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  • PhotoName 2.0 is progressing

    Now PhotoName 2.0 is working well but it must be completed with all the features that PhotoName 1.x has and the documents has to be updated. I am really excited about getting it out for download.

    An early screenshot:

  • Photoname Portable, the command line arguments

    These are the command line arguments that control the actions of pnp.exe, that you can send to it:

    -fld [folder]

    Renames all images in a specific folder. Specify the folder with images you want to rename, or type start to search for images in the same folder that pnp.exe is started from. Starting pnp.exe like this (from the command prompt):

    pnp.exe -fld start

    …has the same effect as double clicking it and type:

    Rename Folder Start

    Also, starting pnp.exe like this:

    pnp.exe -fld “C:\Temp”

    …has the same effect as double clicking it and type:

    Rename Folder “C:\Temp”
    -fle [filename]   Gives the specified file a new name. The file must be a jpg file that isn’t already renamed according to the Photoname convention.
    -h Shows the available command line arguments.

    Download Photoname Portable (25kb).

  • Hur används den portabla versionen av Photoname?

    This is basically a Swedish version of this post.

  • Photoname Portable

    The portable version of Photoname (pnp.exe) doesn’t have a GUI, but it is pretty simple to use anyway. You can either start it from the command interface and pass arguments to it to tell it what to do, or you can double click on it, and then tell it what to do. If you want to control pnp.exe from another application, you must know what arguments you can pass to it.

    So, pnp.exe is a portable, lightweight GUI-less version of Photoname.
    Some of the commands that you can run if you start it without arguments, that is, just by double clicking it:

    Load {Filename} loads an image into memory. If the path or filename contains a space, you need quotation marks around it. Example:

    Load "C:\Images\CW005132.jpg"

    To view information about the loaded image, type Info. If you provide a filename, that file is loaded and info about that file is displayed. Example:

    Info

Info "C:\Images\CW005133.jpg"

    To rename one single file, use Rename File {Filename}. Example:

    Rename File "C:\Images\CW005134.jpg"

    If you ignore the filename, the currently loaded file will be renamed. To rename all files, use Rename Dir {Directory name}. Example:

    Rename Dir "C:\Images"

    Files that already match the RegEx pattern \d{14}_\d*\.(jpg|jpeg) will be ignored. If photodate is missing in the file, the change date will be used instead. The renamed file will be unloaded from memory in the process of renaming.

    Photoname Portable can only handle full path, not relative paths.

    For each file that Photoname Portable tries to rename, the output will be a text line that starts with “Ok.” for successful name change and “Rename failed.” for unsuccessful name change.

    If you want to use the portable version to rename all images that need renaming, without any tricky typing, you can just type Dir? in the command prompt. Photoname Portable will ask you for a directory, do the name changes and then exit. Example:

    Dir?

    If you are automating Photoname Portable from another application, consider not sending “Dir?” to it. 😉 The folder browser might show up behind the console window.

    Download Photoname Portable (25kb).

  • PhotoName improvements, December 2009

    The following changes are made to PhotoName.

    The Options dialog (click Behaviour and Other settings) lets you control what will happen if you double click an image in the list.

    A new drop down menu (Edit) is added to the menu bar. From there you can change what images are selected in the list. You can choose to select all images, no images or toggle the selection.

    Also, you can view all images as thumbnails, and click on the images you want to select or deselect. To do this, click Edit and Select from thumbnails.

    This is very effective if you want to export images as a gallery, because you have a good overview of what pictures you have in the selected directory and which of them will be included in the gallery.

    You can download PhotoName from here.

  • Make a HTML gallery from your photos

    The latest feature in PhotoName: Make a HTML gallery from a bunch of photos!

    Download PhotoName from here. If you have a previous version installed, remember to uninstall that first (from the Windows Control Panel).

  • PhotoName improvements, October 2009

    A new dialog for manipulating the programs behavior is added. From there, you can tell PhotoName what to do with images that lacks an embedded photo date.

    Download PhotoName from this page, but remember to uninstall any previous version first. For more posts on this application, check the PhotoName tag.

  • PhotoName improvements, September 2009

    Two changes have been made.

    PhotoName does a more effective image caching to be able to display thumbnails faster, and a directory list is added.

    The directory list can be used to navigate to any child directory or to the parent directory, without having to open the folder browser. Also, the directory list tells you if any child directory has own child directories or images.

    Download PhotoName from this page, but remember to uninstall any previous version first.

  • F# and PhotoName

    I have just decided to look in to F#, the new functional .NET language by Microsoft. It installs with Visual Studio 2010, and it can be installed for Visual Studio 9. I use Visual Studio 9 for my everyday work, so I installed it from here (click on the word MSI in the first paragraph under “F# Compiler versions”). After installation, a couple of new project templates are available, including a good tutorial. Thanks for that, Microsoft!

    And now for something less positive. I got a comment today on PhotoName on a never-do-this-thing in my source code. I was storing values in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, something that you might want to do in an installation process, but never in an installed program. Back in the Windows 2000 days (or even XP), I thought of the Local Machine hive key as an alternative to the Current User hive key, with bigger scope. This is not good practice, and by default in Vista, Windows prevents programs from doing this. This is good, of course, and bringing this old mistake up to the surface, so that it could be fixed. I am a Vista user myself, but I actually use PhotoName on an old XP machine, so I am very thankful that this issue was brought up, so that I could update my code. If you have an older project, that you develop on a XP machine, you should make sure that you’re not using Application.CommonAppDataRegistry.SetValue but Application.UserAppDataRegistry.SetValue instead.

    If you have an older version of PhotoName installed, uninstall it from the Control Panel before installing the new version.

  • PhotoName improvements, June 2009

    A smaller update of the graphical user interface is done. I have also changed the screen shot on the program page, to reflect this change.

  • PhotoName improvements, May 2009

    Added: A checkbox is displayed that allows you to only load images that haven’t been renamed yet. This saves loading time for the application. PhotoName doesn’t really know what images that has been renamed, it uses a simple RegEx to determine the format of the filename, and if it doesn’t match, the image is loaded.

    The same RegEx is used to determine if the image should be default checked for renaming or not.

    If you have a previous version of PhotoName installed, it must be uninstalled first.

    Download PhotoName here.

  • PhotoName improvements, Januari 2009

    Here are the improvements made to the PhotoName tool in Januari 2009:

    The folder browser remembers the last working folder. This is likely to reduce the time it takes to find the folder you want to work with.

    Since the images are loaded, thumbnail and EXIF information is cached for fast preview and reaccess.

    You can cancel the process of loading images and reading EXIF data. This is useful if the program is busy with loading data from a folder different from the one you are interested in.

    For download and more information, see the Programs page.

  • The ExifWorks class

    I have written a small program that renames image files in a fashion that they will be sorted in a chronological order by photo date when they are sorted on the filename. To do this, I had to extract the EXIF information to be able to read the photo date. Michal Altair Valasek has written an open source class, ExifWorks, in Visual Basic that does this. To use the class, pass a photo to its constructor, and then use properties access the EXIF data. At The Code Project you can read more about the class, and registered users can download it. The PhotoName application can be downloaded here.