The Blog

Yes! Now, you can flip stickers like pancakes on a Sunday morning. Does this mean that there’re four times the stickers? No, but your creative possibilities have increased exponentially.

We’d love to see how flipping sparks your creativity. If you use the flipping feature, tag your scrapblogs “flipped” so that we can find them and feature them here.

Our daily routine here at the scrapblog offices begins by heading over to the “explore” page to see what YOU have been creating. When we see your extraordinary scrapblog creations, we know that all the late nights and weekends are worth it. Your scrapblogs inspire us and YOU make us laugh and it’s the best part of our day. As we thought about redesigning the homepage, we knew that more than anything, the biggest feature should be YOU! (Are you seeing a theme here? LOL)

With YOU in mind, we have completely redesigned the homepage. We are now featuring the wonderful scrapblog layouts YOU are creating. If you are new to scrapblog, we have included 3 simple steps to getting started.

We will be showcasing what’s been happening on the site so you will want to come back everyday and take a look at the Cool New Scrapblogs. You can still get a tour of scrapblog as well as explore our community.

Take a moment to bask in the glory of your superstardom. Have fun exploring, love a new scrapblog you come across and don’t forget to thank Omar, Mike, Saul, Tim & Caleb for putting your name in lights!

This is our BIGGEST release since the launch of Scrapblog almost 1 year ago. These new features will make your scrapblogs come alive!

We are proud to unveil to you our most exciting and most requested features yet – the photo editing and photo cropping tools! In addition to these new tools, we have improved many other features inside the builder such as Get Stickers, Get Backgrounds, and Get Photos. Here are some examples of how to use the new cropping and editing tools:

Photo Cropping
The cropping tool has been completely redesigned and expanded to give you more creative freedom and flexibility. No longer are you limited to simple shapes, now you can crop your photos any way you want. All of the fun of photo cropping, without the anxiety of cutting your printed photos - it’s digital! The new cropping tool has three distinct ways to crop:

Shapes- Choose from customizable shapes like circles, rectangles, and stars to instantly crop your photo

Freehand- Designed to be used like a pair of scissors, you will be able to crop and transform photos into any shape or design

Eraser- Wipe out any part of the image or remove unnecessary portions of your photo.

For a video tutorial on using the new cropping tools, check out our new show Get Crafty!

Photo Editing
Ever wished your photo was black & white or wanted that “vintage” look? We now offer 1-click photo editing. With our new photo editing tool, you will not need to use desktop photo editing software to enhance your photos before bringing them into Scrapblog. We want to make it as easy as possible to make your photos look their best.

Some of the new effects include: black and white, sepia, antique, matte, vignette, a cool comic book effect, and even the ability to flip your photo to show off your good side.

Black & White

Sepia

Comic Book Effect

We have also redesigned Get Photos, Get Stickers, & Get Backgrounds in the builder. With one click of your mouse, your new photo, sticker or background flies into your tray! How fun is that?

Selecting elements inside your scrapblog has ever been easier. When you roll your mouse over an element, an orange glow tells you which elements of the theme you can move around and which are part of the background page. This new effect will be very helpful when you are working on a collage or intricate scrapblog layout.

So what are you waiting for??? Stop reading this blog and start making your beautiful and amazing scrapblog layouts! We want to see what you’ve been up to so when you use the cropping tool tag your scrapblog “cropped” and when you use the photo editing tag your scrapblog “edit”.

We hope you like our new embedded player!

You may easily post this player into your blog or to your social networking sites.

To do so, click on the scrapblog you want to share: this will take you to the viewer page. On the right hand side, you will see “Share this scrapblog.” Just click on the “Copy” button next to where it says “Embed in your blog” and then paste this code into your blog post area or into your social network, where you may post a blog.

Today’s been a feature fiesta day! In addition to the updated website, we’ve just added the Ken Burns effect to the Builder. From Wikipedia:

The Ken Burns Effect is a popular name introduced by Apple Computer [1] in 2003 for a feature in its iMovie 3 software. The feature enables a widely used technique of embedding still photographs in motion pictures, displayed with slow zooming and panning effects, and fading transitions between them. The name derives from extensive use of the technique by American documentarian Ken Burns.

You may see it in action in this scrapblog (click on play):

To add the Ken Burns effect to your scrapblog, just click the checkbox on the bottom when you’re in the Builder. And do tell us if you like it!