I have just installed Photoshop CS2 and downloaded my first files into Camera Raw. Is there a way to automate the renaming of downloaded photo files? For example, can I name them by date or location, etc. in numerical order. I just returned from Alaska with a large number files divided into folders in my Epson PhotoFine, but when they were downloaded into Bridge the original number naming system was retained for an organizational disaster. With almost 2 weeks of daily shooting to sort I would like to speed up the naming process. If this is not possible within Photoshop or Bridge, does someone know of a plug in or third party program that works well with both Adobe and Mac OSX (one G5 and a MacBook Pro notebook).
#1
I'm not exactly sure how you need to rename your files, but on versiontracker.com there is a "renamer for mac" or "renamorformac" shareware that will allow you to use wildcards to search and rename in ordinal sequence.
It is pretty flexible--it might be of use to you.
alan
#2
Search for "Renamer4Mac" on Version Tracker. It's free, not shareware.
#3
Ya, I think that is the name I was trying to articulate (or whatever the written equivalent to "articulate" is.
thanks
#4
Bridge can do everything you need.
From the Menus: View ->Sort->By Date Created
(or any other criteria you wish - even manually)
Then type Command+A (Select All)
Menus: Tools->Batch Rename
(take the time to explore - there are many options)
-phil
#5
Or Automator (part of OSX) has a Rename Finder Items command. If you save it as a plug-in, it appears in the Finder's contextual menu.
#6
Also you can use iView Media Pro for cataloging files and it has a renaming function (though I haven't used it).
#7
I'd like to know how the tools in Bridge compare to Renamer4mac.
alan
#8
I don't think Bridge allows you to do global wild card changes and renaming.
For instance, I used Renamer4Mac to search on two different volumes simultaneously for the legacy Mac OS 9 folder character "" and change all 600+ instances it found to "_f".
I did similar searches and renaming of other now-illegal characters like *, , ~, etc.
#9