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How to best collect Reference material - HIRVIOS - 01-09-2018
Is it better to save and collect massive amounts of reference material on a personal hard drive,
or should I instead follow lots of various boards on Pinterest?
On a Hard drive, I know where everything is, and I can cycle through the images quickly with my favorite image software
but what if it breaks, I lose it or the data get's corrupted?
All of that time- wasted.
Pinterest boards are ever increasing with size and variation, I can use tags to search for pics.
and I don't have to spend a massive amount of time saving and categorizing every image
But if I suddenly have a poor internet connection...good luck.
Thoughts?
RE: How to best collect Reference material - darktiste - 01-09-2018
Balance of both
You can get mileage with some reference overtime so it interesting to have a collection of some of the most interesting thing you can find.
For pinterest i would say use it for time to time if you need to work on different location it will save you having to rely on a external disk that can be lost.
Best is to avoid over collecting.Collecting reference eat alot of time it can be a trap sometime because on pinterest you jump from one board to an other use google first than pinterest if you can't find anything on google.Google as also a some option you can use to get certain image with specific requirement it hard to explain shortly so i advice you check careful how to do search on google
Sure is good to make sure to have a back up in case of hardware failure it an investement well spent if you ask me.Would you rather spend time create a back folder(can take up to 3hour depending on size and computer) or find each and every single thing you lost(probably impossible and so huge of a task that you will cry in a corner (well for me if it would happen to me).
There is also the cloud but i prefer a hard disk it just feel more personal and less dangerous to lose a password or something.
RE: How to best collect Reference material - HIRVIOS - 01-09-2018
(01-09-2018, 07:39 AM)darktiste Wrote: Balance of both
You can get mileage with some reference overtime so it interesting to have a collection of some of the most interesting thing you can find.
For pinterest i would say use it for time to time if you need to work on different location it will save you having to rely on a external disk that can be lost.
Best is to avoid over collecting.Collecting reference eat alot of time it can be a trap sometime because on pinterest you jump from one board to an other use google first than pinterest if you can find anything on google.Google as also a some option you can use to get certain image with specific requirement it hard to explain shortly so i advice you check careful how to do search on google
Sure is good to make sure to have a back up in case of hardware failure it an investement well spent if you ask me.Would you rather spend time create a back folder(can take up to 3hour depending on size and computer) or find each and every single thing you lost(probably impossible and so huge of a task that you will cry in a corner (well for me if it would happen to me).
There is also the cloud but i prefer a hard disk it just feel more personal and less dangerous to lose a password or something.
Yeah, I can agree to that.
Thanks for replying!