Foundations, part 4: Shopping Your Stash

Are you ready to go shopping? I know if you’re like me, your budgets are getting more of a thinning down this January than your waistlines. That’s ok, because we’re going to go shopping on your hard drive. We already tackled most of our supplies in the previous installments of the Foundations series and now we are going to tag previews.

My previews category is where I really put the power of cross-tagging to good use. I have sub-categories for tagging kit previews, template packs previews, font previews, etc. If you have a favorite store you love to shop at because it’s so easy to find what you’re looking for, consider mirroring their category list. Getting your previews tagged into these sub-categories makes it just like shopping at the store. You can see that my ‘element packs’ category needs it’s own sub-dividing to sort the brushes, word-art, and frames.

I also have a set of categories called Themes. This is where  I have seasonal/holiday as well as season-of-life categories. Not every kit preview will get a theme tag but if something is particularly suited for doing teen pages I want to be able to just search for teen kits. But adding theme tags to the kit pieces is just too much. By using the previews to build my theme and type categories, just like at a store, I can shop my stash before getting online to look for just the right kit. I can also easily see when I don’t have what I’m looking for. I feel better when I shop now that I know I’m getting what I really need with my limited budget.

I hope you have enjoyed this journey through my Foundations organizing style. Every style here is a starting point. So think about how you like to search…and how you like to shop…and make ACDSee Photo Manager work for you. Happy Tagging!

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