Erluvi - Web Design

When working on designing a blog or website, I create many of the graphic images and logos from scratch, often using PaintShop Pro. As I work, I frequently save the original images as high quality and resolution PaintShop Pro files by version numbers for those “just in case” or back tracking needs.

For example, while working on the Lorelle on WordPress swirl logo, after making a dramatic change to the step-by-step process of designing the logo, I’d save it as logo-v1.pspimage, then logo-v2.pspimage and so on, increasing the number as I go. I may have a file listing of:

• logo-v1.pspimage
• logo-v2.pspimage
• logo-v2a.pspimage
• logo-v3.pspimage
• logo-v4.pspimage
• logo-v4a.pspimage
• logo-v4b.pspimage

And so on. The a, b, and alphabet versions are slight variations on the main theme, such as a change in font or color but not overall design. If I make a big design change, I will save it first, make the change, and then save it as a new version number. Not much different from writing programming code.

At any point in the design development, I can stop and go back to version 4 or 6 and begin the process again if I don’t like where the design is going. If I’ve saved over the original file, I can only undo the changes I’ve made so far back. It helps to have it saved at different steps along the process to make it easier to go back to a part way spot instead of starting over.

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