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Prima Hybrid Tutorial - How to Open, Organize, and Use a Digital Kit

One of the most satisfying things about hybrid scrapbooking is beingable to download immediately your digital purchases. That's right, at 2 a.m. ifyou are in the mood to scrap with something new - just purchase a Prima DigitalKit and get scrapping within minutes. Let me walk you through the simple stepsto downloading, opening and using a digital kit. I also want to give you a fewtips on organization so you develop good habits from the start.

Opening and Organizing the Kit
1. You've selected your digital kit and paid for it. You will receive aninvoice and download keys.  You will just click on the"download" button and chose to save the kit to your hard drive. Ifgiven the choice to open or save, I always "save to disk." I save thefiles right to my desktop.
TIP: Saving the kit to your hard drive instead of opening it allows you to scanthe download for viruses. You want to do this with every download before unzippingthe file.

2. Repeat the download task for each kit you have purchased. Be sure to scaneach download once it is complete by right-clicking on the zipped file, thenchose "Scan with Norton Anti-virus".


Once all downloads have been scanned, you are ready to unzip the files. Filesalways come zipped, and you know this because of the zipper icon. Zippingcompresses the files and makes them easy to share. You will not be able to usethe contents until they are unzipped. To unzip, right-click on the folder andclick "Extract Files" or "Extract All"
Tip: You need a program to unzip the file such as WinZip or WinRAR

3. You can now view the contents of your downloaded and unzipped file. Here yousee Trish Jones' Bombastic Papers and Elements. Notice that there is a"Terms Of Use" document. Be sure to read that first and foremost. Thedesigner spells out what you can and can not do with his/her kit. You need adocument writing program such as Word, Open Office Writer or Notepad to readthe terms.

For example, Trish's terms include contact information, copyright information,how to credit the designer when posting online and for publication, what youmay use the kit for such as alter the graphic in respect to size and colorwhile still crediting the designer. Trish outlines what you may not use the kitfor such as submitting a pre-made page for publication and calling it your own.

Parts of the kit include:
A. Preview page of the kit contents, useful for organization and tagging
B. 12" x 12" Digital Paper
C. Embellishment, flattened
D. The same embellishment in layers (.PSD format = photoshop document format)

4. Before you begin scrapping, I suggest that you make a habit of organizingyour digital kits and tagging them as you unzip them. Since I downloaded thekit to the desktop, I need to put it in the proper file. I have a file called"my digital kits".  As you can see, this file is on my externalhard drive - yours might be within "My Pictures" if you have room onyour C drive. Click on the file "My Digital Kits".
Tip: To create a New File called "My Digital Kits" go to the part ofyour computer where you want the file. If it is within My Pictures, go to MyPictures, then right-click and go to New --> File, name the file "MyDigital Kits".