Okay - this is a "best practices" question, as opposed to a technical question.
I'm curious what workable systems people have come up with for organizing graphic files - particularly when you start linking them either to web pages or Pagemaker files and the like. I've never had much trouble keeping my files organized until I started working with graphics. I like to keep an original of any graphic I use - and only work on copies. This way if I mess it up (which is easy when you are just learning these graphic editing programs!) I can always go back to zero. But when I work with Photoshop, it is often necessary to turn the file into a PSD instead of a gif or jpg or whatever it was, if you want to work with layers or any number of other options in that program. So now I have an original, and a PSD file. Then when I'm done I need it to be in an appropriate format for my finished product - gif or jpg for the web, tif for some print medium -- whatever. So now I've got three files. Now, if I link it to a pagemaker document (instead of embedding it - which the technical person at our printer advised me is preferable since Pagemaker files with lots of graphics can get huge and then they tend to corrupt) I assume I have to keep it where the PM doc knows to look for it and not go moving it around from folder to folder (haven't tested that out, actually - am I wrong about that)? And if it's in a web page of course it has to be in the web file or it won't work once the web page is uploaded to the Net....... So then someday down the line I need to use the same photo for something else - how do I find it (I try to give them memorable names - that helps) and how many copies do I need so it can have the proper file relationship to the NEW webpage or document without messing up previous documents that used it......??? How do others handle this? Thoughts and suggestions will be appreciated. -cynthia **Folkschool-list archives are at: <http://www.mint.net/folkschool/helpnet/archives.htm> Sponsored by Pine Tree Folk School ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84vzQ.a9gqS3 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
