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Let's say you went to Paris in 2005.
Then, in 2010, you want to find a particular photograph from the trip.
A few years ago, you could easily have sorted through packs of prints, looking for the photograph.
Today, your digital photographs are in folders with arcane names.
And, each folder is full of unlabeled photographs.
What's what?
Folders and files like those above may not be a problem now.
But five years from now, you're going to have tens of thousands of photographs on your computer.
Get organized!
You can do it yourself.
Go to For Example.
Or, you can use software.
You can use Photoshop, or its cousins, for digital asset management.
You can use Bridge in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Mac 4.0.
In Photoshop Elements for Windows 4.0, you can use the Organizer.
Go to Organizer and Batch Renaming.
There are stand-alone digital asset management programs.
Aperture Apple
Lightroom Adobe
PhotoMesa Free
There are many programs just for renaming, many of which are free.
From the website:
Ant Renamer is a free (opensource) program that makes easier the renaming of lots of files and folders by using specified settings. It supports Unicode names.
From the website:
Bulk Rename Utility is a utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extemely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders....plus loads more!
From the website:
The photographers tool for automated transfer of images from card reader or camera to PC, renaming and storing them with own choice of file and directory names.
You can rename using data from the EXIF files, as well as additional items that you add.
From the website:
Exifer is a nearly free software (you only should send me a postcard if you're using Exifer frequently) with which you can manage the metadata (EXIF/IPTC) of pictures taken by digital cameras.
From the website:
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.
From the website:
The Rename Program is our most popular application. It provides powerful renaming functions that you'd normally expect to find in a scripting language, but without any programming.
From the website:
Siren is a freeware file renaming utility.
From the website:
Define some filters to apply to a list of files, which can be in multiple folders, to rename the whole list at once.
Wildcard Renamer (Last program on the page)
From the website:
A tiny utility to rename many files quickly, using simple wildcard pattern to replace strings. You can also rename the files manually very quickly.
From the website:
Renamer4Mac makes it really easy to rename a big number of files according to a preset pattern.