My family was in the “In-Crowd” this past Friday on opening day of High School Musical III. We contributed just under $20 to Disney’s $42 million in gross box office revenue for the weekend. My daughter Danielle was all smiles and her first question when we got out of the theater was ”when can we go see High School Musical IV?”

When the kids went to bed that night my husband was browsing the Internet and asked me if I knew about Scrapblog. Well, of course. I’ve known about Scrapblog since they first launched. After playing around with them I decided to go with Tabblo because I thought Scrapblog’s graphics were too cheesy and because you could not print Scrapblog pages into a book. When I was working in Strategy at a Telecom company I kept tabs on companies like these because they consume a lot of bandwidth. Well, Scrapblog has been busy the last year!

They have interfaces for photo download with just about everyone…Flikr, Photobucket, Facebook, etc. They have recently announced printing. They do not have 12 x 12 books, but their books are stitched and glued. Nice.

There are about 150 designs now, which brings me to the point of my post. Scrapblog’s business development team is doing a stellar job at partnerships! They have three High School Musical III themes to choose from! Each theme has four page designs and every element on the page can be re-sized, deleted or even made semi-transparent!

I’m still not sure that I would print books with them because I’m very picky about my graphics. But, I’m not ruling them out because you can actually start with a blank page and use their graphic elements. They have over 900 background images, 6,000 stickers, shapes, frames and the ability to incorporate video. Halloween graphics are front and center right now, and they are actually pretty darn cute!

As far as I can tell you cannot import your own graphics. But I can’t imagine the licensing logistics if it were that open of a platform. Anyway, kudos go out to Scrapblog for having High School Musical III templates, and by opening night of the movie to boot!

Next time I want to make a Tabblo I might actually give Scrapblog a try! Both companies offer a great way to share your photos online with friends and family in a “layout” style. Scrapblog jazzes things up with graphics and the option of video. Tabblo has plenty of layout styles and infinite color choices. A little more subdued for the photographers that actually want the photo to take center stage.