Family History and Scrapbooks?

Scrapbook all of today’s memories using arcalife’s unique tools and you are literally building a family history legacy as you go. What greater gift can you give to a future relative than your scrapbook made using your unique and creative touch. The scrapbook is designed so that you can use it for both collecting and scrapbooking today’s memories and also those of ancestors. You can even collaborate on with other family members, allowing you to easily make present day or family history scrap books. Once they are complete you can securely share them instantly with who ever you choose using our social network and email sharing capabilities.

There are only a few things that you need to get started on creating a Digital Scrapbook of your family history or present day memories.

- Most printers these days are all-in-one, meaning that they also have a built in scanner. Usually the software that comes with these is straight forward to use. You can use this to capture all of your family photos, certificates, documents, letters and other family history memorabilia. We recommend using a minimum of 300dpi to ensure your precious family heirlooms are good quality. Once you are done scanning you can upload your family history material directly to your arcalife media archive for use later in your digital scrapbook.

- Another useful piece of equipment is a digital camera, this can be used for taking pictures of family heirlooms, some of which you may own and some of which you may not. Things like medals, rings furniture, clothes, tickets and posters really add to the overall effect you are trying to get. Many of the family history artifacts you have will be too delicate to be placed in a book. The other advantage of family history scrapbook on line being able to share your creations with other family members. Something you that is harder to do over a distance with a physical book.

- Finally, image software can by handy if you want to clean up an issue with old photos. We recommend Snag it, as it is a simple tool to use with basic clean up functionality, without being too hard to use. The arcalife scrapbooking tool allows you to crop, rotate, resize, add background effects to allow you to make a great looking family history scrapbook. If you want to get really fancy effects or create specialist backgrounds, for example from an item of old family clothing these can be uploaded as extra effect to the arcalife scrapbook.

We recommend picking a theme for your scrapbook like a family holiday, wedding or special event or you can choose to showcase the life of an ancestor. Really, the only limit is your creativity

Because scrapbooking is such a creative and engaging activity its fun to involve the whole family. Anyone can have a go. Invite your family to collaborate on one family history scrapbook or make one each from the same material. You’ll be amazed at the differences in design and end result that come from different scrapbooking members of the family.

Start you present day memories or family history scrapbook by adding items to you page. You’ll probably have to play with the layout, sizing and cropping of the photos, text labels and other document. Another great advantage of digital scrapbooking is that you can cut and crop without damaging your precious family heirlooms. Once you have your page correct and you have added backgrounds and effects, you can choose one of our attractive bindings and print a physical book or begin sharing your books with family and friends.