This is not a list!

I didn’t mistakenly put a dash in front of this title. I just spent forty five minutes clearing out over 7,000 “free extras” fonts, styles, brushes, patterns and shapes that I have never used from my Photoshop.

I am a total sucker for all that stuff! It’s so much fun to play. But when just like anything else, sometimes less is more.

Don’t freak out. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t take advantage of all the awesome Photoshop toys that are out there…but don’t be like me. I find all this stuff and am so excited to see what it can do that I immediately throw it all into my Presets.

Then what? You guessed it. I get busy. I have work to do for clients who would never really be interested in having Celtic crosses or Dick Van Dyke fonts. Sure, I could take all that stuff out then, but that would be admitting that I don’t have time to do everything I ever wanted to do!

Today, I reached a breaking point. I had to clear that stuff out. My PS being so bloated was costing me time both in program processing and because I had too many choices for every single simple project!

So I’ve taken a good number of the extras and organized them into folders each with a little description of what they are, so I know what I have when I need it.  And I placed all those folders outside of the Photoshop files!

I think my next project is going to be going through my Outlook archives…you don’t want to know how many e-mails I have sitting in there!!!

Do you have any “fall cleaning” projects on your to-do list?

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