Digital Workflow - Photo Renaming
06 Feb 2015 Tutorial
With the ever growing number of digital camera, photos taken by each of us becoming staggering. So after a few years there will be so many photos that it will be difficult to find out a specific photo. So every file should have a unique name. Since photos from mobile camera or DSLR devices create images of same name after certain number of pictures are taken there is every possibility that a new image will have the same name like an old one. And it might cause you lose some valuable memories.
Professionals have specific ways to prevent this mishap.
I follow a scaled down version of professional workflow suitable for my need.
Renaming Folder & File
I usually shoot photos in jpeg format.
Download all images to desktop.
1. Create folder according to date e.g. 2013-01-10
2. Keep all the photos of the same day in this folder
3. Delete all the unnecessary photos
4. Batch rename all photos according to -
YEAR-MONTH-DAY_Hour-Minute_Original file name
20130110_1145_JUN_3538
(For Batch naming you can use ACDsee or Adobe bridge software)
- 5. If you take RAW photos, create a new folder eg. 2013-01-10-RAW inside the original folder 2013-01-10
Benefits
* It keeps the folders organized
* It creates unique file name, so there will be no duplicate file name in future
* Using different cameras at the same time has little chance to create same name
* It's also easy to browse through photos
* It will be easy to find out any photo
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