TSGL: sorting & re-numbering pictures - no luck sofar

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi,

me again: Spent part of last night with looking at some progs and it appears 
that those I saw can't do what I need.

What I would need is an option to (visually) sort through the pics 
(thumbnails) in a folder and when finished create new filenames that would 
help keep the new sorting order on my PC.

What some of these progs can do is sorting the pictures, but there's no way 
to make this new order stick. In order to use it e,g, with Windows media 
manager or such. With the abilities e.g. of Picasa I can show a slide show 
using only this specific program, but nothing else.

I'll continue my search later ...

Tilman


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tilman Brandl
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
  Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 2:50 AM
  Subject: Re: TSGL: Software for sorting & re-numbering pictures


  Hi,

  thanks to you guys for some great hints.
  I've meanwhile downloaded Lupas Rename and PicNamer (thanks to Ron!) and
  will check them out these days.

  As to simple renaming, my TotalCommander file manager can do this with 
great
  ease, but doesn't show me any pics along that process.

  I guess Picasa (which I have, but didn't use for years) could be helpful
  too - something to check as well.

  Thanks again
  Tilman
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Tilman Brandl
    To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
    Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 1:46 AM
    Subject: TSGL: Software for sorting & re-numbering pictures


    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