I have been a fan of digital art for stampers and colorists since I discovered them many years ago. I started with Make It Crafty in Australia. I now use Saturated Canary, Sassy Cheryl, East Wind, Simply Betty, and Tickled Pink among others. I love that I get instant satisfaction. I can print in any size or color. I can print on any paper, patterned or plain, water color. I can create scenes with .png images without masking. Versatile? Yep.
But organization of 1.12 GB of files has been daunting. I started out by putting them all in one folder so I could just scroll and see them all. Then I got the crazy idea of sorting by artist so if I was in the mood for a Saturated Canary (which rocks, BTW) I could check the folder and print the image. Then I developed thirty-five folders and sometimes I just didn't know what I wanted to color. So, over the last three days, I went into every folder, added the artist's name to each image and moved it to my hard drive in one whopping big folder. It took three days. Some images only had a number, i.e. img 723, so I had to rename it something that made sense for searching. I can now search for Halloween and every image from every artist that has Halloween in the name will show up. Plus, I can just scroll until something jumps out at me. As a result of all this hard work, I can see multiple images at once, the original files are on my back-up drive so I won't lose them and all my images are on my hard-drive where I can take them with me when I travel (they had previously all been on my back-up drive) and each image has an artist attributed to it so I can give credit . I also moved any Word, Corel Draw, Adobe Elements, Powerpoint, and Make the Cut files that related to the images.
So far I am very happy with this folder. Using extra large icons or Microsoft Office Picture Manager, I can look at each image until I decide which image I want to work with. I'll let you know how it works.
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