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Published: 2009-06-30 14:25:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 16329; Favourites: 160; Downloads: 136
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This is an idea I've had for a while, and I decided to flesh it out and make it a visual suggestion here.If you can't tell by looking at it, it's a suggestion to have a history of the updates we make to our deviations. At the top you'll be able to select previous versions of things, and at the bottom you can select whether or not to add any deviation updates to the history whenever you edit a deviation (the checkbox is at the bottom of the other checkboxes).
So you'll be able to see how things progress over time, if and when a deviant chooses to update a deviation. By default you'll see the Latest version when you click a deviation, but you can then choose to see the Original version, or versions in between.
The tabs at the top might not be the best way to do it, but it was just what I came up with.
Any ideas or comments about this are more than welcome
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Great critique
I think you nailed it when you asked about deleting past versions and all the prints stuff. There's definitely a few details I never thought about. I may refine this idea (based on all the feedback I've gotten) and submit something new based on this idea.
It would also be interesting to use this for, like you said, tutorials. Those can be really big images, and having a way to include "chapters" would be very useful to a lot of people, I think.
Anyway, thanks so much for the critique
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Thank you for the critique
I think you saw just what I was thinking here
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Yeah, more discussion about art is always good
That's the main reason why I hate that Critiques are subscriber-only.
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Thanks!
Yeah it seems a lot of people would want this, and it would be pretty handy for a lot of different art types.
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Good ideas
Feel free to take this idea and improve it yourself. It has the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License
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You can just credit me in the artists comments on the deviation
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I love this concept. Congrats on the DD, and I hope dA implements this.
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Yeah, you can read about the font used here [link]
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I love this idea, but I think it could be improved even further with the use of a drop-down menu as opposed to tabs. I'm not the best artist, but I often update at least 7-8 times...and that many tabs would quickly become cumbersome in my opinion.
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Hehe yeah, I was never too happy with the tabs at the top. Getting a dropdown menu or something would probably be better
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It would probably also save on page loading time, now that I think about it, seeing as the tabs would technically have to be graphics...
...now I'm anxious to see if deviantART will ever implement this feature. I would love to see the day...and consolidate all of my WIPs that right now are floating about uselessly either here or on my hard drive.
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Yeah, I really hope they add something like this
It would be great for just about everyone, since we could easily see how we improve our art, and other people could see how the art advanced.
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Me too, and I agree that it would...I've seen a lot of people reposting with links to the original art, this would simplify things by so much...
Thank you for posting such a wonderful suggestion.
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This would definitely come in handy for me, I tend to update my emoticons all the time. Some of them have gone through drastic changes over the years, and I sometimes wish I had submitted some of the updates as new deviations instead so others could see how much I've improved. Version History would allow us to keep our galleries in top notch condition, while still keeping the history of where we started out
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Exactly
I'm glad you like this
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Exactly
I'm glad you like this
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This is SUCH an amazing idea! I imagine it would become incredibly helpful especially for artists looking for critique.
I dont usually post WIPs, but if DA added this feature I certainly would post allot more in-progress art
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Yeah, I would upload a lot of the in-between progress on art I make if they added this.
Thanks for the comment
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This would be great for me as a writer, as I'm currently scrapping old versions of a story and then cross-linking all the versions in the artist's comments (which is a pain & a hassle, especially since dA won't allow two deviations with the same name...)
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Ah yeah, it would be great for that
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Yeah, it would be really helpful to a lot of people.
Thanks
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WOW amazing idea!
It'd be really cool if they put this on the site
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Yeah, I think so too.
Thanks for the comment
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This feature would be awesome for my themes, screenshots, and whatnot
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