TSGL: Software for sorting & re-numbering pictures

[H Davis]

Tilman,

I've had good luck with the free Lupas Rename, 
http://rename.lupasfreeware.org/. It has lots of options and has never 
screwed up on me. It allows you to see the changes before they're made.

H Davis

Trio800_BonBon wrote:
> Hi Tilman
>
> For automatically renaming files use ExplorerXP (freeware)
>
> http://www.explorerxp.com/
>
> This windows explorer replacement has an excellent 
> renaming ability that includes renumbering filenames by 
> a step you select. you can format the filename anyway 
> you want. Its easy to use and has a lot of powerful 
> options. And it is a lot better then Windows explorer.
>
> For sorting your files I like Google's Picasa (Freeware)
>
> http://picasa.google.com.
>
> You can sort photo folders by date, filename and size. 
> It also is an easy to use photo organizer and photo editor.
>
> Bob
>
>
> Tilman Brandl wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm searching for software with good capabilities for handling / sorting/ 
>> creating slide shows.
>>
>> Background: On our Chicago to Tucson tour last summer I gathered around 500 
>> photographs - using:
>>
>> 1- a small digital camera which produced numbered pics, containing exif-data 
>> (dates).
>> 2- my heavy SLR which produced pics with strange composite numbers after 
>> digitizing. (no dates)
>>
>> Back home I made a quick selection from all the pics, cat 1. & cat. 2 and 
>> created new numbers for them.
>>
>> My problem: I need to reorder some of the pics and I also have edited 
>> versions of several of them which I need to insert in specific positions. I 
>> could rename again, leaving space for adding new and re-sorted pictures - 
>> for instance like this: us07-pic-0001, us07-pic-0003 etc. (all are *.jpg). 
>> It can be done with what I have at hand. But ...
>>
>> ...is there any software that would be helpful in sorting and renumbering 
>> slideshows according to the new manual sort order? I use Irfanview for 
>> checking Exif dates, and my file manager that's pretty good with renaming.
>>
>> I would be grateful for any hints
>> Tilman 
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