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Give me ideas! Please! Gentlemanly Swindler
Okay so sorting my pictures is harder than I thought. But I finally decided on a system that I think will work. I'm putting them into folders by series, then by character. But to be able to easily reply to requests for things like "Boys with Guitars!" or "I want Blue Eyed Boys!" I've decided to create an archive of different traits in notepad files. So I have a picture of Clive with a Guitar. I'll put him into the folder for the game he first appeared in (Suikoden II, though he also made a cameo in Suikogaiden) That would be:
'Desktop/Genso_Suikoden/Genso_Suikoden_II/Clive/Musical_stars_of_Destiny_3.gif'
And I'd save that file name into a plain text file named 'Guitars' (I didn't give the full directory name because I don't want to map out my computer for hackers ._.)

That image would also be put into the blode hair, brown eyes, hooded, cape, gun, and buckles text files for easy referencing.

What I'm saying here is that this is going to take a while given that I now have over 250,000 unsorted /cm/ material pictures. But when this is all over I should be able to fill most any request you may have with relative ease. What I need from you is suggestions for categories. I already hair hair colours and such but I want to know what things you may request. My friend mentioned 'Twins' which I hadn't thought of.

So give me categories /cm/!

This is also the last time for a little while that I will be fielding requests due to the fact that sorting is going to take me a while.

Note: The Suikoden and TeniPuri rars that I promised to upload are being sorted first so that I can post them ASAP.
>> Anonymous
You doing it totally wrong. In before you wasting a lot of time, learn to use databases and/or image catalogizer softwares.
>> Gentlemanly Swindler
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Categories that I have so far:
-hood
-cape
-twins
-buckles
-skirts/dresses
-long hair
-angel wings
-devil wings
-red hair
-black hair
-blonde hair
-brown hair
-green hair
-purple hair
>> Gentlemanly Swindler
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>>152347
Oh? They have software for this? May I ask about where to find it?
>> Anonymous
>>152350

Firts link from google.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/imagemanagement/tp/photocatalog.htm

Seriously, you may need to do a little research, but giving keywords to pictures, removig duplicates and query is what you need.
>> Gentlemanly Swindler
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>>152347
I'd need the software to be able to funtion with three different computers and 4 external hardrives. Just thought I'd mention. If any one has any other ideas, including programs, on a different way to organize I'm all ears.
>> Gentlemanly Swindler
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>>152352
Ah, would that work with a FAT32 system as well? Three out of four of my externals are FAT32 and extra information just doesn't transfer well on there.
>> Anonymous
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>>152356

I dunno what do you means on "extra information" but I use NTFS only (safety first! :). As I mentioned before, you will need some research...
>> Anonymous
You could try this: http://picasa.google.com/index.html
>> Anonymous
For sorting pictures, I use F-spot... it's cheap and it gets the job done, but you're talking about a LOT of sorting ^^;
>> Anonymous
I use ACDSee for this sort of thing, quick easy to use catagorizing (all my hundred thousand or so images are sorted over just a few directories, but I can easily find the images I want with just a couple of clicks).

ACDSee should work fine with your setup (just did a minor test with a flashdrive, its the same principles). Though a warning, ACDSee isn't free but I would definately recommend it
>> Anonymous
I use XnView http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enxnview.html
It can search images after description.
>> Anonymous
Gentlemanly Swindler, can you please repost (if you did post) the link for your Suikoden collection? They deleted the thread. :(
>> Lee_br
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>>152348
I see you miss "glasses". That's a major fail for such a list that even have a "eyepatch" category.
Also, glasses and sunglasses are two different things. Being specific on such listings are for the better.

You missing some other categories on clothing, like smoking/social. There's also young boys, school (uniform) boys, robots/androids (non-mecha), and in case of Edward Elric, metal parts.
Of course, these are only my personal preference on bishounen pictures ^///^

I also see that you are trying to do a difficult task, as there would be a lot of other conditions for the pictures and so on, but I wish you luck on that ^^