Manual

This manual describes how to configure and effectively use PicL. The basic idea is to configure a Replace String, browse to the Jpeg files to rename, and rename them. Below is an example scenario to give a deeper understanding of PicL's purpose.

Consider this: You've just dumped 100 digital photos onto your computer and they're named something like:

PIC001.JPG
PIC002.JPG
PIC003.JPG
PIC004.JPG
...

The photos were taken over the course of a couple of months, and you'd like the names to include the Month, Day and Year timestamp information so you can easily sort them into some photo-album type directory structure.

PicL allows you to extract this information using macros such as %M, %d and %Y to represent Month, Day and Year respectively. After PicL has been configured, clicking a button will rename all of the image files in the selected directory.

Along with the EXIF information, PicL can also attach a counter for cases where the chosen EXIF information would result in duplicate names. Renaming the files mentioned above using the replace string M-d-c.JPG would result in names like:

August-26-01.JPG
August-26-02.JPG
August-26-03.JPG
August-29-01.JPG
...