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If you need to rename pictures, you should take a closer look at PicRename.

Finding unique names for your thousands of digital pictures becomes a big problem when you are an avid shutterbug.  Since the price of digital cameras has fallen enough for the average consumer and the pixel resolution of each digital photo has increased, more and more amateur photographers have taken up this exciting and rewarding hobby.

The photographer ends up with hundreds or thousands of digital pictures with generic names such as PIC0001.JPG, PIC0002.JPG, PIC0003.JPG, etc...

Then the photographer ends up spending hours or days renaming and organizing these digital photos to keep track of them.  Sometimes manually renaming them one by one or using an unintelligent renaming engine to handle this.

PicRename will help you to rename your photos.  It is smart and will read your EXIF tag on your digital photo to find the date and time the picture was taken.  All modern digital cameras now save the EXIF tag, recording the exact millisecond the picture was snapped.  Even if your friend takes pictures of the same event at the exact same time, you can grab his digital pictures and place them in the same directory as yours, because PicRename will create unique names for each and every digital photo, even if they were taken at the exact millisecond.  Just drop all the photos from your friend's collection into your directory and when you select those photos to rename, it will automatically put them in sequence with your photos already in that directory, keeping your previously renamed photos intact.

To further help you organize your digital picture collection, you can even add a prefix and suffix to the name that was generated for your digital photo.

  • Examples:

    • Prefix = "Hawaii"
    • Suffix = "Trip"
      • File name will be: Hawaii_2007-01-14-16-06-37-000_Trip.JPG
    • Prefix = "Hawaii_Trip"
    • Suffix = (blank)
      • File name will be: Hawaii_Trip_2007-01-14-16-06-37-000.JPG
    • Prefix = (blank)
    • Sufix = (blank)
      • File name will be: 2007-01-14-16-06-37-000.JPG

Sorting your digital photo collection is now a breeze, because they will be correctly named for sorting.  If you have ever experienced a photo renamer totally mess up your sorting category because they just pull out the dates from EXIF tags haphazardly, then you will know how frustrating it can be to correctly rename photos using this method.  Use PicRename as your picture renamer and you will not have this problem.

Download PicRename from http://www.reynoldtech.com/picrename and start enjoying taking pictures again rather than maintaining your photography collection.

Reynold M. de Guzman
(PicRename Author)

 
 

 
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