Exporting Our Scrapbook Designs for Use in Other Programs

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First a common question:

When I click on the download link...nothing happens, what is wrong ?
You may not have a pdf file format reader installed on your computer. Most newer computers come with them pre-installed. The most well known in the Adobe Reader, but we prefer the free mobetta  Foxit Reader, it is a smaller program and not as aggressive about cramming your computer with tons of Adobe stuff as the Adobe Co. is.  Go to www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/ and click on the free .exe program. If you are at work or on a school computer, you may need to ask your IT dept to approve any .exe program install. 

or another link for Foxit Reader is here.

If you really want the Adobe Reader instead, go here , but you had better look carefully and un-check that Adobe Photo Album Starter check box or you might regret it later on. 

Exporting our Designs for Digital Scrapbooking

In order to be able to export images from the scrapbook set so they can be used in other programs, you must determine which type of file the set is contained in. If the file name ends in .pdf it is an PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file. If the file name ends in .exe, it is an eFax file. All of our sets have been converted to PDF, but if you downloaded a set before the changeover, the instructions are at the bottom of the page.

If the file name ends in .pdf Click Here for instructions

If you still have one of our old sets where the name ends in .exe Click Here for instructions


PDF Instructions:

In order to get images from the PDF file into the program of your choice you will have to select the graphic, copy it and then paste it into the program. It is really very easy to do.

1. Open the PDF file in a Reader. You can download Adobe Reader  HERE.

2. Click on the Snapshot Tool on your Adobe Reader toolbar.




3. Using your mouse and starting at a corner of the graphic, click and hold and drag your mouse diagonal to the corner opposite of your starting point. You may have to wiggle your mouse around to get it to go to the bottom of the page. The entire graphic should be selected. You will see a blink when you release the mouse and a box will appear stating that it was copied to your clipboard.

4. Open the graphics/photo editing program of your choice and paste the image into the working space. Programs vary so we can't give instructions for EVERY program, but usually you can right click in the working space in the program and select Paste or click on Edit at the top of the program and select paste. Sometimes it will open a menu out from paste and you can choose "Paste as a new image". Once again, programs vary, so you may need to look at the help files for your particular program for information about how to paste from clipboard.

5. Now that the image is pasted into the graphics program, you need to save it before you do any editing so you don't have to repeat the process over and over. We recommend you save the image as a high quality (low compression) jpg file. In order to make it easier to keep track of the images on your computer, make a new folder called "scrapbook-exports" on your desktop and save the image to that folder, giving it a meaningful name (for an image from the buttons set you could use buttons01.jpg or something similar that tells what set the image came from).

6. One last tip. After you save the image to your scrapbooks-exports folder, if you decide you want to make changes to the image in your editing program (adding a photo or text, etc), save the file with a new name. This can vary and should describe what your image will be (birthdaytag.jpg for example if you are taking a tag image and adding text saying Happy Birthday to it). By saving the image with the new name you avoid overwriting the original accidentally.

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eFax Instructions:

Some of our sets were made a long time ago when the export function of the eFax software didn't work too well. But, if you open a set that is in the newer version, you can then get it to open an older set and export just fine.

You can use the newest version of the eFax Messenger to export any of the graphics in any of the Scrapbook Sets. PC only--This does not work on a MAC. You need to open one of our newer sets or samples, for example,  (Asian Sample) and once downloaded and installed, you can use it to open any of our sets made using the older versions of this software. Basically what you will be doing is the same as you be doing if you had a Word (or any program) document open and you then wanted to open a different Word document, and you just navigated to the new one and told Word to open it. So do these steps.

1. Download the new viewer (type efax messenger download into Google to find the most recent).

2. Make a folder called ScrapbookScrapbook Sets on your Desktop (or anything that would be easily recognizable)

3. Click the download link for the set you want. You will see a window similar to the one below. Click Save.

4.  a) Now click the drop down menu

      b) Select Desktop

      c) Double Click on your ScrapbookScrapbook Sets folder

       d) Click Save

5. A little box will pop up. First, make sure the little check box is NOT checked. Then, after the download is complete, click Open Folder.

6. This is when you will learn whether you have downloaded an old set or a new set. If you downloaded a NEW set you are ready to go. If you downloaded an old set things get a bit trickier. NEW set click here  /   OLD set click here

New Set:

1. Double Click the set you want to open. You may or may not see the window below. If you do, click Run, if you don't then skip down to the next step.

2. You will see efax open. Click your mouse or press Enter to close the splash screen (the big envelope)

**If you are opening a new set just to be able to open an old set click here**

3. Now up at the top left of your screen click on File and then select Export.

4. When the Save As window pops up, click on the drop down menu and select JPEG instead of TIFF. Now click Save

The whole set will be exported into your ScrapbookScrapbook Sets folder and is ready for you to use however you wish.

Old Sets

You MUST have a newer set open in order to be able to open an old set. An example of a new set is the Asian sample or the Tags Set. Follow the directions for the new set above up to step 2. After step 2 skip to step 1 for the old set

1. In the upper left corner click on File and the select Open

2. Navigate to your ScrapbookScrapbook Sets folder and select All Files. Then click on the set you want to open and click Open

3. As with the new sets, Click File in the upper left corner and select Export

4. Now select JPEG in the drop down menu at the bottom instead of TIFF and then click Save.

The whole set will be exported into your ScrapbookScrapbook Sets folder and is ready for you to use however you wish

If you have trouble doing these steps, please ask a child, neighbor, friend, co-worker, etc...for help because this is just basic computer usage functionality. We give our sets away for free now and cannot email personal computer help instructions to each site visitor.

If you wish to teach yourself basic Windows functionality, use your help files. Go to the start button and click 'Search' or 'Help' depending on your version of Windows and type in keywords. Or take a evening continuing ed class, or ck your public library for free computer classes or buy a book.

To read wonderful step by step instructions for absolutely best print quality ( esp. for large format prints ) sent to me by Dena Turner, click here.

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