How do you keep track of pictures you've scrapped?

[crecia27]

The more pictures I accumulate and the more scrapping supplies I buy the harder time I'm having remembering what I've already used! I don't mind reusing a kit, but I have too many pictures to be scrapping the same ones more than once :blink:

I often don't scrap in chronological order because I use the challenge prompts or kits as inspiration.

I need help!

[shastahun]

What I usually have been doing is renaming the picture with a / at the end if I've used it in a page already. That way I can keep them in their original picture folders but glancing through I know I've used it.

[Stacey42]

yeah. I add a -a to the end of the photo name so I can tell them from the rest

[crecia27]

awesome idea! Thanks ladies!

[Darcy Baldwin]

I have a file that contains all of our photos to be scrapped. As they've been scrapped, they go into another file, by year then by major subject (person, holiday, general, sports, family, etc). That way, once it's been scrapped, it gets filed somewhere else and I never look through it again to find something to scrap.

[SweetMelissa]

For a while I would copy the pictures I wanted to scrap into another folder but I would forget to delete the ones I scrapbooked and after a while it slowed down my computer. Now I just add "SB" at the end of the pictures name for the ones I scrapbooked.

[nun69]

I have no organization skills on this! and I have scrapped the same picture more than once :) I only keep my pictures in a file under year and month....then if there is something in that month {bday, 2st day of school, holiday, etc} it gets a folder under that month~that's about it for my organization skills!

[Lizzy257]

I have a file that contains all of our photos to be scrapped. As they've been scrapped, they go into another file

This is what I do to!

I also have the photos grouped into folders according to events, etc, and label the folders "birthday", "zoo" or whatever. Then if I have a kit, I just do a search for what I want and it finds me some pics to scrap :thumbup:

[DeepGirl]

Hmmm.... keeping unimportant things in my head is typical for me :) After a year of scrapping I can still remember what I have scrapped :D LOL!

[adrianka]

I don't keep a track. I do remember what I scrapped. I don't even mind scrapping a picture twice, but I'd know if I were doing so. Ask me again in a couple of years - or maybe, it will be ME who's going to do the asking... I don't think I can remember this for a period of many years.

[mummytothree]

I use ACDSee to organize my photos and when I scrap a photo I write/type "scrapped" in the notes field :D :D

[AlliJ2008]

What great organization hints. I haven't been doing anything lately. I used to keep the photos I scrapped in different folders but now that I have half on my EHD (and try to back up often) I can't keep up as well with which ones I have used. I may consider the re-naming thing. I do that for photos to print.

[SeattleSheri]

Memory.

[kim21673]

I have my pictures divided by year and month and then for the month there may be special events that have a folder to themself. Inside each month (or special events folder) I have a "pictures to scrap" folder. Once I scrap with a picture it gets moved into the main part of the month. This way has been very successful for me.

I upload pictures to my computer several times a week but don't create my "pictures to scrap" folder until the end of the month.

[HeatherKS]

Memory.

Yeah, that. LOL

I did have pictures tagged "to scrap" in ACDSee but when my database crashed I never re-did it. Now I just rely on memory.

[joelsgirl]

I have a notebook where I keep lists of layouts I want to make. Some are organized by date, others are organized in a list called, "Pages I want to make", where I write down ideas that just come to me that aren't based on particular photos or recent events.

[Scrapper007]

I also have the photos grouped into folders according to events, etc, and label the folders "birthday", "zoo" or whatever. Then if I have a kit, I just do a search for what I want and it finds me some pics to scrap :thumbup:

Thank you SO much -- what a GREAT idea!! I have all of my digital kits sorted by theme and it makes perfect sense to sort my photos this way too (I never thought about doing this)!

I actually resorted all of my photos this afternoon into folders by theme. When I open that folder, I have subfolders by year -- and for certain folders like "school" and "sports", I have subfolders for each of my kids. So now when I want to use a school theme kit for example, I can easily go to all of my kids' school photos *only* and browse through those instead of trying to hunt down some school pictures from ALL of my files.

I think this is going to make scrapping a lot easier and a lot more fun! Thanks so much for sharing this idea!!! :thumbup:

[Sarah8914]

I used ACDSee too. I usually remember what photos I have scrapped, but not always what I NEED to scrap, or where it is.

So I have a tag called "to be scrapped" and have it by year so I just click on the year and all the pictures I need to scrap are there. And when I scrap them, I just remove the tag.

[Sweets2005]

I don't keep a track. I do remember what I scrapped. I don't even mind scrapping a picture twice, but I'd know if I were doing so. Ask me again in a couple of years - or maybe, it will be ME who's going to do the asking... I don't think I can remember this for a period of many years.

This is me, too. :thumbup: But I love the ideas here that you all have given, here! I will have to employ one of them :)

[donnelsl]

I have an external hard drive with pictures that need to be scrapped on it - then when I have time to scrap I'm not looking through the ones I've already scrapped. Once I have the event/pictures scrapped I just delete the file off of the hard drive (I've got the photos backed up on a different hard drive and on DVD).

This also makes it easy for me to go through the photos and remove ones that won't make the page - since they're already saved elsewhere.

It works for me :)