- Use hyphens and capital letters to separate ideas and terms in a file name.
- Organize images files into file folders by topic or year.
- Try not to store your images in proprietary programs (they can be difficult to retrieve and proprietary programs are not sustainable).
- Keep file names to 10-15 characters. Any longer, they are often cut off in programs.
AVOID USING THESE CHARACTERS IN A FILE NAME. They are used in programming and not all programs will accept or upload an image file if these characters are in the file name:
Tilde (~), Number sign (#), Percent (%), Ampersand (&), Asterisk (*), Braces ({ }), Backslash (\), Colon (:), Angle brackets (< >), Question mark (?), Slash (/), Plus sign (+), Pipe (|), Quotation mark (")
