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Deviousness `ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We're absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi. Congratulations, Sharon! Read More
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I work on a mac, so I also give the files I've used a color label within the folder after I've opened them in my image editing software. Depending on mood, it'll either be a red label or an orange label to get my attention later.
Your organizational tips are GREAT, and it's something I've been doing too when the files aren't in use within a manipulation.
The grabbing a google image bugs me to no end, also. Actually, I've seen people put together "stock packs" off of google images. VERY frustrating to a manipulator who wants to see REAL and VALID stock to use. lol.
I have a lot of friends who found their art work in Picasa and other web albums without any links to their websites or even their name next to them. Although most of these sites will take down the images if it is requested by the artist, by the time you find them you often don't know where else they've been copied to. Google and others of those sites do have notices saying that you should only upload/save images in their albums etc if you are the copyright holder or have permission but most people don't bother, which is why I have watermarks with my name on each image I upload to prevent my image to be propagated across the net without any reference to me the artist. The watermark may be annoying and ugly BUT it shows that I take my art seriously and that I take my rights seriously.
I've been inspired to add a pretty watermark to all of my pieces from your tutorial, or at the least, on the older ones to add a Deviant Art watermark to them. I definitely don't want people running around claiming my artwork as their own.
I've noticed sometimes some of mine get downloaded, and usually I don't know if that means that they viewed the full-view, or if they really downloaded it. If they downloaded it, I don't know where it's going. So I totally agree with you on that!