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scrapsandsass

scrapsandsass

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Do you ever lose your pages? Like you save them, but you cannot, for the life of you, figure out where you saved them?

I have a pretty simple system. I save all of my pages by store and then by month. But apparently, I messed up at some point and I cannot find a couple of my pages that were done/nearly done. Usually if I do that, I go back to the last place I saved something to, and it is there. It may be the wrong folder, but at least I can find it. I have like three pages that I wanted to post but can't find in any folder. It is weird. I know it was right when I was switching over from my desktop (dying) to my laptop, but it is weird I can't find them. I've even tried searching my hard drive (by name), but no luck. :dizzy

Do you ever do anything silly like that? Do you have a good system of saving your completed pages?
 
I have a folder where I put all my LOs. When I use my save action, it saves them to the top level folder. When I'm totally done with it, uploaded to galleries, etc. then I move it to a subdirectory by year of subject matter. So all the unfinished ones are at the top level and the finished ones aren't.
 
I work from a wip (work in progress) folder. I save to that until I'm completely finished with the layout. Then I save the PSD to a "Completed layouts" folder (subfolders are CT designers, store/year, and some other pertinent folders. I save the JPEG to the "printable folder" and the web layouts to a "web layouts" folder (subfolders by CT designer, store/year, and other pertinent folders that work for me).
 
if i don't pay attention, it goes to the paper folder i started with
 
I have a similar process to Kim mixed with a bit of Lory and Diane LOL
I save pages by CT mainly I have a folder per CT and that is inside the 2015 LOs folder- I used to save by month in the past, but as I saved to my EHDs and I still haven't learned how to make an image be front of the folder, it took me ages to go through folders, so, my CTs Los are in a folder per year, the in that same big folder are all my other Los, thing is, if I can remember the name I gave it, Mac is good on search, I just put the name and it finds it,,,,

I have them all in one EHD first, then once they are posted , pinned, enabled, I move them to my LO Folder in the other EHD...


I have saved kits in the wrong folders....many, many times....
 
I upload every page I make to Flickr where I organize them according to CT and subject and year scrapped. I may have one layout in six folders, but it makes it easy to locate something that way. Then I have the file name and if I need the psd I can search on my computer
 
Layouts are saved in LAYOUTS IN PROGRESS folder until they are posted online. After that, they are moved to LAYOUTS and then the year of the layout photos. I keep an Excel sheet that shows what I have scrapped and what's left to scrap. I also import them in Lightroom so I can find and easily view the PSDs as well.
 
dvhoward said:
I work from a wip (work in progress) folder. I save to that until I'm completely finished with the layout. Then I save the PSD to a "Completed layouts" folder (subfolders are CT designers, store/year, and some other pertinent folders. I save the JPEG to the "printable folder" and the web layouts to a "web layouts" folder (subfolders by CT designer, store/year, and other pertinent folders that work for me).
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I'm similar to this system... just less folders.
PSD files folder... current layouts are saved as WIP.
When completed, I save into the "album copy" folder and a "web copy" folder sorted by year.
 
I save by store by month. At the end of the year I archive. I try to also name the WIP so that I can identify it in case I save it by accident or in a hurry to somewhere else... LPChallengeMonth seems to work to find them again if I did something foolish when in a rush.
 
I have an excel spreadsheet that I use to keep track of what I want to scrap and I type "DONE" in a column after I've scrapped it so I know if there should be a finished page. I also have a folder that I copy all my finished .jpgs into and I go there when I'm laying out my Shutterfly books. So between that folder and my excel sheet, I usually keep track pretty good. Sometimes I forget to copy the layout into that folder and have to go hunting for it though.

Once I realized that I scrapped the same day at the beach twice because I forgot to mark it done in my sheet. Whoops!
 
Karen said:
I have an excel spreadsheet that I use to keep track of what I want to scrap and I type "DONE" in a column after I've scrapped it so I know if there should be a finished page.
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That is awesome! You have some mad organizing skills. Robin Cabana also has an excel spreadsheet. You guys rock.

#scrapperenvy
 
I use a "to be scrapped" tag in Lightroom. If I had to open a separate program just to edit a spreadsheet, it would never get done. I have Lightroom open anyway.
 
Did you use a template? Maybe you saved over a template. I've done that before.
 
klee73010 said:
How do you set up your spreadsheets?
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I have the following columns:

Completed? Description Date Products to Use

I mark DONE in the completed column when I finish a page and my spreadsheet is laid out in sections of 100ish pages, so I know when I have enough to fill a Shutterfly book and I know when it's time to print a new book. I keep the things I want to scrap in chronological order, but I scrap whatever I feel like and bounce all over until I have have enough for a book ready to print.

I'll come back later and post a link to my blank sheet. I have in on 4shared somewhere.
 
Karen said:
I have the following columns:

Completed? Description Date Products to Use

I mark DONE in the completed column when I finish a page and my spreadsheet is laid out in sections of 100ish pages, so I know when I have enough to fill a Shutterfly book and I know when it's time to print a new book. I keep the things I want to scrap in chronological order, but I scrap whatever I feel like and bounce all over until I have have enough for a book ready to print.

I'll come back later and post a link to my blank sheet. I have in on 4shared somewhere.
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Do you have a blog post or something somewhere that explains your process at all?
How often do you add ideas to your list? or mark them completed? (Every day, every time you scrap, once a week?)

I like the idea, and I think I'm going to work on one this week.
 
I don't have a blog post... I think I wrote one years ago for another site that no longer is a site.

I keep my excel spreadsheet on my little pink jump drive that lives in my purse, so I can add to it whenever I want. Sometimes while I'm at work I'll think of something silly my kids did and I will open that up and add it to my to-scrap list, but mostly I add to it when I download my pictures. I download all new pictures and scan through them and add things to my to-scrap list, based on the pictures I took. Then when I have time to scrap or a new kit is coming out that i want to use, I open my list and see what event or memory matches up with the kit I want to play with and then I either scrap it then, or just note the kit next to the event I want to scrap.

I mark things complete the second I hit save on my .jpg and .psd file. It's one of my favorite small pleasures in life to type in "Done" on a page I just finished. :)

I'm happy to answer any other questions you might have and I'll be sure to get you a blank version on my spreadsheet tonight. :)
 
Thanks, I'll have a look! I started on one today.... got as far as adding a sheet for each album idea I have in my head. Except one I just now remembered. Haha. I realized really quickly that I'd want different information for some albums than others. So I didn't start filling it in.... so far I have "event date" "page title or description" and "journaling" but I don't think I'll keep it that way.
 
I use Lightroom for further photo organization (keywording/tagging) as well as editing. So the basic catalog you'll see is the same as my Windows folder structure. Keywords are over on the right. So for this photo, I've keyworded/tagged my son, eating out, and LEGO. I can click on anyone of those keywords in my list to see all photos that I've tagged with that keyword. Makes it easier when I'm looking for a particular photo or event. Also, I can color code my photos. When I've scrapped a photo, I code it with purple. That way I know at a glance looking in a folder what photos I've already put on a layout.




My layouts are organized in much the same manner as my photos. Top file structure starts with LAYOUTS, then followed by layouts (placed by the date of the photos in the layout, not the date the layout was completed).



Here's the inside of one of my layout folders. You'll see I save my layouts by title, followed by the main person in the layout, and then the date. There are others that like to put the date first for sorting, but this is the method that works for me.

Also in this folder you'll see and Excel file (the green one with an X) called 2015 Calendar of Events & Layouts Completed.

This is where my photo and layout organization merges.



Here's a peek inside my 2015 Calendar of Events & Layouts Completed file. You can see I have the date as well as what event(s) occurred. There are boxes out to the right that are for thumbnails of layouts completed.




Here's a look at another part of the same Excel file, just showing that I've completed some layouts for an event. When I've completed an entire date and it's fully scrapped, I will "gray" out the entire row so I know those layouts are done. I still have a ton of graduation photos to scrap, so no graying out for me there yet! LOL

 
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