I love playing around with different size pictures for my scrapbook pages. Here’s one way to get more pictures on your page and not crop or lose any of the details that you want to show. When you are about to print a picture from your favorite photo software you have the option (usually) right before you click the final “print” step to select ‘properties’ for that particular printer. Once that dialogue box pops up, look for the ‘Effects’ tab at the top of the dialogue box and open that up. There should be somewhere on that tab a selection that says “% of normal size”. Changing the percent of normal size is one of the easiest and quickest ways to re-size your prints for your scrapbook pages.
Here above I have shown you what the same photo is like at 50, 70 and 100%. You can print your picture on plain paper in black and white first for more accurate sizing or you can keep a sample of sizes handy like this sheet for referencing with your layouts.
I hope that if you are serious about scrapbooking you have invested in a good color printer. They have really come down in price over the last few years and are much more affordable.
