You can design your digital scrapbook pages many different ways depending on what type of project youre working on. In this tutorial well discuss designing digital scrapbook pages for one specific event and will be using a trip to the zoo as an example.

How to design digital scrapbook pages step #1: Narrow down your pictures Lets say you went to the zoo with your children and took 50 pictures. Youre not going to use all the pictures, so the first step is picking out your favorite ones and getting rid of the mess ups.

How to design digital scrapbook pages step #2: Sort your pictures Once youve narrowed down your pictures, go through and sort the remaining pictures according to some sort of criteria. This could be anything from sorting the pictures according to who is in each picture, to which animal is in the picture. Since were using a trip to the zoo as our example, you could sort out all the pictures with monkeys in them, and tigers, and alligators, etc.

How to design digital scrapbook pages step #3: Decide on the number of pages Once youve sorted the pictures, itll be much quicker and easier to decide on the number of pages youll be creating. I like using an average of 3 pictures per page. Some will have more, and some will have less, but 3 is a good starting point.

How to design digital scrapbook pages step #4: Figure out your layouts Once you know the number of pages, and which pictures youre going to use, you can start creating your layouts based on the pictures in each group. I like having a couple pages with 1 main picture, leading to pages with 5 or 6 pictures. And once you know how many pictures will be on a page, its much easier to create a layout.

How to design digital scrapbook pages step #5: Adding your embellishments Once you have your pictures laid out, you can go back through and add your embellishments. This is one of the main reasons I like digital scrapbooking so much. Its so easy to customize your embellishments to fit around your pictures. Just remember not to overload your pages with embellishments. The more pictures you have on a page, the fewer embellishments you should use.

Now youre ready to print it out! And that is a quick and easy way of designing digital scrapbook pages.