So all those sub cats...
Its no secret that the stock and resources gallery is HUGE. On a scale thats intimidating, complicated and a bit like a bottomless pit of sub, sub, sub, sub, sub cats.
Last year we were very lucky to have a bit of a makeover job in Resources/Fonts and Resources/Stock, however, we are looking with "new deviant's eyes" (Yes, we kidnapped new deviants and stole their eyeballs) to look at our gallery long and hard. HARD.
You can read more about whats going on with this huge project here - [link]
What we'd love to get from you guys
Feedback and suggestions!
Do you know of sub cats that are completely obsolete that we could tidy up and get rid of?
Are there dark alleyways hidden in the maze of resources sub cats that need a light shining on them?
Can some categories be merged, or renamed to make them more logical/useful to todays deviant community?
REMINDER Gallery Makeover Project JournalsGreetings Deviants!
As I have no doubt most of you have heard from $Moonbeam13's journal, a lot of the galleries here on DeviantART are having a makeover. This largely consists of merging and getting rid of categories, but please take a read of the original journal for more details.
I am sure a lot of you have seen these gallery makeover journals floating around already, but here is a definitive list of all the journals so far. Please note that not all galleries are on this list, more may be added later. Also some of these links may be updated in future, and we'll be sure to update the link here as neccessary.
Please comment on the appropriate journals for each area if you have an opinion as to how each gallery can be updated. Remember the more opinions the better so share this journal, and lets get as much of the community involved as we can!
Trad. Typography
Go check out the suggestions for improvements across the other galleries on the site!!
Here though we are concentrating on the stock and resources gallery, so please keep your suggestions/comments on topic!
Resources/Fonts..
Since the resources/fonts category is quite complicated, we've once again bribed ^pica-ae to post a journal specifically for it here - [link] So if you have suggestions specifically for the fonts category, please post your comments over there so we can more easily keep track
Resources/Fractal Resources
Digital Art and Application Reference Tutorials
For a long time the Resources/Tutorials/Digital Art (OR Application Reference) galleries have been something of a minefield, with miscats and confused deviants scattered across the landscape. There are a plethora of duplicated software sub cats and completely obsolete areas that now exist that we would like to get sorted once and for all.
Issue - Currently the tutorials gallery is organized by tutorial content EG Application Reference, or Digital Art Which means there are multiple sub cats - for example Photoshop, that appear to have no difference whatsoever in the submission type despite the location of the parent category.
Proposed Solution - Instead of having tutorials classified by what they are about, we propose to turn things around on their head, and make the tutorials gallery classified by the software you want to use. So, instead of having tutorials for Photoshop in 5 different locations, you will now have 1 main Photoshop tutorial gallery. Within that Photoshop Tutorial gallery will be sub categories for tutorials on using Photoshops tools, Tutorials on how to draw and paint using Photoshop etc - for each major piece of software.
Current Gallery Layout for PS Tuts
Resources/Tutorials/
........Application Reference/
..................Photoshop
Resources/Tutorials/
........Digital Art/
................Drawing & Painting/
..........................Photoshop
Resources/Tutorials/
........Digital Art/
...............Photomanipulation/
.......................Photoshop
Resources/Tutorials/
.......Digital Art/
.............Pixel Art/
.....................Photoshop
Resources/Tutorials/
.......Digital Art/
..............Vector Art/
.......................Photoshop
Proposed Gallery Layout for PS Tuts
Resources/tutorials/
........Digital Art/
...............Photoshop/
.......................Software Tools
.......................Drawing & Painting
.......................Photomanipulation &
Photo Editing
.......................Vector, Vexel &
Pixel Art
.......................Other
Pros
More logical layout/gallery tree
Fewer chances of miscats.
Generic tutorials that do not mention any specific software can be placed in the same format, without the gallery loosing continuity.
Cons
Many pieces of software available - some in very niche areas which will have to be placed into an "other software" sub cat
Artisan Crafts Tutorials
Issue For a long time Artisan Crafts has been woefully neglected with next to no helpful sub categories to aid artists drill down to more specific areas they are interested in
Proposal The addition of some new sub categories to the following effect:
Current Gallery Layout for Artisan Crafts Tutorials
Resources/Tutorials/
........Artisan Crafts/
...............Culinary Arts (existing)
...............Recipes (existing)
...............Other (existing)
Pros - More clarity for Artisan Crafts Tutorials
Cons - Are more sub categories actually needed?











There is a HUGE misconception about character sheets that are for other people to use, and character sheets that are of your own characters that should be in the digital or traditional art galleries, but no matter how often we try to explain, we get ignored :/ Its very very frustrating.
There is actually a memes sub gallery under deviantart related/devious fun/memes but most people again, would rather stick stuff in whatever gallery they find first which more than anything, should be their scrapbook area. As for the actual sub cat of literature templates being relevant, I will flag it up on the list for review, because it might actually not be
Thanks for the feedback!!