How do you even begin

Peggy

Peggy

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to organize your stuff? I have only been doing this for 3 weeks and am accumulating very very fast. Too fast.:(I have got to figure out a way to organize. I spend so much time "looking for what I need"
any suggestions?
 
Ohhhhh.... welcome to the wonderful world of digi!

I've been at it many years.
That said there is no one single correct answer.
( sorry)

for me:
i have a drive dedicated to digital scrap supplies.
Then a folder per site and/or designer ( choose what works for you)

once inside a designer folder > folders per kit and empty the kit contents there.

I also delete unnecessary items such as: every TOU. I save one. And I
keep only the alpha or alpha sheet not both.
For templates. Keep just the format you will use.

Then i tag. I tag using Adobe bridge because I am over ACDsee for several reasons but use a database that works for you.
I now tag a kit preview by theme. I tag templates by the number of photo spots. I have a catagory that includes masks as well.
Create a list that works for you.

Hope that helps.
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I get overwhelmed the first time I tried digital scrapbooking too, my husband thought I'm going crazy hehe

I too, have a folder in my desktop labeled "kits" for all my scrapbook kits. Then inside are the kits labeled (designer acronym_kit name), example: lj_Heat of Summer. That's Lindsey Jane's kit titled Heat of Summer. Then inside the kit folder, I also delete TOU (terms of use) and double preview/folder copies but I make sure to leave one copy so it would be easy to put the credits for gallery posting.
 
I've been scrapping digitally since February and you're right, you get a lot of stuff, really fast.

I put each kit into a folder titled using the same name as the designer named the kit (keeps me from buying repeats a little).
Inside the folders, I have sub folders for paper, elements, alphas and what every other group (borders and fairs) the kit has.

This past weekend I started to put all my Tennis kits into a "tennis" folder, my scout kits into a "Scout" folder and so forth. I've got a long way to go on that but it has been helping me in my more often used kits (right now Tennis and scouting".

I try really hard to keep all of a kit together.
My system isn't perfect but it works for me so far.

I will say this, I keep my digital kits off my computer hard drive. They are on an External drive. But I also keep DVD's of the zip files so if my EHD goes I don't loose everything. That has happened to me before.
 
Oh, I should also say that I save my layouts in a large format separate from my "web" formats. I had my program eat most of an album before (over 200 layouts) so now I'm gun shy about saving them.
 
.I am assuming that must of youare you using an external hard drive? My DVD player isn't working/ I started today by making a folder with just templates since I can never find the one I want.
 
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