freebird1963

Howdy All,
Okay I am a pack rat. I know that in some moment of time I will want or need or think I will want or need it.
Also I love free. So when I find free graphics I go crazy.
So between the two I have a hard drive full of graphicis. And in every format possible.

And being that I have stuff scattered all over and in no sensible means of organization I get overwhelmed when I sit down to do anything.

So for the last few days I have been biting my the lower lip and going through them and deleting what I know I won't use (I am having a nervous breakdown !!!). But still theres tons of them.
I am trying to figure out a way to store them.
I thought by format type but that still leaves them unorganized. Skulls with tiny furry animals. Hot girls mixed with dinosaurs etc.

So then was going to start organizing by themes but man that is gonna take some time. And then do I do sub themes.

So I need ideas. I never thought this would be so hard to do.

I was thinking of printing out a catalog of the images but man that would be hundreds of pages.

HELP !
THanks
Mark

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NeverBen

I'm new to this industry so my response may not help you at all but...

I have a similar problem except mine are from previous artist and each of them are just randomly placed on two seperate computer and three external hard drives and countless amount of dics (100's) spanning from 5 yrs ago. (Not pretty)

If you have Corel Draw and the budget I would recommend "Smart Designer X3". Check it out! I haven't bought it myself (cost too much) but it does have a clip art browser. Another i think it is called "RomCat", that may also help you.

If not, I would research clip art browser applications which I plan to do today.

Maybe a senior artist could help us out from this community.

 

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miktoxic

i have 2 hds. one internal and one external. i just copied everything to the external yesterday in case something happens to the internal drive (which has happened before).

i created a folder called 'my stuff' that is separate from all the system folders etc. that runs the os. within the 'my stuff folder' are probably like 12 other folders i created. everything from 'free vectors' to architectural reference' to 'tee shirts'.

within the 'tee shirts' folder there is probably another 12 folders with everything from 'motor graphics' (everything from gas station logos to old vintage bike logos etc.) to 'sports teams'.

yeah it's a pain. but it makes a HUGE difference. i still have a 'downloads' (computer downloads everything into that folder automatically) folder i have to go through and separate everything into it's proper place. i usually dedicate a sleepy rainy sunday to doing nothing but organizing my crap.

and if you got adobe bridge, use it. it will show thumbnails of everything within your drives and that way you can rename things properly.......it just makes it alot easier IMO. -good luck.

 

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