Crediting Digi Layouts in Galleries & Blog...

[mrshobbes]

Originally Posted by LeeAndra

By listing credits (and direct linking), you give fellow scrappers the opportunity to discover new designers and further grow and support the industry/hobby that you love. In an online-centric industry, word of mouth (mouse? ) must be the most powerful (and easiest) way to spread information to the masses.

This is what I believe too! I've heard this debate so many times and seen people very passionate about crediting/not crediting. I guess for me it's simply this: Crediting is a nice thing to do. I want to do nice things, especially for a designer who helped make my memory/story extra-awesome with their creations. I want to be nice to people who may stumble into my layout and want the same awesomeness for their memories. Because I myself have discovered LOTS of awesomeness from people's crediting. I've even gone the extra step and ASKED a scrapper through PM where they got a kit, element or even a font they used. It's precisely because someone had credited a kit that I found my way to SSD

[cardinalskate]

This is such an interesting thread! I like to credit because I, too, have found stuffs and designers I love through crediting.

I use a spreadsheet to keep track of my credits. I have designer, kit name, any links I need, plus the whole credit post with all linking wordage (with the url= blah blah). I hate doing that, so once I do it, I make sure to always have it, very handy, just in case I need it again.

[interstitchal]

Originally Posted by mrshobbes

This is what I believe too! I've heard this debate so many times and seen people very passionate about crediting/not crediting. I guess for me it's simply this: Crediting is a nice thing to do. I want to do nice things, especially for a designer who helped make my memory/story extra-awesome with their creations. I want to be nice to people who may stumble into my layout and want the same awesomeness for their memories. Because I myself have discovered LOTS of awesomeness from people's crediting. I've even gone the extra step and ASKED a scrapper through PM where they got a kit, element or even a font they used. It's precisely because someone had credited a kit that I found my way to SSD

I also think this is a great reason to credit as a regular scrapper because occasionally someone looking at your layout will want to get that product and if you have credited already - it saves you and her the time of a pm or email. (Which I have done myself as well). I've even seen a kit credited in a layout, realized I already have the kit sitting around, and then gone to scrap with it after getting inspired!

[Ginger_79]

I just KNOW I saw something - on the Daily Digi maybe? - about a program or plug-in that would keep track of your supplies in Photoshop and list them at the end if you wished to credit them. I always meant to check it out and forgot. Now I can't find it anymore...

[YepBrook]

Originally Posted by Ginger_79

I just KNOW I saw something - on the Daily Digi maybe? - about a program or plug-in that would keep track of your supplies in Photoshop and list them at the end if you wished to credit them. I always meant to check it out and forgot. Now I can't find it anymore...

Wow! Now THAT would be awesome.

[Ginger_79]

Hahah! Here's the TDD post:
http://thedailydigi.com/all-about-credits/

I think there is also a free tracker mentioned in the comments somewhere. But I think it was for PSE...anyway, hope it might help. And I do believe that CS5 itself can keep track of file names of everything you add. Just haven't taken the time to research that feature and see if it's already in my CS4, too.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by Ginger_79

Hahah! Here's the TDD post:
http://thedailydigi.com/all-about-credits/

I think there is also a free tracker mentioned in the comments somewhere. But I think it was for PSE...anyway, hope it might help. And I do believe that CS5 itself can keep track of file names of everything you add. Just haven't taken the time to research that feature and see if it's already in my CS4, too.

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.

[KateD]

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.

[KateD]

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.

[KateD]

LOL, you beat me to it, Ginger!

[Ginger_79]

Originally Posted by KateD

LOL, you beat me to it, Ginger!

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