Generating QR Codes

This is actually something I never thought of doing! But how cool! I played around with changing the colors of one of my qr codes in Photoshop and it scanned just fine. I also played around with a couple of customization sites and was able to scan the code without any issues. So then I tried to scan yours and was able to view a super cute video of what looked like the tea cup ride?? Maybe try another qr reader/scanner? Sorry I'm not more help!

 

I hope you get it to work! I have been using qr codes in my PL pages for the last couple of months now I seriously want to make the cute and fun!! What site did you use? This is the one I did yesterday playing around with QRCode Monkey using a video of my son's football team So neat! Thanks so much for the inspiration!!

 

I love the qr code idea. But I don't use them. My fear is that some time from now they won't work and then thy will just be in the book.

Anyone else feel this way? Am I wrong?

 

I've wondered about that, too. The way technology changes, you never know what's going to be obsolete. I guess then my books will have a little nostalgia

 

Funny enough, dh and I were talking about this exact thing this past week.
Theoretically : as long as you have an app that can scan them, they will work.
If the site you host the video on goes away, you could actually map them to your computer. You could do that now. And I figure if I have to change any out, I can just make a new qr code, or short code thing and glue it over the printed qr code. If nothing else, the qr code is a visual reminder that there is a video for that event. Otherwise, I forget I have videos and they are locked in the computer never to be watched.

 

I felt this way for years and finally gave in to adding them a few months ago. My thought is that even if they work for just a few more years, I will still enjoy having easy access to those videos. And given that the new iPhone update added an automatic QR reader into the camera, I'm thinking that this prolongs the lifespan of these codes. One of my favorite things about giving in to using QR codes is that it has encouraged me to take more videos. I took very few before because I didn't have an avenue to really share them outside of social media. I have found myself taking videos of things I never would have before, like a walk down our block, the quirky things the dog does, 7th inning stretch at the baseball game, etc. and adding them to my PL pages. I want to be able to see and hear the things photos can't capture. But... all that being said, I still try to make them fairly inconspicuous on my pages... they are not usually a design feature, but an element in the corner.

This is what I came up with for my solution as well... if ever needed!

 

Like what Courtney said, if it doesn't work in the future there will be a reminder that there is a video to go with it. I usually keep mine pretty small so that it's not what's important on the page.

I'm going to have to try that! I've never thought about customizing my qr codes.

 

Thanks @bestcee @IntenseMagic @tkradtke @Scrapping with Liz
Maybe I will look into this.

Is there a TLP tutorial?

 

This is what got me started a few months ago...

https://the-lilypad.com/forum/threads/june-20-technique-qr-code.48857/

But I see some of the images are missing now due to the photo bucket changes.

 

I uploaded the missing images to the gallery here and the tutorial is all fixed now.

And yes, I am worried that someday the QR codes aren't going to work, but until then I love it enough that I do it quite often on my pages. Like Tracie said, the new iPhone having the ability to scan QR codes with just the regular camera makes me hopeful that they'll last a lot longer now.