Downloading Digital Kits - How to Snag Freebies

 

Digital kits include digital paper and embellishments that are similar to paper kits and are available as a download on a large number of websites either for free or to purchase. A complete list of resources may be found at the end of this booklet and there seem to be new sites being added everyday!!

 

To download a digital kit, you may need to register on a particular website. Free kits can be found under freebies or may be listed in the store. Once you find and click on the link, you will see the box below:

 

 

(this download is from the Scrap Outside the Box website)

 

Now click on Save because you want to save them in your computer rather than just open them. A new dialog box will open that will help you decide where you want to save the kit. It will look like this:

 

 

Where should you put your digital kits?

 

Where ever you would like! The most popular places are in My Documents and in My Pictures. Saving your kits in My Pictures is handy since your photos are there too, so that is what many people do.

Let's say you want to store them in My Pictures. First, click on My Pictures. Then you want you can create a new folder by clicking on the folder icon with the red star and then typing in the name of the folder. Some digital scrapers prefer to use one big folder for kits and then create smaller folders within that one - say a big folder for Scrapbook Kits and then one folder for each kit. Some like to name the kits using the designer's name while others prefer using just kit names or the website where you downloaded the kit. It is really up to you!

 

In this page note the folder FxFoto Clips- this folder contains the digital kits that come with FxFoto Creative.

 

 

Once you name the folder and press Save, the download will start. Depending on whether you use cable, dial up or DSL, this may take some time! With dialup this can be particularly long and many sites offer CD burning service where they will burn a CD for you.

 

Once the download is complete, a box will pop up that looks like this:

 

 

Click on Open and you will see the box below which has your file in a zipped format.

 

 

The file has been compressed or zipped to make it smaller for downloading. In order to use the file, you will have to extract the files (better known as unzipping it). Click on Extract all files and follow the directions in the wizard boxes to unzip your file. Now it is ready to use!