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Hi!

Digital scrapbooking kits are a collection of coordinated digital products that you can use to create digital scrapbooking pages and albums.

Although kits differ in size, meaning how many pieces they include, most digital kits contain an assortment of digital papers and embellishments, and often include a digital alpha set as well. The pieces included in the kit coordinate together, allowing you to put together a coordinated page easily.

As you mentioned, Shabbyprincess carries digital scrapbooking kits, but they're far from alone. There are many online shops that carry digital scrapbooking supplies, so shop around!

There are a number of software packages out there that you can use to create digital scrapbooking layouts. Photoshop Elements is probably the most popular software package used by digital scrappers. The good news is that it's reasonable priced. There's a bit of learning curve with the program, but once you know the program, it has features that will allow you lots of flexibility and creativity. Also, since Photoshop Elements is so popular, there are training videos and tutorials all over the web showing you how to use it.

As far as a digital camera goes, you don't absolutely have to have one. But you do have to have digital photos to use on your layouts. Some people create digital images from printed photos by scanning them and then use the scanned, digital images on the layouts. But, the easiest way by far is to use a digital camera to take the photos to begin with.

Creating a digital scrapbooking page can be time consuming at first, but that time will decrease once you learn the software and get used to moving around in it.

Since you're just getting into digital scrapbooking, you may want to try your hand at using quickpages at first. A quickpage is a pre-designed digital scrapbooking page that has a transparent frame or frames where you can add your own photos. I have quickpages on my site (http://scrappydigits.com/quickpages/) and some video tutorials (http://scrappydigits.com/learning-center/) that show how to get started using them. But, there are lots of places that sell quickpages online, so check them out.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Mary

http://www.ScrappyDigits.com

Scrappy answers:

"Take use of digital scrapbooking kits when making photo collages"

You can take this article for a reference, view it from here:

http://photo-collage-scrapbook.blogspot.com/

or http://www.photo-collage-software.com/tutorial/use-digital-scrapbooking-kits.html#173

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Yes, you can usually make personal use items from the kits you buy, you just can't sell the items you make with the kits unless you have explicitly purchased a commercial license for that kit. Most digital scrapbooking kits come with a terms of use file you can read or check the website you bought it at for a link to the terms of use (usually at the bottom of the site or in the sidebar).

In the link below, at the bottom of that website page, you'll see an example of a terms of use for digital scrapbooking downloads.

Hope that helps!

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Http://www.digiscrapdepot.com/freebies/theme-kits/102-9.aspx

http://www.scrapbookflair.com/designers.aspx

http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/themes.html

http://www.computerscrapbook.com/elements.html

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All the free kits are located in the Gallery. You just have to flip through the kits to find them. They are all labeled with a blue FREE banner in the top left corner.