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Photoshop 7 File Browser Automatic Numbering Technique

By Nick Hodge | August 4, 2002

The File Browser added to Pho­toshop 7 is a great tool for man­aging your digital images. This is espe­cially the case for digital cam­era pho­to­graphs and assist­ing in renam­ing the files into some­thing more intel­li­gible than the “P100198.JPG” that vari­ous oper­at­ing sys­tems force upon us.

The File Browser per­mits renam­ing of pho­tos using typed in text, a date, dot exten­sion and in this instance — a serial number.

In this hid­den fea­ture, we can rename images with a start­ing serial num­ber, that is not “1”.

Step 1: Here we have a col­lec­tion of images in a par­tic­u­lar directory

[1258] fb1.jpg

Step 2: Select the images you wish to rename, rigt click on one of the images (MacOS: con­trol click) and select Batch Rename

[1259] fb2.jpg

Step 3: The magic. Here we use the “File Nam­ing” sec­tion to cre­ate the style or tem­plate of the res­ult­ing file name. In this instance, I want my files to start with the text nz July and start­ing from a serial num­ber of 88. The pound sign at the begin­ning and end of the 088 indic­ate I would like this to be a serial num­ber. The exten­sion is sub­sti­tuted with .jpg, .gif — depend­ing on the file type.

[1260] fb3.jpg

Step 4: The final res­ult. As you can see, the images are now renamed using the above rules, and a start­ing serial num­ber that is not 1.

[1261] fb4.jpg

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