Digital Scrapbooking Flourishes

Digital scrapbooks are fantastic projects that you can complete with minimal mess and share with friends and family quickly and easily via email or on a CD. You can share just one page or the entire digital scrapbook and if you choose you can still print of the scrap book so that you have a hard copy.

Digital scrapbook flourishes are decorative additions added to photos on the page of a digital scrapbook. These digitial scrapbook flourishes make your pages look professional and when placed correctly digital scrapbook flourishes can add feelings to a page and soften sharp corners.

In conventional scrapbooking flourishes are added through the use of rubber stamps, since digital scrapbooking is done solely on the computer the equivalent of rubber stamps are designs which you create on the computer and then place on top of the photo. Or you could use a digital brush/pencil to swirl a design or doodle onto your digital page.

It is solely up to you whether you add digital scrapbook flourishes to your pages but what would otherwise be a digital photo album now comes alive with the addition of these digital flourishes. Digital scrapbook flourishes tie photos together by sweeping a flourish between the photos or the same flourish placed on the same corner of each photo. Flourishes can also be used to emphasise the emotion taking place in the photo for example a photo of a couple at an engagement party could have a flourish of a heart.

You can create your own digital scrapbook flourishes with a digital scrapbook software program, many come with built-in flourishes and embellishments by using stamps and brushes as well as the tools to create and design your own digital flourishes.

The best advise is to just play around you can easily delete the flourish if it doesn't look right or move it if it's not in the right place.