How to Create a Scrap Book Online

Create a scrapbook online for sharing, uploading to your favorite social sites, printing and emailing to friends. Online scrapbook sites offer an enormous variety of options to add to your pages. Even considering the cost of ink, if you decide to print your book, you may find yourself saving money creating a scrapbook online compared to buying all the materials needed to create a traditional scrapbook.

Things You'll Need

• Photos Scanner (if no digital photos)

Instructions

1. Create a scrapbook online free at many sites. Some sites offer completely free use, while others have free trials or free memberships in addition to varying membership fees that allow you access to more features. Use a tremendous variety of page elements with online scrapbook sites, then print your scrapbook if you wish to have a hard copy. Share online and include multimedia elements such as music and video at sites offering this feature (see Resources below).

2. Choose page layouts and themes to begin creating a scrapbook online. Online sites offer many different preset themes and layouts to enhance your pages. Alternatively, you may choose to create your pages starting with a blank page and adding your own background, graphic elements and layout. On most sites, even with preset layout and theme pages, you have the option to change elements and move items around.

3. Upload your photos from your computer, storage media or online storage. Some of the scrapbook sites have photo editing software features that allow you to edit your photos after they are uploaded for fun or interesting effects. Use cropping and sizing features at virtually all the sites as a minimum feature.

4. Enjoy adding the many graphic elements available at online scrapbook sites. Use graphics such as stickers, thought or text balloons and shapes to enhance your online scrapbook pages further. Check for graphics sorted into theme categories that make creating theme pages easy.

5. Upload your own video or music free at many sites. Others provide selections of music and animated graphics for use on your scrapbook pages. These elements make sharing your scrapbook online interesting and enjoyable for your viewers.

6. Decide whether you will share your scrapbook online through links, email it to others, print it or all of these options. Scrapblog even makes it easy to share your scrapbook on social sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Flickr with built-in easy integration steps (see Resources below).

Resources

• Scrapblog: multimedia and printable scrapbooks.
• Smilebox: multimedia scrapbooks, printable.
• Scrapease: print or share online with space for others to leave comments.