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Rename photos so they stay in a particular order
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Wednesday April 22, 2009
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Wednesday April 22, 2009
When you're trying to put a photo album together, either online or in software, you want to get photos in a particular order. Photos right
from the camera have strange names like DSC-37.JPG, or worse. By taking
advantage of the way your computer sorts files by name you can rename photos pretty quickly and have them in exactly the order you want.
from the camera have strange names like DSC-37.JPG, or worse. By taking
advantage of the way your computer sorts files by name you can rename photos pretty quickly and have them in exactly the order you want.
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- In general, items are sorted on the computer by name in alphabetical
order.
- Computers will sort numbers before letters so 1 will be above a.
- Keeping this in mind you can rename pictures and get them in the order
you want by taking advantage of this sorting method.
- Rename a photo and put a 1 at the beginning and it will be at the top
of the list.
- You can organize photos that should be sequential by giving them
sequential numbers like 2, 22, and 222.
- In the example above if you renamed the next photo with a 3 at the
front it would fall right after the one with the 2.
- To get it to come after 222 you'd want to name it something like 3Z.
- Experiment and remember that you can get an entire collection of
photos in the order you want simply by altering a few characters at the
beginning of the existing file name.
order.
- Computers will sort numbers before letters so 1 will be above a.
- Keeping this in mind you can rename pictures and get them in the order
you want by taking advantage of this sorting method.
- Rename a photo and put a 1 at the beginning and it will be at the top
of the list.
- You can organize photos that should be sequential by giving them
sequential numbers like 2, 22, and 222.
- In the example above if you renamed the next photo with a 3 at the
front it would fall right after the one with the 2.
- To get it to come after 222 you'd want to name it something like 3Z.
- Experiment and remember that you can get an entire collection of
photos in the order you want simply by altering a few characters at the
beginning of the existing file name.
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