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I'm not sure who posted about ACDSee, but I think I read that you can tag your digi scrap files to make it easier to find certain elements when you need them? I just thought of it again when I was searching through kits for a stitched circle for today's challenge. It would be sooooo nice to have them tagged so I didn't have to dig through so many folders!
I looked on eBay for ACDSee but there are several different versions. Can anyone tell me which one will let you tag the images that way? I found one that was called ACDSee Photo Editor, but it really just looked like an editing program (like Photoshop).
Or...is there something that I might already have on my computer that lets you tag images? I haven't played with any of the "stuff" that came on it!
Picasa is made by Google, you can download it here. It's actually for sorting and editing pictures, but it recognizes .png files as well. I can keep my kits together in regular folders on my hard drive and go into Picasa to do the tagging. You can tell it which folders to include in Picasa, and press Ctrl+T to add tags. It can take a long time to add tags to all of your scrapbooking stuff, depending on how specific you want to get, but you could just do one or two kits a day when you have time until your whole library is done.
I tag what each element is, what color it is, and what types of pages it could be used for (Christmas, new baby, etc.). You can bulk tag and select more than one item at a time to add a tag to. Then when you want to find something, you just type it in the search bar at the top. I loooove it.
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Jessica ~ Mommy to Genevieve ~ Expecting #2 October 5th!
Jessica, I could absolutely kiss you! That sounds perfect for what I need - THANKS!! Going to go download it as soon as I get ready for tonight's speed scrap!
I have Picasa 3, although I haven't done any tagging yet....I used Picasa for editing when my Photoshop CS3 crapped out on me. When I started digital scrapbooking I heard Picasa was a good way to sort out elements but I have yet to get started tagging everything.
LOL! Definitely tag multiple things at one time by CTRL-clicking on stuff. In one kit I might tag all the frames, then all the buttons, etc. at one time.
I've got to look something up about Picasa because I noticed during the Scrap-a-thon that it hadn't pulled all of the stuff I had and I'm not sure why. I'll let you know when I figure it out.
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Jessica ~ Mommy to Genevieve ~ Expecting #2 October 5th!
Hi! I have been using ACDsee Photo Manager for several years now. I am using Photo Manager 2009, their latest version, right now and I love it, I literally cannot scrap w/o it.
Before I first started using it, I tried PSE Organizer and Bridge (slow and not easy to work with) and then I tried Picasa. This was a few years ago, and Picasa couldn't handle pngs at all. As a scrapper- you know how unhepful that is.
So, now-- Picasa 3 can see pngs? That is really cool.
I don't thinkI could ever give up ACDsee, it has so many other features that I use on a regular basis, but like you said- Picasa is free.
I do have a question/comment.
IIRC, any tagging you do in Picasa doesn't "carry over" if you upgrade or want to import into another program. Is this still true in version 3?
That is a really nice feature in ACDsee 2009- I can have the tagging/keywords embed into the file so any organizing I have done can't get "lost."
I don't know if this is still an issue in v. 3, but I would hate to do all that work and possibly lose it
And seriously! Isn't it amazing once you get tagging, how much cool stuff you find? I even found some kits I had bought and never even unzipped. Yikes!
Hmm, I hadn't thought about that. I checked and it only embeds the tagging into the photo for JPEGs, not PNGs. So that would suck if I change programs. Definitely something to take into consideration.
Right now I'm sticking with Picasa since it's free, but I'll have to check out ACDsee and see if it's worth it to hint to DH as a birthday gift later!
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Jessica ~ Mommy to Genevieve ~ Expecting #2 October 5th!
Jess if you sign up for the ACDsee newsletter, they'll send out emails when they have sales/specials running. In Dec, they had it half price, then often then run a "2 copies for 1" so if you have a friend who is interested, you can split the costs/
I looked on eBay for ACDSee but there are several different versions. Can anyone tell me which one will let you tag the images that way? I found one that was called ACDSee Photo Editor, but it really just looked like an editing program (like Photoshop).
I should probably clarify this too since I see it come a lot.
A lot of scrappers use "ACDSee" to organize.
ACDSee is actually the company name- and they have several different software programs. For organizing, there is Photo Manager. The current version is PM 2009. That is what I am using.
There are also "Pro" versions. Pro 3 is available for PC. A Pro 3 version for Mac is currently in beta.
For actually creating digital pages, there is ACDSee Photo Editor 2008. That program is like Photoshop Elements. I use both Photo Editor and Photoshop CS2 to make my digi-pages.
HTH!
That sounds perfect for what I need - THANKS!! Going to go download it as soon as I get ready for tonight's speed scrap! 
I could tag for the rest of my life and might never finish!
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