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File naming

July 23, 2010 ยท by Jan Schultink
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The number of images on my hard drive is spinning out of control and I never got around to using dedicated software with image tags for my images (maybe I should). Lately, I am paying more attention when naming an image file. And the one thing that helped me most is to put the noun first. For example:

The latter is how we are used to think, the first is best for sorting and finding things on a computer.

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3 comments

passenger572010-07-23 05:36:05
An image-handling program which allows you to hold metadata against each image makes this process a whole lot easier.

Adobe Lightroom does this very well. You'd simply tag your photos with keywords such as "sky", "blue", "clouds" etc in order to find the images instantly.
Jose Arriaga2010-07-23 20:24:45
Snagit which is also an excellent image capturing tool by tech smith will do this as well :-)
Jan Schultink2010-07-24 03:07:06
Thank you for the suggestions