Ginger Nielson's ~ Tip for Creating a Digital File Cabinet
I used to have numerous sketchbooks, loose sketches and paintings hanging around in various places in my studio. Finding exactly that perfect sketch I may have done a year ago was... let's just say ... nearly impossible. My solution for all those many graphics, illustrations, sketches and reference photos used to be to put them all in a steel file cabinet, or have my sketch books scattered in various places in my studio. It began to be impossible to find an exact sketch I knew I had "somewhere" so I created a digital file cabinet in my computer. Every file now has a place. I collected my scans, paintings, photos and transferred the into appropriately named folders and sub folders and put the whole batch on an external computer drive. This way I have a portable file of all my work that does not clutter up the valuable space on my computer and is safe from any unforseen crashes. A complete article explaining the how and the why is on my website if...