Batch processing photos?

[Jinkies]

What's your favorite way to organize and edit your photos?

I'd like to take all the photos in my monthly folder, resize them to 300 and rename them, maybe October1, October2, October3 and so on.

I've been using Irfanview, but even though I resize them to 300, the are still at 72 when I open in Photoshop.

Thanks!!

[Connie@DigiScrapInfo.com]

ACDSee photo manager 9 is an excellent software that many find easy to use.
I've been using it for 6 weeks.

The link in my signature is a lengthy list of how people have been using it & it's benefits. They have a trial for 30 days - give it a spin! It does batch resizing. too.

[Heidi@DigiScrapInfo.com]

My personal organization system is this: I have a folder for every year, each year has the 12 folders for each month. All my personal photos are named with the exact time I took the photo. If I have a bunch of photos for a specific event or thing, I create a special folder in the month for that event and put all the photos there. I can easily find a specific picture because I usually remember about the year and time of year and can focus my search.
A picture is easy to see, so here you go. I usually view thumbnails but I switched to details so you could see my filenames.



I found a quick an easy way to rename your photos with ACDSee.

If you have many images all named with some terrible number. We know we all have them. There is a simple fix. If your digital camera has the date set correctly and saves it information to the image when you transfer it to your PC (EXIF data), then this should work. Here is how you do it:

Select a few images to change the names on, Under Tools select Batch Rename. This brings up another window. Delete all the typing in the Template box, then select Insert Metadata... Expand Exif box, expand Camera and select Date/Time and click OK.

Here is a screenshot:


(Note: The smily faces below are suppose to be : D with no space in between them.)
You will see <Cameraate/Time> in the Template box. If you think your camera can take more than one picture a second, you might want to add some #'s after it. <Cameraate/Time>###. This will insert in a 001, 002 or whatever number you put in the "start at" box. In the right box, you should be able to see your current name and the new name. Verify they look correct.


If you don't know if your images have Exif data, try the above and if the new name is just ".jpg" then those images don't have EXIF data. A work around is using the file import date to name them. Do the same steps above but expand File Properties and select Created Date. You also better make sure you add some #'s so it looks like this <File Properties:Created Date>###. This will name the images with the date that you uploaded them to your computer which is probalby soon after you took them, right?


My recommendation is start with batch renaming with a few images, see how you like it, and then do the rest. Once you rename them, you can easily move images around to different directories without much difficulty. I am not aware if ACDSee can do this feature. Although, if you start using ACDSee calendar view, there really is no need to move images around at all. Although I need to figure out a way for the calendar view to keep my digital kits separate from my photos to make it work even better.



Hope this helps you!

[Heidi@DigiScrapInfo.com]

Oh, I more thing to add. I always leave my photos the original size. If I do resize them to send some where, I stick them in subdirectory called something like resized or smaller. I don't like seeing the same picture twice.

ACDSee has a quick batch resize function that is really useful and lets you choose the exact size you want to resize too and under options lets you choose how you want to save the file:
replace -- don't do this to your photos, keep your originals,
rename is same directory
place in different directory -- my preferred way

Hope this helps.

[Connie@DigiScrapInfo.com]

Wow sis - that was a whole lot of 'talking'....
good answer though!

[Jinkies]

I tried the ACDsee way and it just confused me

I did find a free program that I *LOVE*. FastStone Image Resizer (www.faststone.org). They have a photo viewer also.

Thanks for trying to help!!!