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J is for Journey (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by renard_roux@beehaw.org to c/creative@beehaw.org
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I make collages and word posters from vintage and retro illustrations and images in the public domain. Here's my latest piece, 'J is for Journey'.

Had a lot of fun making this one, a lot of good words that begin with J ๐Ÿ˜Š

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[โ€“] renard_roux@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The database is priceless, especially because of the ability to tag and filter files.

As I work in both Danish and English, an example of tagging for the Jackrabbit from this poster would be:

  • hare (Danish for hare, no specific word for Jackrabbit)
  • jackrabbit
  • hare
  • mammal
  • rabbit (might be relevant for it to show up in a search for rabbit)
  • fauna-dk (this animal is found in Denmark, relevant for potential local animal posters)

Most importantly for my use case, I have a set of special tags denoting which letters a given image can be used for in English or Danish:

  • h-dk
  • h-en
  • j-en

So when I need to make the English H poster (which I'm currently working on), I simply search for h-en (starts with H in English), and Eagle gives me all relevant assets. I add these tags manually (as well as stuff like fauna-dk), but because Eagle indexes filenames super well, I've recently taken to just adding most of the basic info to the filenames, like this:

danish-word_english-word__tags-go-here.psd

I save everything as Photoshop PSD files, so if I make an alteration to a file for a specific project, that is saved for all future projects, but the original, unaltered version is still there as a hidden layer if I need it. Simple version control ๐Ÿ˜Š

I also do a lot of analogue collage, and must admit I've yet to find a workable system for storing and sorting my materials; I feel your pain.

I definitely recommend Eagle if you think it fits your use case. Along with Obsidian (for project notes and writing), it is by far the best piece of software I've found in ages ๐Ÿ˜ƒ