Organizing Your Computer Scrapbooking
The explosion of computers and the internet has led to an increased need for people to be ore organized with their computer scrapbooking. This is because we can have literally thousands of digital pictures and it is easy to get them all mixed up and lose the one that you really want when you come to working on your computer scrapbooking project.
The first step in organizing your computer scrapbooking files is to decide what you want to name them. Obviously, you want to have file names that are easy to understand for your computer scrapbooking needs and not simply the default name that a particular piece of software has given them. If you use a digital camera or camera phone you will soon realize that the file names are impossible to remember what the pictures actually are so you need to have a sensible computer scrapbooking system.
One key point to remember is that your computer scrapbooking files will automatically be sorted into alphabetical order. This can get confusing if you decide to have all your baby’s pictures named ‘January10′, ‘April21′ etc as they will appear out of date order. One method to organise your computer scrapbooking files by date is to use the numerical format year, month and then day. For example 20050110Baby and 20050421Baby, which will then allow for the computer to display them in the correct date order for you.
The second stage in organizing your computer scrapbooking files is to create folders that each type of file can be stored in. This will make finding the correct computer scrapbooking files much easier at a later date. For example, create anew folder called ‘Baby Pictures’ and save al of your baby photographs in that folder. If you follow the naming system then you will soon have the best organised computer scrapbooking system around.
Finally, it is also important to ensure that you create backups of all of your computer scrapbooking files. There are many archiving programs that can be used to compress large files and enable them to be stored on a CD or other removable disk. Again, it is essential that you label your CDs to keep your computer scrapbooking backups as organised as the originals. Obviously you can actually write on the CD itself but it is also worth remembering that you can alter the name of the CD that the computer reads when you load it. Most CD writing software prompts you to do this automatically but it is worth checking the instructions before you start burning all of your computer scrapbooking files onto CDs and then have them all mixed up.
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