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Almost.... done.... organizing... my TLP stash!

klee73010

klee73010

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I started this process a few months ago now. I am 2 designers away from finishing the TLP folder. I should have it done tonight. Months, I tell you!
I have posted/read/looked at countless of organization threads, but I just wanted to share this one shred of happiness in this area. :)
 
That sounds awesome! Great accomplishment. How's is it working? Is it helping you find stuff easier?
 
YAY! When you get all organized you just want to take pictures, lol! I totally get being happy and wanting to share!
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:yesss
 
How are you doing yours? I've just started collecting digital scrappy stuff again. The items I bought several years ago are in sad sad shape. I have no clue who did most of it and the store/blog is defunct. I'm off to search the forum for other's ways :)
 
elseepe said:
That sounds awesome! Great accomplishment. How's is it working? Is it helping you find stuff easier?
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I guess I should say, that it isn't organizing so much as cleaning up. I am keeping designer>kit folders. However, I had not been very good about keeping all the kit pieces in one folder, and never cleaned up folders when I downloaded. So, I'd download a kit from the store, comes with EP and PP, and those folders stayed separate in my designer folder. Also, all the extra folders, folders within folders, 75 copies of TOUs, etc were all still there. So.... for the past 3 months or so, I've been slowly fixing all of that. Even more of an accomplishment (to me, anyway) when I consider that I started during my guest polly month, when I was downloading like crazy, and then also joining two creative teams here. I have subscriptions to JJ and M3, so there's tons of TLP stuff coming every month, and now I'm almost done. Over the past 3 months I've been almost strictly diligent (There's been a handful of exceptions) about making sure I take care of it at download time, so, I am pretty sure I can maintain it. Phew!

In addition to the clean up, I've been copying previews to a new preview folder. I have plans of slowly tagging those preview images, but I'm not in a rush. Largely, I needed the visual reference and I feel like I have that now. I'm very pleased!
 
I do that to my folders too, definitely when I download and unzip. I don't copy my previews, but I do give them a preview tag in Lightroom. Ideally, one day I will also go back and figure out how to add some sort of color and/or theme tags to those previews -- I tried in the past, but I never really figured out how to best look for them. (other than Christmas or Winter which are pretty obvious, but I use kits in non-thematic ways), so maybe one day I'll figure out what makes sense
 
Yeah Kristina!! I'm impressed! Organizing is hard work, and I love that you found a system that you can keep up with too!

elseepe said:
I don't copy my previews, but I do give them a preview tag in Lightroom.
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Will you explain how you do this please? I've been debating on copying the kit preview to a separate folder, but that won't let me navigate super easy.
 
@bestcee I can't speak to lightroom specifically, but in my windows file explorer, I am tagging kit previews with "justpreviews". I would imagine lightroom is similar, but it would depend if you keep your stash catalogue in lightroom.

The reason I am copying mine to a separate folder is because of PSE organizer. In the past when I've attempted to use organizer, I've had issues with the fact that my stash is on an EHD that sometimes gets unplugged. So, I am tagging the kit previews with "justpreviews " on the EHD, then copying those to a folder on my actual hard drive. The reason I'm doing it this way is so when I get a laptop some day, I will be able to still search my EHD with the tags still there. If I'm in my desktop, I can use organizer, where I plan to have more involved tags eventually, so I can search my own stash as if it were a store. When that day comes, searching on my EHD may be somewhat limited, because I won't have every tag, but "justpreviews" and "justpapers" will be sufficient to point me to a kit I can work with if I'm on the go. :)
 
@klee73010 You totally confused me!

Why would you not have the same search options on your laptop as on your computer? Are you not going to use the same program? It sounds like you don't plan to have Organizer on the laptop maybe?

And I have to say the EHD not connected issues in PSE Organizer was a huge reason I love Lightroom! It doesn't care if the photos are "there" when I'm just tagging.
 
@bestcee I do not use organizer right now, at all. My intention is to have it available on my desktop, but you're correct. I wouldn't plan on using it on my laptop. (For the same reason I haven't used it to date on my desktop.... the removing of the ehd!)

On my old laptop, before it died, I didn't even have pse. I was using GIMP, and switching between two different programs. (Super annoying)
 
All my previews have a "Preview" tag in Lightroom. Since you already know how to tag things in Lightroom, I'm not sure what you're asking @bestcee but if you click the little arrow next to a tag, it will take you to all the images with that tag, and then you can right-click the preview you want, click show in Explorer to get to the whole kit from the preview. Then just start dragging into PS.
 
Congrats to all those who are orgainzed or even have a system.
I go through phases of organization. I am not in one now - most of my kits are still in the download folder. Lol!
 
klee73010 said:
Over the past 3 months I've been almost strictly diligent (There's been a handful of exceptions) about making sure I take care of it at download time, so, I am pretty sure I can maintain it. Phew!

In addition to the clean up, I've been copying previews to a new preview folder. I have plans of slowly tagging those preview images, but I'm not in a rush. Largely, I needed the visual reference and I feel like I have that now. I'm very pleased!
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First off, YEA for organizing! And second, it is sooooo much easier to organize if all downloads are unzipped/otherwise taken care of right away! I do my best to keep my Downloads folder completely empty. It's just so much easier. And while something is downloading, I Pin the preview (so it links to it in the store) and I add the kit to my KIT Excel spreadsheet (or the template pack or other non-kit items to my EXTRAS spreadsheet).

Anyway, sorry for hijacking with my system! I was just trying to say that if I do all of that right away, then it makes my life so much easier. Plus if everything is in its right place, then I can scrap rightaway instead of searching my downloads folder for the correct zips lol. I've thought about having a folder with just the tagged Folder image in it and your post made me decide I should do it. :) That way I can search just that folder instead of my whole (huge) kits folder. And it'll be nice to have all those pretty previews to look at. "My precioussssss."
 
Mylinn said:
How are you doing yours? I've just started collecting digital scrappy stuff again. The items I bought several years ago are in sad sad shape. I have no clue who did most of it and the store/blog is defunct. I'm off to search the forum for other's ways :)
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Sorry I missed replying to you!
I store everything in my EHD. I have a folder for my there most prominent stores/source of incoming stash, then another folder for less frequented stores/individual designers.
Within each store folder, I have a folder for each designer, then a folder for each kit. I do this because it's how I've been doing it for years. I know how to find things this way, so I stick to it.

My workflow is to download, unzip, clean up folder, copy to back up ehd, move to correct location. What I've added in the past few months is tagging previews with "justpreviews " and papers with "justpapers " and copying the previews to a "previews not yet tagged" folder. As I have time to do more tagging, I can move them to a "previews tagged" folder.

The reason I am doing the separate folder is specifically so I can search my own stash as if it's a store, so my intention is to have things like holidays and themes tagged on the previews. I wanted to have everything in one place, rather than spread across 500 designer folders. :)
 
@bestcee, pretty much what Lorry said. When I import my digi stuff into Lightroom, I go folder my folder and make sure I am sorting by filetype (to keep all the jpg files together), locate the preview files and give them a "0Previews" keyword. I also have some sub keywords for kit preview, alpha preview, element preview, paper preview, brush preview, card preview, and title/wordart preview --

If you haven't done this and you have a sizeable stash you can set up a smart collection to find most of the previews for you. You might have to play with a couple of different things for search criteria, but this one would get a lot of them:

file type is jpeg +
width is range 500 px to 900 px (most are 600) +
aspect ratio is square

I select this "smart collection" at the top most folder of my digi stash (or lower if I'm working on a big import).

I guess I need to update mine to add a criteria for no keywords to find any I might not have tagged yet.

Love the power of Lightroom. I don't do much other individual tagging/keywording anymore. I just rely on the text search field.
 
elseepe said:
When I import my digi stuff into Lightroom
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Aha! I don't know why I missed this fact. I must have been day dreaming! I haven't pulled my digi stash into Lightroom. I had so many issues with PSE Organizer being super slow when it had both supplies and photos that I didn't even consider pulling stash into Lightroom!
@lorryfach and/or @elseepe Do you find it slows Lightroom done to have digi supplies in it?

Thanks for the Smart Collection idea and specs!
 
No, I don't find that it slows it down at all. I love having it all in one catalog. There was a video by Julieanne Kost on Adobe's site one time talking about it not being an issue to have a large number of items in your catalog.
 
yay for organized!!!!
you should share tips with us...
I have my own way of organizing which worked very well until I became a Polly, now I need to think things through a bit more...
but to be honest...there isn;t much stuff in my computer these days that isn't The Lilypad.... LOL
so I need to organized within the Lilypad what I want to do, specially with LOs....not much problem about kits...as I move everything to my EHDs.... I have my own method, which is per year and then ...anyway, no point ion explaining much....
what I would like to know is how to make the folder (included in each kit) to be the actual icon I see when I look in my folders and sub folders for the kits....
For example I have no worries with Jaimee as in @justjaimee 's kits, I assume she is on Mac because her kits download to me with the folder preview, so when I m searching, I just need to look through her kits and I know which one is which.... most of the designers I know the kits by name, have an idea of what there is inside, but now that things became so much more with so many awesome designers... I would love to know how to make the preview become the thing I see when I look...as opposite to the blue folder I see when I look in downloads or in my EHDs folders....

I'm sure I have no confused you even more LOL
 
@MrsPeel What happens when you select the "extra large icon" as the viewing preferences in the windows file explorer? In the folder, which has all the subfolders, hold cntrl button and scroll mouse up to zoom.

I don't use this feature, but from what I've gathered, it depends on your settings. Either the icon will show the very first image in the folder, or it shows the image with "folder" as the name.
 
klee73010 said:
@MrsPeel What happens when you select the "extra large icon" as the viewing preferences in the windows file explorer? In the folder, which has all the subfolders, hold cntrl button and scroll mouse up to zoom.

I don't use this feature, but from what I've gathered, it depends on your settings. Either the icon will show the very first image in the folder, or it shows the image with "folder" as the name.
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I am on Mac .... so I don't know LOL
 
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