Scrap-Booking is DEAD!

Okay, if it’s not, it should be…

I just scanned over 1000 photos for a client of mine. I scanned all of her scrap books and turned them into digital collections on Flickr. It was a long process, but now that it is done these photos can be turned into wonderful slideshows that her children can view in the media room with music instead of just flipping through some pages in a dusty scrapbook that has been buried in the attic with old board games like Monopoly and Operation.

Now with online photo editing services like Picnic and FotoFlexer there is no need to have Photoshop for minor photo touch ups and fun digital scrap book clipart.

But you say, “What about Grandma? She doesn’t have a computer!” Well, that is where Shutterfly, Lulu, Snapfish and Couture Book swoop in and save the day. Now you can pull your digital photos together, put them in beautiful layouts and then print them in a hard bound book that will last much longer than your old scrapbook with tape and glue and sticky pins. And after all those purchased scrap book supplies it will probably cost about the same and look 10 times better.

What’s more… you can easily create business cards, Holiday cards, calendars, photo mugs, t-shirts all with the websites listed above and these photos will actually be seen and enjoyed by people whereas very few people, other than the person that created it, likes to sit on the couch and  flip through a scrap book – boring.

So please, please STOP IT WITH THE CRAZY GLUE and just go digital. Your photos and your friends will thank you and your photos will last for years even through fire and any other natural disaster that might happen to your house.