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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2614414, member: 77413&quot;]And now for something completely different - but it is part of my photography workflow. I thought it would be a break from some of the highly technical concerns.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is about managing the image files themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I shoot a few coins I end up with a set of cryptically named files from the camera. I connect to the memory stick and see this directory (using Windows 10).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]572633[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I set up a directory structure to try to keep things organized but not have so many images in a single folder that I can&#039;t find what I want.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]572634[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My naming convention is to divide the folders by denomination (01c means cents) and decade. The main folder holds the cropped and processed final images of obverse and reverse. The subfolder Original is where I put the untouched files from the camera in case I want to go back to the beginning and work on my photo over again. &quot;Vendor Photos&quot; is for images I take from the auction sites when I buy a coin. They are often better than my own. (sigh)</p><p><br /></p><p>The tedious part was moving the files from the memory stick to Original and getting them renamed properly. I just use the File Explorer in Windows to move them. I end up with a mix of raw image files and ones I have renamed already.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]572637[/ATTACH]</p><p>I wrote a small utility to rename them. First I select the right folder.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]572638[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The utility then shows all the new files in that directory, and the picture of the coin shown in that image file.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]572639[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I fill in the series, year, mint mark, and whether I am seeing the front or back of the coin in this picture. If I have more than one of the same year / mint, I can put in a counter, like #01 or #02. The software looks in the directory to see if I already have some images for that coin (shown in the list at the bottom) and proposes a file name.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]572642[/ATTACH]</p><p>If everything looks good I press the Rename button. The file is renamed, and is also opened in my image editor so I can crop and adjust it. When I have my finished image, I save the file in the parent folder (say, &quot;01c 1930-1939&quot;) using the same file name. That way the finished images and the raw ones have the same names, but in different folders.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I move on to the next file.</p><p><br /></p><p>I put in the ability to zoom in to see the coin better, but the utility has only one purpose at the moment so it is not overloaded with extraneous features.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]572644[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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