how do you manage all the goodies you get from ezine? do you:
- mrege all the pagebytes/kits/elements together in 1 directory or keep it in lots of little directories like it downloads or put it by creator or something else?
- make a CD of the ezine with all the pagebytes/kits/elements?
- rename the files to include creator/source etc?

i'm getting overwhelmed trying to manage these things.

thanks in advance. Wendy

Hi Wendy...

I use Photoshop Album; import them in and then sort them through that; I can put tags on them for both month of ezine, type of file (ie: background; element; page byte etc.)

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I used to comb through the kits and put all the papers in my papers directories etcetera but this was just too much work. So I save the entire download for one kit in one folder for that kit. I name it after the kit not the author as I have many from the same author so this is not helpful! I use an image handling program which lets me assign multiple categories to one image and every now and then I do a bit of housecleaning and go into the kits and make sure that the papers in there have a paper cateogory assigned to them etcetera.

For what it is worth, and probably well off the beaten track, I am a pretty savage housekeeper and constantly clean out my downloads. For example, I can readily colour an element or paper so I do not keep multiple copies of the same thing just done in different colours. I know how to rotate elements so I don't keep 4 photo corners, I just keep one. I also don't keep items I have had for a few months and never used. I can usually go back and grab them again or get something else close enough. If all else fails, I try to make it myself. Elements are lovely to have and choice is nice but my goal is to scrap not to be an element archivist or librarian. I also find that I am not element inspired--my scrapping emanates from my photos not my kits or my elements. So they are the last thing I turn to, not the first. By the time I start really thinking elements I have pretty much made up my mind what I am after and having too many is more a bother than a help.

I never thought of it that way.... I too know how to colorize and rotate..... and my layouts usually stem from the photo i want to use..... not the kit or element first.... I'm running out of space on my hard drive, and it never even occured to me to delete the dups in other colors! *S*

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