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I don't tag anything either.. My photos are based on Year and Month folders... My Lily Pad stash is just that.. folder of the Lily Pad and then a folder inside by designer... lame but it works for me
 
I use ACDsee:
- designers I ct for have their own category
- shops I use most have their own category (LOL, they're just 2 ^__^)
-only for the lilypad I have everything sorted our for designers (i.e.: main category is TLP, then Just Jaimee, Valorie Wibbens, etc etc)
 
I was tagging in acdsee but it started getting glitchy so now I search in bridge.
 
cfile said:
I don't tag anything either.. My photos are based on Year and Month folders... My Lily Pad stash is just that.. folder of the Lily Pad and then a folder inside by designer... lame but it works for me
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This is pretty much my system too.. I need to clean out old stuff though..
 
I used to tag my supplies in the windows gallery. (E.g.: paper, blue, dotted; or: element, flower, red, ...)


When I restored files from DVDs/external harddrive after a computer crash I had to realize that tags only get saved directly in the file's metadata (and therefore permanently) when the file is a jpeg. Apparently doesn't work for pngs. So all the tagging for pngs was lost.


After this I stopped tagging my supplies.


Do you girls know if it's the same using other programs/systems like lightroom, Picasa or ACDSee? Or is there a way to permanently store the tag "inside" the file also for pngs?
 
It should be possible to store XMP metadata as part of a PNG but I don't know which programs, if any, do that. Wikipedia says Windows Gallery saves tags in XMP but that didn't work for you so I don't know.
 
cfile said:
I don't tag anything either.. My photos are based on Year and Month folders... My Lily Pad stash is just that.. folder of the Lily Pad and then a folder inside by designer... lame but it works for me
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Same here!!! haha was like tagging? that's with an # right? huh? oh no not starting all that haha
 
I got rid of some old files today... got gazillion more to go through... lol... freed up about 7gb on my ehd
 
I need a new one, tidied up my files a lot, but I still use tons, also due to ct work and stuff. My exhd is 931GB and I only have 90,0gb left LOL
 
I like lightroom for my photos and I tag people, my pets, and food (primarily). I tag where, especially if it was away from home. I also add captions to some photos for things I don't want to forget. I just have folders by year.

I have ACDSee on my EHD for that digi stash, for digi stuff that hasn't made it to my EHD, I just use search feature in windows explorer. In December I figured out that I could make a "library" for the DEC BYOC stuff and search the library pretty easy.

Unfortunately, I don't believe there is any program that will actually write the data to a png file (from what I understand, that file type just doesn't support it). So if you use a program that writes it to an XMP file, you need the XMP files and a program that is compatible with the version of XMP that the data was written in. (Example, ACDSee write the metadata to the files, but the data is in an ACDSee format that only ACDSee can read.)

My tagging is a bit behind, but when I do tag, I usually do a bunch at once and search for my "things" (like button, stitch, frame) and then tag those items from the search. I have in mind that I "want" my papers tagged by color, but I never seem to get around to it. I was going to try the new search by color feature in PSE, but it really just didn't work all that great. I do make an effort to tag them by solid or pattern at a minimum.
 
I don't tag either.

Photos are in folders by date and I pretty much can remember when an event happened and find what I'm looking for. I do use ACDsee and use the calendar view to help in searches.

I'm mostly a kit scrapper, so I don't really feel a need to tag supplies. When I first started using ACDsee, I tried to tag everything, but eventually gave up.
 
My photos are organized by date and event in Lightroom...I do minimal keywording (which is bad I know). I'm lazy.

My scrap stuff is organized in Bridge. I do very, very minimal tagging. Mainly for specialized kits like Christmas, etc. When I'm looking for a starting point, I'll scan through all the kits which is easy because I have the preview as the pic for the kit. If I need something specific, the search function works well enough for me since the designers do such a great job labeling the items.

I know I should be better and more organized, but that's just not how I'm hardwired. Wish I was though.
 
elseepe said:
Unfortunately, I don't believe there is any program that will actually write the data to a png file (from what I understand, that file type just doesn't support it). So if you use a program that writes it to an XMP file, you need the XMP files and a program that is compatible with the version of XMP that the data was written in.
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No, I don't think you understood what I said at all. There is no such thing as an XMP file. XMP metadata *IS* integrated into the file itself, just like EXIF metadata is embedded into JPEGs. PNG does not support EXIF, but it does support XMP. If a program writes to XMP of a PNG, then it is part of the PNG. It is not in its own file. The problem is not every program writes to or reads the XMP metadata.
 
ACK!! I understand the concept of tagging -- but I wouldn't know how to tag something on my computer. And what do you search? The search thingy on the whole computer? Mine takes a thousand hours! Even if it just searched my digiscrap file it would take a thousand hours!
I post copies of previews in various overlapping categories - kits, Art Journaling, Stores, Fav Designers, Ellies, Holidays, Birthday etc. so I can look through those and then all my actual kits and stuff are in individual designer folders unless they are store collabs and then they are under the store. If they are a blog train I will do a preview of the entire train (that I DL'ed) but the parts go into their respective designer folders. When designers don't have previews for things I put a 'dummy' folder that just says 'so and so - kit name - and a few descriptive words so I can kind of see somewhat what it looks like.
It works most of the time. It can be very frustrating though. I usually keep my digifile open so I can look at the previews/designer folders while I am scrapping.
 
Any other thoughts or questions re: tagging? I love learning new things!
 
cfile said:
I don't tag anything either.. My photos are based on Year and Month folders... My Lily Pad stash is just that.. folder of the Lily Pad and then a folder inside by designer... lame but it works for me
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I'm in the lame camp also Christa - works well for me too. I did not get along with ACDsee. I am thinking about LR for my photos in 2014 as I am getting a new computer and leaving old photos on an external HD.
 
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