Thought this might be a good place to mention a time-saving practice I've adopted.

It always seems to take me a fair bit of looking to find the image I want for any particular 'shop.

I tend to download a lot more images than I ever end up using for a particular project. I like the freedom of changing my mind at the last minute, and while I'm looking for a good source pic I inevitably find a lot of others I imagine I might use for future projects.

So what I do is [I'm on Windows7 but I know at least part of this is possible on other PC OS' and Mac]:
- Copy the url of image [i.e. the link you would use in your 'source' posts]
- Right-click on the image file once downloaded, go to Properties, Details
- Under Comments*, past the source URL

It sounds like a few steps to do but once you've done it a few times it's a really quick method. Especially considering the alternatives, and especially if you keep your download destination window open.

Hope this can make some people's lives a bit easier! And if anyone has an even better method I won't be insulted if you enlighten me

*Or one of the other options such as Title, Subject, Tags, Authors, Copyright...if you use Bridge you might find using one or more of these fields more helpful.

Thanks for bringing this topic up - I've often wondered what others do. I tend to use Flickr and just add potential images to my Favourites, but then I have to go back and "unfavourite" them at some stage. I quite like your idea.

I have a separate bookmark folder in my browser file for sources and just copy the URL of an image to it. Many times I give them more descriptive titles for easy recognition.

I'm with Bob, a simple drag 'n' drop 4 out of 5 times. The 5th time I have to search for it again