How to Rename Multiple Photos

[-bijanto-]

Let's say you have thousands of image files under names like for example "Imgp0001.jpg, Imgp0002.jpg, ..... Imgp1000.jpg" etc, and you wish to 'humanize' their names into - for example - "Melbourne1, Melbourne2, .....Melbourne1000" etc.

A digital photography expert named Derrick Story has an easier method to rename multiple files at once (applied to Windows XP, haven't tried in another operating system):

• First, open the folder containing your photos and choose View –> Thumbnails.
  
• Click the last file you want to rename, hold Shift and click the first file; this will select all files.
  
• Right click on the first file and choose 'Rename' from the window. I choose 'Melbourne' (without the apostrophe).
  
• After renaming the file, click anywhere on the white area outside the pic and all the other files will be renamed to that name, with individual numbers in brackets to distinguish them.
  

Alternatively you can install Picasa and use it to manage your digital photo collections. This is available free to download from Google.

Caution: Renaming files by using this method is ok if you want all files to have exactly the SAME name. But if you have many files with different names and you simply wish to add a character to them do not use this method.

Edited September 22, 2006 by -bijanto-