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When you reflect on your tumultuous time as an adolescent, you will probably notice a distinct difference between how you look at life at age 13 and how you look at life at age 19. You will probably experience new feelings and come to some conclusions of your own. If you are compiling a scrapbook for this entire seven-year period, you can group your images in numerous ways.
Deciding how to group your images will affect the design of your finished product. An obvious choice is by age. If you group by age, you can include the highlights from each year. Another choice is by event. You can create a page for each event including but not limited to sporting events, dances, trips and weekend adventures. You may also decide to assign labels or themes to a set of images to give them a framework. Then you can include all the images, regardless of age or event that fit into the same theme. You may find that selecting a theme by which to arrange your images gives you more freedom.
Your theme for a scrapbook page can be a single word like celebration, drama, heartbreak, basketball or dance. From these examples, you can see that the word reflects either the mood of the event or the name of the event itself. You do not need to include your word on the scrapbook page. The word or phrase that you select as your theme simply serves to tie your images and background together, preventing your photos from becoming just a hodgepodge. People looking at the pages associated with a specific word should be able to guess your theme fairly easily. After you have selected your word or phrase, think about the most effective background to highlight your images.
Vibrant color and stark contrasts make your emotional response to an event tangible. Consider the impact of each color and how it works with the images that you want to include on a specific page and under the umbrella of a theme. Reds, yellows, oranges suggest action and strong, changing emotion. These colors may be particularly appropriate to adorn a page about a sporting event. These bright colors can also anchor your event in the late summer or fall season. School colors are another appropriate background choice for sporting events and other school functions. Keep in mind that your school colors may not always adequately capture your emotional response to an experience. To preserve your impression of an event, think about how your color accents will highlight the memories and emotional response that you attach to your images.
Blues and greens are calming colors and suggest relaxation. Purple, the color of royalty, combines blue and red, but depending on the hue retains a cooling effect. Purple works well with blues and greens, adding interest to your page. Use these relaxed colors when the images you plan to use or the theme word you selected coincide with comfortable feelings. When you want to suggest sophistication or perhaps an important decision, black and white accents are appropriate. Black is a formal, serious color that provides a good background for almost all images. Black contrasts well with all colors making it an ideal accent. The classic combination of black and white always suggests the extreme contrast of yin and yang and helps showcase your photos in a formal setting.
After you have selected your theme and built a setting for your photos with color accents, select the pictures that you feel are appropriate for your theme. Select all the pictures that will fit into this category, even if you know they won't all fit on the page. Once you have selected a stack of pictures, carefully look at each one to see what part of the photograph you really want to keep and what can be eliminated. People and their expressions are probably most important, although often, an historic monument or artifact is also a key part of your experience. Only select the images that you feel tell the story of your experience. Cut away excess liberally. You should be just as ruthless with superfluous scenery. You do not have enough room on a scrapbook page to include extra images that do not help your recall your memory of the event.
Stack images one on top of the other or spread them out according to what is most visually pleasing. Sometimes you remember that a group of friends attended an event. You may want to cut out just their faces and group them together in one big collage. Sometimes you remember just a few people being pivotal to the experience. Arrange these key people attractively on the page within your background of colorful accents. Stickers, ribbon and even fabric can make excellent finishing touches. These final decorations will refine your page and camouflage any rough edges.
Time blurs the sharp edges of immediate recall. Capturing your memories in a scrapbook using vibrant color and innovative design preserves the purity of the moment. Years later, your memories will seem fresh, and your emotional response to an experience will jump off the page. |
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