I think someone mentioned it on one of The Digi Show epsidoses. I have an action called "Credit Tracker" by Anna Forrest Designs. It takes a bit of work initially, but makes generating the credits very easy. I don't remember why I stopped using it.

LOL, you beat me to it, Ginger!

Drove me nuts, I KNEW I saw it somewhere... LOL

That would be cool if PS could do that... I admit I tried the tracker and I didn't like it, but I know at least two people who love it. I could write a novel about why it didn't work for me, but I don't want to bore you. I ended up by renaming layers by the kit name (for example: FLOWER designer-kitname, LEAF designer-kitname) and doing my credits in Word anytime after based on the layer names. Since I'm doing lots of mixing and matching, it's necessary to keep some kind of trace. Too bad the tracker wasn't to my liking - as I said, other people love it, and it's so cheap that it even doesn't matter that it's not free.

One reason I haven't tried using the tracker again is that when I drag papers and ellies into CS5, the layer name becomes the file name of the paper/ellie. I just have to make sure that all my files are named with the designer/kit and I do that when I buy them, so it's not much effort. If I have to rename anything, Bridge has a batch rename function that lets me do it all at once. Once I'm done, I generate my credits the same way that Adrianka does, except I put them in the metadata instead of a Word document.

I've been inspired to buy kits based off layouts before. I realize I have the perfect picture(s) for that kit and so I decide I need the kit too. So crediting means the world to me. I use CS5 and when I drag and drop in my papers/elements it keeps the file name. With this I just scan through my layers and get the kit names/designers. If it doesn't show up in the layers, I open the preview of the kit in Windows Viewer and leave it miniumized. Then at the end I have all the kits/alpha's I've used right in the viewer. :)

I've used the credit tracker by Anna Forrest and I raved about it in the beginning. I used to be an eclectic scrapper as well and use stuff from many different kits, so it helped me a lot. But the main problem with it is that it slows down my scrapping process tremendously. Especially when using templates. I ended up uninstalling it. Like Milmomma I now drag my stuff right into PS and the layers keep the filename, so I keep track of my credits that way.
I will probably still use Anna's script when I want to make a layout from scratch (no template) with stuff from many different kits. But lately I tend to make more pages from 1 and the same kit so for now I keep it unplugged.

Kim, how did it make the process slower when using templates? I don't remember it doing that - and I use templates frequently. (could just be my faulty memory - or that I use templates so frequently that I didn't realize it :p)

Well, everytime you delete a layer, it renames all the other layers in your document. I mainly use Cindy's templates and they have a LOT of layers! :) I also frequently change the papers in all the different paper spots on my templates, so everytime I did that, I had to wait for like 10 seconds until it was done. Maybe it's not so bad when you use only one kit, I don't remember. But it was a pain when I used multiple kits.

This is one of the reasons why I strongly disliked it. The other one was opening all elements/papers etc. in the first layer of the LO instead of in a separate file (I scrap at 8x8 so I resize anything before inserting in in the LO itself). And since I had to rewrite the credits anyway because I didn't like the format of the script, I had like 3-times more work with it than without it.

lol Adrianka, you were the one who told me about these pet peeves. They didn't bother me at first because I thought of the time it saved me to look up all credits, but after a while it really started to bug me as well.
Just one question: why don't you just scrap in 12 x 12 and resize it after you're done? Wouldn't that save you a lot of work?

A good question. I think it started with a wish to save space and it's become a habit of sorts. I'm getting a new hard drive in January (well, hopefully), so I guess from then on I can go for 12x12 (I'm doing the Barcelona album 12x12 already). But anyway, when doing CD covers / calendars and such I always work with the real size, so there will be some resizing anyway.

You were one of those two people I mentioned that loved the tracker, so now it's minus one. :-)

Now that you described the issue, I do remember it being annoying (very annoying). I think I started just turning off the layers instead of deleting them, which made my files bigger :(.

I also have a script that I bought ages ago that renames the top layer to be the filename and another that takes all the layer names and puts them into a new text layer (if I'm remembering correctly). I still use the layer renaming script occasionally - mostly for templates. The problem with that script is that it isn't automatic, I had to remember to use it each time I opened up an element in PS.

I'm normally a one kit scrapper so don't have a problem remembering what I've used, but if I use a few different things I'll just quickly write it down in my notepad or in the notes app on my phone as I go! :)