Downloads? What are downloads and how do I do them?

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This is a little technical, so we will try to keep the jargon to a minimum. Here goes … Digital Scrapbooking relies upon the use of graphics in order to create layouts and in today’s digiscrapVERSE there are an extraordinary number of kits to choose from, good, bad, and indifferent. These kits, though, are on the Internet not on your computer. So how do you get them onto your computer for use? Simple: You Digital Scrapbooking them. This FAQ post in our Learn Digital Scrapbooking series explores what downloads are, how to make downloads happen and what to do if you have problems, plus simple suggestions about file storage, backup and organisation, and tips for newbies.

 

A Brief Walk Through About What Downloads Are

First things first, let’s walk through the process.

Imagine that you have been window shopping for a while and finally made your purchases or decided to download a free kit.

A download is simply the process of transferring a copy of a file from a website on the Internet onto your computer’s hard drive.

Most digital scrapbook designers package their kits into a compressed data package, called an archive file. Usually, but not always, in archive file is saved in the format of a .ZIP file.

An archive file format makes it easy to transfer large files or groups of files in one piece, as a single file, containing one or more compressed files inside it. The archive file format is kind of like the shell or wrapper around the large file or group of files within. This offers an ideal way of making large files smaller and keeping related files together ~ the perfect way of packaging a digiscrapping kit together.

 

How to Start Downloading Kits

Often digital scrapbook kit downloads are triggered simply by clicking a text link or an icon or an image as indicated.

This direct method is the same for both kits that you may have bought as well as for FREEbies. Paid kits, however, usually have some sort of security process involved in order to be able to download them. Most of the time purchased kits are downloaded via an account dashboard and usually with a unique download link code generated by the shopping cart software.

This is the method used by us here at Anita Richards Designs for how all our Shop downloads are handled:

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choose kit > checkout > download via account dashboard

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Sample Layout

Picking Olives - A Digital Scrapbook Layout recalling a single moment as my younger son reached to pick olives from the tree at the end of the path at the house where we were boarding.
Digital Scrapbook Layout: Picking Olives

Picking Olives

This photograph of my younger son picking olives in the backyard was kind of an awkward one to scrap. The lines on the fence in the background were in conflict with the angle of the path and the slant on the trunk of the olive tree.

So rather than try correcting the image I decided to create a visual “v” on the page with the angle of the background papers leaning in the opposite direction.

Being an olive tree I was inspired by the label on a bottle of olive oil that I used to buy and teamed that with a simple olive leaf vine patterned set of flair resulting in a beautifully textural page nicely capped off with the shine of the flair.

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Problems with Downloads

Sometimes, especially with slow internet connections, achieving a complete and uncorrupted download may be problematic. One way around this is to install a download manager.

Solution: Using a Download Manager

A download manager is a software tool that manages the downloading of files from the Internet. The software may be built into a Web browser, although it may be a fairly sophisticated stand-alone software application. Using a download manager streams the download process.

Specifically, download managers are dedicated to the task of downloading files, sometimes unrelated stand-alone files, from the Internet for storage on your computer system. Some download managers can also be used to accelerate download speeds by downloading from multiple sources at once.

Although web browsers may have download managers incorporated as a feature, they are differentiated by the fact that they do not prioritize accurate, complete and unbroken downloads of information.

While some download managers are independent programs that can download any data over one or more protocols, many are integrated into installers or update managers and used to download parts of a specific program, eg. Adobe’s update managers.

A download manager will also ensure that large files like the .ZIP files that digiscrappers rely upon are downloaded intact and free of errors, especially on some slow and unreliable ISP (internet service provider) connections, which render the download unusable.

So if you happen to live in an area that still has an unreliable Internet connection, the download manager that I used for years and highly recommend is Free Download Manager which is available for both Mac OS and Windows PC platforms.

We have more information here about other common things that you can try if you are having problems with downloading .ZIP files.

Extracting and Unpacking .ZIPs aka Unzipping

Once you have retrieved or downloaded a .ZIP file, you need a way of extracting or unpacking it, in other words, a way to pull the files out of the .ZIP file and onto your computer hard drive so that you can easily access and use the files. This is commonly referred to as unzipping.

The unzipping program that I used for over ten years and highly recommend is PKZIP by PKWARE (non-affiliate link) which also comes in an enterprise version called secureZIP for both Mac OS and Windows PC. They also offer a free 30 day trial of their PKZIP product for you to test drive, which I love!

Having said that, Windows and Apple iOS systems are both also able to handle the process of unzipping with their inbuilt file management apps. However, using specialty unzipping software is not explicitly required but can be useful for other reasons (eg. password protecting .ZIP files).

Recommended: Unzip and Discard .ZIP Files

A word of caution: Keeping .ZIP files as a backup file is not usually recommended as an effective means of achieving secure long term backup and storage. This is because, ironically, .ZIP files are notoriously prone to corruption when moved around (hence the download manager solution discussed above). This means that the best practice is to unzip and discard the .ZIP files asap after successful downloads.

 

Backing Up your DigiScrap Files

Backing up all your files is a very important activity, and not just for digiscrappers either; read more about backing up your files and work here.

Photographs, digital scrapbooking kits and completed layouts are all precious parts of the digiscrapping journey, so taking the time to learn how to protect your photos and layouts in particular is very important.

 

File Organisation

Once you have opened your .ZIP file you need to extract, unzip or export the files from the .ZIP onto your hard drive. There are a number of ways of doing this and will depend on which software app or program you are using. This then leads us to the next thing to consider … how to organise your files.

Nowadays to move files out of a .ZIP file archive the easiest way is to click into the file, select the files with your mouse and simply drag them onto the desired folder in your file management software.

As a newbie digiscrapper I did what a number of newbies do, that is I lumped everything into one folder on my hard drive and then just got stuck into scrapping … perfectly fine until you have 10,000 files to wade through to find just the right papers and elements to use on your layout.

Dhoh!

Take away lesson from that experience: best to start organising as soon as possible.

So the process walk through is:

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choose kit > download kit > unzip kit > organise kit

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Promptly follow that simple formula and you’re pretty much good to go!

Ready! Set! Get scrapping!

 

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Final Thoughts

Now you are as clear as mud on downloads! and the process of getting kits for Digital Scrapbooking onto your hard drive. If things are still a little murky then let’s clear it up; please post your question in the comments below and we’ll help you out.

 

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This post is part of our Learn Digital Scrapbooking FAQ Series, the complete index for which can be found on the Learn Digital Scrapbooking: Start Here with the FAQs page.

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Backing up: Why should I do it? What is the best method?

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I can tell you from hard earned experience that losing all your files and photos sucks. BIG TIME! That happened to me in 2014. First I lost my EHD with everything on it because I accidentally forgot to remove the dust cover that, ironically, was there to protect it; it overheated and just fried. Then, just a few weeks later, my computer hard drive went kaput with rage … ahem … … I mean age! There was rage involved afterwards. Luckily, I had at least managed to back up flattened full size copies of my layouts and most of my high resolution photographs in the cloud. However, over 9 years of digital scrapbooking design files, layered digiscrapped layout files and most of my other documents were lost. In this FAQ post in our Learn Digital Scrapbooking series we consider why should do backups and the the best method of doing it.


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Why You Should be Backing Up

Rather than laboriously reinvent the wheel on the why of this one, there are numerous articles on the internet about why you should have a system for backing up; they all have the same bottom line:

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Bottom Line:
Don’t question
why you need to back up.
Just do it!

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The truly pressing question is: “What back up method is the best for Digital Scrapbookers?”


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I Can’t Find Things! What’s the Best Way to Organise My Files?

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Do you feel like your digital files are spiralling out of control? With over 1.5M photos and 50k DigiScrap files already … be assured, you’re not alone. Keeping your files organised is critical to a smooth and enjoyable scrapping experience. This post will guide you through effective strategies for sorting photos, managing kits, and organising layouts so you can spend more time creating and less time hunting for files. Soon you will be organising your photos and scrap kits like an pro with our smart, effective strategies for taming your stash!

 

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How to optimise your layout file sizes by using .TIFs

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Optimising the file sizes of your digital scrapbooking layouts is a great way to keep your overall file storage space somewhat under control. It also enables you to easily see the image contents of Photoshop® .PSDs when you are viewing the thumbnails in Windows Explorer®. For ALL Photoshop users, one of the best ways to do that is to save your files as .TIFs instead of in the native Photoshop .PSD file format. In this quick and easy tutorial we run through the steps to convert your digital scrapbook layouts into .TIF format.

 

Taking a step backwards for one moment … if you are confused about what file format and file types means, there is a previous blog post in this series that explains them in more detail: What are File Types? Why are they Important?

Further clarification: we are also talking about the layered .PSD layout design files here, NOT the flattened .JPG file (nor .PNG files). Once a layout has been flattened and saved out in that form there is limited ability to make any further changes to the elements that were combined to create the layout.

Anita Richards Designs | Digiscrap 1175 | How to Optimise your Layout File Sizes by using .TIFsSo what does to “optimise file size” mean?

Essentially to optimise the file size means to reduce the size of files whilst retaining the essential capabilities and properties of the file. That can include functions like editable photo layers, editable layers containing special image information like brushes, adjustment layers which are special types of layers within the file, layer style layers like drop shadows.

Then there are things like layer masks and fully editable text layers and there could also be a whole bunch of other things on layers in your file that you want to keep.

I gotta say, from digiscrapping in the trenches over the years, that in my experience there has been nothing worse than saving a layout as a flattened .JPG and then discovering later that you have a typo AND you’ve ended up spelling your son’s name wrong! AND you accidentally saved the .PSD as a flattened layout too!

True story! I did that! 

The following method is my preferred way of saving my work; I have saved all my layouts, and my design files too for that matter, in .TIF format since at least 2007. I was prompted to make the conversion from .PSD to .TIF because I had totally run out of hard+drive space. I reduced my files overall by half.

Many seasoned digiscrappers using Photoshop® swear by this method for the simple reason that it works with great effect.

anita-richards-tutorial-saving-an-adobe-photoshop-custom-workspaceThe following tutorial was written whilst using Adobe Photoshop CS4. However, the basic interface commands are pretty much the same across all versions of Photoshop® Creative Cloud® as well as very similar in Photoshop® Elements from version 2 upwards. The workspace that you see on screen looks a little different to the Adobe® out-of-the-box workspace because I tweaked and customised it to help my "visual thinking" ~ you can customise and save yours too to suit your own unique and individual needs. Smilie face, with a big grin!

Saving in .TIF is easy peasy so the following tutorial is super short and super sweet.

 

Step 1: Click on File > Save As

This will open the Save As options dialogue box so that you can specify the file format that you want to use to save your file in a .TIF version.

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Step 2: Choose Format > TIFF

Click on the Format drop down list and select TIFF (*.TIF; *.TIFF) from the list, then type in the name you want to call your file in the File name field.

Click Save.

This lets Photoshop know which particular file format dialogue box to bring up in the next step so that you can specify exactly how you want Photoshop to save the file.

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Step 3: Choose the TIFF File Options

Select the following parameters on the TIFF Options dialogue box: LZW, Interleaved, either IMB PC or Macintosh and ZIP.

These specific setting parameters will ensure that your file is saved in a way that is as small as possible whilst still retaining all the layers and the complex lossless image information in your file.

Lossless image information means that every time you save and re-save the file in .TIF format the clarity and integrity of the image will be retained. In fact, resaving a .TIF in another one of the lossless file formats, for example in .PNG format, will also retain the image’s clarity and integrity.

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Voila!

You have just saved your first size optimised file in .TIF format.

 

To demonstrate how effective this method is in reducing file sizes take a look at this side by side before and after comparison image:

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Do you like the decorative swirls featured in the layout used in this tutorial?

Awesome! … here ’tis!

Enjoy!

 

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Do you think you will use this method to trim away transparent and empty pixels from your .PNG files? How did you go with it or why not? It would be great to know your thoughts on this so please feel free to post in the comments to get a discussion going.

This post is part of our Learn Digital Scrapbooking FAQ Series, the complete index for which can be found on the Learn Digital Scrapbooking: Start Here with the FAQs page.

Enjoy!

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Keep those .PNGs neat: How to safely trim away empty pixels.

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Anita Richards Designs | Digiscrap 1173 | How to Safely Trim Away Excess PixelsEmpty space in the transparent backgrounds of the .PNG files of embellishments for Digital Scrapbooking can chew up a LOT of hard drive space. Literally for nothing! It can also make placement of embellishments difficult in some programs. Excessive empty transparent space can also be a hiding ground for stray pixels, causing issues on layouts, particularly by playing havoc with Drop Shadows and other Layer Styles. In today’s blog, we delve into what to look for, and how to fix it, when checking the embellishments in your digi-stash.

 

One of the very first things I like to do when I download a new kit to my hard drive is check if the embellishment .PNG files have been safely trimmed to remove excess empty pixels.

Many designers routinely trim excess empty space from their designs with transparent backgrounds. However, some designers don’t for whatever reason.

At first glance it seems simple to just go ahead and hit the Trim command in Photoshop, but doing that always results in rounded embellishments ending up with flat spots from the trimming process. I didn’t know this for a very long time and was just hitting trim on everything … big mistake!

There is an easy solution that is a breeze to follow to get the job done safely that leaves the beautiful rounding on your rounded embellishments nicely round.

 

anita-richards-tutorial-saving-an-adobe-photoshop-custom-workspaceThe following tutorial was written whilst using Adobe Photoshop CS4. However, the basic interface commands are pretty much the same across all versions of Photoshop® Creative Cloud® as well as very similar in Photoshop® Elements from version 2 upwards. The workspace that you see on screen looks a little different to the Adobe® out-of-the-box workspace because I tweaked and customised it to help my "visual thinking" ~ you can customise and save yours too to suit your own unique and individual needs. Smilie face, with a big grin!

If you use Photoshop® Elements despair not! The commands in Elements are very similar. PLUS … There is a little surprise at the end of this tutorial for you too.

 

Step 1: Open Your File

The first step is obvious … open the file of the embellishment that you would like to trim.

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Step 2: Select the Layer in the Layers Palette

Make sure that the layer the embellishment is located on is selected as active in the Layers palette.

This will change the colour of the background of the active layer within the Layers Palette if it was not already selected as the active layer.

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Step 3: Apply a Stroke Layer Style

On the Photoshop Menu Bar, click on Layer > Layer Style > Stroke.

This will bring up the Layer Styles dialogue box so that you can apply a simple Stroke Layer Style to the embellishment.

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Step 4: Set the Style Options

Set the Stroke options to 3 pixels wide and choose any colour so that you are able to see that it has been applied to the embellishments.

This will create a 3px stroke outlining all the opaque areas of the embellishment. Essentially the embellie has now been made 6px wider and taller than it was before we applied the layer style.

Now is also a good time to zoom in on the image to see if you can spot any stray pixels and, if you find any, delete them from the file.

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Step 5: Open the Trim Command

On the Photoshop Menu Bar, click on Image > Trim.

This will open up the Trim command’s dialogue box.

After trimming is another good opportunity to check for any stray pixels.

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Step 6: Trim the Background

Set the Trim > Based On command options to Transparent Pixels and ensure that ALL the Trim Away check boxes are ticked as selected.

This will ensure that all sides and all the areas with empty pixels will be trimmed away within a four-sided / rectangular perimeter.

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Step 7: Clear Layer Style

Right click on the active embellishment layer in the Layers palette and click on Clear Layer Style.

This will remove the stroke from the embellishment, leaving a gap around the embellie of approximately 3px on each side. The gap is not precisely 3px because Photoshop always trims a little more than it should …. which is why we are safely trimming our rounded embellishment in the first place!

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Step 8: Check Point

Pause to admire your beautifully trimmed embellishment.

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Step 8A: RE-Check Point

If your image is trimmed in a skewed way, ie there is still an excess transparent area remaining after running the Trim Command then there may still be a stray pixel hiding in the image that was missed earlier.

Simply re-apply the stroke layer style and go hunting until you find the little blighter (or plural) and then delete it.

 

Step 9: Resave the File

On the Photoshop Menu Bar, click on File > Save to over-right the file or alternatively click on File > Save As to re-save your newly trimmed .PNG file with a different name or in a different folder. DONE!

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Pretty easy really!

To make things even easier I have created a quick and simple action to do the grunt work of trimming .PNGs for you.

There are two versions in this download: one with an automatic Save/Close command and one without so that you can retain full control over where and how the trimmed files save.

Also included in the download are instructions for both Photoshop® Creative Cloud as well as for Photoshop® Elements. Elements users can also refer to the current help documents at Adobe and to review legacy information for older versions of Elements that you may be using.

 

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So there we have it: a brief explanation of the why and how-to process of trimming the transparent and empty pixels from .PNG files to optimise files sizes. Please let us know how you are going with it. Did it work as expected? Need help? Did this action work in Photoshop® Elements too? I would love to know: please post in the comments to get a discussion going.

This post is part of our Learn Digital Scrapbooking FAQ Series, the complete index for which can be found on the Learn Digital Scrapbooking: Start Here with the FAQs page.

Enjoy!

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Empty space in the transparent backgrounds of .PNG files can chew up a LOT of hard drive space, literally for nothing as well as make placement of embellishments difficult in some programs. This blog looks at a non-destructive way of fixing them.
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What are file types? Why are they important?

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Anita Richards Designs | Digiscrap 1040 | What are File Types? Why are the Important?Unless you’ve had to deal with using different types of files in the past, either in your work or studies or hobby, then when you first start digital scrapbooking it may be a little confusing trying to understand what is meant when you hear the term “file type”, let alone understand why file types are important. File types are important because they tell various software programs and applications how to handle the information within them. Today’s post is aimed at demystifying one of the most basic functions in computer software.

 

A file type is the term for the last part of the name given to a specific kind of file, sometimes associated exclusively with specific software and apps.

For example, a Microsoft Word® document is one type of file with either .DOC or .DOCX on the end of the file name and an Adobe® Photoshop® document is another file type with a .PSD ending … these are just two different file types and there are many others, spanning all sorts of uses in information technology.

Due to the file type ending, aka the file extension, a Word document file can be opened across a wide variety of other software applications within which it is not “native” because that software application recognises the .DOC or .DOCX extension and, therefore, is able to process the data accordingly.

The assumption in that is that the data contained within the file is in fact programmed correctly and is in fact what it is supposed to be … but that is a web safety discussion we will touch on in another blog post.

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Generally speaking, you can’t open a file that is in a format that is not meant to be used in a software app that it is not designed for and vice versa, if that makes any sense!

 

Photoshop® image files are the same, and they are limited to a smaller number of software applications that are able to open a Photoshop® .PSD for use.

For our purposes, the most common file types that you can expect to come across in digital scrapbooking are imaging and font file formats.

For example, in the layout featured below:

  • the layered composition was saved out as a layered template in both the native Photoshop® .PSD file formats as well as in .TIF format;
  • the page embellishments (enamel party hat, staples, satin cord, scalloped border) are from .PNG Files;
  • the Kraft paper background and cardstock behind the photos are from .JPG files; and
  • the ornament in the bottom right corner is stamped on the page from an .ABR Adobe® brush file.

Additionally, the photographs were originally taken in .RAW format on the [dslr-camera] used to take them.

 

Layout: Birthday Boys

Birthday Boys

Birthdays are always big deals for me and every year I tried to ensure that my sons had great birthdays with good friends and family to celebrate with them.

This year things had been a little hectic around the time of my younger son’s birthday as we were shifting house, so we decided to throw a double birthday party near my older son’s birthday.

Loads of fun!

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Anita Richards Designs | Digiscrap 1140 | What are File Types? Why are they Important?There are literally dozens upon dozens of different image types and image file extensions that can be used when creating and saving images on the computer. However, below is a list of only a few of the most commonly used file types, and their associated image file extensions that we see in digiscrapping:

  • .ABR Adobe BRush file
  • .BMP – BitMaP image
  • .GIF – Graphics Interchange Format image
  • .JPEG or .JPG – Joint Photographic Experts Group image
  • .PNG – Portable Network Graphics image
  • .PSD – PhotoShop Design image
  • .PSP – PaintShop Pro image
  • .SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics file
  • .TIF or .TIFF – Tagged Image File Format image
  • .XCF – GIMP image

 

Font files are also pretty important to digital scrapbookers because we just love being able to decorate our pages with elaborate title work. We also love to use decorative fonts for our journaling … some fonts contain only ornaments so these are pretty cool to have in our digiscrapping resource collections also.

For the digital scrapbooker, the two most common font file format type extensions are:

  • .OTF – Open Type Font file
  • .TTF – TrueType Font file

Between these two different font file types the ace in the deck as they say is the .OTF or Open Type font file.

The .OTF format is better because it usually contains all the extra characters and decorative swirls, swashes and special serifs on letters and numbers that make some fonts elaborately decorative.

There is nothing wrong with the .TTF or True Type fonts, however; they are simply far more utilitarian in nature. Although if you need a good solid font for simple journaling then most plain typeface .TTFs will fit the bill.

If you have the choice between installing an .OTF or a .TTF … always go with the .OTF as the first choice.

Anita Richards Designs | Digiscrap 1140 | What are File Types? Why are they Important?Another group of file types that is very important to and frequently used by digital scrapbookers are the archive file types used for downloads … we need those download files to build our stash, eg.:

  • .ZIP – most widely used on Windows and Mac.
  • .RAR – Roshal ARchive
  • .7Z – 7Zip
  • .TAR – Tape ARchive

 

Anyway, that’s enough with the technobabble for today!

If you want, you can read up more on file formats and file types from these sources:

Lastly … did you like the layout featured in this blog post?

Yes?!? …

Awesome.
Please be my guest and download a copy with my compliments!

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Wrapping things up: all said and done, understanding file types, file formats and file extensions together with the ones most commonly encountered by Digital Scrapbookers and what they do is pretty straight forward really. However, I’m curious to keep track of any new trends and would love to hear from you, especially if you are regularly using different file types? Let us know in the comments below.

This post is part of our Learn Digital Scrapbooking FAQ Series, the complete index for which can be found on the Learn Digital Scrapbooking: Start Here with the FAQs page.

Enjoy!

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Help!!! I’m running out of hard-drive space!

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Running out of hard-drive space is a common challenge for Digital Scrapbookers. High-resolution photos, layout files, and kits can gobble up storage quickly! This post shares practical solutions for optimising storage, leveraging cloud backups, and making room for your creativity. Let’s reclaim your storage space!

 


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