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PhotoRenamer

By TGMDev Free Editors' Rating

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Sep 30, 2013

Although it's free and performs well, TGMDev's PhotoRenamer isn't for casual snapshooters, but its sophisticated batch renaming capabilities will suit professional photographers and advanced amateurs with a large image archive to manage. PhotoRenamer's Renaming Masks automatically rename batches of images with date and time, either from image data or EXIF metadata, based on strings of characters separated by the % symbol, such as %Y for Year with century or %y for Year without century. Three Masks are provided at startup, but you can add and edit up to 40 custom Masks.

PhotoRenamer's user interface is a bit busy at first glance, but an Office-style Ribbon toolbar and a bit of practice make things easy enough to pick up, and an extensive Web-based manual and support options are available when needed. You can quickly change the background image from the View menu as well as toggle through several display options. Closing the Application Log pane at the bottom of the program's window and making some other changes cleaned up PhotoRenamer's layout a bit. The Options menu let us configure how PhotoRenamer handles duplicates, including color-coding stacks of very similar images (such as rough sorts or burst-mode series) as well as adding suffixes and more. Some of these steps seem complicated, but balloon messages appear with extensive explanations when you hesitate over a feature.

But even with such great touches, PhotoRenamer still emphasizes flexibility and performance over convenience. For instance, the File Selection Filter lets you specify certain image types, such as JPG. But you must type in *.jpg (PhotoRenamer 3.3 supports multiple filters separated by semicolons) and so on, and edit masks with similar methods. Easy enough; but if that's just not your thing, free tools with fewer options are plentiful. If you require something extra, PhotoRenamer has it.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 3.4

Version 3.4:
  • Handling of Mobiles compliant with Windows Portable Devices (WPD)
  • Bugs removal

General

Release October 14, 2013
Date Added October 14, 2013
Version 3.4

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 2003, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP
Additional Requirements None

Popularity

Total Downloads 1,420
Downloads Last Week 0
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Developer's Description

PhotoRenamer 3.4 is a freeware that rename your photos (on both your computers and mobiles) according to the date and the time you took the pictures (from file date and time or Exif Data) and a Highly customizable Renaming Mask. Using an Explorer-like control, browsing the files is very easy and intuitive. Renaming Masks are strings that contains format specifications (Day, Month, Year, Hour, Min., Sec. Photo Number and free text) . File as 'IMG_01234.jpg' can be renamed as 'TGMDev-31-Dec-2011-16-51-26.jpg' or 'Lumix-FZ45-01234-2011-Dec-31-16-51-26.jpg'. PhotoRenamer 3.4 supports multiple selection filters (that can be turn case sensitive) and displays the files list with high-resolution thumbnails. Picture Preview rotates automatically the pictures according to Exif so that it appears correctly on screen. Pictures without Exif Data or with invalid/incomplete Exif data can be rotated manually. Double-Click on the picture for detailed picture view with main picture data: more than 60 Exif Metadata (including GPS data) and IPTC Metadata (if available). Duplicate Files are highlighted in customizable colors. Tooltips provide informations on application features (this option can be toggle on or off). PhotoRenamer 3.4 handles the mobile devices compliant with Windows Portable Devices (WPD) Library, so that you can also rename files located in your mobiles. PhotoRenamer 3.4 is compliant with Windows 8 Requirements for Data and Application Installation Folders. Freeware guaranteed without spyware.
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