communicators to

convert raster images to vector images in a far better way than previously done before.

Some statistics showed the “differences between the input bitmap and the re-rasterized vector result is 100% for VectorMagic, 215% for Corel and 255% for Adobe. While color identification errors are 6% for VectorMagic, 66% for Corel and 50% for Adobe.”(Clark)

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“While colour identification errors are 6% for VectorMagic, 66% for Corel and 50% for Adobe.” (Clark)

Three “a-ah”This statement above was so astonishing,

and really proved how technology is emerging everyday.

All images are made of tiny pixels that when printed out look very distorted.

Vector magic as seen from the statistics is the best way to make a clear picture look its best.

CONCLUSION By seeing the different kinds of online

scrapbooking one can apply what they have learned manually to what they can now do online, for cheaper and more accessible.

By reading the articles found within this presentation one can see the proof of just how easy and reliable using the internet for creating photo pages and different layouts can be; and want to try to make their lives less complicated; which is what this process is all about.