How to organize downloads of papers, elements, etc

[ebstantus]

Does anyone have a good system for organizing all of the paper, embellishments, etc that they have downloaded to find them easily? Do you use the organizer and tags in PSE? Help!

[SharLamb]

I unzip them, then store them on my computer this way:

C: My Documents>Scrapbook Supplies>Sources>ScrappersGuide (for instance)>Artist/Kit name

Then I copy the supplies over to the Organizer in PSE. There I tag them all, first with the source (such as Scrapper’s Guide), then with the name of the artist and kit, then with the type of item it is (paper, alpha, overlay, mask, fastener, floral, etc….I have hundreds of item categories, and seem to add new ones all the time). I also tag my papers by color. Some people tag everything with the color, but I find that I don’t need to do so with, for instance, buttons or ribbon, etc., because if it’s not the color I want, I just recolor it anyway.

The HUGE thing to remember is to put your goodies on your hard drive, NOT directly into the PSE Organizer. The Organizer is NOT a storage place. It conveniently shows you what you have, but is really only a path to where it is stored. It just magically puts things at your fingertips. But if they are not stored on your hard drive (or a DVD, which you would then have to put on a disk drive every time you wanted to use your elements), the next time you open PSE, your stuff will be “disconnected,” which means “GONE!”

Ask me how I know!!! READ PREVIOUS PARAGRAPH AGAIN!!!!

[ebstantus]

Thanks! I will try it!