I'm always pulling images from various blogs and websites of things that inspire me, or that I'd love to own, but am not ready to buy right now. The problem is, when I get around to posting about them, or decide I'd like to make a purchase {or even just look around to see what's new} I can't ever remember where the image is from! {Now, I also have an ongoing list of links to things I love, but that's another story.}
This morning it dawned on me that I could make a note in the info pane of the image with the link to where I found it! I'm not sure how this would be done on a pc, but surely you could....well, I would hope. You know I'm a little biased toward Macs!
I'll use this image of this fabulous screen turned headboard found on Lake Jane this morning as an example. {originally from Canadian House and Home}
All you have to do is Control click the image from your desktop {or the folder that you've neatly placed it in, unlike me}
Then click "Get Info"
At the very top of this window, there's a field labeled "Spotlight Comments"
Just copy paste your link in there, and whala! You'll always have the link to that image!
This field is actually intended for you to make notes for easy searching via spotlight, but I think it works just as well this way!
I am going to make this my new procedure when pulling things from the web. Now, I'll always be able to give credit to the lovely bloggers, designers and artists that deserve it!
Am I a slow kid? Do you guys have a method for keeping track of where you get your images? I'd love to hear your methods!
Wow! This is great!
ReplyDeleteI really don't want even to start telling you how I was keeping track with stuff I like to keep. Lets just say I have thousands of folders where I try to keep everything organized but I've lost track of that as well....
Actually I'm trying now a great new service called pinterest that makes it easy to pin things you like and share them.
Have a look at my pin boards for example. I pinned the photo you feature here under Playful Spaces. Let me know what you think of it and thanks for the great tip!!!
So smart! I never knew you could do that. Thanks for the tip.
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