You could just as easily do it all with a Windows command batch script or even get clever with an HTML Application script (.HTA) which could give you a GUI very easily. I tend to use them via Cygwin on Windows but only because it allows me to use the shell script. These tools & ImageMagick are also cross platform if needed on Linux & Windows.
I use a shell script to do all of the repetitive donkey work.
Using these, I can rename based on the embedded timestamp & camera type and I can also set standard IPTC fields such as by-line and copyright if I want to. I use jhead for most of the renaming tasks for standard images but it doesn't work well with Nikon RAW and some video formats, exiftool is used for that. Which allows me to have folders with shots from several cameras taken at the same time without clashes. When importing loads of images from cameras, I like to rename to a specific format 13-24-05-Canon PowerShot A720 IS.jpg However, I wanted to add a couple of tools that I use for batch renaming. I agree with that ImageMagick is the basic tool that you need. On top of being a program with over 1 GB of files, the KDE library it uses is always slow regardless of it running on either Windows or Linux. It runs very slowly on my Pentium 4 and 1.5 GB RAM. I tried digiKam, but damn that thing is huge. My personal feature wish list (I'm pretty sure something so niche doesn't exist) would be text overlay based on the image names (images are named as image-1_1, image-1_2 or image-2_c1_1, image-2_c1_2, and text overlay would Image-1 and Image-2 C1 and Image-2 C2). I only require the basic stuff I described to be automated. I'm not an advanced, or "power photo-editor". oh, I make extensive use of renaming features as wellĬouple of issues with ACDSee are: I always need to highlight the Exposure section or auto contrast will not be done despite it being saved in the preset and I can't define, move around the cropping box, forcing me to manually crop tons of images.Resize using either height or width while maintaining aspect ratio.I need at least the following batch editing functions: While I can do much of the work well on ACDSee, it's not entirely satisfactory despite having to pay for it. I am looking for free, preferably open, alternatives to ACDSee for batch editing work.
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