how do you keep track of what you've scrapped?

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Emmy

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Do you store your finished layouts in with your photos? I'm working on some photo organizing and album planning and I just realized that maybe it doesn't make sense to store my layouts in one folder and my photos in another - maybe I should put the layouts in with the photos so I can see at a glance what's scrapped. Anyone have some thoughts here?
 
i just have one folder for all my layouts. and all my photos are in one folder, with subfolders. every day i upload photos from my camera, it automatically creates a new folder with the date of the pic i don't organize very well, lol.
 
are you organizing today, Emmy?

hmm, I guess for me it doesn't matter b/c my goal isn't to get photos scrapped. My goal is to use digi stuff :p. I use to worry about using a photo more than once but now it doesn't bother me.
 
I keep my photos in a different place, organized by child and by month. I keep my scrap materials (kits, pages in progress, completed pages, printed pages) stored in a different place on my HD. Once a LO is finished, I move it to the Completed folder. Once something is printed, it goes to the Printed folder. Whenever I do a big round of printing, I burn those pages to DVD and delete them from my HD to save space.

And I should also add that I keep a "Pics to Scrap" folder with my scrapping stuff. Whenever I take pictures, I move the ones I want to scrap to that folder. When I've scrapped them, I move them out of that folder. It sounds like a lot of work, but it's quick with copying and pasting.
 
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I use photos more than once all the time. I'll use it if it fits a challenge perfectly, or fits a story I want to tell, or fits a kit I want to use. I don't care if I use them more than once, and odds are no one else will care either, lol.

Photos are stored in a completely different area than digi scrap stuff. They are organized by year, then by season, with events getting their own folder in the season. Plus a "random pics" folder in each season, with all the pics I snap for no good reason other than to just take them.

Eventually I'll get my LO's uploaded somewhere and printed. For now they just sit on my hard drive, lol.
 
I am SO disorganized but I do have a folder for the layouts seperately. I am starting to save teh psd files as well.
 
Yes Mimi I'm organizing! We are done with school for summer break (ok 7 weeks...) and I've got big scrapping plans for our time off. I love your description of how you scrap to "use your digi stuff" - I never thought of wording it that way but that's what I've been doing pretty much since I started digi scrapping. But now I'm finding I miss having more completed albums to look through (and the kids miss it too) so I'm going to try and be a bit more organized in how I scrap and perhaps even be really unfashionable and do some chronological books. ;)

I don't mind using photos more than once sometimes either but in the case of event layouts and some things, I really don't want to duplicate my efforts.

Thanks for all the responses - I always love reading how other people approach their scrapping. :)
 
I actually have all my photos organized in categories and if I have a photo that works very well with a kit that I plan on using, I'll scrap with it any way. LOL
 
I scrap in order and am caught up so I haven't run into the unorganized issue. I don't store layouts and pics together though. I store on EHD and Burn to DVD and also upload and store at www.fotki.com. I have a folder in my documents labeled "Print" that I store a resized copy of my layouts in until I can get them printed. I print at home
 
Emmy said:
perhaps even be really unfashionable and do some chronological books. ;)
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LOL!

When I print a Shutterfly book I arrange the layouts chronologically and I realized one of my kid's books was missing a big chunk of time (like a year?).

Oh I never answered your question. I organize my layouts by putting them in separate CT folders. It's my way of keeping track of what I've done I guess.

One thing I keep meaning to do is to name my files with dates so that it is easier to organize for printing. Like put the year and month as a prefix.
 
I refuse to scrap chronological because I don't want to feel "guilty" for not being caught up.

I'm all about the here and now, lol.
 
Well, it was pretty easy for me before because I was working on 2007 and just remembered which pictures I had used. (i keep them separate)

Recently I started going back and scrapping my first daughters early pictures (2004-2006) and decided ACDSee would be great! So I went through and tagged all the pictures I wanted to scrap and when I scrap them, I un-tag them. It works GREAT!
 
I just remember. I've never run into accidentally scrapping photos twice and/or using a kit more than once. I can just look through my stash and my photos and remember which I've done and which I haven't.

Don't ya just hate me now, E?! :p

I suppose if I had four boys to take care of, my memory would be less perfect...
 
rochelle789 said:
I keep my photos in a different place, organized by child and by month. I keep my scrap materials (kits, pages in progress, completed pages, printed pages) stored in a different place on my HD. Once a LO is finished, I move it to the Completed folder. Once something is printed, it goes to the Printed folder. Whenever I do a big round of printing, I burn those pages to DVD and delete them from my HD to save space.

And I should also add that I keep a "Pics to Scrap" folder with my scrapping stuff. Whenever I take pictures, I move the ones I want to scrap to that folder. When I've scrapped them, I move them out of that folder. It sounds like a lot of work, but it's quick with copying and pasting.
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This is exactly what I do!
 
P.S. Chronological is cool, yo.

I don't scrap that way on purpose, but it ends up working out that way as I like to work on pictures I'm excited abt and those are usually ones I've just taken. There are some gaps when, like, nothing exciting happens or I don't want to scrap another boring sports game, but otherwise, I manage to hit the highlights of each month in the following month so it's all still 'fresh.'

I organize all photos and layouts chronologically: by 'group,' i.e. Family, Friends, Jeff/Tyler/Me, & Misc. (attention wh*re self portrait photo shoots & landscape photos are usually the bulk of this folder), then year, then month.
 
Mimi - I do name my files with the date and it is quite handy for printing or organizing. Typically a layout would be named by kid_subject_monthyear.jpg

Colleen - well I don't feel guilty, but I do enjoy having a balance of things scrapbooked. Not just my really fab photos or special moments styled pages
but also events and everyday pics. I've just been in a rut lately and need to scrap more of the regular pages too so I'm not missing big expanses of time. Also, I'm working on school albums for the boys and I want those to be fairly complete. And when I'm not keeping an eye to it (like the last year or more!), I tend to leave out stories I want scrapped or have an imbalance of pics scrapped between my 4 boys. Sorry - probably way more info that you care to know LOL

General comment - I think because digital is newer/trendier/whatever there tends to be a lot less traditional chronological album making scrappers in it. That or they are not too vocal on the boards!

LeeAndra - I was able to recall until I had my 4th kid. At that point - sadly, those abilities were lost to me. :D

Thanks for all the great replies!
 
I paperscrapped chronologically for 11 years before making the jump to digital and I would be lost if I started jumping around.
 
I just remember what I've scrapped. Too much effort to try and organize that. I do have my pics organized by month so i can just go find which pic i want from whatever month/year
 
I am so not there yet - I have so many pictures and I try to scrap the picture - Right now I have a separate folder for all my photo shop pages
 
I have so many things that I haven't scrapped that the odds aren't likely that I'll rediscover the same pic that I've already used. LOL But I would like to organize myself better so I can be inspired by the photos. Right now I hunt though photos for over an hour to find one that I want to scrap. That isn't right. LOL
 
I tend to remember what photos I have scrapped, not that that stops me from scrapping them again. :) Some photos I just love, some I scrapped 3 years ago when I was still new and want to reuse them now, with better shadowing. :) I use all my kits at least twice too.

I keep my photo organized by month & year & I'll name them descriptively if I think they need it. "Boys outside" doesn't need labelled but "Dinosaur birthday party" does. Photos I think would be good to scrap I tag 'scrap' in ACDSee, so when I am in the mood to scrap I just bring up that tag & go to work. I add a tag 'done' to them if I use them.

My scrapping stuff is kept seperately. I have a folder for the original .pspimage layout, and one for the web resized one. When I decide to print, I go in and save the .psp as a .jpg of whatever size I am printing. The go in a Printed folder.
 
Stacey you sound really organized!

I tag my really great pics on PSE organizer but not everything I want to scrap. I think that's a good idea to tag them as done.
 
I have scrapped several photos multiple times.. My style has changed so much since I have started so I kinda think of it as a makeover for that layout. I haven't had layouts printed except one for my mom.
 
This is how I organize my LO's I create. If I am working on an album, I keep all the Lo's for that particular album in a folder of the same name. I also have folders for any challenges I participate in. I may not have these LO's printed, but if I really like them, I can always add them to an album. I also keep a separate folder for any layouts that I share in a gallery, as most of those layouts have to be resized.
 
My photos are all organized in their own folders. I have my son's folder divided up by month so I can keep track.
Then, all my digi pages are in their own folder. As I get more and more done, I will organize that folder by age as well (since they are all of my son) and it will make it easier for printing later :D
I upload my pages to my Flickr Pro account and resize them there to post in the gallery.
 
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rochelle789 said:
And I should also add that I keep a "Pics to Scrap" folder with my scrapping stuff. Whenever I take pictures, I move the ones I want to scrap to that folder. When I've scrapped them, I move them out of that folder. It sounds like a lot of work, but it's quick with copying and pasting.
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I have a 'pics to scrap' folder, too. I love not having to search through ALL of my photos when I feel like scrapping. When I upload photos to the computer, I copy anything scrapworthy into the scrapping folder. When I've scrapped it (or decided I'm not going to scrap it after all), I delete the copy. I also store journaling or notes in the 'Pics to scrap' folder so that I write it while it's fresh.

I tend to work on a year at a time, though within that year I scrap in any order I'm inspired to. It drives me crazy never to have finished albums, so I have to work on one (per child) at a time and then make myself move on when I have enough of the best photos and stories scrapped. Otherwise I'd still be working on my older DS's baby album and there'd be nothing current scrapped!
 
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This is how my harddrive is set up
Digital Scrapping Stuff
Digital Scrapbook Pages
Family Photos

Under Scrapping stuff its by Designer & I organize better through ACDsee

Digital Scrapbook Pages is by Month & Year (I'm a chronological scrapper)

Family Photos also by Month & Year, I just name my photos by the date. And I just tag the photos in ACDsee as the ones I want to scrap.
 
ok i feel like a doofus for not doing this but i'm going to start adding the date...it will sure help when i print out my layouts...
 
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