Image File Names

[stickmaker]

Artists 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?

Comments

[annathepiper]

We've had this argument on the MUSH before, Rod.

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 spazzkat and I pointed out, why should the artist have to care about whether or not their filename is the same as everybody else's filename? If it's a big deal to you what those files are called, rename them when you copy them to your system. If you're concerned with trying to figure out what's in that file before you look at it on Elfwood, send in a suggestion that Elfwood's search engine allow for a description of the file along with the actual name.

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. :)

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

I like to name mine creative names like... centaur02.jpg

:D

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

Maybe the real problem is that there are simply too many images of centaurs and unicorns around? After a while, the only way to distinguish them is by number. (I am not a number! I am a free centaur/unicorn/mermaid/dragon/minotaur [pick one]). :-)