Collection of online caps
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icontalkingI like to keep my stuff well organized, but there are still areas where I haven't achieved that.
You know when you're looking for caps in online galleries and find more good caps than you need at that moment? It would be a waste of time not to collect those good caps, but I don't want to save them to my computer, because they'd take up so much space.
At first I put cap URLs in a .txt, but that's a pain in the ass, as there are no previews. I considered getting an account at those galleries, but didn't bother, because I'm pretty sure that if you can favorite caps, they would all be in the same place, no subfolders for shows/seasons/episodes. I love making layouts, so I also considered making an .html with my selection of caps. That way I would have full control over the look (it's srs bsns to me, I can't help it), but putting the images and links in would have been more work and I'd be hotlinking the previews from the galleries.
Then yesterday I had a breakthrough. I put previews and next to them their links in a .doc and grew tired of doing those things separately. I tried copying the image and the link at the same time.
Like so:
That's something I hadn't tried earlier, because I knew from accidentally pasting html stuff into docs that this could slow down the program and you'd think it was about to crash. But here it worked well. It's fast and easy, yay!
So now I have a table full of pretty caps (for one episode).
- I made the background black, so it would be easier to see things in the dark caps (and still I lightened this screenshot).
- I don't know what Word does with images pasted in from the internet, but I hope it put copies in instead of hotlinking.
- I like my layouts to be neat, but Word refuses to cooperate. I can't get rid of that empty line under the previews.
How do you organize your caps-to-use? Have you found a more practical way?
You know when you're looking for caps in online galleries and find more good caps than you need at that moment? It would be a waste of time not to collect those good caps, but I don't want to save them to my computer, because they'd take up so much space.
At first I put cap URLs in a .txt, but that's a pain in the ass, as there are no previews. I considered getting an account at those galleries, but didn't bother, because I'm pretty sure that if you can favorite caps, they would all be in the same place, no subfolders for shows/seasons/episodes. I love making layouts, so I also considered making an .html with my selection of caps. That way I would have full control over the look (it's srs bsns to me, I can't help it), but putting the images and links in would have been more work and I'd be hotlinking the previews from the galleries.
Then yesterday I had a breakthrough. I put previews and next to them their links in a .doc and grew tired of doing those things separately. I tried copying the image and the link at the same time.
Like so:
That's something I hadn't tried earlier, because I knew from accidentally pasting html stuff into docs that this could slow down the program and you'd think it was about to crash. But here it worked well. It's fast and easy, yay!
So now I have a table full of pretty caps (for one episode).
- I made the background black, so it would be easier to see things in the dark caps (and still I lightened this screenshot).
- I don't know what Word does with images pasted in from the internet, but I hope it put copies in instead of hotlinking.
- I like my layouts to be neat, but Word refuses to cooperate. I can't get rid of that empty line under the previews.
How do you organize your caps-to-use? Have you found a more practical way?
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Date: 2018-02-05 08:18 pm (UTC)But what you want to end up with is a table which is clickable and takes you to the original sized cap in the gallery, right? That's a neat idea.
I think if I needed to do something like that, I'd use a web spider and just save the first level, i.e. the table and the thumbnails, just as they are in the gallery, but not the full-size images.
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Date: 2018-02-05 09:52 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's what I wanted and made. What bothers me about it is that I have no access to the html, so I don't know exactly what was put in.
What's a web spider?
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Date: 2018-02-05 10:01 pm (UTC)I don't currently have a good tip for which software to use exactly, but I could look around.
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Date: 2018-02-05 08:49 pm (UTC)I have a VERY LARGE external hard drive (I've named it the Muddle and Go Somewhere and it's 4 TB, my backup is 2 TB) so I just save any caps and pictures (I do a lot of general icons, so needs as many of them) into carefully named folders...)
(I will also admit that I have all my fannish shows ripped, and quite often go and grab a cap when I need it - trying to resist the urge to watch the episode again...)
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Date: 2018-02-05 10:06 pm (UTC)I mostly use other people's caps, because it saves time. But when I like a frame that's not in a gallery, I cap it myself. So I also have ripped versions of my shows, because it it's easier to get to a specific frame when you have the file on your computer instead of on DVD.