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Post by Twillie on Jul 4, 2016 12:35:09 GMT -5
Ginz ❤The only notification I got was from my Watch saying there was a new image, so it looks like there's no special admin alert now. As long as we're watching the group, though, it should be fine 
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Post by June Scarlet on Jul 4, 2016 12:47:18 GMT -5
I think we're set then. The only thing I might suggest doing is sending out a journal entry or something asking people to resubmit anything that was timed out, and apologizing that it wasn't caught the first time around. Though we might end up with a flood of submissions that way, though.
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Post by PFA on Jul 4, 2016 13:21:52 GMT -5
Whoo, dA group! *submits an art for the heck of it*
Yeah, I'm fine with it just being a place to share art if just because we seem to be too lazy to keep up with consistent events, lol.
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Post by Twillie on Jul 4, 2016 13:30:55 GMT -5
June Scarlet If we do put out a journal, I don't think we'll get too overwhelmed with submissions seeing as the group has settled a lot in the past years. By the sounds of it, I don't think the group was getting a large haul of submissions before anyway, so letting people know about the changes might just lead to art trickling in over the next few days.
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Post by PFA on Jul 7, 2016 22:08:15 GMT -5
tfw you realize you were drawing on the wrong layer
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Post by Zoey on Jul 8, 2016 0:36:09 GMT -5
tfw you realize you were drawing on the wrong layer And you already drew so much that the program won't let you undo all of it. All of my dislike. D: |
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Post by Ginz ❤ on Jul 11, 2016 0:41:07 GMT -5
Hey guys, I'm curious... how do you organize your art?
I've always liked drawing but I wasn't very prolific before and I only started drawing more consistently this year, so I just have one single folder called "My Art" where I put all my files. That used to work just fine for me, but now it's started to feel cluttered. XD; I usually keep at least two versions of each picture: the original photoshop file, and a smaller .jpg to share online, but sometimes I save progress pictures or several final jpg versions in different sizes or things like that, and those really add up! Do you keep your WIPs and your finished pictures separate? Do you sort pictures by theme or fandom (if you're the kind of person who draws fanart)? Do you always keep all your original editable files, or do you delete them if you're sure you won't go back and work on a picture anymore?
Basically, do you have any tips for me to organize my art files a bit better instead of lumping them all together, or are you like me? XD
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Post by PFA on Jul 11, 2016 1:11:25 GMT -5
Ginz ❤— I've had an "Amy's Stuff" folder for about as long as I've been using computers, lol. It has a bunch of subfolders for different fandoms (or series for some of my original stories), and then my art usually goes in "Art" or "Pictures" subfolders in those folders. Some of them are better organized than others though. XD I only started keeping the Photoshop/Flash files a few years ago when I realized I sometimes need to go back and edit them for whatever reason. I usually just keep them in the same folder as the finals unless I amass a lot of them. 
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Post by Zoey on Jul 11, 2016 10:43:47 GMT -5
Whew! So I didn't know how much I needed to reorganize my art folders (there were a lot of folders, but the organization didn't make sense) until Ginz ❤ mentioned it, but now I'm satisfied with how it is. So I have a folder called "Artsies" in my onedrive syncing program (so that all my art is backed up to my onedrive automatically, which has 14 gigs of space. Dropbox does the same thing; it's just that onedrive was the default file storage program that came with my laptop) that's organized like so: Essentially it's separated by fandoms and original art, and the other two folders (other ppl's art and photobook) are used to store pictures other people have gifted to me, and copies of 300 ppi files that I want to put into cheap photobooks on Createspace (awesome service to use if you ever just want a personal paperback book! I've also done some crafty things and turned some paperback journals of mine into hardcovers, but it's suuuuuper time-consuming). My Dragon Nest subfolders consist of this: Reference pics, finished art, comics I used to draw, and in-game screenshots. Neo subfolders look like this: Sunny side up and eclectic antics are my two NT comic series (sunny side up being the most current), and all of the submitted comics go in there. The unsubmitted comics, of course, go in the unsubmitted folder, along with the thumbnail I currently use. Then, of course, there's the finished art and references folders. The "original finished art" are my original character art, as well as some T-shirt designs.  I also shove a few sketch dumps in there because Zoey had the bad habit of doing tons of sketches and throwing them in random places. Currently, I don't do more than 1-3 works at a time, and I typically am very good about finishing them, so I can afford to not have a WIP folder. XD If a sketch doesn't get finished for months, then I just flatten the layers and smack it as done. I should probably keep the original PSD folders, but I dislike going back to edit old finished work because... well, to me it's kind of like getting back together with your ex. It's done and over with, and you should move on to bigger and better things. LOL! but I really should keep the original PSD because that's where all of the original data is, but I believe in the power of PNG image preservation, too. XD |
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Post by June Scarlet on Jul 11, 2016 12:13:44 GMT -5
Hm, I have a pretty basic system in my folders. In my pictures folder where everthing goes automatically, I have folders like 2016, 2015, 2014, and so on. The real organization happens in Windows Live Photo Gallery. It came automatically in Windows Vista and Windows 7, I had to find it again for Windows 10 and redownload it, because the one that comes with Windows 10 was missing the most important feature. Tags. As seen on the lefthand side of the screenshot  Most of those are tags for photographs, but some are for drawings, like the Neopets tag. I just add that tag to the drawing, and it shows up in that section. But even better, is that I can use more than one tag on the same thing! So say, something could be tagged both a comic, and Neopets, and even a drawing. I can also sort the picture in how you see them displayed anyway way I want, I like to sort them by the month, but you can also sort them by things like filesize or tags. Just lots of options for interacting with your pictures. I rarely go into the file structure at all. |
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Post by June Scarlet on Jul 11, 2016 17:51:04 GMT -5
ZoeyI was testing out onedrive just now. It seems nice, but it seems like anything I place in that folder is then removed from the regular folders, so say, I couldn't have a text file both in my documents and backed up in the onedrive file. Is that right? If so, that's kind of annoying.
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Post by Rabbit ♠ on Jul 11, 2016 18:05:36 GMT -5
That feeling when you can't get the colors juuust right...
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Post by Zoey on Jul 11, 2016 18:27:36 GMT -5
Zoey I was testing out onedrive just now. It seems nice, but it seems like anything I place in that folder is then removed from the regular folders, so say, I couldn't have a text file both in my documents and backed up in the onedrive file. Is that right? If so, that's kind of annoying. Onedrive files -are- technically just another subset of folders on your computer. So actually, what ended up happening was that I stopped using the normal "My Documents" folder on my computer and just moved everything to the OneDrive folders. That way, I have them both on my computer -and- on Onedrive. Not sure what you mean by removed from the regular folders, though.  I can have both a picture in "My Documents" or whatever and also have a picture in the Onedrive folders. ^this is what the set of Onedrive folders I have look like on my windows explorer. works just like any other computer drive. But mayhaps it's different for you because it's downloaded? It was installed in my laptop before I bought it. XD Rabbit ♠Indeed! Took me three preliminary doodles of Ciebatta to figure out that the colors I was using were too dark. XD |
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Post by June Scarlet on Jul 11, 2016 18:33:02 GMT -5
ZoeyNo, I have Windows 10, it's preinstalled. It's just when, say, I drop a picture in there, and it was in My Pictures folder, it's no longer in there, and it's instead in the onedrive folder. I can't have the same picture in both places at once. Unless I'm doing something wrong. But it sounds like you just stopped using the default folders all together, and now just use the onedrive folder.
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Post by Moni on Jul 11, 2016 18:44:35 GMT -5
I basically organize my """""""art""""""" (you can never have too many scare quotes) into types. So fanart goes in one folder, original art in other. Then there are subsections like portraits, full compositions, etc etc.
To save space and time I usually save my files in different formats depending on how i think I'll use the """"""art""""". One-off doodles that don't mean anything and are intended for online use are usually just saved in .jpg, things I think I might want to get back to later are saved as .psd, .pdn, .xcf, .kri, or whatever file format for the thing I'm using. If I don't think I'll revisit something but want to keep it in full quality, I save the mastercopy as .tiff.
It's probably not ideal if you're the type of person who likes to save *everything* (in which case the ideal would be to save everything as the file format native to the image editing software and just exporting it when necessary, deleting the non-mastercopy files to save space.) But it works for me because I'm lazy.
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I also shove a few sketch dumps in there because Zoey had the bad habit of doing tons of sketches and throwing them in random places. Currently, I don't do more than 1-3 works at a time, and I typically am very good about finishing them, so I can afford to not have a WIP folder. XD If a sketch doesn't get finished for months, then I just flatten the layers and smack it as done. I should probably keep the original PSD folders, but I dislike going back to edit old finished work because... well, to me it's kind of like getting back together with your ex. It's done and over with, and you should move on to bigger and better things. LOL! but I really should keep the original PSD because that's where all of the original data is, but I believe in the power of PNG image preservation, too. XD
I can have both a picture in "My Documents" or whatever and also have a picture in the Onedrive folders.
