In message <5.0.2.1.2.20120823113047.03013e98@mail.verizon.net>, Robert Kirk <isobar@verizon.net> writes: >At 09:49 AM 8/23/2012, Bob McKinley wrote: >>...My photo managing software lets me batch rename the entire shoot. Since >>the pictures were taken in location order, I rename them all in that >>order, using the same initials of the cemetery, a dash and 4 numbers. I.e. >>the pix of Buck Valley Lutheran Church Cemetery are named B V L-0001 >>through B V L-0750. The photo managing software has a built in database >>where I add the inscriptions from the stone. >>It only takes a few clicks to add the appropriate tomestone picture to the >>person in BK. This way, BK is not cluttered with pix of non-relatives, >>landscape shots and outhouses (I love outhouses), and these pictures are >>all stored together, so whenever I want to take a “walk” >>through a cemetery, I can do so electronically... > > >Bob... I'm curious, since my photo files are vastly disorganized, what >photo managing software do you use? (Some day I'll get my sock drawer >sorted, too). [] IrfanView can rename a batch of pictures (including a single one), with all sorts of things - the date and time taken (obviously only if the camera's calendar was correct), a prefix plus a serialised number (sounds like what Bob does), or various combinations, including leaving the original name in if you want. The date is in yyyy mm dd form (I _think_ always, though that _could_ just be because I have them set that way anyway), which means the filenames come up in the order taken if alphasorted, even if you don't use the serialised number option. It can also add text into a (.jpg) picture file which stays part of the file, which I find handy. John Steed kindly included the option to display any such text (and to turn this off if unwanted!) within BK a few months ago. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Parkinson: "What caused your conversion to women - was it the love of a good one?" George Melly: "No the love of several bad ones" (Lizbuff in UMRA '01-4-25)