Photo Names

It took me a while to stumble across a system for organizing the photos from my digital camera so that related images were all together and in chronological order.  This is the best I have ever seen.

Here's an example, then I'll break it down and explain why the sequence:

2005-12-25_01_xmas-FW_2.jpg
A filename should look like this.
1) Year -  This comes first instead of the month so that you don't have pictures from January of *every* year grouped together.

2) Month -  We're working largest unit to smallest, so this follows the year.

3) Day -  Since it's smaller than a month.

4) Number in series -  Note that I precede and follow it with an underscore so as not to confuse it with the date.

5) Description -  Description of the event.

6) Location -  Which city, state, whose house, etc. (FW = Fort Worth in this case.)

7) Indication if it's edited or original -  "_2" means this is the 2nd copy.  The original (which needed additional brightness) is retained without this designation.

8) File extension -  .jpg, just to know what format.





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