Renee Pearson, owner of reneepearson.com
I’ll admit it. Since starting my business, my personal scrapbooking has suffered. It was hard to carve out the time to gather my photos and create pages. But now, thanks to my mobile iPhone and iPad, I’m able to incorporate scrapbooking into my everyday life again. While moving through my day, I capture images and record my memories on my iPhone as they are happening. And when I’m ready, I use my iPad to begin working on my digital pages. Here’s how I do it.
Best Apps for iPhoneography & Scrapbooking
Everything begins with my photos, and since my iPhone is always with me, it has become my everyday camera. I try to capture the everyday moments that make my life meaningful now, not just the birthdays, holidays and special events we always shoot. Camera+ by TapTapTap is the photo app I use the most because it’s simple, has built-in filters and produces great results.
Camera+
Like almost everyone else in the mobile world, I love Instagram. It has changed the way I look at the world around me and the mundane has become meaningful. It helps me capture the small pleasures and occurrences that happen every single day. I can chronicle what’s going on in my life while maintaining a daily journal without any extra work. The comments field can be used for more than just hashtags. Try making short journaling notes to yourself about your photos.
At the end of the week I go through my photos. I use the journal feature in iPhoto to compile photos, notes and other miscellany I’ll need when I’m ready to scrapbook. Some photos I discard, the keepers I organize into albums on my iPhone. I then transfer them to Dropbox for storage and download to my iPad.
iPhoto
I use Apple Keynote to create my pages. I looked at several apps, some even dedicated to mobile scrapbooking, but none satisfied my need for flexibility, creative control and the ability to use the digital papers and kits I’d already invested in. Keynote did. I focus on only a page or two at a time so I don’t feel overwhelmed and discouraged. Plus, I always have a fun project to return to.
Apple Keynote
Digital or Print Format? Both!
I can choose to keep and share my albums in digital form, or use Photoshop or Photoshop Elements on my computer to further develop and print my pages. It’s nice to have a digital format I can carry with me and show while keeping a larger printed version in an album at home.
digital format
print format
The Artist by Renee Pearson. Supplies: Digital Supplies: Karla Dudley of Design House Digital.
Win a Free iOS Scrapbooking Class
That’s a brief glimpse into my mobile memory-keeping process. I’d love to hear about yours. Share your favorite apps and mobile scrapbooking tips in a comment below. One lucky poster will win a seat in my upcoming iScrapit class that begins September 24 (here’s a video preview). Comments must be received by Monday, September 17, at 9:00 am MDT. We welcome entries from our international friends.
Congratulations to our winner!
Beth says: So far I have just been using the editing supplies that come with the iPhone or iPad. Once I deem picture cropped and edited I just send it on over to Shutterfly through the Shutterfly app on my phone and iPad. I am looking into purchasing iPhoto. I haven’t decided on an app yet that I am completely satisfied with for making collage photos on my iPad.
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—Renee Pearson, owner of reneepearson.com
I’m still in search of the perfect way to collect and scrap on my mobile… Recently I haven been using Momento quite a bit as a collecting tool. It synchronises with Flickr, Instagram, Facebook and many more popular webservices, so you can see your entries in one place. Perfect for memory keeping! It has cool features like tags, ratings, back-ups and exporting.
I would love to win a spot in Iscrap! It could be just what I need right now. Thanks for the chance to win!
Wow – how awesome would that be to scrap with my IPAD! I would love to learn how to do this!
I love these tips to bring scrapping into my busy life. I love PSE on my MacBook but since I returned to work 6 months ago my scrapping time just seems to be shrinking. I wonder if hubby would let me steal his iPad
. Thanks so much for the great tips. I need to pull out instagram more often!
Oooooo.. pick me! Scrapping with my Ipod sounds fun!
Whoa. To say I am intrigued is an understatement. This sounds fascinating! I just got an iPhone and a Mac and an iPad is the next toy on my list but to think I could use it for scrapping just makes it seem ever more necessary! Wow!!
ohhh i would love this class… i feel like i don’t use my iPhone to it full potential – I have the free apps but i stay clear of ones that cost money because I think that I will waste it.. I am so open to any suggestions!!! thanks for the chance to win
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So far I have just been using the editing supplies that come with the iPhone or iPad. Once I deem picture cropped and edited I just send it on over to Shutterfly through the Shutterfly app on my phone and iPad. I am looking into purchasing iPhoto. I haven’t decided on an app yet that I am completely satisfied with for making collage photos on my iPad.
Still primarily doing digital with photoshop – just starting using instagram – behind the times – need some help. This would be amazing to take
@Beth: Collage? I have a class coming up on creating collages using the iPad. Stay tuned!
Oh wow! Could use some help, too!! Thanks for having this!
I need HELP!!! I.m still learning my iphone,am wishing for an ipad. would love to win iscrapit. I sure could use it! Thank you!
Who knew that you could do this with your iOS systems? I would love to learn how to do this!! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
If you are interested in learning more about iScrapit, Renee will be reviewing this class and answering any questions you may have during a free live video webinar on Tuesday September 18 at 9pm EDT. You are welcome to come and chat with Renee. Here’s the link: http://www.reneepearson.com/members/reneetv/
We’ll save a seat for you.
Kent
So far, I only keep my digital layouts in albums on my iPad. I would love to be able to scrap on my iPad.
I really see a lot of potential in your methods and I am going to check them out!
Hope to win a spot in class!
Thank you!
I don’t have any tips as I haven’t scrapped this way but would love to try out this class. Thanks for the opportunity!!
Hi, I like the tips on using Keynote, a great idea! I also find that ProCamera for iOS is a pretty good one too.
A question: can you put videos into Keynote? That would potentially make for some great scrapbooking.
I have never done scrapping on the computer, but would like to learn. I don’t even know if I qualify to win.
Hi Renee,
Class sounds fantastic! I’m very interested in your workflow and would love the chance to learn how you put it all together.
iPhone Apps I use for digital memory keeping and storytelling are (in no particular order) :
Camera!
Camera+
360
Snapseed
Filterstorm
Iris
AutoStitch
NightCap
Ps Express
QuickPix
Coolibah
Phoster
To name but a few.
Cheers for the chance to win,
Sue
Another great way to use the Ipad. Would love to learn more. Thanks for sharing your great tips.
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You may be interested in a new scrapbooking iPhone app ClickBox…great features like add music, auto create with just a shake of the phone, gorgeous templates and ClickArt. Used it on my 2.5 week trip around Europe recently and just kept adding on pages as I went with new photos, commentary, etc. Really easy to use and share, and its a free app. Love it! Find it here… https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clickbox/id583863149
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