Becky Highins Project Life App

I use it and love it!

It is easy to use, the layouts are stored right there in the app but you can download them to post on your blog or save the image of the LO

There are different sizes - 8x8 and 12x12 are the most popular.

You can download them from the app and I suppose you could upload to Shutterfly (although I have not personally done this)

I order the prints (I like 12x12) directly from the app and the quality is amazing! Very high quality prints.

I do not believe you can upload other Digi-kits to the app but BH does have digital scrapbooking that is available to use with Photoshop Elements and I believe you can use your other digi-kits there but I don't think you can upload them/use them with the app.

The PL app is pretty much the only way I have scrapbooked for the past 2-3 years.

FYI - the app now has a book option so you can order a book instead of prints. I haven't tried it yet but they seem like very good quality.

FYI (part 2) - I prefer to use my iPad since it is bigger and easier to see.  You can transfer your LOs from your iPad to iPhone but you can only edit them on the original device (which I do not like - wish you could edit from either one no matter which device it was created on).  If you buy a card kit (generally $0.99), they they are available on both devices - you don't have to purchase the kits twice.

Any more questions, let me know.

I scrapbooked my fall vacation on this app while we were on vacation (3 1/2 week cruise from Hawaii to Australia)!

I need to print them out still, but I was very please with how easy it was to use. I'm just going to order my print (12x12) through the app. There are some pages I'm going to do "old school" because I want to add little mementos in and stuff.

I guess in a sense it is "digital", but you just use your phone or tablet and the app (I call it electronic scrapping) - you don't need additional software (like photoshop elements) to create your layouts.  You just open the app, open the layout choices (designs) - click on it and then add your photos directly from your phone/table.  Then you can select PL cards and add journaling (by typing or speaking on your phone/table). 

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Are you ordering the prints through them? Or through any photo service? I'm in Canada and I'm not ordering through the States with our dollar. I had downloaded the app and played a couple of times but never went to far with it.

You can, theoretically, use other digital scrapping supplies, if you have them stored as jpegs on your phone/iPad. You would just insert them like a picture.

I haven't done it, but there's no reason it wouldn't work.

FYI - go over to You Tube and check out the videos re: the PL app.

I have used it to quickly plan my physical PL pages and to know which photos I wanted to use and print. I have a lot of physical pages that I need to use and it helps to speed up my process. I'm a slow scrapper without it.

I use it and like it but there are some things that frustrate me. First, I wish I could use any card on any size"pocket." For example, there are some that are just for 4x4 pockets. I also wish that I could put text on any card, not just title or journaling cards. I would also like to be able to put text on pictures. Finally, my biggest problem is that I bought it for my iPad and then had to buy it again for my Android phone. My cards are not transferable between the two so I have to pay double for them. 

On the plus side, it is pretty easy to use and the print quality is awesome. I like that I can be anywhere and make a page on my phone. So, while there are frustrations, I still use it and do like it.

There is a fantastic group on FB called Project Life App Scrappers.

I've used the PL App since it was released. I now find it very confining and have branched out to using other apps in conjunction with it.

printing bound books I use shutterfly or blurb

printing individual pages are print credits bought on sale from Persnickity prints, shipping international within the pl app is outrageous. 


This his is the one "extra" we build into our budget. With my memory so severely impacted I need these pages. 

I do use other apps (like pic stitch, for example) and then import the image to the Project Life app. I print them all myself at 8x8, but you can save them and print them as you would any other photo. I have a full-size iPad that I use pretty much lust for PL, (I use a mini for most other tablet stuff) and I have a keyboard that I use with it just for the PL app, because it's easier to type. I use it all the time to document my days, and with grandchildren now, there seems to be a lot to document. 

I just might have to check this out.(sometime) Thanks!

Or store them in dropbox.
Check out Steph at Modern Photo Solutions. She uses the app exclusively.

Do you re-name your pages? I do so that I can organize them a bit better (since I do 2 LOs a week, I start with the year and then the page number - ex: 2017-001, 2017-002, 2017-003,etc.) - then when I go to my library, I can sort by name and they are in order

One thing I wish they would enhance is the ability to use more than one devise for the same page. I prefer using my iPad, because it is bigger but sometimes I am in a waiting room or have some time to pass. I don't carry my iPad around with me but I always have my phone. So, say I started a page on my phone, I can't then go home and finish it up on my iPad - the library from my iPhone isn't linked to the library on my iPad. There is a way to move it over from my phone to iPad but it can't be edited on the iPad after you move it there.

I would just like them to be one account so you can access and edit all pages, all layouts, etc from either of your devices.

After I do my pages, I run them thru an action to give them more of a shadow. Wendyzine has it at scrapbookgraphics. Does add an extra step in ps or psd but i like a heavier shadow.
Stacy