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Adding a QR code to your page

First of all, what's a QR code? It's the little square of squiggles that you scan with your smartphone/ipod. It then takes to another website. You can put it on a page to show online or print the page, put it in a bound book etc.

The code does NOT have to go to a video. I ignored these codes for ages because I didn't have any videos I wanted to show! It's actually going to a website (when it goes to a video it's going to the url/web address for the site where you keep the video). It can go to your own website, your blog/Facebook page, a Smugmug gallery showing more pages etc etc or even to a larger high resolution image. It can even go to plain text or send an email.

How to read QR codes

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Example of a QR code on a page

Here's an example. It's a double page and I'll show you the first one without the QR code so the story makes sense:

Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug

Here's the right hand side with the big disappointment! Note the QR code taking you to a video showing the day wasn't a complete waste. Depending on how you're seeing this website you can scan the code from the image below or go to this higher resolution page.

Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug

No QR reader but you really want to see a Chinook flying? You can see the video on YouTube.

Here's an example of a QR code going to a music video (yes, that is paper scrapbooking stuff!):

Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug


How to create a QR code

Go to the Unitag site HERE, create an account (it saves your codes for you and doesn't bug you with spammy emails). Then follow the simple instructions to create your code. Basically you tell them the url you want it go to and it creates the code which you can then save to your computer. The url is that line of text at the top of your page that starts "http://" You can create as many low resolution codes n PNG format as you like FREE. The low resolution is all you need. Do NOT bother with convoluted instructions you'll see showing you how to fiddle about with the image in Photoshop. You don't need it, the images work just fine as they are. Simply add the png as an embellishment or photo.

Need help?

Ask on the Digi Scrapping Divas group and we'll give you all the help you need.

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