Software?

[fenrisx]

Is there any particular software that you guys/gals would recommend for renaming sets of photos on a computer? Any software you recommend for transferring pictures off a camera to a computer?

Right now I just use the Microsoft software that is already on XP. Basically, with that software, I have to click each picture I want to transfer, or hit 'select all'. This is fine if I do all the pictures at once, or a few at a time, but we leave all the pictures we take on the SD card.. so there's tons of pictures. Sometimes there's like 50-60 I want to transfer, and it sucks having to click so many.

Also, it names them as a series Name1-xxx. I'd like a program that could rename them using the stores attributes of the images, I.E. the date the picture was taken.

Recommendations?

Thanks
-Cody-

[Good Times]

What kind of camera do you have? I have a Nikon and I'm using their Nikon software (Nikon Transfer utility) to download all of my photos in a single click including throwing them into subfolders, rename filenames to whatever I want - how I want to do it etc including auto incrementing in weird fashions.

[L33T35T Tacoma]

I wouldn't mess with any software. Does the camera use an SD card? Most laptops have an SD card reader built in, or get one for cheap. I just stick the card in there, open the card using windows explorer and just drag/drop the files like an standard external hard drive. Not when you drag and drop, it wont delete them. So you'll have to cut and paste the pictures or just delete them after you've copied using drag/drop. I always preferred to just copy/paste then go back and delete once I'm sure all my pictures found their proper home. Hope this made sense

[fenrisx]

What kind of camera do you have? I have a Nikon and I'm using their Nikon software (Nikon Transfer utility) to download all of my photos in a single click including throwing them into subfolders, rename filenames to whatever I want - how I want to do it etc including auto incrementing in weird fashions.


I have a Canon SD940IS. I actually though about using some Canon software.. I just chose not to because I did that with my old Kodak, and didn't really like the software. At this point I've got over 1,000 pictures transferred to the computer that I'd like to renamed, and put into subfolders. I'll still check out Canon's software when I get home though.



I wouldn't mess with any software. Does the camera use an SD card? Most laptops have an SD card reader built in, or get one for cheap. I just stick the card in there, open the card using windows explorer and just drag/drop the files like an standard external hard drive. Not when you drag and drop, it wont delete them. So you'll have to cut and paste the pictures or just delete them after you've copied using drag/drop. I always preferred to just copy/paste then go back and delete once I'm sure all my pictures found their proper home. Hope this made sense


Well my laptop is pretty old, and doesn't have a card reader. However, I can do the same thing by hooking the camera up to the PC.. just right-click on the camera in 'My Computer' and choose 'explore.' I actually forgot about that, but still doesn't solve my naming problem.

Thanks for the replies guys.

[L33T35T Tacoma]

As far as naming goes. If you're good with DOS you could use the command promp. say all your cruise pictures are named "IMG_1234.jpg" you could type "rename IMG* cruise*" this would rename them all to cruise_1234. Just gotta be careful with it though.

[mastacox]

You don't have to bother with a DOS command.

Rename a batch of photos all at once (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/renamephotos.mspx)

As for software to download all of your pictures- don't bother. Just use windows explorer and an SD card reader.

[fenrisx]

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

I'm thinking about trying to script something up in Python, but I don't think I quite know enough yet..

[DHC6twinotter]

You don't have to bother with a DOS command.

Rename a batch of photos all at once (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/renamephotos.mspx)

As for software to download all of your pictures- don't bother. Just use windows explorer and an SD card reader.



That's awesome. I just went back and renamed the majority of my pictures in about 5 minutes. :thumbup:

[fenrisx]

You don't have to bother with a DOS command.

Rename a batch of photos all at once (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/renamephotos.mspx)

As for software to download all of your pictures- don't bother. Just use windows explorer and an SD card reader.


Well, I just checked out the link above. That is pretty cool, but *most* of the time when I transfer pictures I have a name like that, and then the built in Windows app that transfers the pictures names them 001, 002, and so on. I wish there was something you could do like that, but include something like %D that could would pull the date from the exif and put in there too.

[Seanz0rz]

picasa?

[fenrisx]

I've installed ACDSee, so I'm going to check that out later. If that doesn't do what I want, I'm going to check out Picasa.

[Crinale]

i just sort as i go... :-P ... make new folders as i take pictures.

the software for my Minolta is only good for reading pics i take in RAW format...