Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/02

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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom photo names/titles
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:10:01 -0800
References: <CD30C6F2-A605-40E3-80BB-7BBD5D8CADAF@yahoo.co.uk> <CAG8EVmxaoWp+hSGusjMqEMZMFZYto4X4XTaH2XnA8RXy1LCaHA@mail.gmail.com>

Having your initial is good if you work is often by other people. That way,
they can tell it's your images vs. other people's just by the filenames,
without looking at metadata or watermark.

You know someone is a real pro when they do that :-)


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:47 PM, leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter,
>
> F2 or library/rename will let you do a batch or individual image rename.
> I always rename on import as Richard suggested.  My renaming template is
> YYMMDDlwwHMS (2 digit year, month, day, my initials, hour, minute,
> second).  Any other info is put into the metadata.
>
> You might want to set up a metadata template with your name and contact
> info in it and apply that when you import.
>
> If you want to title an image with a descriptive title, I would just do
> that when you export the final file.
>
>
>
> Leo Wesson
> Photographer/Videographer
> 817.733.9157
> www.leowesson.com
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at 
> yahoo.co.uk
> >wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to give a photo a title in Lightroom?  Tagging is quite
> > easy to find, but giving a photo a title is something I never worked out.
> >  I really can't remember my IMG4056792 from my IMG9056879.
> >
> > Any help very much appreciated,
> >
> > Peter Cheyne
> >
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


In reply to: Message from geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne) ([Leica] Lightroom photo names/titles)
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