Renaming Digital Photographs

[Norbert666]

I'm sorry about posting this here. I could not decide whether this was a Photography question (I decided it wasn't as it's not about taking photos or cameras), a Windows question (again I decided it wasn't) or something else.

The question: I have loads of digital photos in folders. They are a mess. They are all called IMG_####.JPG.

When I'm trying to organise them, there are loads of file names that are the same.

Is there a way that I can rename a group of photos with a new, consecutive title, e.g Holiday1.JPG, Holiday2.JPG etc?

Thanks

And sorry again if this is the wrong place to post.

 

[Adam_151]

There is a piece of freeware called Irfan View, which has a batch conversion/rename function that will do this

 

[Norbert666]

Thanks buddy

 

[DarkJedi]

You could also select all the images in the directory and rename one of them to Holiday.jpg and all would automatically be renamed Holiday (2).jpg, Holiday (3).jpg...etc.

 

[siztenboots]

The question: I have loads of digital photos in folders. They are a mess. They are all called IMG_####.JPG.



Is there a way that I can rename a group of photos with a new, consecutive title, e.g Holiday1.JPG, Holiday2.JPG etc?

Thanks

And sorry again if this is the wrong place to post.

Shell

ren IMG_*.* Holiday_*.*

 

[Jonny69]

You can highlight the list of piccies you want to rename, right click the first one and click rename and type in the new name. It will rename the rest for you with sequential numbers. Only works in XP as far as I know.

Edit: CURSES! Beaten to it

 

[Lostkat]

You can also do batch rename in Photoshop CS (& newer) if you have it.

 

[Genoma]

I use 1 for all (1-4a) file renamer for all sorts of renaming jobs, great for stripping names from mp3s too.

http://www.1-4a.com/rename/

 

[AthlonTom]

Photoshop tis capable of doing this pretty easily - as already mentioned

 

[GSXRMovistar]

I use Bulk Rename Utility

 

[Genoma]

Photoshop tis capable of doing this pretty easily - as already mentioned

Photoshop also costs over £120. The utility I mentioned is free.

 

[AthlonTom]

Photoshop also costs over £120. The utility I mentioned is free.

TBH most users on the board have Photoshop. Whether its paid for though...

 

[divine`]

I just select them in explorer and it does it for you as explained above. Far less hassle than installing special utilities to do it for you...

 

[Sudden]

Irfanview is a great viwer to have in any case though
Opens a whole bunch of formats and loads up as fast as notepad

 

[Energize]

TBH most users on the board have Photoshop. Whether its paid for though...

Very unlikely I think