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Renaming Your Digital Photos

This step is not really necessary, but it makes life a lot easier later, and is quick and easy. By renaming, every picture you take will have a unique identity, which you will understand when searching in the future. If you don't rename, you will end up with many pictures all called 'IMG0001' or similar.

Note, it is important that you have no blank spaces, apostrophes or unusual characters in the filename. Use only standard alpha (a-z) and numeric (0-9) figures, and dash (-) or underscore (_).

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Open Irfanview, and open the batch convert utility, by clicking on File/Batch conversion, as here;



You will now see this screen;



Now click on the 'look in' box, and browse to the folder with your pics. Click on the 'Add all' button, and you will now see the pics listed on the left.
Now click on the Batch rename button, and then the 'set rename options' button.
You will now see a screen like this;