Are you uploading your photos to an online photo sharing/printing service?
Or perhaps you??™re handing them off to someone else to sift through and
possibly modify them? If you want to make sure your careful date manipulations
remain intact, you may want to tag your filenames as well.
Figure 4-19. Use the Change Date tool to fix discrepancies among the times of different
photographers??™ digital photos
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You can do this with Stamp, as described earlier, but only if you??™ve updated
the EXIF dates as described in step 8, previously. But if you want to rename
your photos without changing any EXIF data, you??™ll need Power Rename
(also part of Creative Element Power Tools) to tag the filenames with their
modified dates. To do this, highlight all the photos, right-click, and select
Power Rename.
If you??™ve already renamed the photos with Stamp, place a
checkmark next to Power Rename??™s Crop option, select
from beginning, and type a number representing the amount
of text to remove. This will get rid of Stamp??™s addition to the
filename and make room for Power Rename??™s own Add
stamp feature.
In Power Rename, place a checkmark next to the Add stamp option, select
file date & time, and then click the Format button. From the Choose a format
list, select Custom format and then use the date/time placeholders from
the list to assemble a date format conducive to sorting. Your best bet is to
start with the year (yy or yyyy), followed by the month, day, hour, minute,
and finally, the second, like this:
yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss
For example, Power Rename would take a file with the date August 28, 2005
at 4:53:06 pm and add this to the beginning of the filename:
2005-08-28_16-53-06
Click OK and then the Accept button to rename the files.
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