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Introduction PDF File
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This chapter gives you a background in my years as a graphic designer and how I brought a lot of what I learned as a designer to my digital scrapbooking. I show examples of design projects and explain how I developed my digital speed-scrapping method. It also gives a preview as to what to expect in the rest of the ebook.

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Chapter 1: Designing Digital Layouts
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This chapter explains how to get started with digital scrapbooking, including software recommendations. I go into detail on the advantages of digital scrapbooking and give suggestions on ways to share your layouts with family members and friends. In addition, this chapter includes:

• Tips for buying online products
• Things to avoid when designing a digital page
• A step-by-step tutorial to easily creating your own layout using a kit included in the bonus graphics package (the digital papers are even precut for you). You should be able to complete this layout in 5-10 minutes!
• Suggestions for creating realistic shadows quickly

For those of you who are already experienced digital scrappers, you may wish to advance to later chapters in this book.

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Chapter 7: 15-Minute Layouts Gallery
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In this section, I challenged myself to spend only about 15 minutes on each layout (give or take a couple of minutes). I give several suggestions to help you complete your digital and hybrid layouts faster. Then I show several layouts, explaining with each layout what supplies I used, how I assembled it and why it works from a design standpoint.

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