For instance, I know there is an absolutely adorable red button by Shabby Princess that I have. I want to use said button, but I don't know which kit said button is in. AND I have 20+ Shabby Princess folders. Now I have to open and view (meanwhile waiting for thumbnails to load) every folder until I can find my button!
This made me sad, and not want to digi scrap.
But then I remember Jessica Sprague talking about a sweet little program called ACDSee. It is meant to be used for photo organization, but JS uses it exclusively for her digi stuff! I checked it out, and it was in the budget (about $50), so I asked Dave to get it for me for Mother's Day. He did me one better by buying and letting me play with it this weekend! Hip Hip Hooray for my sweet hubby!
ACDSee allows you to make categories and then tag items to these categories. Best of all each item can have multiple tags! So now I can have my little red button tagged as "button", "Shabby Princess", and "Red Embellishment" if I want. Two other cool things about ACDSee... First you can have your computer's folders on the left of your screen and your categories on the right. So you can search by category OR by your own files. Secondly, because this program runs independently of Photoshop you can scroll to your desired paper, brush or digi element, then DRAG it from the ACDSee screen and drop it right onto your Photoshop workspace. IS THAT COOL OR WHAT?!?!?
So I'm totally sold and hopefully this means I'll have lots more digi art to share soon. :) Here's a screen shot of me looking through my buttons. Can you see my favorite red one?
