Does anyone use Microsoft Publisher for digital scrapbooking? Currently, I use Paint Shop Pro and I LOVE it. My mother is an administrator at a tech school and has asked me to consider teaching a 3 hour, non-credit class on digital scrapbooking. However, the school doesn't have much for photo-editing software, and aren't prepared to make the financial committment of purchasing enough software for 15 to 20 computers just for this class. They do have Microsoft Publisher in the lab at this time. I've never used publisher at all, for any projects; scrapbooking or otherwise. Does anyone know of any good tutorials?

Hmmm, Ihave only used Publisher when working for a local business, using it to do promotional ads, business cards and posters, using the built in templates. I found it extremely limiting and ended up often bringing the work home with me to do them in my photo-diting program. I suspect it would make me nuts for scrapbooking. JMHO

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I use Publisher for a lot of things but not scrapbooking. It would be VERY limiting in what you could do on a LO. I would just google "Microsoft Publisher tutorials" and see if you can get more info on it.

hi there, I've also used Publisher for marketing and promotional type products at work, but I think that if you can get past the fact that it doesn't use layers (not shure if Paint Shop uses layers?) then you should be fine. Maybe use it in the same way in which you would use PowerPoint, to insert graphics on a slide. You'll be very limited with photo-editing functionality, but maybe for a beginners class you can work around it?

Publisher is fairly flexible as far as paper sizes, you can set it to whichever dimensions you may require, so that wouldn't be a big deal ...

Or use Picasa to edit the pics and then just import into Publisher? hope this helps? good luck!

Shout if you need anything else :-)

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I taught a class on digital scrapbooking using Microsoft Word so in Publishing it should be easier lol
Type digital scrapbooking Microsoft publisher into google and you get a few links that may help

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Actually, you can do layers with Publisher -- you just need to set the options about the overlap. One thing I really like about Publisher is the text box wrapping, so I wondered the same thing -- if you could use it for digital scrapping...

I HAVE used it for a 'digiscrap' style invitation card for DD's first birthday party )

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