Photo Naminator takes a number of photo files (i.e. JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, RAW, etc.) as input, analyses their associated EXIF and TIFF metadata containing information like date and time the picture was taken, aperture and lense used, etc., and allows you to rename those files dynamically using this metadata. It then writes accordingly named copies of your photo files into the output folder you selected.
As typical use-case for Photo Naminator is putting the creation date of the photo into the filename of the photo file itself. This allows you to easily identify the date when the picture was taken (definitely more telling that "P45678.JPG" as a name) or sort photo files chronologically.
Photo Naminator also allows you to sort the pictures into dynamically created sub-folders of the output folder, so that you can .e.g. sort all your photo files into one folder per year, or per year and month, as an example.
Photo Naminator will never overwrite an existing file (e.g. "Photo.jpg"). Instead, it will add a sequence number to the end of filename it tries to create (e.g. "Photo 02.jpg")
Before starting a renaming of your input files, Photo Naminator will sort your files according to their timestamps. The timestamp taken is the original date/time when the photo was taken (as read from the EXIF or TIFF metadata). If -- for whatever reason -- this information is not available, Photo Naminator will fall back onto the photo files own timestamp (from the filesystem). If two files still have the same timestamp (e.g. when one photo file was duplicated), Photo Naminator will use the files' filenames to sort them. Photo Naminator will list all input photo files according to this sorting criteria and attach an according sequence number to each photo. You can also use this dynamically assigned sequence number (with an offset you can choose in Photo Naminator's preferences) in the output file name itself.
Photo Naminator can take millisecond information of time stamps into account, so that you can also distinguish and rename photo series (quickly taken in sequence, which means it can be several photos per second) correctly.
Finally, Photo Naminator can also modify the file system timestamps of the actual photo files to match the timestamp of the photo's metadata, i.e. to match when the photo was actually taken.
