I would like to rename my images after creating virtual copies and have the virtual copies pick up the new name? Is it possible? I can’t find anything when I search here.
My issue… I have 90 images of pages in a document. I edited them, exported as tiffs and then renamed the tiffs with the page numbers. I then realised the tiffs were too huge to work with (though good for archival purposes). I should have renamed the original files with page number in them before starting work, but sadly I didn’t… and I didn’t even photograph them all in order either.
I could just go through and export all the Tiffs as jpegs, but apart from being intensive work for the computer, any future work would also involve renaming files every time which is not ideal.
I’m thinking I’m going to have to rename 180 files one by one Hoping I’m missing an obvious solution…
Being on a Mac does make a difference because it is my understanding that on a Mac you can rename virtual copies differently than the master copy. On the Wndows version of PhotoLab virtual copies and the master copy always have the same name. It is one of many differences between the Mac and Windows versions.
The current renaming feature of PL does not provide a “pickup”, e.g. to add the number of the VC used, add some metadata etc. We only get to replace text, add text or rename and add a counter.
As for your TIFFs: Export them to JPEG and leave the name or edit it with something you see above. This does not mean, though, that your original files will magically adopt the page numbers
Next time…, no need to tell you, you already know what to do.
Thank you for your quick reply. This might have been a rare occasion when I wish I was back on Windows
I am currently going through renaming every file and virtual copy and giving myself a good talking to about thinking things through before I get editing.
At least the shortcut keys for renaming files will be well embedded after this
I did think of another way around it… (I’ve labelled the current virtual copies purple)
rename original files
select ‘all’ and create virtual copies (label these orange)
select all virtual copies (orange and purple)
copy and paste from each virtual copy one by one (using short cuts).
I’m not sure whether this would have been quicker than editing 180 filenames, but it’s a way of getting a newly correctly named virtual copies with the edited settings.
There is more than one…but in apps other than PhotoLab.
I use Graphic Converter (lemkesoft.de or App Store) or Lightroom (on import) to rename files, adding metadata to names. I don’t do it for building structures, but to enable dumber apps to sort along things I want. If you’re comfortable with a CLI, you could use ExifTool or one of its offsprings that add a GUI.
Thanks. I do use Photo Mechanic Plus for renaming on import - in fact I’ve just used Find and Replace to get rid of the _1 suffix that seemed to append to the jpg names on export. I’ve just come back to Photolab after a spell away as my old computer couldn’t keep up. I don’t recall it adding suffixes automatically on export in my last version.
I’ve done my renaming now, and a lesson has been learned for next time.
Hoping I’m missing an obvious solution…
