Hi there,
I'm looking for a utility to help me merge image folders from multiple sources and placing images in order (visually, by sequence of events or location). It's not the typical sorting/moving/naming functions (ie by date or tags) which I see in apps I've found.
I need it for WinXP, but would like something Win7-64b compatible for when I upgrade this year.
Example: Two folders, from different people, with many images of a day at the lake. Both folders have pics of everyone on the beach, as well as the evening BBQ. One has extra images from a small group that took the kayaks out. One of the folders is badly messed up by amateur renaming and editing, so filenames, dates, and specs are irrelevant.
Folder 1:
F1-lake001.jpg
F1-lake002.jpg
F1-lake003.jpg
F1-lake004.jpg
etc.
Folder 2:
F2-bigsteaks.jpg
F2-image001.jpg
F2-image002.jpg
F2-img1.jpg
F2-img2.jpg
F2-JimWakingUp.jpg
F2-rocking_the_boat.jpg
F2-thegang06b.jpg
Folder 1 is in order, but Folder 2 needs to be rearranged and then merged into Folder 1 in order (which I'll have to do visually) like so:
(Getting Ready)
F2-JimWakingUp.jpg
F2-img1.jpg
(Lake)
F1-image001.jpg
F1-image002.jpg
F1-image003.jpg
F2-img2.jpg
(Kayak)
F2-thegang06b.jpg
F2-rocking_the_boat.jpg
(BBQ)
F2-image001.jpg
F2-image002.jpg
F1-lake004.jpg
F2-bigsteaks.jpg
And then rename all images, in that order, to BigDeerLake_001.jpg, BigDeerLake_002.jpg, etc.
Is there any utility that allows comparison of images so see which came first, shift them up/down the list into order, then batch rename them accordingly? Or anything that would otherwise facilitate that task?
Thank you for your suggestions.
I'm looking for a utility to help me merge image folders from multiple sources and placing images in order (visually, by sequence of events or location). It's not the typical sorting/moving/naming functions (ie by date or tags) which I see in apps I've found.
I need it for WinXP, but would like something Win7-64b compatible for when I upgrade this year.
Example: Two folders, from different people, with many images of a day at the lake. Both folders have pics of everyone on the beach, as well as the evening BBQ. One has extra images from a small group that took the kayaks out. One of the folders is badly messed up by amateur renaming and editing, so filenames, dates, and specs are irrelevant.
Folder 1:
F1-lake001.jpg
F1-lake002.jpg
F1-lake003.jpg
F1-lake004.jpg
etc.
Folder 2:
F2-bigsteaks.jpg
F2-image001.jpg
F2-image002.jpg
F2-img1.jpg
F2-img2.jpg
F2-JimWakingUp.jpg
F2-rocking_the_boat.jpg
F2-thegang06b.jpg
Folder 1 is in order, but Folder 2 needs to be rearranged and then merged into Folder 1 in order (which I'll have to do visually) like so:
(Getting Ready)
F2-JimWakingUp.jpg
F2-img1.jpg
(Lake)
F1-image001.jpg
F1-image002.jpg
F1-image003.jpg
F2-img2.jpg
(Kayak)
F2-thegang06b.jpg
F2-rocking_the_boat.jpg
(BBQ)
F2-image001.jpg
F2-image002.jpg
F1-lake004.jpg
F2-bigsteaks.jpg
And then rename all images, in that order, to BigDeerLake_001.jpg, BigDeerLake_002.jpg, etc.
Is there any utility that allows comparison of images so see which came first, shift them up/down the list into order, then batch rename them accordingly? Or anything that would otherwise facilitate that task?
Thank you for your suggestions.