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Workflow & Asset Management

Naming, backing up, archiving and handing off images so you can still find them in ten years.

Most people's image problems eventually stop being technical and start being organizational: which of these six files is the current version, where is the original of the photo we published, why is the site full of images nobody can locate the licence for.

These articles cover the systems that prevent that — file naming that sorts correctly forever, folder structures that survive changing categories, the 3-2-1 backup rule and why cloud sync isn't a backup, archival formats that will still open in decades, and deduplication that doesn't delete your originals. They also cover handoff: what developers actually need from a design export, how to version image assets, and a pre-launch checklist for everything image-related on a website.

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