With Picaboo adding keepsakes to your digital album has never been easier. Get started by creating a new folder on your desktop that you will save your keepsake images in. Next, scan your keepsakes and save them as high resolution .jpg images in the folder you have created. You will need to adjust the DPI setting to 300 DPI to ensure that your keepsakes will look beautiful in print.

After you have scanned and saved your keepsakes, simply open your book in Picaboo and click the "Get Pictures" button on the bottom lefthand side of the page when you are in Edit Mode. This will bring up the "Get Pictures" dialogue box which will allow you to add pictures to a book that you have already started working on. Locate your new folder and select the keepsake images that you would like to add to your book. The new images will appear in the media tray at the bottom of your editing page next to the other images that you had previously added to your book. Simply select a page layout and drag and drop your keepsakes onto your page.

The sample pages above contain heritage pictures, a vintage driver's license, and handmade doilies that were scanned in and saved as .jpg images before they were added to the page layouts. There is a wide variety of keepsakes that can be added to your book. A few ideas are listed below to help you get started.

For Baby Albums: baby shower invitation, ultrasound pictures, birth certificate, hospital bracelets, newspaper announcements, congratulations cards

For Travel Albums: passports, itineraries, airplane tickets, maps, brochures, journal pages

For Wedding Albums: the invitation, notes from planning, newspaper announcements, congratulations cards, marriage license, love notes

For Kids' Books: artwork and drawings, report cards, special pieces of schoolwork, awards, diplomas, first driver's license, first pay check

For Heritage Albums: vintage photos, notes and journals pages, recipe cards, newspaper clippings, art