Just getting started with ACDSee Photo Manager and want digital scrapbooking categories?

Are you just getting started with ACDSee Photo Manager and want some premade digital scrapbooking categories? There is a simple way to download & import in the categories so you don’t have to create all of them!

This category list follows closely to watch is in our Getting Started Tutorial. We understand and know that everyone organizes differently. (Gosh, Connie and I can’t even agree on the same way to organize our digital kits.) So once you add these categories, you can add, delete, or edit any of them. You can use all of them or you can just ignore the sub-categories. It’s your choice. Connie and I stress that you have to organize your digital collection to match your digital scrapbooking style. The wonderful thing about ACDSee Photo Manager is it allows you to be flexible and doesn’t force you to organize a certain way.

We are in the process of collecting other’s organizing styles (because organizing is an art in itself!) and will make them available here. If you know of someone (or you yourself) that has a good organizing style that might be of interest to others, please email us.

Directions on how to add these categories are at the end.

• Previews
• Types
  • Fasteners
    • Buttons
    • Brads
    • Eyelets
    • Hardware
    • Staples
    • Clips
    • Prongs
    • Pins
  • Borders
  • Embellishments
    • Bottlecaps
    • Flourishes
    • Arrows
    • Charms
    • Flowers
    • Jewels
  • Photo Accesories
    • Mats
    • Slides
    • Filmstrip
    • Corners
    • Frames
  • Journaling
    • Tags
    • Box
    • Labels
    • Bookplates
    • Tabs
    • ChipBoard
  • Overlays
  • Paper
    • Solid
    • Patterns
      • Stripes
      • Paisley
      • Dots
      • Squares or Plaid
      • Floral
    • Vellum
  • Pockets, File Folders, Envelopes
  • Notions
    • Ribbon
    • Fibers
    • Stitching
    • Ties
    • Lace
    • Beads
  • Stamps
  • Textures
  • QuickPages
    • Cards
  • Sketches & Layered Templates
  • Brushes
  • Doodles
  • Word Art
  • Stickers
• My Photos
  • Family
• My Digital Layouts
• Color
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Yellow
  • Black
  • Green
  • Grey
  • Orange
  • Pink
  • Purple
  • White
  • Brown
  • Gold
  • Neutral
  • Metallic
• Subjects
  • Style
    • Masculine
    • Feminine
    • Childish
    • Babyish
    • Teenage-ish
  • Celebrations & Holidays
    • Christmas
    • Fourth of July
    • Halloween
    • Valentines
    • Birthday
  • Emotions
    • Love
  • Events
    • Wedding & Anniversary
    • Birth
  • Ethnic
  • Food & Drink
  • Heritage & Vintage
  • Hobbies
  • Natures & Outdoors
    • Camping & Outdoors
    • Animals
    • Insects
    • Floral
    • Water
  • School
  • Seasons
    • Summer
    • Fall
    • Spring
    • Winter
  • Sports
  • Time
• MyFavorites
• Font
• Travel

Digital Scrapbooking Organizing Styles

The following files & instructions will create categories to organize your digital scrapbooking kits. You can use as is, edit them, delete them or rearrange them.

The best time to use the styles is right from the very beginning before you organize.

I would highly recommend picking one style and customizing that one rather than using multiple styles. Using multiple styles might give you a lot of extra categories or duplicate categories.

If you already have started organizing with ACDSee Photo Manager, it will not overwrite anything that you have organized, just add the categories. Here are some pointers.

• Backup: I would suggest doing a backup before you add do the following in case you don’t like you can just restore your backup.
• Delete similar ones: Once the categories are installed you can delete similar ones that you used. (i.e. you used the category “preview” and the style uses “previews”, just delete the previews category.) Don’t ever delete a category that has anything assigned to it and ACDSee Photo Manager warn you about not doing this. If you were to delete the category with images assigned to it, you would lose your organizing for that category.
• Transfer organized data to new style category & delete your old category: If you would like to transfer your cataloged images from one category to another.
  • Search on your old category,
  • Select all (ctrl-a)
  • Bring up the Properties Pane, View | Properties
  • Select the new category you want them assigned to (VERY IMPORTANT: Do this step first otherwise you will lose your organization.)
  • Click on the old category that they were assigned to unselect it (VERY IMPORTANT: Make sure you have done the previous step before doing this step)
  • Delete old category

Instructions on how to use these styles:

1. Download & save the organizing style categories zip file. Here it is: General digital scrapbooking categories Zip File
   
2. Unzip the file you just downloaded.
3. Start Photo Manager
4. Select Database | Import | Database
5. Select Next
6. In #1, Select Information from a text file, including any combination of keyword and category definitions and image information
7. In #2, Select where your category text file is saved.
8. It is fine to let it optimize database files after import
9. Select Next
10. Select Next
11. Select Finish
12. Select OK to allow Photo Manager to restart.
13. You should now have the categories that are listed. To see them:
    1. Go the Organize Pane (View | Organize)
    2. Under Categories, start clicking on the + signs to expand out the categories to see them all!

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