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Joyce_133459

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Suggestions for Handling Images
Jun 8^th, 2020, 8:37am

I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right place and/or if this has been addressed before, but here is what I'm having some trouble with.

I'm trying to clean up the images that I have stored here. It's an immensely tedious process because I can't choose the page no. I want to go to. I either have to go the last page, and keep clicking my way backwards, or the other way around. When I do delete an image, I have to wait for the page to refresh ... and when it does, it always takes me back to page one and not the page I was just on. Then I have to again go to the last page, and slowly click my way to previous pages until I come back to the one I was working on.

Is there any way we can simply jump to whatever page number we need?

Also, could we have a search bar so that we can search wihtin our images? It takes forever to find one as it is now. I have well over a thousand images, and I'm sure others have far more.

Maybe I'm missing something ...?

Thanks for listening!

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Mary_Melinda_412298

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Reply #1 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 8:44am

I'm curious about this as well. So far, I have only deleted images on the site that I decided not to use but I now have several pages of images here and I've been wondering if most people keep all of their images on site or do they delete them and just upload again if it's needed for a new card or for a custom card. I have them all backed up on my computer. It is pretty difficult to find a specific image here without a search function.

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Re: Suggestions for Handling Images
Reply #2 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 8:49am

I don't keep any images stored here. I store them on my computer and always re-upload them, even when I do a series. It might be a tedious process, but I feel more organized and I know exactly where everything is. I have just always done that, so I am in that habit.

That is a good question for those who work from their online stored images.

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Teri_179461

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Re: Suggestions for Handling Images
Reply #3 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 8:56am

Hi Joyce,

If I understand what you are asking - in your Manage Cards there are two ways to search. One is to enter a keyword you may have on specific cards - on the top of the left side of the page, where it says "Enter a keyword". It will pull up all of your cards in which you've used that particular keyword.

The one I use most often, however, and one it took me awhile to find, is to use the category search, on the left side. The main categories of: Holidays, Occasions, etc are listed there (in blue I think). If you have a general idea of the categories your cards are in - you can pull up "New Year's Cards" - for instance by selecting "Holidays" then pulling down to the holiday of "New Years". Manage cards will pull up only your New Years cards. If you are looking for specific subcategories - like all your Grandson New Year cards - go down to "For Family Relation Specific" and pull the tab down to "Grandson" - Manage Cards will only pull up your Grandson New Year Cards. This makes it a lot easier to find, edit and view your cards.

I use this method and find it very helpful. Hope that helps.

Teri
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Joyce_133459

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Re: Suggestions for Handling Images
Reply #4 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 9:02am

Thanks for all your replies!

Teri, just to clarify: I'm not referring to the cards I have created, but to the images I uploaded in order to create my cards.

So, I may have an image that I wish to use again for another card ... perhaps one that shows some flowers and says "Thinking of you". I could use that image again in a different sub-category. But to find the image, I'd have to sort through my entire cache of stored uploads ...

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Joyce_133459 Full Member artist Posts: 150	Re: Suggestions for Handling Images Reply #5 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 9:05am Also, when deleting my uploads, I'd like to be able to click as many as needed on one page and then delete them in one fell swoop instead of one by one ... waiting in each case for the page to reload. (and when it does reload, it goes back to page 1, and not the page I was just on).
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Teri_179461

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Reply #6 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 9:08am

I, like Sandra use new art from my computer for each of my new cards and go through occasionally and delete previously uploaded art in my upload file. I save all my art on my computer to DropBox - it helps my organize it into categories I can find again when I want to access all or parts of my previous art for new cards or revised versions later.

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Joyce_133459 Full Member artist Posts: 150	Re: Suggestions for Handling Images Reply #7 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 9:11am Okay, thanks again for all replies! I will probably start doing that as well ... just uploading images as I need them. Just thought maybe I was missing something!
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Doreen_137017 Gold Member artist Posts: 5328	Re: Suggestions for Handling Images Reply #8 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 9:15am I delete as I go, generally speaking. I often have a page or two of images which I may use a 2nd time, but haven't gotten around too. There is zero need to keep images stored in the Image Upload area and you can delete one page at a time, then start fresh.
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Joyce_133459 Full Member artist Posts: 150	Re: Suggestions for Handling Images Reply #9 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 9:17am Thanks, everyone! This has given me a new outlook on how I create my cards! It does make sense to not have a huge build-up of images here on the site! Just as quick to upload new every time. Glad I asked!
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Re: Suggestions for Handling Images
Reply #10 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 9:23am

Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jun 8^th, 2020, 9:15am:

I delete as I go, generally speaking. I often have a page or two of images which I may use a 2nd time, but haven't gotten around too.

There is zero need to keep images stored in the Image Upload area and you can delete one page at a time, then start fresh.

That's probably best. I guess I'd better start deleting since I've accumulated so many. I can see where it might make a backup for those who aren't in the habit of backing up their work in a second location though.

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Re: Suggestions for Handling Images
Reply #11 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 9:52am

Well, no one should EVER use a POD site as their ONLY backup of work! Regardless, GCU is one of the very few PODs that should you ever need it, you can download your image from the Manage Cards page.

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Quote from Doreen_137017 on Jun 8^th, 2020, 9:15am:

I delete as I go, generally speaking. I often have a page or two of images which I may use a 2nd time, but haven't gotten around too.

There is zero need to keep images stored in the Image Upload area and you can delete one page at a time, then start fresh.

That's probably best. I guess I'd better start deleting since I've accumulated so many. I can see where it might make a backup for those who aren't in the habit of backing up their work in a second location though.

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Re: Suggestions for Handling Images
Reply #12 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 10:04am

The only way around it is to search a topic at the top of "manage" your cards. We should have categories for our designs but don't! It's fine when you have 10 or 20 designs, but when you have many, just trying to remember what you have put up and when is complicated or if you ever made a card of it, or made three of it yet. I'm pretty organized but I agree, It's just not artist friendly! Cumbersome.

Good luck.

. Quote from Joyce_133459 on Jun 8^th, 2020, 8:37am:

I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right place and/or if this has been addressed before, but here is what I'm having some trouble with.

I'm trying to clean up the images that I have stored here. It's an immensely tedious process because I can't choose the page no. I want to go to. I either have to go the last page, and keep clicking my way backwards, or the other way around. When I do delete an image, I have to wait for the page to refresh ... and when it does, it always takes me back to page one and not the page I was just on. Then I have to again go to the last page, and slowly click my way to previous pages until I come back to the one I was working on.

Is there any way we can simply jump to whatever page number we need?

Also, could we have a search bar so that we can search wihtin our images? It takes forever to find one as it is now. I have well over a thousand images, and I'm sure others have far more.

Maybe I'm missing something ...?

Thanks for listening!

~Joyce

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Re: Suggestions for Handling Images
Reply #13 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 11:18am

Hi Joyce,
I also delete my uploaded images as soon as I have created a card from them. When I work on a series, I upload the series all at once and as soon as a design has been put in for review and I go back to do the next in the series I delete the one I just did so as not to accidentally click on it again. This keeps everything nice and cleaned up and I don't put one in for review twice (as my memory is like a sieve! LOL)!

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Joyce_133459 Full Member artist Posts: 150	Re: Suggestions for Handling Images Reply #14 - Jun 8^th, 2020, 11:34am Makes a lot of sense, Betsy! I have deleted all my images and am simply uploading as I go. I'm happy with my new (to me) system! Not sure why I thought it best to retain everything I uploaded!
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