As for me, I use Picasa, which is free and brought to you by the super power, Google. I upload all of my pictures into Picasa as well but find my folder name is usually descriptive enough for photos but my digital stash--I tag with keywords. Picasa allows you to create your own keywords so I use things that make sense for me, and are helpful when creating a page. Things like: fall, red, ribbon, stitching. Here is a screen capture of my picasa account when I searched by the word fall (which you can see across the top).
Here you can see things better. What came up is a folder containing a kit by Leora at Little Dreamer, next there is a line of buttons, and under that is where you can type in your keyword. This kit is tagged with the word fall, but also ld (my shorthand for Little Dreamer), ribbon and tag.
Another recent system I developed was to begin identifying how many photos my templates and quickpages can accommodate. This has helped to speed my scrapping tremendously. Below is a zoom on a search I did for "3photo" again, my shorthand for templates with 3 photos.
Shown are two of the templates I have that house 3 photos.
I hope you find this information helpful. If you have questions or would like me to cover Picasa in more depth, leave a comment!
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