How can I de-clutter my 'all image' library?

[comixjunky]

How can I de-clutter my 'all image' library?
(a) how can I MOVE (not copy) images to albums?
(b) How can I arange images by frequency of use? (not most recent) 'Recent' pushes 'Frequent' to the 2nd page.
(c) Can images be deleted from the main menu (all images), after copying to an album?

[Jadendreamer13]

I keep my images on my hard drive (plus a weekly backup copy on an external hard drive). That way, if Zazzle goes away or has some sort of large-scale failure, I still have copies of all my artwork to use elsewhere.

I know that doesn’t answer your question, but it made me wonder if it’s safe to only rely on Zazzle’s saved images. (Not saying that you do that).

🙂

[KeegansCreation]

I can't answer your questions but I can give you a short experiment to run that will answer question (c).

Upload a test image to your image library. Then put it in a folder (which apparently copies it). Then delete the original image. Then check the folder.

[Barbara]

"All Images" is the only real home of your images. Anything you "copy" to an album isn't a true copy--it's a link. So (if I'm remembering correctly), you can delete a link but the image itself remains in All Images, but if you delete an item from All Images, it's gone, including its link in an album. I learned this the very hard way a long time ago because I was thinking albums were the same as folders such as we have on a computer where we can copy what's in one place to another and thus have two instances of the item.

So, no, you can't move an image from All images. After a while, looking at All Images is jumping into an overly cluttered tank. Links categorized in albums such as "plants," "animals," "metal," etc., and using sub-albums within albums to further sort things out works much better.

[ColsCreations]

You remember correctly. All Images is the real folder. The albums we can create within are just for virtual organization.  As @KeegansCreation explained, if you Delete an image from All Images, it is deleted from whatever album(s) you assigned it to. It's gone. If you are inside an album and choose Delete, it only removes it from that album, it will still be in your All Images. That's misleading/confusing, the button should be renamed to "remove from album".

Also important to know is that you can delete images from your library and it doesn't effect your published products or Saved Designs. You could wipe out your entire library and just copy/paste images from designs you've already used them on.