[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 42, Issue 20

[John Olsen]

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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:14:48 +0200
> From: Frederik Elwert <frederik.elwert at web.de>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] what is clipart?
> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Message-ID: <1190196888.7500.38.camel at FredDesk>
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> Am Montag, den 17.09.2007, 11:29 -0700 schrieb Jon Phillips:
>> This is  great idea Frederik...maybe you can recommend some style  
>> tags
>> to use...and lead the pack...there could be season tags, collections,
>> etc...too...good simple and easy to do :)
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> I think it would be a bit odd for me to define styles that artists
> should stick to. The best way IMO would be, if artists that already do
> stick to a somewhat coherent style for several pieces would take a
> minute and define this style, so others can work with it.
>


Herding cats if you ask me.  As someone who has been almost daily  
fixing uploads to conform to our current loose guidelines,  let me  
say it is not terribly realistic to expect people to adhere to this.   
I for one cannot possible go through the 800 plus files I have  
uploaded and add more tags.  As a visual person, I also think the  
whole style thing is handled better in another way.  That is:  
searches display a gallery view of the art.  Then you can see at a  
glance if it is in the style you want.  This seems absolutely  
fundamental and I really know of no other site offering graphics that  
DOESN'T work this way - morguefile, LOC, yotophoto, iStockphoto, etc.  
etc.

If I was a programmer I'd jump into helping in this area, but I'm  
just a graphic artist with no code abilities.

John Olsen