thorny fog
for those of you who have backgrounds, cliparts, overlays, etc
Do you keep/sort them based on what they are and where you got them? or do you throw them all in a general category? I thought about doing categories and throwing them all in but sometimes I'd like to know who/where I got it from, I'm not even sure how to find all of it... I have so much of it LOL (I suppose I could use LR to catalog it 😛 (since it supports most image formats, why not?) good/bad idea?
mossy panther
its a good idea to organize your stuff. since for now i dont have plenty of assests but still i face the same problem. there must be some concrete solution to it
thorny fog
organizing isn't the issue; its how to organize, themes, type, seller? I could do all 3 but I'd need Lightroom I guess
but I wanna keep it simple so I'll just throw it all in one
languid quail
You can use bridge and keyword all your stuff, Or put them in collections.
I don't typically do that with assets (I keep them organised by categories: folders, subfolders etc) but working files are keyworded and/or put into collections
TDLR: Use Bridge 😁
thorny fog
You can use bridge and keyword all your stuff, Or put them in collections.
I don...
I found some more specialized apps that will organize some of them
Plus... showing them to clients? ooof there's too many
languid quail
I found some more specialized apps that will organize some of them
Plus... sho...
Bridge is free with Photoshop #justsayin'
thorny fog
this is true, but it won't help me organize/see brushes and presets
I do have LR I have been considering using it
manic meteor
Was about to suggest Bridge as well!
thorny fog
I also wish I had a way to display all this stuff online quick and easy
thorny fog
I found a solution; a DAM and there's a DAM that can be turned into a webserver but tbh that's too much hassle
I found another DAM but they limit it to 20GB and I know I will exceed that easily 😦
languid quail
this is true, but it won't help me organize/see brushes and presets
Bridge is a DAM as well
Maybe it can't visualise anything (I doubt you will find a software that visualised .abr anyway) but you'll be able to visualise .psd, .ai, .pdf and all the Adobe files, in addition to most video files (yes, even scanning the timeline in a thumbnail)
.ai files can be visualised, in thumbnails, by artboards, .with .pdf you can scan the pages in the thumbnail as well. You can also visualise all the RAW formats
I would be curious to see a DAM that allows that
If you keyword and tag your presets and brushes it will sort them out
That's also what collections are for (also have a look at "smart collections" as well.)
thorny fog
Maybe it can't visualise anything (I doubt you will find a software that visuali...
would be neat if ABRs could be visualized, I knew that some files can't be visualized; and yes Br can indeed publish to an online source but you need hosting for that IIRC
there are two DAMs that do that well which are Filecamp and Stockpress, I'll likely go with Stockpress but anytime soon because they are so silly by only having 3 features on their highest tier that should be on all their other tiers
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I Use LrC & Bridge for Photo, Video for all other file management I use an Switzerland app called Total commander this app have i used abut 30 year in Windows. One of the best management program for Windows, before Windows I used a program called Norton Commander.
thorny fog
Did Total commander buy it from Norton? 😉
I'm using an app called iMatch and it seems to be decent, you CAN use it to organize certain files that it normally doesn't and it will deal with sidecar files also 😉
@vale badge ?
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Did Total commander buy it from Norton? 😉
I'm using an app called iMatch and ...
Windows Commander have same functionality that Norton Commander had, Windows Commander change name to Total Commander after Windows tell Christian Ghisler that hi was allowed to use Windows in the name of his program. Total Commander still updates. I have only pay for one update and that was then TC com in 64 bits version. The program is more than file manger app, it be used as FTP program batch rename file, brows images, and cad files, play music and more, There are also a lot of plugins. https://www.ghisler.com/
thorny fog
oh I remember Total Commander! I haven't seen that in awhile!
WOW! I forgot about "shareware" LOL wow... so 90s! Yes wow OMG this has survived all these years?! Holy moley!
only thing I wished TC could do is see inside PSDs, iMatch does that and you say plugins... will have to see about that