Question re templates - do you save all versions the template comes in?

I just save psd files though possibly tiff files would be seen in Windows Explorer so it might be worth me changing the ones I have

 

I only save the psd files. Tiff and page won't work in my software and I don't like working with pngs.

Also, when a designer has the downloads broken up by file type, I only download the psd file zip.

 

I save just the .tiff files for both my templates and pages I make. Now that said, I used to be an Artisan scrapper and I saved only the .page files. Then I moved to PSE and had to start my collection all over again. So unless you think you are moving to another format, I would just keep the .tiff.

I like the .tiff because I can preview the templates without opening them. I used to keep the .psd files but then I would also keep the jpg previews -- that resulted in too many files and too much to keep track of. I also delete all the extra stuff the designer includes in the folders. Besides a compressed .tiff is smaller than the .psd version.

 

I only download/keep the tiff.
There's no way I'll ever use page files (I'd rather quit scrapping, if I can't have PS), and building a template with png's seems to me so time consuming that it's not worth using a template at all (a sketch or a scraplift are quicker!).
And regarding tiff's, I had read somewhere about "saving them correctly": they are way smaller in size and work fine. (I've downloaded templates that are 50 MB, and when I save them, they are 10 MB!)

 

I only save the TIFFs. I like that they are (usually) smaller than the PSDs and I can see previews (like @littlekiwi mentioned, I first switched from saving PSD to TIFF files because of that, then I realized how nice it was to have smaller file sizes).

But, and this isn't exactly related to your original question my dear Christa so please forgive me...may I ask if you have more than one EHD and/or if you back up to the Cloud? It always makes me nervous when I read that someone has one EHD. But call me "Ms Overkill" because I have 4 current EHDs and 2 extra "backups" at my parents' home as well as BackBlaze. (But I don't keep everything on my laptop, which makes saving on multiple OTHER devices important to me.)

 

Another who saves TIFFS only here. When I changed to TIFF, I found that I had many PSD template files previously downloaded with no corresponding TIFF file. I created a script in photoshop to change all psd files in a folder to TIFF files. I ran this for my template folders and now have all TIFFS.

 

This!

I can pull a png off a template if I want it. No need to save them individually.

I don't save tiffs because I'm currently locked into Adobe. I know that. They know that. I may move back to elements in the future, but it's unlikely I'll go to another program type. So, because psd is the native file, I save those. Plus, then I don't have to worry about the tiff file being saved the right way and small enough.

I also delete any links, and thank yous, and I only keep 1 TOU per designer (2 if I have PU and CU from them).

 

I used to keep both the PSD and TIFF, but now I typically only save the TIFF.

 

I need to join you in your delete party! I always start and then don't finish and have to start all over again haha good luck!

 

The first thing I do if it is one download is delete the PSD and PNGs. Like many others, I only keep the TIFF files, since they are smaller and allow a preview in Windows. I also save my layouts as TIFF files and I always keep the TIFF along with a JPG of print resolution for easy album creation when there are sales at Shutterfly.

 

ditto all the above

i will also take this opportunity to extend my gratitude to all the template designers taking the time to make their templates available in sooo many formats and also separating them for us so i only have to DL the tiff's from the shop (and saving me the effort of unzipping and deleting PNGs and all that i don't want taking up space). Many, many thanks!!!

 

This! Makes such a difference to me!

 

I was going to only save TIFs until I started using the templates in TIF and found my CS6 played up with them. So now I just keep PSDs and on my Windows7 I can see the preview of the PSD. I cannot remember what I did to be able to also see previews of brush ABR files.

 

I only download and save the psd's

 

TIFF saver here too. That's all I need.

 

I save the psd files ...