What do you do with your digital photos? Do you upload them onto photo sharing sites? Do you print out copies to give your friends? Do you place them in photo albums? For years, people who are interested in crafts have been creating scrapbooks--elaborately decorated photo albums--to creatively express themselves. We'd like to encourage you to make your own scrapbook page digitally and enter it into this Digital Scrapbooking Contest for a chance to win a Bamboo Fun tablet! Good luck!

About Scrapbooking
Scrapbooking as a method of preserving photographs, printed media and other memorabilia has had a long history as a hobby and has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry. The material used for scrapbooks began from magazine clippings, buttons, fabric and other unused items found around the home, but as scrapbookers became more sophisticated in the layouts of their finished albums, companies began creating material exclusively for use in scrapbooks and other homemade crafts.

How Digitalization Has Changed the Art of Scrapbooking
The boom in digital cameras in the last decade has seen use of traditional film quickly evaporate. As anyone with a digital camera knows, taking pictures-good pictures-has never been quicker, easier or cheaper. The image you photograph are both immediately viewable on your camera, and you their number is limited only by the capacity of your computer. And best yet, you aren't forced to pay high fees to develop and print your photos to enjoy them. Digital scrapbooking then is the revolution in scrapbooking that has accompanied the digitalization of photography. This consists of editing and/or manipulating your photographs to make them look perfect. It also consists of laying out the scrapbook page and decorating it on the computer, the creation of the textures and other decorative items, and finally publishing it in either print or digital form. read more

Links for free download materials, fonts, template of digital scrapbooking

Contest Period: June 23rd - July 31st 2008
(ends 11:59 pm, Tokyo time)

	Special Award: The Wacom Mentor (Prize: Bamboo Fun medium, white) We want you to help us teach other artists how to create scrapbooking designs by creating tutorials. This award will be judged based on the tutorial's originality, artistic merit, and how easy it is to understand (languages: English, Chinese, Korean or Thai). The winner will be anointed The Wacom Mentor. Please submit your images/layers together with a Word or text document with the explanation using the dropbox below. If you would like to combine text and images into one document, please use Word or Powerpoint, otherwise, please submit separate files together in zip format. Image formats: .ai, .psd, .png, .tif, .jpg, .gif, .eps Size: Max 300MB In the dropbox description, please write your email address (this will not be made public) and the title of your tutorial. In the text of your entry, please write your -- full name -- address -- phone number -- email address --Wacom tablet model if you used a Wacom tablet --title of your tutorial   This dropbox is for complete Wacom Mentor tutorial entries only. To enter other categories of this contest, please use the submission form.

Rules: All submissions must abide by the contest and submission rules of the Wacom Community. In particular, submissions may not contain any nudity, adult situations, violence or other obscenities, and must be original. Submissions of fan art or other copyrighted images or characters will not be considered. Wacom reserves the right to reject, remove, and/or disqualify entries at its discretion.

Eligibility: All residents of Wacom Asia Pacific countries (does not include China, Hong Kong or Japan). Limited to one entry per person. No entry fee necessary.

Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2008 (Contest officially ends at midnight, Tokyo time. Please be aware of time differences when submitting.)

Entry guidelines:

Contest Rules

By submitting to this contest, participants have acknowledged that they have read and will abide by the rules of Wacom Community Contests. In particular, participants warrant and represent that their work does not infringe or violate any third party rights nor contain nudity or other inappropriate material, and that by submitting, they have granted Wacom the right to utilize submitted entries for promotional, marketing or any other activity that does not involve the direct sale of the artwork. For specific details, please see the Contest rules.