How to Choose Photos for Scrapbooking

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Stephanie. I'm going to talk about choosing photos for your scrap book. A lot of people feel like when they start a scrap book, they have to scrap book every picture that they own. It's okay if you want to do that, but you don't have to feel locked into it. That's the important thing about scrap booking. There aren't any real rules. If you start to feel bogged down with having to keep up and do all your pictures, you're just not going to have as much fun with it. It really is okay just to pick the best. For example, here's a group of pictures and I really like them all, but I'm blinking in this one. There's no need for me to even add that in the page. The story is told of me and my nephew enough without having to show every single picture. I would just take that out and do scrap book of these. It's important that you work on pictures that you really love because if you doing pictures that you only feel so so about, your page is not going to turn out as well. Work on the pictures that you love, and the love that you feel for your subject is really going to show through. You don't always have to work chronologically. I have to get all my pictures done from this year. Jump around. The story will get told that needs to get told. The important parts will show up. You can also work with different sizes. You don't have to have every picture be a huge page. For example, in this one I used a 5x7 photo of my nephew. I too some more from the day. I didn't need that many, but I really liked them so I just shrunk them down, turned them to black and white, made them a little different, and still fit enough photos on to make this page. Using different sizes is a great way to get a lot of photos on a page. Also, if you have a really important picture, like maybe the only photo that you own of your great grandmother. Don't put it on a scrap book until you make a copy. Back up your important pictures. Don't cut them unless you've got another copy that you're willing to part with. People have done that. They've cut shapes out of them and then they're really sorry afterwards. Just be sure that you take care of your photos."