December 07, 2004

Curious George: Digital Scrapbooking... I've got a friend who's interested in some kind of computer-based scrapbooking. Googling has only served to confuse me, since I know nothing about scrapbooking myself.

Basically what she's looking for is a way to do some interesting stuff with her digital photos. Not sure if she wants to be able to post her results on the web, but I'm guessing that's a nice feature to have. Since I'm flying blind and I don't want to end up with a dud, do any of you monkeys have experience with sites/programs that you could recommend?

posted by MsVader 20 years ago
  • Hmm.. digital photos, eh? Just how nude is this 'friend' of yours in these photos? Nude is important. For... technical reasons.
  • I'm sure there's scrapbook software somewhere. Given that there are whole stores devoted to scrapbooks, and given that "scrapbook" is now being used *shudder* as a verb, somebody has to have done this. Personally, I think just some photoshop software would work well, , if she's just wanting to do funky stuff with the photos. And she could also design HTML pages, regardless of whether she wants them actually posted on the web.
  • I hate it when people verb nouns. It makes them sound like less nouny words. Soon everyone will be speaking adjectively when nouning verby things.
  • *applause*
  • Perhaps check out MyScrapbook, a free PHP script which seems to do what you want.
  • The main problem with Photoshop is the price tag. I don't know how technically savvy she is, so designing html pages may be beyond her grasp. I'm thinking simple, intuitive, all-in-one interface kinda thing. Thanks for the link, fatalfuj, but from what I looked though, I think she might want something a little more flexible and creative.
  • okay, how about - The Gimp, a cross platform, free, open-source photo editor. - CutePDF, which allows you to "print" to a PDF (Acrobat) file, instead of a physical printer. also free. do the images in The Gimp, paste them into a word processor (you could use OpenOffice or AbiWord [both free] if you don't have one). then print it all as a virtual scrapbook in pdf form. just remember, the more flexible & creative something is, the less hand-holding and more learning-curve there usually is.
  • housepig beat me to it. The GIMP is good stuff, totally free.