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QUESTION: Can someone please teach me how to embed the meta data into my files? How do the EXIF properties work?
ANSWER 1: What software do you use? I use PSE. I click File> File Info and then put the information in the blanks and save the layout. That's all you do. It will automatically appear when you upload it.
ANSWER 2: As for getting supplies to show up under EXIF Properties (old Details) you have to be using a Photoshop product. I don't believe this works for Corel PSP. Go to File> File Info and put your information into the Caption block. It automatically transfers when you upload a layout. The info (meta data) transfers from your PSD files to your JPG files, but not to your PNG files. For signatures, you have to enter it into the Image Description yourself. It's nice to have it there, but try to also list your Scrap Girls supplies down in the Image Description of the layout as well. When people use the message board search capability to look for examples of products in use, the system does not search the details. (Unless it is now doing it with the latest board update.) I copy the information from my layout and then paste it into the Image Description as I'm setting it up to upload.
ANSWER 3: You are correct that PSP users do not have that feature. We do it the old-fashioned way... type it in.
QUESTION: I have newsletters saved from a long time ago and was wondering if there is a way to save the tutorials. Occasionally, I have highlighted the section, copied it, brought it up in another program (e.g. Publisher) and then printed it. Is there an easier way? Another site I subscribe to allows the tip/tutorial to be saved as a PDF file and that is so easy. Does anyone have any other suggestions? I did search to see if this had been asked before, but couldn't locate it.
ANSWER 1: I copy and paste them into One Note that I got with Microsoft Office Home and Student. There are tabs and I can see just where each one is. I used to copy them into Microsoft Word and save them in a folder, but One Note is much easier.
ANSWER 2: I copy and paste them into Microsoft Word and then save them in a file I call "Tutorials." They are easy to print off if I decide I want a printed copy. There may be something easier, but I haven't found it.
ANSWER 3: Microsoft Word is my word processing software of choice, so that's what I prefer to use for anything that is mostly text. I copy and paste the parts I want into Word and then save the files in a folder called "AdobePS-Tuts&Tips," with a sub-folder called "Scrap Girls." Sometimes, I include the larger image layout picture if I want to see more detail as I read the tutorial. Sometimes, I just use the small picture with the link to the larger image and sometimes I don't use the picture at all. Since Word has some pretty good elementary tools for working with pictures, I also resize and crop the pictures, especially on those tutorials that have a lot of them. I also do the same for useful information from message board topics as well. It didn't take me long to realize that I was drowning in tutorials and tips and couldn't find anything when I wanted it, so I now have further sub-folders to categorize the tutorials. I also include a link to the original message board topic in the document so that I can go back to it if I need to (for additions, clarifications or using the link in another post). I'm a tutorial junkie, just like I'm a style junkie! The Scrap Girls team and site members do such a magnificent job of giving us useful information!
ANSWER 4: The easiest way is to just buy the PDF that has all of the tutorials neatly organized in eBook format. It also comes with the Way Cool Stuff tutorials. They are for sale in the boutique and are packaged for each quarter. Here is the one for the first quarter of 2009: Scrap Girls Tutorials & Way Cool Stuff eBook Set - 2009 1st Quarter. It will save you a ton of time! It has a table of contents at the front and all of the products used in each tutorial are listed at the end of each individual tutorial and they are linked automatically to the store. So, if you see something you like, you can just hop to its page in the boutique easily. The newest ones also have the table of contents linked to jump you right to that page within the eBook.
ANSWER 5: Thank you for the suggestions. I must admit, I did not know that they had been collected onto an ebook. That sounds like the easiest way to go, at least as far back as 2008. I'll have to work out the best method for saving all the others I have back to 2007!
ANSWER 6: Evernote has a lot of the functionality of Microsoft One Note, but it's a free program. You can put web pages in it, pictures and tutorials. Google "Evernote" and you're sure to find it. Then, come back here and start saving tutorials, images of pages you want to lift and message board posts. You can even use it to save boutique pages for future reference or to make a purchase at a later date. It will even recognize text in images. Then you can do a keyword search in Evernote and it will filter everything with that keyword.
ANSWER 7: I also use Evernote since you can simply select which part of the newsletter you want and "Clip to Evernote." I have a button on my Safari menu bar that allows me to click the button without going anywhere. I have a notebook in Evernote called "Tutorials" that I save everything into.
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