New to digital scrapping and have downloaded a bunch of freebies, just wondering how you keep yours organized so you can find them quickly. Thanks, Kiara

Do you have the DIP suite (with library)? That is used for organizing but I can't tell you how because I haven't taken the time to get mine organized. Alot of people also use free photo organizers from the internet. I really need to spend some time organizing. I think I would be more productive if I knew what I had. Right now, I print the kits out and put them in a binder under my favorite designers names.

I have a lot of embellishments too and I have one primary folder. In that folder, I have many folders. I've named the folders (buttons, ribbons, flowers, ABC's, Butterflies, Hearts, Transportation, Holiday's, People, Baby's, Words & Poems) I have also made subfolders within some of these folders example: holidays ( I have folders located within my Holiday Folder) such as 4th of July, Christmas, Halloween, Birthday, Easter). If you Right Click your folders, you can put in Alpha order. I have found this has been extremly helpful. I keep my PRIMARY folder on my desktop. Makes it easy to open it then drag and drop into the desired folders.

nie

You can reas this artcle which list a bunch of options http://scrapbook-bytes.com/cgi-scrip...icle_292.shtml

and thsi is an older tutorial about using the DIP library http://scrapbook-bytes.com/cgi-scrip...icle_289.shtml

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I have organized my downloads by websites. My favorite is SBB! I have a folder named Downloads SBB. In that folder I save each kit in a folder named SBB firstname lastname name of kit (SBB Dana Zarling Sweet Baby). This way each designer's kits are alphabetically listed or grouped together. Then I use Photoshop Elements 4 Organizer feature to catalog everything. You can attach tags easily and several tags per file. I have tags for paper, preview, designer, buttons/baubles, fibers etc. Once everything is tagged I can search for all files with a certain tag. Example a "paper" search results in all the papers I have cataloged and I just scroll through to see them. Was a big job initially but goes fast now I am caught up and catalog each kit as I get it. It's fun just to look through everything so easily. There are several different programs that offer this type of organizing. Hope this helps.