Multimedia forum: Is there a way to select a group of photos and rename all?

It's a collection of programs specifically written for multiple file renaming. It's a varied lot so head to download.com and search for such.

Bob

You can rename a batch of photos, or any files for that matter, provided you want them all to have the same name followed by a number. Just select all of the files, right-click one, then type in the name followed by a number in parentheses. For instance, if you rename the first one AKan (17) the second one will be AKan (18), the third one AKan (19), etc. If you want something a little more advanced than that you'll have to track down a third-party program or do it manually, depending on how exactly you want to name them.

Hope this helps,
John

I've been using this free utility for quite a while. Works for all files. Win 98 through XP


Homepage http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk

Everyone should have the graphic viewer IrfanView, probably the best freeware product available on the internet.

IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial use {that means at home}. Even if you have to buy it, it's only $12.00.

It will batch convert/rename.

http://www.irfanview.com/

go to www.fastone.com/ . Download the image editer. Select your images and insert your prefences ... walla! renamed. If you want to rename other files, select the last file in the folder, then holding control, select the first one. Then type a name like this:
Filename (1)
it will rename the 2nd file as this filename (2). YOu cannot leave the brackets. If you see files like this :filename.XXX (XXX is a extension), remeber to type the name to:
filename (1).XXX

You can also open any window with files to rename, and left click hold and drag a blue highlight box over the files you want, they will have a bue box around them as you touch them with the dragging highlight box. Also if you tag one you dont want renamed or others that didnt get hit by the expanding blue highlight scrolling, you can press and hold control and the mouse to click individual files to rename. However if you let up on the control a bit it will make copies of everything highlighted at the bottom of the folder open.

Rename a batch of photos all at once
Make photos easier to find by giving them descriptive names
Published: June 20, 2005 (Microsoft)

When you download images from your digital camera to your computer, the file names of the images have nothing to do with the event or scene that you were taking pictures of. Renaming each file manually is time-consuming, but by using this Windows XP technique you can quickly rename a folder of digital photos all at once. When you use this technique on a folder, all the files in the folder end up with a single name (including a sequential number) that relates to the subject of the images. Using this technique to rename your digital photos makes it easier to locate the one you're looking for at a later date-a photo named museum of flight august (18).JPG, for example, is easier to find than that same photo named DSCN1518.JPG.

To rename digital photos with a common name and sequential numbering

1.
Click Start and then click My Pictures.

2.
Open a folder of digital photo files whose names you want to change.

3.
Click Edit and then click Select All.

4.
Right click on the first digital photo file in the list and then click Rename.




The name of the first digital photo file is highlighted and ready to be edited.

5.
Type the name you want to use to identify all the digital photo files in the folder. Choose a name that allows you to identify a photo from this folder at a later date.

NOTE: Be sure to type the file extension after the file name. In this example we use the extension .jpg after the file name museum of flight august because these image files are jpeg format, which is the format that most digital cameras use.

6.
Press Enter on your keyboard to rename all the digital photo files in the folder and add sequential numbering to the file names.




If you take a little time and go through your My Pictures folder and apply this technique to all your photos, the next time you try to find a specific photo you'll be glad that you did. And if you get into the practice of applying this technique right after you download your images to your computer, your digital photos will be well-organized and up-to-date as you accumulate digital memories.

I do this all the time...

Using Windows XP, I organize my photos in folders within "My Pictures" by the month they were taken. I then rename them according to the date they were taken. So, I select all the pictures that were taken on the same date (not the whole folder since one folder may contain pictures taken on many different dates). To do this, I click on the first picture I want to rename, then hold down Shift, and click on the last one in the group. Or if all the pictures I want are not right next to each other in the list, you can hold down Control and click on each one individually. All of the photos selected should be highlighted. Go back to the top and right click on the first one and select Rename from the drop down menu. Then, just type in the name you want. I always do the date. I have been doing this format: 1-1-06, but I am planning to change that to 01-01-06 as some programs in which I use my pictures don't order them correctly (instead of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10; it orders them 1,10,11,12,2,20,21, etc.). Anyway... Whatever you name the first picture in your group, the others will have the same name, but will be labeled with a number. For example, mine usually look like this: 1-1-06 (1), 1-1-06 (2), 1-1-06 (3), and so on. There is no need to type the file extension. It will be there automatically when you open the picture in a program. Hope that helps!