Help with over 1000 4mp photos - software and naming

[Domino]

Hello,

I have just returned from my excellent honeymoon in Scotland and have over 1000 4MP photos from the trip. Problem is now managing this stuff!

Is there a software that you recommend that I can easily "pick out" favorites into a "best" list and then caption each picture and produce to a slide show and also a web page? I'm aware of the web gallery option in Photoshop which I use often, but this is too big a task to scan all of these and find the photos without the perfect software.

Also I'm finding that because I used several memory cards several of my photos have the same name and I sure don't want to change 800 file names manually. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Does anyone have any tips for me on this?

Thanks

[CyberDyneSystems]

With ACDsee,.. you can browse a folder,. it will show you all the images in that folder as a thumbnail,..

You can select one image,. a group fo images or all the images in a folder,. and with a single click of the "move to" button you can move the selected images to any folder in a list of destination folders that you have created, and or you can rename them all with sequential numbers.

Or you can select say, 35 out of 82 images for example in a given folder,. and then use the "batch rename" tool to rename all the selected images with your specified number sequencing.

For example,.. if you specify "Beach Vacation ###"

Your images will be renamed to;
Beach Vacation 001
Beach Vacation 002
Beach Vacation 003

...and so on.

Also,.. most of the image editing tools included will allow the same batch functionality;

Select only those images that were shot with the camera tilted 90* for "portrait" (when I shot a fashion show it was about 98% of the 500 or more images) and then with a single operation,. ACDSee will rotate all the images selected.

Say you have a folder of 300 full size images and you want to pick out a few to resize and upload to a gallery. You select the 28 images you want,. click the "copy to" button and send the copies to your upload folder or whatever you want to call it,. then with those 28 copies selected you can resize all 28 in one operation to a maximum dimanesion like 800 pixels.

Acdsee will create slide show,. and you can use to show slide shows even if you haven't taken the time to make one! Just open an image in any given folder and click the "slideshow" button,. and it will automatically display a timed slideshow of all the images in that given folder.

I beleive that many of the other image file viewers can do similar batch operations. But ACDsee was the first (I've used it since Win 3.1) and is still the best!

[henkbos]

OK, 1000 pics on your honeymoon and you're still married? Kudos to your wife.

- start to transfer everything to your harddisk
- make a backup
- tell your wife you love her before disappearing in the digital darkroom for 2 weeks

Need to have more info before giving more advice: format (RAW, JPEG), DVD or CDRW, etc.

[Domino]

Funny you said that henkbos.... :-) She said it was "the perfect honeymoon with the one exception that I was a picture taking freak!"...but she's used to it. Scotland was so beautiful literally every time you turn around there's some awesome photo staring you right in the face.

I'm making a backup right now of everything. My photos are all in the "highest" JPEG format taken with a Canon Powershot G2 at 2272 x 1704 resolution. They range from about 700k on up to 1.5 MB per picture. Now I just need to figure out how to batch rename and easily categorize/web publish/caption these.

[Domino]

So I'm trying out ACDSee right now -- nice software. However I don't see an option to publish to web without having to pay for their service?

Also another thing I forgot to mention is I have a number of panoramic shots I need to piece together -- anybody know of some good software for this as well?

[john_houghton]

domino wrote:Also another thing I forgot to mention is I have a number of panoramic shots I need to piece together -- anybody know of some good software for this as well?
You could use Canon Photostitch that came bundled with your camera.

John

[CyberDyneSystems]

For a free online galley with 250 megabytes of space try

www.fotopic.net

[Domino]

Regarding photostich -- I have no idea where my original CDs are. I've moved 3 times since I bought this camera and somehow they've been misplaced.

[john_houghton]

For reviews of panorama software, see www.panoguide.com . The stitchers usually recommended include Panorama Factory (V1.6 is freeware), PhotoVista, PanaVue Image Assembler, and Panorama Tools.

John

[Roumen]

Try using ACDSee (www.acdsystems.com). I use it from 1997 (freeware version 2.1). Just from Windows File Explorer press "Enter" or click on the image and browse all the images of the folder using PgDn/PgUp. The best images you could easily copy to different folders of choice "Choice1/2/..." using ctrl-C (and name of the folder).

You could also use browsing, slideshow, resizing and renaming features of IrfanView (www.irfanview.com).

Another software for browsing and slideshow is ULEAD Photo Explorer (www.ulead.com/pex/freeware.htm)

Convinient renaming and resizing (proofs) features are included in BreezeBrowser (www.breezeSys.com). You could add automatically watermark "date/time" or copywrite messages. Check my previous post at:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=4082232
Very usefull sometimes is the "Saturation" parameter in "Proofs" - you could make your images more colourful. Check my post at: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8827

Finally, you could upload your best images at www.fotopic.net (free 250MB accounts).

Greetings,
Roumen

[deadbrain]

Hi.

ACDSee is really fast in showing pics and I think old version 3 now is free.

BreezeBrowser allow you to add caption to each photo via IPTC and then you can export a web page with captions (and/or EXIF data) automatically. The captions stay within the photos, so you can store or reuse them in other slideshow without having to rewrite them.

Bye
Deadbrain

[huebdoo]

Sendpix is free when you buy, or download the free trial of ACDSee. So if you need more information on uploading to the free sendpix server here is the link:

http://www.sendpix.com

or

http://www.acdsee.com

Also, ACD Systems has a plug-in for ACDSee that creates panoramic images called PhotoStitcher that is really easy... here is the link to that:

http://www.acdsystems.com/English/Products/Photostitcher/index.htm

I found it really easy to use...
Good Luck