What
is Scrapbooking?
Scrapbooking
is the practice of combining photos, memorabilia and stories in
a scrapbook style album. Scrapbooking has been around as long as
there have been photos, but the scrapbooking that has evolved today
is new and different. As we learn more about color photographs,
we are better able to store them in a manner that will preserve
them.
Scrapbookers
are taking advantage of the scientific knowledge available in the
area of photo preservation to ensure that their precious photos
are not just in a scrapbook, but that they are in a scrapbook that
will help protect them from deterioration. Because of this, future
generations may be spared the yellowed, faded color photos of their
childhood that many of us now own. The sad fact is that color photographs
are NOT permanent, however, the methods that we use to store color
photographs can length or reduce their life-span significantly.
Scrapbookers
of today have also embraced scrapbooking as a creative outlet. New
scrapbooking techniques, ideas and products are in great demand.
These demands have spawned many new scrapbooking related businesses.
In just a few short years scrapbooking has become a $200 million
dollar a year business.
The
future of scrapbooking will undoubtedly bring many "electronic"
scrapbookers into the field of scrapbooking. The hardware to take
digital photographs, the ability to transfer photos to disk and
the software to manipulate photographs have amazing capabilities.
The electronic scrapbook may ultimately be the only truly permanent
scrapbook.
Source:
Learn to scrapbook
