Silly question

What do you do with your LOs after you have printed them? Do you save them on your hard drive? On a Cd?

burn to DVD. and I keep them on an EHD. i think. i'm really unorganized. I don't know where stuff is. I start an organizing plan but then give up on it, half done.

hmm, now I am realizing that I don't really know which LOs I've printed and which I haven't . . .. I should figure that out.

As bad ass this sounds I have not actually printed any layouts yet. I want to get a home printer that can print 12x12 or maybe get some printed at one of these places that print layouts up. I do have them saved on my comp. and on cd's and dvd's as I dont have a EHD yet.

I have a system where I print LO's every two months. Once they've been printed, I move them over to an archive folder on my EHD. When I have time, they get burned off to disks and removed from my EHD.

I'm debating right now about whether or not I should continue to keep the psd versions, or just the flattened jpegs.

I keep all the flattened versions on my HD because I want them to be backed up by Mozy. I also back them up to EHD with all my other scrapping supplies and photos, but I'm bad and let it go too long between EHD backups. I keep the layered files until I print and check for typos or other problems, then I delete them.

On that note, if I may hijack a little, where do you get your lo's printed?

I print all mine in Shutterfly books (usually 3 months at a time) after I'm sure I don't have any pics left from that time period to scrap.

As far as keeping them I store them on my EHD and then burn to DVDs as backup. Once they've been printed, I delete off the EHD.

OH I am going to be such the bad girl here! After I have mine printed I erase them. Yep, gone, goodbye, outtahere! Ducking now! Maybe I will start burning them to disks. Sounds like a great idea!

Tracie - I have mine printed at scrapbookpictures.com The quality is great and price is good to. I print 8x8.

Amanda, do you get a traditional scrapbook album and slide them in like you would a paper lo? Are the 8 x 8 ones fairly easy to find? I haven't been to a scrapbooking store in forever, but I remember them having 12 x 12 books everywhere and the 8 x 8 ones were nearly impossible to come by. I really don't want to print everything in 12 x 12 though. It's so much more expensive!

psalm149 said:

Amanda, do you get a traditional scrapbook album and slide them in like you would a paper lo? Are the 8 x 8 ones fairly easy to find? I haven't been to a scrapbooking store in forever, but I remember them having 12 x 12 books everywhere and the 8 x 8 ones were nearly impossible to come by. I really don't want to print everything in 12 x 12 though. It's so much more expensive!

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Yep! 8x8 is pretty easy to come by now. I get mine at Michaels when they have 40% off. I have always been 12x12 in my paper days but wanted to try something new in digi and 8x8 has been really good. I have also noticed that my kids look at them more because they are easier to handle.

I burn the full size to DVD and delete the PSD and web versions.

I burn the full size PSD files to DVD when I get enough to fill one. I keep the flattened jpg files on my internal hard drive and a copy on my external as well. I also back up my flattened files to my husband's internal drive on his PC. As I print layouts, I delete the one from my external. That's just how I keep track of what I have printed. And I usually print at Costco. I do 12x12 for 2008 & on. 2007 & prior is all 8.5x11. If you have an AC Moore or Hobby Lobby, they typically have 50% off albums every other week or so. In Utah, Robert's always has 40% off one item every week and sometimes has 50% off one item on Monday only. 8x8 is everywhere. And I don't do bound books because my kids are too rough on books.

Everyone's different on this one! lol! Personally, I keep my layered files for a couple reasons: in case I need to fix something (like a typo), if I need to adjust the margins to print in a book with different specs, or if I need to put together an album in crunch. Keeping ym layered files has been nice because if I need to put something together for someone else in a hurry, I can just switch out the photo and maybe tweak the title or journaling with minimal work.

I also save as a .tif instead of .psd because they can be around half the size sometimes... without a loss of quality! This is an option for Photoshop/PSE users. Not all programs are able to use .tifs. (They are still layered files just like .psd's)

Once I have a lot of layered files, I will burn them to dvd and maybe save them to my EHD and delete from my laptop's HD to save some room, but I want them somewhere.

I personally don't even make a full size jpeg until I'm uploading to print them somewhere... which is usually a book and not individual pages. I don't really care to keep my full size jpegs on my HD for very long after printing since I can quickly open up my .tif in Irfanview and make another full size jpeg if I need to. But I do need to burn the jpegs to DVD and maybe put them on my EHD.

Thanks everyone!

I keep the flattened jpegs on my hard drive and burn the jpegs and PSD files onto CD (I delete the PSDs from my hard drive after that....they are HUGE!}

I delete the PSD after some time (say like a week) and I printed mine in a monthly basis if I have more than 30 and bi-monthly if I have too little LOs done in a month..

Wow. Thanks for starting this thread and thanks to everyone for posting their methods. I am new to digi and have been wondering the same thing. Take care--Robin