Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Getting Started:
Gather, Protect, and Share Your Digital Memories
From your great-grandparents' holiday portrait to your most recent birthday pictures, nothing is more cherished than the memories captured in family photographs. And nothing is more heartbreaking than losing those precious pictures in a natural disaster, such as a fire or flood─or simply from wear and tear. This chapter is designed to help you preserve your family treasures and get you ready for all of the great projects in the rest of the book.
Chapter 2 Photo Magic:
Edit and Enhance Your Digital Images
If you’re not happy with the way your photos came out after a special occasion or a once-in-a-lifetime event, you may be pleased to learn how easily you can repair, restore, and enhance almost any image with the lessons you learn in Chapter 2.
Chapter 3 Spring Holidays:
Filled with Hidden Treasures
Spring into creating digital memory projects with loving cards for your favorite valentines, treasures you won't want to hide for Easter, delicious treats for Passover, and more.
In this chapter, you'll learn photo tricks and design concepts that will help you:
- Create beautiful Valentine's Day cards
- Make a family cookbook to commemorate Passover
- Design digital scrapbook pages that feature your favorite Easter photos
- Create the perfect Mother's Day gift
Chapter 4 Summer Holidays:
Fun in the Sun
Celebrate the longer, warmer days of summer, and the carefree holidays that go with them, with fun designs and projects.
In this chapter, you'll discover:
- How to create an online photo gallery you can share with the whole family
- Colorful designs to celebrate the Fourth of July
- Awards and brag books dad will cherish
- Cards for friends, or any special person
Chapter 5 Fall Holidays:
Tricks and Treats for Everyone
From colorful leaves and fabulous costumes to well-decorated tables and times of deep reflection, fall brings a collection cornucopia of ways to celebrate the harvest and the changing of seasons.
In this chapter, we'll get into more advanced techniques to help you:
- Dress up your Halloween designs
- Cheer your favorite cooks with Thanksgiving scrapbook pages
- Honor Grandma and Grandpa with thoughtful cards and gifts
- Commemorate Rosh Hashanah with beautiful cards
Whether you want to create greeting cards, scrapbook pages, or anything else you can imagine, the advanced techniques in this chapter will help you create designs like a pro.
Chapter 6 Winter Holidays:
Celebrate the Gifts, Treasure the Moments
Cherish cozy winter days and preserve your family memories with custom greeting cards, digital scrapbook designs, and personalized gifts that will make all your loved ones feel special.
No matter which holidays you celebrate, in this chapter you'll learn how to:
- Take better holiday photos
- Design meaningful Hanukkah cards
- Make cards and gifts for everyone on your Christmas list
- Ring in the New Year from the East to the West with designs for festive cards
Remember, you can customize and mix and match the designs and projects you find in this chapter and throughout the book. The projects featured here for Christmas, Hanukkah, and other holidays are designed to inspire and teach you the skills you need to create memory projects to fit any holiday.
Chapter 7 Measuring Milestones:
From Birthdays to Graduations and Beyond
Families gather for so many wonderful special occasions that I had to add a chapter for all the events that happen throughout the year.
From family reunions to anniversaries, from quinceañeras to bar or bat mitzvahs, we have many reasons to celebrate as families.
This chapter showcases many more ways you can use digital designs to enrich your family gatherings and preserve memories. In this chapter you'll learn to:
- Create beautiful personal invitations
- Inform everyone about a special event with a website or blog
- Design congratulatory cards for any occasion
- Show off your vacation photos with a digital slideshow
Alter these designs to create invitations for any special event, an online photo gallery to showcase pictures throughout the year, and thank-you cards for all your loved ones.