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Old 06-28-2015, 10:11 AM
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Default Psd files - keep or delete?

Do you keep your PSD files after completing a page? How long do you keep them?

Now that I am using GIMP pretty much exclusively, I have both .xcf files AND .psd for almost every layout. I have a feeling if I keep scrapping at this rate, I will run out of room on my EHD. :/

Getting rid of things is against my hoarding nature.... but I'm not sure what the "norm" is for digi land.
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Old 06-28-2015, 10:20 AM
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I usually keep the .psd, because I am prone to make mistakes and I like to be able to go back and correct them before I print the layout. If I created the layout with a template, I usually delete the .psd after having it printed. But if it's a layout I made from scratch I like to save the .psd... and it's good that I did. Now that I design templates, I'm able to go back to some of my favorite layouts I designed and easily turn them into templates.
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Old 06-28-2015, 10:43 AM
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I delete them after the layout has been printed.
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Old 06-28-2015, 11:01 AM
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I keep mine for a while. I don't save my layouts for print when I'm finished with them. I like to go through them again and recheck the spelling, make sure it's dated etc. When I've done that, I could delete the PSD's but I usually keep for a year. I'm lucky to have plenty of hard drive space.
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Old 06-28-2015, 11:53 AM
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I keep mine too.
Last year, I deleted my 2010 to 2012 .psd LO files.
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Old 06-28-2015, 12:07 PM
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I keep until they're printed, which usually is about 4 months. The only time I've regretted getting rid of them is when I wanted to adapt a couple of pages for a calendar and couldn't, so not that big a deal. I'm set in my system and don't plan to change it, but if I was making a change I might keep psds with the current year's photos until the calendar was done (ie, delete yearly instead of 3 times a year).
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Old 06-28-2015, 01:03 PM
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After I print my book, I delete the psd files. I don't need them anymore afterwards, so I think it's a waste of space.
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Old 06-28-2015, 03:43 PM
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I'm the odd man out - I delete, delete, delete

I triple check my layout before saving for spelling mistakes and if it still gets past me then I chalk it up to being human - I'm definitely not perfect and if an occasional layout shows that then it doesn't bother me. In the 6 years I've been digi scrapping there hasn't been a time when I wished I had saved a PSD file, so I don't waste the space keeping them.
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Old 06-28-2015, 04:14 PM
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I keep my layered files forever. I use TIFF instead of PSD though
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Old 06-28-2015, 09:21 PM
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Keep. Storage is cheap. I once went back to grab this awesome element from a LO from back when I started in 2009 from a designer that is long gone!!


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Old 06-29-2015, 12:08 AM
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Up until a few weeks ago, I'd kept every PSD file for every layout I'd made going back to 2006. But I reached the point where I needed the space and made the decision to delete all the layered files for any layout I'd already printed and am not likely to reuse the design (which I do sometimes.)

I know people say space is cheap but for me it isn't because every time I upgrade my storage EHD, I end up having to upgrade my backup drive as well. I'd rather use that money for something else than storing files I never use. I haven't regretted it so far!
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I don't save layered files. Not even for a little while. Once I'm done with a page, I flatten and save. I know I'd never go back and fix anything on them (lazy) so I just pretend it's a paper page and I journaled in pen. It's burned me a few times but not enough to change my ways. 😀

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I don't save layered files. Not even for a little while. Once I'm done with a page, I flatten and save. I know I'd never go back and fix anything on them (lazy) so I just pretend it's a paper page and I journaled in pen. It's burned me a few times but not enough to change my ways. 😀

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Old 06-29-2015, 10:30 AM
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Old 06-29-2015, 10:45 AM
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I keep my PSD. I always zip it up into 7zip file using a program called Keka. Compared to other archiving formats like RAR & ZIP, 7zip can compress a file so much more, making the final archive smaller.

Normally, my PSD layouts are around 250-400mb (especially bigger with PL spreads), but 7zip format can compress it into ¼ of its original size.
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Old 06-29-2015, 11:31 AM
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I used to keep them all, but now I just wait till it's printed and then delete them. I do keep some of my school related layouts in .tiff form though. Having 4 kiddos there will be lots of school layouts and I like the idea of being able to slip new photos into old layouts and just change out the words and maybe a paper or two to save a butt load of time =)
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I keep my layered files forever. I use TIFF instead of PSD though
This is me. I've been known to go back and either make a template out of the layout or reuse it with different photos, etc ... I like the flexibility of having those options and because I don't have space constraints, there isn't really a downside for me.
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Old 06-30-2015, 11:28 AM
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I keep them on DVD. When I accumulate a bunch, I'll burn them all to a disk. Then I delete them from my hard drive. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I like having them somewhere, even if it's unlikely I'll go back and use them.
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This is me. I've been known to go back and either make a template out of the layout or reuse it with different photos, etc ... I like the flexibility of having those options and because I don't have space constraints, there isn't really a downside for me.
yep! I actually just turned a layout into a template and reused it...from 2009, LOL
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Old 06-30-2015, 02:37 PM
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Yup, me too. I like having PSDs of my layouts so when I have enough to fit into a DVD, I'll burn them and delete from my computer.

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Old 06-30-2015, 09:35 PM
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So many different options! I'm not out of space yet....

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