Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out PictureRetitle 3.0 Email This Print This View My Personal Library Loading Zone August 2009 • Vol.9 Issue 8 Page(s) 82 in print issue Add To My Personal Library PictureRetitle 3.0 Jump to first occurrence of: [PICTURERETITLE] PictureRetitle $19.50 www.pictureretitle.com CPUs: 3 Memory prices have fallen to the point where we don’t need to worry about wasting our digital “film” and can snap off hundreds of shots with ease. The downside is that eventually you have to cull, categorize, and rename all of those pictures. That’s where a utility such as PictureRetitle proves its worth. Normally these programs focus on batch renaming and organizing (and PictureRetitle has these tools), but PictureRetitle is designed around letting users quickly and efficiently rename individual pictures. It does this by providing customizable dictionaries containing words, names, and phrases that you copy from the Web or fill in yourself once and then can apply to your pictures by typing in only a few letters. For example, adding the phrase “Smith Family Reunion” to the program’s static dictionary will offer the phrase in a drop-down menu by pressing S. The program also stores phrases in a dynamic dictionary (called the active dictionary) that is updated as you type. Beyond that, there are multiple ways to select files for renaming, adding prefixes and suffixes, and appending numbers/dates/times to pictures as they are being renamed. The interface is a bit old-fashioned and seems convoluted at first, but that’s only because nearly every option is presented on the same screen. After a bit of practice, it’s nice having all of those settings available instead of paging through endless tabs and menus. What PictureRetitle does at its core is save you a lot of manual typing while guaranteeing you won’t have to deal with spelling errors that make your file names inconsistent. The UI could use some sprucing up but does its job, and our only big complaint while using it is that the Picture Preview window is relatively small. Otherwise, PictureRetitle can make short work of a tedious task if you’re willing to put in some work with the dictionaries and get comfortable with its keyboard shortcuts. by Tracy Baker  User Reviews Be the first to write a review of this product Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.