A photo starting with year than month can at least give some clue where to sort the image even if metadata is lost. Year then month is a good basic place to start. If you want to name that way without dates at least settle on client name first, then event name, or something. There are names, there are events, there are clients. The list above is horrendously inconsistent. File names should in some way assist consistent organization and sorting. For burst shots, the combination of date and file name keeps them unique and in order.įiles should always be named by something that makes (human) sense:
The dates, of course, keep everything in order and are unique for everything except burst shots. I can simply search my collection for IMG_1234 and see if that found photo needs to be copied.Īnd other oddball situations that come up from time to time.
#Exifrenamer windows how to#
I have many older photos (before I knew how to organize things) that have lost their EXIF data and/or file creation times for various reasons.I put that in quotes because even with modern equipment sometimes these issues arise.
#Exifrenamer windows plus#
I use dates plus the camera names for mostly 'legacy' reasons. Simply doesn't matter as I never search for an image by filename. The actual images in my library are called whatever the camera decided, and, as I have used several cameras, I have any number of duplicates. (Both Aperture and Lightroom have lots of tools to do this. I DO rename when exporting images in JPEG or other formats to send to people, in which case I rename something that is meaningful for the recipient. In any case, with Lightroom and Aperture, you no longer have a one to one ratio between images and files, at least not with your edited file.
#Exifrenamer windows Pc#
Most of the "requirement" to rename files dates from an era when you were using the PC Explorer or the Mac Finger to manage files. I would argue that in the era of Lightroom and Aperture, there is no need to rename files in your library. Building a stock photo library for submission. … have you guys read Peter Krogh's DAM book? I need each photo to have a unique filename so I use date/time and my initials. If you import the RAW + JPEG into Lightroom before renaming them and then get Lightroom to do the renaming there is no problem. If you only shoot JPG, then EXIFRenamer is fine, though a little cumbersome until you get used to it.Īs someone else in this thread said, you get what you pay for. Either they are capable of reading the EXIF data from the RW2 file or they are smart enough to copy it from the JPG when the camera file name (e.g. Using EXIFRenamer, I often had "duplicate" photos in my Lightroom catalog because the names were different.Ī Better Finder Renamer and PathFinder both handle this correctly. Lightroom automatically combines RAW + JPG but only if the file names being the same. As a result, the files are named differently: Occasionally the RAW file and JPG are written at different clock times - in other words, the clock says 56 seconds when the JPG is written, but by the time the RAW file has finished writing to the SD card the clock has flipped over to 57 seconds. Instead it quietly uses the file creation date which can cause problems with Lightroom. Apparently EXIFRenamer cannot read EXIF data from the RAW file (Panasonic's RW2 format, in my case). I was using EXIFRenamer happily until I started shooting RAW + JPG. In short, EXIFRenamer is not sufficient if you shoot RAW + JPG. Sorry to dredge up such an old thread but I wanted to point out something I couldn't find mentioned elsewhere.
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