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alg35536 · #25 (**permalink**) 06-19-2005

I am really new to D. Scrapbooking. I have tho downloaded quit a few kits. I plan on burning them on a acd, lableling the cd as to what is on it and then prining out an index print of what is on the cd and then keep it with the cd. That way, everything is all together and I can see what is on the cd.

beckylouwho · #26 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005

I tried the seperating the elements but I found it was difficult knowing who made the element and leaving credit was a mess so I keep all my kits together. I burn them to a disk that is labeled with the websites name that the kit came from. Then I printed all the previews for that CD on paper and keep it in a notebook. So all I have to dois flip pages to find the kits I have. Since it is the preview I printed, I can see all that is in the kit without having to bother my computer. It is just like opening the CD and all the thumbnails show up, except they are just printed on paper.
Example is on the sheet I type SBB and all the previews for that Cd are printed on that page. If I have 2 CDs the I label the paper SBB #2 and print the kits for that CD on that paper. I hate bogging down my hard drive. I have had to replace two motherboards in two years. I try to baby the thing and hope no more motherboard replacing! HTH Becky

cori2107 · #27 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005

sounds like you ladies do what I pretty much do. All my tags are on one now anyway I did just have them indexed at first when I didn't have much because I didn't want 10 half used CD's well now I'm going back and erasing and reburning! all my tags are on one with an index print and if something is from somewhere else that site is listed above it but it is after all of the sbb tags are on the CD for instance. Then a CD with my backgrounds a CD with my overlays. a page in a 3 ring binder for me to flip though so I know and it's listed that these are on CD#1 and these are on CD#2. each CD is written on CD#1 CD#2 and each box. there is still a lot on my computer waiting for me to get it off of there but not enough to slow me down.

bookofsnow · #28 (**permalink**) 08-15-2005

I used to sort by element but then it was hard to remember which went with which kit, etc... so now I have a folder named Scrap Library on my D drive in case something happens to my C I don't want to lose anything!!! So I then have folders. Kits, Elements, Alphas, WordArt, Inspiration. Oh and SAMPLES

In Kits I have downloaded entire kits and each is in its own folder with the name of the kit. Then the other folders are just for when I download pieces of things to save but I always make a new folder for each set of things that I got together. Easier for crediting, etc. Samples is my folder for pics of everything all in one place. So when I want to pick out a kit I can browse through the preview pics to see which one I need!

HTH

shelleyrae · #29 (**permalink**) 08-19-2005

More in of in the following article:
Ideas for organising your Element Collection
http://scrapbook-bytes.com/cgi-scrip...index_30.shtml

and this thread here:
http://scrapbook-bytes.com/cgi-scrip...index_30.shtml

4theluvofscrapn · #30 (**permalink**) 08-24-2005

I am new too! All of this is great information. Thanks for sharing and thanks for the great question on organizing info you get! I can't wait to get going! I just know this is going to be for me. I love it already!

lisahoo · #31 (**permalink**) 09-01-2005

Hi -- I have a few tips to add, hopefully they will help regardless of the overall system or SW you use:

1) I like to make sure the designers name is in the file name so I can mix & match elements easily -- here is a great tool to help with that so you can do 'batch' renaming -- ReNamer -- FREE and available at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~den4b/Projects/. Probably some other good renaming tools out there, too.

2) if you make sure the file name includes the type of element, that will help in searching too (i.e. Kathryn_Balint_buttons.png)

3) I like to rename the preview images with ! as the first character so they will always be at the top of the list ( i.e., !kitpreview.jpg)

4) I print a contact sheet of my favorite designers kits so I have a quick visual reference of the kits I've purchased -- PSE has a built-in function to do this. I'm sure other SW apps do too..

FINALLY -- for MOST graphics file formats, they usually do not get compressed very much by zipping (that is, the .zip file is usually pretty much the same size as the total size of all the unzipped files). SO -- when I burn my elements to CD, I leave them UNCOMPRESSED or UNZIPPED so I can view the thumbnails more easily.

crecia27 · #32 (**permalink**) 09-09-2005

Great idea about the ! on the preview file, then it will show up in the window of the folder if you have it in thumbnail view. I'm still trying to get organized so I can even get started, how sad is that?

Lucrecia