Image File Names
Jul. 15th, 2006 02:57 pmArtists are supposed to be imaginative. So why do so many of them post image files with the names Centaur.jpg and Mermaid.jpg?
Seriously, even for places like Elfwood, where each artist has an individual folder, this can lead to problems. Why not simply name it something more descriptive?
Seriously, even for places like Elfwood, where each artist has an individual folder, this can lead to problems. Why not simply name it something more descriptive?
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Date: 2006-07-15 07:26 pm (UTC)Just because you're capable of drawing a picture doesn't mean that you're going to automatically come up with a shiny unique name for the file you get when you scan that piece of artwork in.
Also, as
I mean, geez, this is like bitching that a novelist who posts her work to the web should be naming her chapter pages something besides chapter1.html, chapter2.html, etc, just because it might confuse somebody who finds that page on a search engine. Me, I think that what's way more important is the actual quality of the work, not what the file is named. :)
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Date: 2006-07-15 10:32 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2006-07-16 10:25 pm (UTC)