renaming files with EXIF-Dates yyyymmdd_hhmmss-oldname.jpg

Hi,

i am using Exifer to take a first look at my pictures and
to delete/rotate/rename before PSP'ing the pics...

Losless rotate / delete / first look can even be done with PSP(9).

I'd like to have a script that i can use in the PSP Browser
- mark new (...) pictures
- run script for these pics, renaming to yyyymmdd_hhmmss-oldname.jpg
   in the same directory (or maybe copy the pics with new name
   to:   (c:\pics) \yyyy\mm\yyyymmdd_hhmmss-oldname.jpg

yyyymmdd_hhmmss: EXIF Date and time of exposure


Also something like
http://galupki.de/content/index.php?wiki=FotoGrafie&begriff=fotodownloader
(php script) - i don't know anything about Phyton/scripting with PSP, so i'd
like to have something that i can use as a template - or maybee a ready-to-run
-script...


thanx & greetings, Juergen

Juergen Galupki wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i am using Exifer to take a first look at my pictures and
> to delete/rotate/rename before PSP'ing the pics...
> 
> Losless rotate / delete / first look can even be done with PSP(9).
> 
> I'd like to have a script that i can use in the PSP Browser
> - mark new (...) pictures
> - run script for these pics,

I don't see any option in a context menu to execute a script
against a selection of files in the PSP 9 Browser or to output
a list of selected file names. However, you can move or copy
selected files to a target folder. If you do this and then
process the files in this folder with your script that will
be the easy solution to your problem.

> renaming to yyyymmdd_hhmmss-oldname.jpg
>    in the same directory (or maybe copy the pics with new name
>    to:   (c:\pics) \yyyy\mm\yyyymmdd_hhmmss-oldname.jpg
> 
> yyyymmdd_hhmmss: EXIF Date and time of exposure

The script called EXIFCaptioning, which I posted to the thread
with subject "Scripting with EXIF information" on Monday of last
week will show you how to access EXIF information. Read the
comments in the script. You may additionally have a script called
DumpEXIFInfo with your version of PSP, which also shows how to
access EXIF information.

I don't think you can rename files with PSP since this is not a
command built into PSP. However, Python scripts can execute
Windows operating system commands if you include the os module.
You probably have a script called BrushWrangler that came with
PSP 9, which illustrates how to use the os commands in connection
with file names. More information can be found at the Python
web site http://www.python.org/.

> Also something like
>
http://galupki.de/content/index.php?wiki=FotoGrafie&begriff=fotodownloader
> (php script) - i don't know anything about Phyton/scripting with PSP, so
i'd
> like to have something that i can use as a template - or maybee a
ready-to-run
> -script...

I don't know anything about German or PHP so our communication
on this topic is not going to be satisfactory. Ich bin ein

Hello,

Spandex Rutabaga schrieb:
 >...
 >I don't see any option in a context menu to execute a script
 >against a selection of files in the PSP 9 Browser or to output
 >a list of selected file names.

:-(


>...
> The script called EXIFCaptioning, which I posted to the thread
> with subject "Scripting with EXIF information" on Monday of last
> week will show you how to access EXIF information. Read the
> comments in the script. You may additionally have a script called
> DumpEXIFInfo with your version of PSP, which also shows how to
> access EXIF information.

i found:
EXIF_Beschriftungen.PspScript
ok...

> I don't think you can rename files with PSP since this is not a
> command built into PSP. However, Python scripts can execute
> Windows operating system commands if you include the os module.
> You probably have a script called BrushWrangler that came with
> PSP 9, which illustrates how to use the os commands in connection
> with file names.

I found a script named PSP8_Dateispeicherorte_hinzufügen.PspScript
(to add PSP file/path locations to the registry)...

> More information can be found at the Python
> web site http://www.python.org/.

hmmm, so i have to spend some time with this python stuff

>> Also something like
>>
http://galupki.de/content/index.php?wiki=FotoGrafie&begriff=fotodownloader
>> (php script) - i don't know anything about Phyton/scripting with PSP,
so i'd
>> like to have something that i can use as a template - or maybee a
ready-to-run
>> -script...
> 
> I don't know anything about German or PHP so our communication
> on this topic is not going to be satisfactory. Ich bin ein
> Ausländer und ich spreche kein Deutsch und kein PHP.

:-)

Thank you for this hints...!, Jürgen

Juergen Galupki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am using Exifer to take a first look at my pictures and
> to delete/rotate/rename before PSP'ing the pics...
>
> Losless rotate / delete / first look can even be done with PSP(9).
>
> I'd like to have a script that i can use in the PSP Browser
> - mark new (...) pictures
> - run script for these pics, renaming to yyyymmdd_hhmmss-oldname.jpg
>   in the same directory (or maybe copy the pics with new name
>   to:   (c:\pics) \yyyy\mm\yyyymmdd_hhmmss-oldname.jpg
>
> yyyymmdd_hhmmss: EXIF Date and time of exposure
>
>
> Also something like
>
http://galupki.de/content/index.php?wiki=FotoGrafie&begriff=fotodownloader
> (php script) - i don't know anything about Phyton/scripting with PSP,
> so i'd like to have something that i can use as a template - or
> maybee a ready-to-run -script...
>
>
> thanx & greetings, Juergen
Hi Juergen
This script doesn't do exactly what your asking for, but it's close and I'm 
sure could easily be adapted to what you want.  I wrote it when I had a 
folder full of several hundred pictures from three different digital 
cameras, none of which had their clocks set correctly.  You have to put both 
script files into your Scripts-Trusted folder, open the browser and select 
the images that you want to rename, then find and run the "Exif
Rename" 
script.  It pops up a dialog box asking you to enter the time offest to 
apply.  Positive or negative hours, minutes and seconds can be entered.  If 
you don't need to offset the time, just leave it as 0/0/0 and click OK.  The 
script will now open the batch script dialog.  Click "Start" and it
will do 
the renaming.  You end up with files with a name of the format: 
YYMMDDHHMMSS-OldName.jpg.
Note 1:  This script will rename the files in place rather than creating a 
copy.
Note 2:  It's only a two digit year, so if you have pictures that span the 
1999/2000 boundary, it won't work so well.
I hope this helps
Dave

Big Bad Dave wrote:

> You have to put both
> script files into your Scripts-Trusted folder, open the browser and select
> the images that you want to rename, then find and run the "Exif
Rename"
> script.  It pops up a dialog box asking you to enter the time offest to
> apply.

Can you help me understand what exactly you mean by "select the
images you want to rename ... and run the ... script". I can't
see a way of running a script from the context menu (see the
attached screen capture), while highlighting files in the
browser and then running a script produces a complaint about
there being no open document on which to run the script. What
am I missing? For instance, do your instructions really mean
"from the browser select and open the images you want to rename
and run the script on each open image"? I'm confused by your
recipe, but what can you expect from a vegetable? :)