Great list, Alyson, and great additional suggestions, all! I’ve got another: Make a back-up copy of the file of your image immediately and store it off-site. A friend lost a studio through fire one winter, and because she had stored a complete set of CDs of her work at her daughter’s, she still had art to sell. I back up my images both online on Carbonite (with most of these services, you have to pay extra for saving large files, and you have to save them manually, it’s not automatic over a certain size) and on CDs. If my final image is one made at a printer, I have them DropBox it to me and I make a hard copy– things happen to printers, too. This probably sounds like overkill, but I actually have this set of CDs at my bank in a safe deposit box. On the other hand, I don’t worry.
Also, I’d like to agree with how to name the image, as well as point out that Alyson has used dashes between words. This is best practice in making a title to anything, because different servers and browsers can possibly corrupt a title not tied together. You can also use underscores. If you’re posting these images on a FaceBook Page, Flickr, your blog, or whatever, web crawlers will then pick them up, they’ll become searchable, and eventually this will lead to better SEO for you and your art.
