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Automation / Batch Rename
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Many times when you take photographs with your digital camera and you bring them into your computer, you'll find out that the names are kind of cryptic. They often have information that is not really useful to us in the real world. So we have an option to batch rename an entire folder of images in the bridge. As you see here, uh, on my desktop I have a folder called trip and it contains photographs from my trip to Washington, DC and, as I said before, the names really won't help me months from now if I'm doing a search for Washington. I won't know what to enter in the search engine on my computer and I won't be able to find anything. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to select all. I'm going to go to edit, select all to grab everything in folder and then I'm going to go to the tools menu and I'm going to choose a feature called batch rename. The dialog box opens up and right away you are presented with where you're going to save these images. As you see, I can rename these in the same folder. I can move to another folder and I can copy to another folder, which is often what I choose so I can re, retain the original images, just in case. So I choose copy to other folder. And I'll click browse and I'll create a folder on my desktop. And I'll call this folder Washington. The folder itself has significance as far as the name and the images in there are going to be named appropriately, so let me choose this folder. And now what I can do is work with the new file name. So I can choose to work with the current file name, which is what I don't want, and you get a preview as to what you're dealing with down here. Here is our current file name and here is the new file name. This is the area that you want to pay attention to. You also see here that there are 14 items that will be renamed. I'm going to choose from this list. Text. This will enable me to write my own text here. So I'm going to choose Washington, and I'll call it Washington Trip. I can also add new text fields by clicking on this little plus button here. Now I can choose another parameter. So in this case, I would put a sequence number. So if you look down here, it's going to say Washington Trip, 001. I think three numbers is a little bit extreme, so I'm going to choose to make this two digits. And as you see here, it says Washington Trip, 01.jpeg. Let's go ahead and add yet another category. So I'll go ahead and click on the sign again. And by the way, you can always hit the negative sign to remove these fields. So I'll go ahead and hit plus and I'm going to choose to add, let's see, a letter this time. So we will add a sequence letter. So we will have Washington Trip, 01A. We can also change this to lowercase if we so desire. So I'll leave it on uppercase for now. So let's take a look at what we're going to have here. We're going to save our information to a new folder that's going to be on the desktop. The folder is called Washington. We're going to rename the files from the original, which was photo and all this other stuff to the new file names. Our images are going to have Washington Trip, 01A, 02, 03 and that kind of thing. Now we're ready to save. I'm going to now hit rename and on my folder, as you see even in the bridge, here is my Washington folder and when I select it to see the contents, check it out. Washington Trip, 01A. Washington Trip, 02B. So I was able to rename these images with very, very easily, just by using a couple of text fields and the tools. So batch rename can really help you to change what are normally cryptic file names into something more useful so that you can search for them in your computer. In my case, I can use a feature on the Macintosh called Spotlight and then I can type in Washington Trip and these images will show up in that folder. As a matter of fact, I'll do that now. And in a couple of seconds, I'll be presented with the folder that it finds and have all the information for me. And here it is. Here's the result. Washington Trip and everything else that has the word Washington Trip in it on my computer. And this, once again, helped me to find these images, where as the original file names would be pretty useless to me in a search. So use the batch rename not only to remove the cryptic name, but to help yourselves in the long run so you can always find the documents by their name.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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