Is there any way to stop Bridge from making separate TIFF folders in each folder when you convert from PNG?

• There really isn't that I have found.  You don't have to remove them before importing into Lightroom – they come into Lightroom easy.  If you follow the process you remove them in one step with the kit folder after keywording the designer and kit and moving the items from kit folders into the designer folder.  It is really easy.   You can see this in process in this tutorial video – about 7 minutes in.

What do yo do with keywording kits that have add-ons and extra parts to them?

• One of my favorite retired designers used to have lots of cool add-ons for her kits.  When it came time to organize my supplies, I basically just created a keyword for the kit and then put all the add-ons for that kit – i.e. brushes, frames, tags, etc. under the same keyword.    So in this example everything is one keyword – Sugar Cookie kit.  You could theoretically create kit keywords for each add-on as well but my thought process is that if I want to buy an add-on later on, I can always just check the kit keyword items to see if I already have the add -on.  I don't feel the need to add another kit keyword.  I try to keep my kits as simple as possible.  That said, this is your system so you can keyword however you want!

Keep in mind that the process of organizing in Lightroom involves a step of moving all your kit folders into each designer folder.  With the kit keywords embedded into the files, you no longer will need to store your items in folder by kit – the keywords will give you the ability to pull out just the kit items whenever you want.  So instead of hundred of physical folders on your hard drive, you will eventually have just one folder for each designer.

Another question about catalogs: At the moment, I would like to keep my photos and my digital supplies in separate catalogs. Can you see any downsides to have two separate catalogs? 

• First things first – this is your system and if you want two separate catalogs, you should have two separate catalogs.  
• In my personal system I have everything in the same catalog but in two separate hard drives.  Technically you could keep them on the same hard drive, with two separate folders on your hard drive.  I like being able to find the photos I want to scrapbook, adding them to my current layout collection and then switching over to my scrapbook folders, finding the items I want to use to scrapbook the layout, adding them to the current layout collection and then selecting everything in that collection, right clicking and editing in Photoshop (I still do most of my scrapbooking in Photoshop).  
• If I had two separate catalogs, I would have to find my photos, open them in Photoshop, Close my catalog and launch the supply catalog and then find my supplies.  That extra minute saved by having one catalog is a big motivator to keep it all in one place.
• You may think searching is complicated by having everything in one place – it's not.  I have purposely setup my keywords so I have a set of keywords for photos and a separate set of scrapbooking supply keywords.  This helps me manage the items much like two separate catalogs without the lagtime of launching a new catalog everytime I want to switch between supplies and photos.
• All that said, if you had two catalogs now just to try the supply thing out and then later chose to combine them (if your keywords are set to write to files) I don't think it would be much of a big deal to combine them.

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