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Anonymous
I hope it's okay to ask this. If not, well, to page 11 and beyond!

/cm/, how do you have your pictures organized? I'm trying to get mine in order, but only managing to fail. Do I start with series then branch off into slash, individual, etc. or do I start off with slash, individual, etc. then branch off into series?

What's worked for you?
>> Anonymous
Series->Characters

Like,for example...

Gurren lagann and I have folders for simon,kamina,simokami,kamisimo, ect ect.
>> Anonymous
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Pic unrelated.

Personally, I have Series folders. If there is a lot, I'll break that into Character or Group folders. (For example, my Reborn! folder is broken into Varia, Millefiore, Guardians, Kokuyo, Arcobaleno, and Other). Depending on the series, I might also have specific shipping folders, or just one folder called "Pairings".
>> Anonymous
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I've been dumping everything into a series folder for the one series I collect... some day, when I'm bored, I'll further sort and possibly rename by character and pairing... that way if I ever throw it up on rapidshit or something people can just delete what they don't want.
>> Anonymous
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>>970242
Whoa, seriously... are you me?

I do EXACTLY this, except I have a random picture folder where I dump everything. Thereafter I decide if I have enough content of a particular series, I'll create a folder.

The most horrible way to sort things I know, but whatever.
>> Anonymous
I have my primary fandoms by series in folders, then a separate folder for "general fanart" with subfolders by series after that. If I need to divide in series, I do it by individual and pairing. Seems to work well.
>> Anonymous
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I think it's ok asking, some of us are insane organization freaks - myself included, but if you're a normal type you should probably start off with a General /cm/ folder, then series folders (once I get about 150 pics from a series in my gen/cm/ I make a folder for it), then major pairing folders and then folders of whatever you especially like, e.g. Glasses or Faaabulous or whatever. I also recommend separate artist folders too if you collect their work, Lily etc...

I have a fuckload of pics and use Picasa2 to organize everything - it's pretty great.
>> Anonymous
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Um. Ha ha. Gimme a sec.
Starting in 'anime' folder.

I've got /a/, /cm/, /y/, and harem.
/a/ is for stuff that doesn't really have specific spot.
/cm/ is divided up into series folders, which is then divied up into character, group, and couple folders.
/y/ is nsfw.
And harem is everything that was saved for looking at and being pretty. Mostly males. Divided like so:
Artsy
Comics
Females-divided by hair color.
Group-divided by number of people in pic (2,3,4,more), then divided by all males, all females, mixed.
Male-Divided by hair color, then by hair length (short and long).
Non-solo (or couples)- divided by dominate traits in pic. (ie kissing, hugging, holding hands, ect.)
>> Anonymous
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>>970273
And then I have New Folder, in which there is another New Folder, in which there is another, and so on. It's stuff waiting to be sorted. Currently, it has close to 2500 files in it and I'm sorting right now, so that number is shrinking.
>> Anonymous
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Mostly same as above. I have a folder for the series, then break it down inside into characters, with group shots usually loose within the series folder. For things like TotA though, where lots of Dist Jade and Peony happen in the same picture, I have a folder dedicated to them.

I also have a miscellaneous folder for retarded shit, motivational posters, unidentified /cm/s, etc.

Characters that I only have one or two pics for tend to just be hanging loose without their own series folder, until I get enough material to bother making a folder for it.
>> Anonymous
I have everything separated by series, except for some uncategorized /c/,/u/,/cm/,/y/,/h/ folders for pictures with no series, or for which I don't care about or know the series.

I figure I'll keep thinning out the pictures I've saved to only the really good ones (of which there usually aren't many), rather than keeping so many I have to start subdividing the series folders.
>> Anonymous
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/cm/ and more naked or /y/ish stuff is mixed, not that much /y/ unless the picture was pretty/gorgeous enough to save.

I have subfolders for my major fan/official-art interests : Ai no Kusabi, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Trinity Blood, then a "Gen" subfolder for all stuff I don't know where it's from and/or don't have enough to create a separate folder, then a "Series" subfolder that has subfolders for everything I could name and had more than a few pics for.

Each "named" folder can be divided into characters or pairings I have an interest in.
>> Anonymous
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>>970283
Same..

I have folders by series...but then the folder gets too hectic. I have to get them by category of what I have most.
>> Anonymous
I have a "fandom" folder which includes a cosplay folder and several anime/manga/games folders (Death Note, Kingdom Hearts, Suzumiya haruhi). I don't have a folder for each character, I just put all of the pictures I find for one serie in one folder. So my /y/,/cm/ and normal pictures and fanarts are just mixed in one folder of a serie. Next to my "fandom" folder, I also have a 4chan folder (not divided in categories, just 4chan), DevArt folder (with several folders of Deviantartists...only the good ones though like Uponthoucat), a RL reference folder (for drawing) a manga reference folder (also for drawing) and a "manga downloads" folder which includes yaoi manga and non yaoi manga. And some random folders like "Darks Ecstasy" (I'm serious), "Tutorials" and "Random bishounen", "Inspirational/High quality art" and other foshizzle.
>> Jentaro
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Well, I have a huge /cm/ folder. Then I organize it by series, and in most of them I organize it by characters or groups of characters. Even if they're /a/, /c/, or /y/ pictures, they end up in whichever particular series folder. Then again, I rarely go to /a/ or /c/...

But in my SZS folder, I organize it by artists.

Also pictures I save randomly just end up in the /cm/ folder.

There are also some folders I don't know why I have or how they have so many goddamn pictures(i.e. my Ganondorf folder, Cyborg 009 folder, Rinosuke folder, DARKS folder, etc.)
>> Anonymous
>>971114
So I'm not he only one with a DARKS folder wahah
>> Jentaro
>>971190
My DARKS folder is just one shy of 170 pictures...
No repeats...
>> Anonymous
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I'm a loser who names each and every single one of her pictures, so the folders serve mostly to reduce clutter. Basically once a series has enough pictures I create a general folder for it. If it gets large enough, I create subfolders for pictures that go together as part of a series or are very close in theme. I also create a porn subfolder for a series if there's enough of it, but otherwise everything's mostly just thrown together.
>> Anonymous
>>970208

totally off subject and off point but...is that sum CLAMP?
>> Anonymous
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Everything goes into my pictures, and if I like a series enough odds are I'll keep going back to look at the pictures. So its best to put them in a folder so I don't have to wade through the misc. shit, even if there are only a few pictures in a folder.
I just have folders for series, I don't really separate them by character at all... mostly because for some series I only save certain fanart (eg: silent hill, I only save walterxhenry and nothing else).
Though my TotA folder is getting really big and really cluttered.... I better organize that one soon.
>> Anonymous
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>>971576
Sorting by filename is best, at least if you go for quality and not quantity. My system's not too different. I have one general folder for fanart, one for original art and several artist/series folders (plus folders like classical art, architecture reference, inspiring fashion and general inspiration). In the general folders, filenames consist of series -> character -> (X another character ->) fetishes, in precise order (first watercolour colouring, then glasses, then long hair, etc).

>>971096
What, you mean not everyone has a Darks folder?
>> Anonymous
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Like this.
>> Yves
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Ah, well I have them sorted by series like this image. The random cat boy in the corner isn't really related, I just felt I should have some male in the image as this is /cm/ and it happened to be the first image with a white background I could just dump there.
>> Yves
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>>972302
Ah, dang I realize as I look at that image I have multiple folders for some things, like Legend of Galactic Heroes has a folder named Ginei and one named Galactic Heroes. I'll have to do some more cleaning.

>>971669
I have Darks folder. Two in fact it seems, I'll have to fix that.

Any way, after that inside a series folder it looks like this. Sorry for the random colour change I had made a red theme when I took these shits but I am using an updated series list, so the themes were different.

The basic folders are Comics, Cosplay, Couples, Crossovers, Groups, NPCs, Singles
Comics-As the title says, these are comics.
Cosplay-Real people dressed as characters from the series.
Couples-Images with only two people in them, need not be romantic in nature.
Crossovers-Images that include a character, element, or reference to another series/event/myth.
Groups-Images that contain three or more people.
NPCs-Something only found in Video Games. Generic or un-named non player characters go here.
Singles-Images of a single character.
>> Yves
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So, using my ToA folder as an example, inside the singles folder looks like this. Every character gets a folder, even if i only have one or two images of them or they were very minor.

This is pretty much how the couples folder works, except the couples folder has folders labeled not with the dominant character first, but with the name in that pair that comes alphabetically first. It just makes things easier to find in big series that would otherwise be a nightmare, like Suikoden.
>> Yves
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Lastly comes the group folder. Most group images go in general, unless of course there is a group of people that are often seen together, such as a group of friends or an organization. In this game the God Generals and the Keterburg students recieved folders.

Sometimes if there are just a huge number of characters and/or images I get more detailed. Like in Kingdom Hearts my singles folder is broken up into sub-folders like Organization XIII, Disney, and Final Fantasy.
>> Anonymous
>>972302
....you have an Angel Sanctuary folder?

Do want.
>> Anonymous
Macfag here... I set up smart folders that sort my pictures by hair style, color, length, eye color, blood, ect... (so a picture of Allen walker bleeding would show up in my male folder, my bleeding folder, my white hair folder, ect.)
>> Anonymous
>>972361
that sounds really clever, I'm so jealous, does that mean you tag every pic you save with 'white hair' 'red eyes' 'blood' etc... or does it just KNOW through Mac magic?

>>972302
>>972324
>>972333
>>972347
Holy crap Yves! I would get lost in all of that, but it looks like you've got a folder for almost EVERYTHING, EVER.
>> Jentaro
>>972324
>>972333
>>972347
My -god- Yves. How many pictures do you friggin have?
>> Yves
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>>972349
Ah, I do but it doesn't have that much in it yet because most of the things I have saved for it aren't sorted yet. There is a fair bit of cosplay in it.

>>972774
A couple of hundred gigs right now. The irony here is that in using my time to collect fanart I haven't seen 99% of the shows or played the games that I collect art of. I can count the number of series that I have finished on my fingers. Image is the last series I watched, and before that it was Gundam Wing on Cartoon Network in middle school.

>>972767
Ah, I wish I had a folder for everything. My unidentified folder is well over 30 gigs. I have trouble recognizing characters or they are from series I don't know.
>> Anonymous
>>973120
>I haven't seen 99% of the shows or played the games that I collect art of. ... My unidentified folder is well over 30 gigs.


I will never understand people who do this.
>> Yves
>>973127
Mmm, well the unidentified folder is my own fault, I should know more characters but don't.

As for the part about not watching much, I do read manga. But mostly the only reason I save fanart is for people on 4chan and the like. They seem so happy when I post a RAR or what not. So it doesn't matter if I've seen the series, as long as they have and want art for it.
>> Anonymous
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Yves, you convinced me; god exist.

In topic: I dont organize really my picture. I have folder for /cm/, /a/, NSFW, Funny, Wallpaper and Clamp because im such a clampfag. /a/ is for every picture with female on it. In my /cm/ folder, it's Known, Unknown and some of my fetish like Eyepatch. In known, I throw all together with some folder when I have a huge quantity of fanart from a anime/manga. In Unknown, its organized by the number of character of the picture. When the character is alone, it's long hair, short hair etc. When it's a pairing, it's Cute, Fap or Pretty. Fap it's for the picture who are bordeline worksafe. Pretty it's for the gorgeous art. Cute it's every picture who cause brain melting.
However, my Clamp folder is organized. Pic related.
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>>972324
Question: When you file a crossover image, how do you decide just which series it belongs to. Pic related; should it be filed under one's haruhi crossover folder, or one's SZS crossover folder. This is something that never ceases to bother me.
>> Yves
>>973225
I have a separate folder elsewhere labled 'Crossovers' in which I place any images that have elements from multiple series and then I create s shortcut of it in the applicable series folders. So in the case of your image there would be a shortcut into the SZS and Haruhi folder. That also makes it easy to reply to requests for cross over images because I already have them in a single folder. 50% of my Pretty Cure folder is shortcuts.

>>973209
Ah, interesting! What deity have you found faith in?
>> Anonymous
>>973145
Wow... You truly have no life...
>> Jentaro
>>973120
That's ..... just wow. I'm... I'm speechless.
>> Anonymous
>>972302
Does fanart of Love Necoco even exist?
If so I must see now!
>> Anonymous
>>972333
I'm /r/ing your Reiner pics. where on earth did you find pictures of a character like that?
>> Anonymous
>>971669
Wow,I dont feel so odd about having a darks folder now.
>> Yves
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>>973329
My Love Neco folder is just the drama CD and official art. I have a few Necoco cosplay images somewhere, I just don't know where I've saved them to.

>>973615
Ah, did you want them in this thread? I think I may have strayed a bit too much from the intended topic already, so how about I make a thread for minor RPG characters? I think I only have 15 or so of him total, 10 solo.
>> Anonymous
>>973880
It would make this Anon happy if you made a general thread for requests, because both Irresponsible Captain Tylor and Please Save My Earth (which I would request should you make such a thread) would be off-topic in a minor RPG characters thread.
If you feel like fulfilling requests today, I mean.
>> Anonymous
Disregard>>973903, I suck cocks and fail at noticing threads.
>> Yves
>>973903
>>973909
Ah, crap, no I just fail at seeing replies. The Please Save my Earth folder is entirely /a/ material, and the Captain Tyler folder consists of only 27 files, 19 of Yuriko, 4 of Azalyn, and 4 of Tyler. Except the 4 of Tyler are .swf files, he just sits there and blinks. I'd link you to the webring but it's gone. I can search for more later, but I'm heading to bed now. I'm sorry I wasn't of much use.
>> Yves
>>973945
Ah, and by Tyler I mean Tylor. Sorry, sleeping now.