Two Basic Different Types Of Scrapbooking Graphics Software
Learning how to use scrapbooking graphics is essential for anyone wishing to succeed with digital scrapbooking because it will help you learn how to display your photographs in the best possible manner and it can make better layouts which will highlight your memories even if they are in the form of newspaper clippings and other memories in the most effective manner. What's more, you can even share layouts over the internet or archive them and even print them and place them in physical albums after using the right software to create the layout.
What Is Graphics Software?
Of course, before you proceed with using scrapbooking graphics, you must first of all be sure as to what is meant by graphics software and how does it help you improve your scrapbook. Essentially, graphics software is specialized software that allows you to create and even edit as well as manage two dimensional computer graphics. Examples of such computer graphics include Web graphics, clip art, headings, logos and digital photos and major graphics software include those offered by Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Illustrator and CorelDraw.
Thus, when using one of these scrapbooking graphics programs you can do many of the things that were once done by hand (as in the traditional way of scrapbooking) and by using digital photographs and clip art as well as other kinds of photo-objects you can create very appealing scrapbooks that have all the style and character of traditional scrapbooks - only they are done on a computer and generally stored there as well.
Of course, you can also make use of scrapbooking graphics to create digital elements that can be incorporated into manual pages of your scrapbook. Whatever usage you choose, when going the scrapbooking graphics route you will need to use photo editing programs such as Photoshop Elements or Adobe Photoshop and in addition, you will also need to use illustration software of which CorelDraw is a good example.
Thus, before proceeding any further with your digital scrapbooking, you need to first of all understand that scrapbooking graphics can either be vector or bitmapped and these two formats each has their own advantages and disadvantages which means that until you thoroughly understand how each works, you won't be able to get the most out of either kind of scrapbooking graphics.
Bit mapped scrapbooking graphics refer to graphics that are ‘pixel based' or which are ‘paint' graphics and the software used in this form of graphics are the photo or image editing ones such as Photoshop Element. On the other hand, vector scrapbooking graphics refers to drawn graphics and the software used in this instance is generally referred to as an illustration or draw program such as CorelDraw.
Also, bitmapped graphics are patterns consisting of minute square dots known as pixels which are very different to those used in vector graphics which don't use colored pixels to create the image and instead use mathematical formulae that instruct the software how to ‘draw' the image.
What it all boils down to is that if you need to use digital photographs, then you must use bitmapped scrapbooking graphics while if you were using anything other than digital photographs, then vector scrapbooking graphics is what you need to use.
