Store and Organize Images
A before-and-after look at how Raster replaces folder-based image chaos.
The clearest way to understand Raster is to watch it replace a workflow you already know. Here is a small, familiar example.
Say you just downloaded a stock photo: a person playing guitar in front of a bicycle. You will use it on a website someday — or maybe you just like it.
Before Raster
The file begins its life in your ~/Downloads folder, and then:
- It sits there for days before you finally move it to a
Stock Photosfolder. - If you are organized, you might even keep subfolders:
Stock Photos / PeopleStock Photos / VehiclesStock Photos / Music
- But this photo has all three subjects. So now what?
- Copy the file three times — wasting space and creating three things to keep in sync.
- Pick one folder and hope you remember which.
- Make a new
People, Music, Vehiclesfolder that ends up holding exactly one photo, forever.
However you slice it, folders force every image into a single place — and images rarely belong in just one.
With Raster
Upload it
Drop the photo into a Raster library.
Let Raster tag it
Within seconds, Raster AI analyzes the image and tags it person, bicycle,
and guitar — all three, automatically.
Find it instantly
The photo now surfaces whenever you search any of those tags. It is stored once, findable every way you think about it, and ready to serve from the CDN.
That is the core idea: tags instead of folders. Images live in one place but can be found from every angle — and Raster does the tagging for you.
Ready to try it? See Importing Images and Organizing Images.