1. How Getting Organized Helps You Save

    2 February 17, 2012
    I’ve recently been trying a few new things in my digital supply catalog and came across an interesting discovery. I finished organizing all my existing digital supplies Feb 19, 2011. No big deal, but after moving my supplies into folders by year to see the effects on the speed of my catalog, it was interesting to note that in 2010...
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    Curating for Creativity

    Comment October 25, 2011
    I often find that the more time I spend in my library curating images and looking things over with searches in different contexts, the more creative ideas come to me - like this layout for my daughter Grace...
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  3.

    Digital Stash Organization with Lex

    4 September 15, 2011
    A few weeks ago I recieved the nicest email from an amazing lady.  Have you ever put something out there that you hope catches on and then months later you see that it's not only catching on but there are some pretty awesome people doing wonderful things with it? That describes Lex to a "T" – she took what she...
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    Review: Any File Lightroom Plugin

    5 September 8, 2011
    I've had quite a few emails these past few months about a nifty little plugin called Any File Lightroom Plugin.  The promises of this plugin sound fabulous – "import any type of file into a Lightroom 3 catalog and manage the files just like photos…" I should preface this post by saying a few things (disclaimers):  I LOVE Lightroom because...
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  5.

    True Confessions

    16 August 11, 2011
    Some days my download folder looks like this (especially after a BIG sale at my favorite designer’s store): You might think because I teach digital asset organization, my library is perfect.  Not so. ☺  Just like everyone else my life gets busy, I take on projects and I let things slide. However, just because I slide doesn’t mean I don’t...
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    Reader Tip from Carla Skipper

    3 July 25, 2011
    Having a hard time seeing those white on white elements in Lightroom?  Check out this fabulous tip from Carla Skipper along with some time saving actions -   ***UPDATE***  Because Carla was so generous to ask and I had so much fun answering, I sent her a sneak peek on this tutorial – I do that for those of you...
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    Do Over: Combining Two Separate Lightroom Catalogs Into One

    9 June 9, 2011
    Several students in the first group of Lightroom students chose to create two catalogs – one for supplies and one for their digital scrapbooking supplies.  Now they are wishing they could have everything in one catalog instead of going back and forth. The good news is that this is a simple thing to do, provided you just want to combine...
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  8.

    Want To Be More Creative? Just Organize!

    2 March 11, 2011
    I was listening to the Work Awesome podcast the other day and heard this gem from guest David Allen: "I've always been fascinated by how to make things easier…my stuff is about 'how do you get stuff done between here and there,' for which organizing is a key component, but it's very easy to over organize and to lose productivity...
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    Lightroom Class: Setting Lightroom Preferences

    22 March 1, 2011
    Before you do anything further in this class, make sure you have completed THIS ASSIGNMENT. If you already did your pre-class work of physically organizing all your scrapbooking items in folders by kit and then kit folders in designer folders, you are ready for the instructions in this post.  If you have not yet completely that step, please take the...
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    Why Lightroom for Supplies Instead of Bridge?

    4 January 11, 2011
    After several comments and emails from readers asking, "Why not Bridge?"  I thought a post would be appropriate. As you may know, I really pushed Bridge for my supplies last year.  It was the only program on a Mac that I liked and trusted to write metadata to the files.  However, there were a few problems I  ran into on...
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