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home > graphics > How Do I Organize My Graphic Design Projects & Files

ORGANIZATION OF GRAPHIC DESIGN FILES & FOLDERS - What is the best way to organize design project files and folders?

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Tips for Organizing Your Graphic Design Project Files and Folders - When you are in a designing environment, it is always important for you to be organized. Here are some tips for how to better organize your files and folders.

How Do You File and Organize Your Graphic Design Projects? - How do you organize/file/plan your work? As in, do you keep computerised time sheets or do you print them out and fill them by pen? Do you have folders sorted? How do you file your work?

How Do You Organize your Project Files? - It needs to be done efficiently for the same reasons one would keep a file cabinet in order—to catalog, to retrieve and find, to archive, except the digital file cabinet is much more flexible when it comes to filing away digital work.

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Organizing and Archiving Your Project - Archiving a project is a lot easier if you take time to get it organized in the first place. That's where this article can help; because organizing your project can be broken down into three easy steps: Organize your project before you start, stay organized during your project, and nowing what to archive when the project is done.

Organize and Archive Photos - Get tips, how to's and project ideas to easily organize and archive photos.

Freelance Writers: How to Organize Your Computer Files - Your computer files can become just as messy as your desk or your filing cabinet, so spend some time organizing and rearranging. Enlarge + Takeaways Keep your main file folders on your desktop for easy retrieval. Don't be afraid to use sub-folders under main file headings. Print and delete extraneous files at the end of each month. Did you know?

Organize Files and Folders - Your computer puts information at your fingertips. Over time, however, you might have so many files that it can be difficult to find the specific file you need. Just like a physical filing cabinet, your computer files can benefit from better organization.

Automatic Icons Organize Files - Everyone knows it is more difficult to memorize a set of facts or words than a set of pictures. Everyone also knows it is way too easy to misplace files on a computer.

Super Simple Sorting: Organize Your Files - A friend of mine is moving to a new home and getting a new computer at the same time. Hard to say which will be the most disorienting... To make it easier for her to figure out what to keep and what to move, we started by sorting all the files by date to pinpoint old stuff that she could simply delete.

Organizing Your Files and Folders - Whether dealing with a closet full of clothes, an office full of papers, or a computer full of files, organization is the key. Keeping your computer folders and documents in order can play a big part in making your computing life easy.

Files & Folder Organization - Don't spend time looking for the Word file you created last week. Let's get an organizational plan for our computer.

How To...Organize Files: What You Need To Know - When you impose some organization on your hard drive, you'll find files more easily, which will save you time and frustration.

Organizing Files and Directories - Macintosh users are used to creating folders. A folder can contain files and other folders. Likewise, PC users create directories, which can contain files and other directories. In both cases, you use folders or directories to organize and categorize your files into logical units.

Learn How to Organize Files and Folders - Good Ways to Organize Files and Folders.

Organizing Files - Particularly in larger projects, the number of files can be daunting. To help organize files into manageable chunks, Xcode lets you group them.

Video Blog: Quickly Organize Files with Windows XP’s SendTo Feature - Quickly Organize Files with Windows XP’s SendTo Feature.

Organize files (or don't) - In the right-hand window pane are columns for Name, Date Created, Type, Size, and Tags. Here, too, are enhancements. Each column head contains drop-down menus with various options, though they're not always clear.

Find Information Faster: Organize Your Computer - When left untreated too long, an unorganized computer will perform slower and make it more difficult for you to find the information you need. If that's the case, it's a great time to make sure your computer is cleaned up and ready to roll for your next upcoming project or assignment. This article can help you get started.

Your Guide To: Organizing Files into Folders - It is very easy to save files on a computer. So easy, in fact, that sometimes we can save so many files that we lose any semblance of organization. The best way to organize your stored files on a computer is by the use of folders.

Organize Files & Folders: Put Everything In Its Place - Learning about computer files and folders is like learning about finance for the first time. Interest rates, investments, and taxes can be incredibly dull topics, at least until they apply to your own money.

AutoCAD Tips & Tutorials - Organize files in Windows to mimic the Today file listing.

How Do You Organize Files and Folders in Your System? - Find out how other computer savvy people organize their files and folders.

Mac OS 9: How to Organize Files - This article explains how to organize files.

Computer Files and Folders - Organize Your Documents in Folders So You Can Find Them.

Organizing Files and Folders - While these instructions apply most directly for Microsoft XP users, they should prove helpful even if you use a different operating system.

How to Organize Your Cluttered Desktop and Regain Your Sanity - Learn a system that’s will keep your computer desktop pristine. Here’s how you do it.

How Users Organize Electronic Files on Their Workstations in the Office Environment - A preliminary study of personal information organization behaviour.

File Re-Organization - A lot of reorganization and cleaning has been happening to my files. It makes me wonder why I don’t do that on a more monthly (or even weekly or daily) basis.

Quick Tips for Organizing Digital Photos - Having a system for organizing your photos can make searching through your photo library a whole lot easier. Start with these basic practices, and then customize your own approach.

Organizing Your Projects, Files, and Folders - This document provides guidelines for organizing your projects, files and folders, including naming conventions and file structure, which is critical in Desktop Publishing, as well as any other project you perform on your computer.

Organize Your Folders to Optimize Efficiency - Files proliferate quickly on personal computers and, without a bit of planning, users can end up hunting through a long list of miscellaneous files with names that seemed sensible when they were created, but now appear very mysterious.

Geek to Live: Organizing "My Documents" - Tackling that virtual yellow folder on your computer called "My Documents."

Online Drawing Tools & Free Online Painting & Sketching Tools
As Graphic Designers, we are all creative individuals. I thought that most of you would love to know about all of the fantastic online drawing and painting tools that are available online. Not only are they fun, but they are also quite useful for sketching out some of our ideas. Some of these tools can also be used as design collaboration tools to use with your co-workers, clients, friends, teachers, and family. Enjoy and don't hesitate to send me links to online drawing tools that I might have missed.

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May 12

Green Graphic Design: Why And How to be More Eco-Friendly
Green Graphic Design: Why And How to be More Eco-Friendly by Angela Ferraro-Fanning of 13thirtyone Design Why Green Design? ?According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population is expanding at a mind-boggling rate. The world reached 1 billion people in 1800; 2 billion by 1922; and over 6 billion by 2000. It is estimated that [...]

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May 7

Adobe InDesign Plugins Part 2 - Mega List of 120 InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 Plugins
Part 2 of a 2 Part series on Adobe Indesign Plugins. Have you been looking for a way to add some extra somethin' somethin' to your Adobe InDesign documents? Well, then you are going to love this list of Adobe InDesign plugins, along with a summary of what each of these plugins can do for you. Some of these plugins will be useless to you, while others will feel like they were sent from heaven just for you. Many of these are plugins that will save you tons of time and tons of cash, so don't forget to bookmark this list.

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May 7

Adobe InDesign Plugins - Mega List of 120 InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 Plugins
Have you been looking for a way to add some extra somethin' somethin' to your Adobe InDesign documents? Well, then you are going to love this list of Adobe InDesign plugins, along with a summary of what each of these plugins can do for you. Some of these plugins will be useless to you, while others will feel like they were sent from heaven just for you. Many of these are plugins that will save you tons of time and tons of cash, so don't forget to bookmark this list.

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Apr 27

Best Graphic Design Career and Business Books - Ultimate List of Books for Freelancers & New Designers
Best Graphic Design Career and Business Books - Ultimate List of Books for Freelancers & New Designers I decided to compile a list of the best graphic design career and business books collected from reading people's favorites listed on forum posts and blogs. I came up with the following graphic design career and [...]

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Apr 26

Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]

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Apr 22

How to Choose the Right Fonts for Your Graphic Design Projects
How to Choose the Right Fonts for Your Graphic Design Projects By Lois Knight Feminine, masculine, serif, san serif, Script, Block, or one of the many custom type sets out there! It is enough to drive the sanest of graphic designers bonkers! Where do you look and how do you choose from the multitude of [...]

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Apr 16

Designing A Catalog From Conception To Completion - A Catalog Design Tutorial
Designing A Catalog From Conception To Completion By Elle Phillips, Elle Phillips Design We are very excited to have Elle Phillips guest write for us this week. Please visit her fabulous portfolio to see more of her wonderful work. You will find that this catalog design article is very well written, informative, and extremely helpful. [...]

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Logo Design Creation Process from Start to Finish by Expert Graphic Designer - Angela Ferraro-Fanning
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Apr 11

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What Are The Different Types Of Printing? Not all printing companies are created equal. There are those that are able to give you full color printing for your marketing collaterals. Still there are printing houses that offer excellent offset printing to provide you a cost effective print job, hence, bigger savings. Whatever kind of printer [...]

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