I do: filename: descriptive title + (style) + type of thing + by artist so trident (hand painted) weapon by brick tamland.jpg or a whale's vagina (realism) character by ronald JA burgundy.png or san diego zoo (stylised realism) environment by wes mantooth.gif my ref folder has these sub folders: environment art character…
I gave up on using folders and naming conventions for my reference folder. It got confusing when an image could have easily belonged to any number of categories. Instead I downloaded Windows Photo Gallery and spent 2-3 nights going through and just tagging every image I had saved with as many relevant tags as I could…
Not sure how ACDSee does it, but in XnView you can press Ctrl D to edit tags, and it stores a "descript.ion" plain text file in each folder, with a line for each file... filename followed by tags.
I thought about doing this just last night as I was sifting through images for reference. The more organized you are the more you rule out the random factors though. I use just a couple of folders atm: anatomy (just mostly models without textures that have something special) characters2d (mostly concept work and even comic…
I was thinking about doing that for ages as well, however I'm using XnView and I was thinking to do that, but the problem is when you decide to move that file to another folder, wouldn't have to redo the whole tag thing again?
Hello everyone. I'm doing some cleanup on my computer. To say that reference folder is completely trashed and devoid of any order would be an understatement. I understand that a lot of artist save inspirational images to your hard drive as well. How do you guys like to keep your own library organized? For example, a friend…
Here's my latest folder setup, but this is only the stuff I've saved off in the last couple years or so. One thing I like to do, whenever possible, is to add the artist's name as a prefix to the file name. Makes it easier to find the source if needed later. But reverse image search is making that a bit obsolete.