Renaming files

[rach 1]

OK I have about 400 photos and they are all named automatically by the camera. I want to rename them - all in the same order..... is there any way to simply do that instead of manually going in to rename each image?

 

Thanks!

[maoriboy 0]

Personally I cant think of anything that does that job....have you tried Google??

[sunrise 0]

Adobe CS2's Bridge perhaps? Or Photoshop CS1's Browser? Not 100% sure if you can do it, but both support doing things with batch files, I'm pretty sure it includes names, though maybe not what you're wanting. At least you can tag them with categories. If I get a chance I'll check for you.

Anyone else know?

[Ocean11 0]

IrfanView is a great little freeware image viewing utility with a whole range of editing options, including File > Batch Conversion/Rename.

 

Download and install it, but just be careful which options you select when installing it. It might include some commercial shite that you don't want.

[montoya 0]

save yourself some trouble:

http://www.publicspace.net/windows/BetterFileRename/index.html

[Ocean11 0]

When you've paid for your File Rename utility, can you batch resize and crop your photos, and flip through them in one of several ways...?

[montoya 0]

if you have time to look into it, there is a good list here:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/renamers/

 

I like Better File Rename because it handles any type of file out there (not just images). For my own photos, I use a simple PHP script to read the EXIF jpeg data and rename according to date-time, eg DSC0001.jpg -> 2005.06.04_13.01.43.jpg

 

back to work...

[indosnm 0]

I think you can do that with mac's automator

[me jane 0]

I use Irfanview too. Its a really light bit of software and very useful. Also really fast because of its size.

[rach 1]

Thanks for all that, great! I'll give it a go.

 

[yamayamayama 2]

I have used Better File Rename and liked it.