How to organize your tips

[Sharon Brunson]

Hi Greg,

I use a program called Vault that you can download here.

http://www.personalmicrocosms.com/html/32bit.html

It's incredibly easy to organize your tips with this program and the freeware version has always been enough for me.

Sharon

[jerry]

Hi Sharon

Thanks for the link to Vault program.. Could you please explain just how you use this program. For example:

If you see a post on the Retouchpro forum that is worth keeping, can you cut and paste it into the vault program.

Do you have to store your tips using Msword or some other text program and vault is used to open these documents..

If you could clear up the potential uses for this program It would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Jerry

[Ron]

Use a search engine.

With a lot of tips and tutorials in html format you might look at Sleuthhound at http://www.isleuthhound.com/products/. This program lets you specify search areas (i.e. store your files in folders called Tips or Tutorials) then you can use Sleuthhound to search for key words just like a search engine (Google, AltaVista).

For example you could search for "layer mask" or "brushes" etc. and Sleuthhound will find and display all the files it found with those key words, complete with a header and some of the text from the file.

It supports Boolean and wild card searches and there's a free demo download. The regular program costs $20.00 US and the Pro version is $34.95

Ron

[Jakaleena]

Originally posted by DJ Dubovsky
Are you refering to tips we get from other sites? Can't we get in trouble doing that?
DJ

I wouldn't say one could copy and paste them verbatim from another website, but Photoshop techniques themselves aren't copyrighted. They are routinely passed along and shared, and that is the intention of tips in the first place. If you have a tip that you routinely use and just type it in your own words, I doubt that there is anything illegal about it.

[Doug Nelson]

Yes, the tip itself isn't copyrightable, only the wording and/or presentation used to describe it. So paraphrase away!

[DJ Dubovsky]

I have been getting tips mailed to me daily and have amassed quite an extensive collection. We're talking in the hundreds. I'll see what I can do but that sure is going to keep me at the top of the list of most talkative on the forum.
DJ

[Doug Nelson]

You'll always be tops on our list

[Sharon Brunson]

Jerry, I'm embarassed that I missed your previous questions.

Yes I just copy/paste directly into Vault from IE, Outlook and any other program. It organizes everything in Outline form.

I'm sorry for the delay in answering you.

Sharon

[DJ Dubovsky]

Instead of hogging the forum with them by listing each one per thread. Can't I just put them on a text or document file and maybe list them by catagory or something and then you put them in the tips area outside the forum? At any rate it will take me some time to compile all these and reword them so don't look for anything soon.
DJ

[Doug Nelson]

The tips area outside the forum is no longer updated. I moved all the tips to the forum and changed all the links. The physical page is still there, but only to keep from breaking any outside links that might have been made to it.

And the idea of one tip per thread is simply so they can be found and discussed easily and clearly.

[DJ Dubovsky]

I have so many of them. How about if I catagorize them for each thread. Say for instance a thread on Selection tips or Brush tips etc. and in the tread title page, list them all. Or would you prefere them listed one per thread? I'm working on the selection tips now.
DJ

[Doug Nelson]

However you'd like to do them is good