How to Create a Digital Scrapbook

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Do you want to make a scrapbook on the computer? Well, digital scrapbooks are really cool! You can add music, animations, and sounds! Read on to find out how to make your own digital scrapbook!

Steps

1. Go to your "My Pictures" folder on your computer. Go through your pictures. Pick out which ones you want to put into your scrapbook.
   
2. If you want, download more pictures to the My Pictures folder.
   
3. Once you have all the photos you want, go to Microsoft PowerPoint.
   
4. From the My Pictures folder, copy and paste the pictures you want into your scrapbook. You can click and drag the photo's edges to make the pictures bigger, smaller, wider, and narrower.
   
5. Add Clip Art and decorations.
   
6. Add music and sounds.
   
7. If you want, you can add videoclips.
   
8. Be sure to conclude your digital scrapbook with an ending like,
   
9. "I hope you enjoyed my digital scrapbook!"
   
10. Add animation schemes. You can make each slide appear and dissappear in cool ways.
    
11. Watch the slideshow you have made with Microsoft PowerPoint. You have created an awesome digital scrapbook!
    

Tips

• If you want captions under the photos, make textboxes.
  
• To add borders, go to Clip Art and Search for borders.
  
• You can seperate different groups of photos into themes. For example, you can paste photos of your first birthday party for the first four or five slides, and then you can paste photos of your pets for the next few slides.
  
• Be creative! Add anything that matches the theme.
  
• For the first slide you can make a scrapbook cover. You can write a title like: "My Exciting Life!" If you want, you can put lots of decorations on the front to show the real you. For example, if you like dogs, put pictures of dogs on the front cover.
  
• You can even use a special website called www.flip.com[1] to make your scrapbook. All you need to do is upload your photos, and it will show you the rest!
  

Things You'll Need

• A My Pictures folder on your desktop, or a folder of pictures that you have on your computer
  
• Microsoft PowerPoint
  
• Creativity
  

Sources and Citations

• http://www.smilebox.com/
  
• http://www.microsoft.com/
  

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