Taking Advantage of Adobe Bridge - Advanced Adobe Photoshop CC - page 34

You might have noticed that in the advps02lessons folder there are many files that are generically named.
These images were imported directly from a digital camera, and instead of changing the names, we have
opted to change them simultaneously using the batch rename feature in Adobe Bridge.
1 Make sure that you are viewing the contents of the advps02lessons folder in Adobe Bridge.
2 Choose Edit > Select All, or press Ctrl+A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac OS.) All the images are
selected. Don't worry if the Hotel folder is selected; the files inside will not be affected.
3 Choose Tools > Batch Rename. The Batch Rename dialog box appears.
In this instance, we want a simple uncomplicated name. If you look in the Preview section at the bot-
tom of the Batch Rename dialog box, you can see that the Current filename and New filename are
pretty long strings of text and numbers. You will simplify this by eliminating some of text from the fi-
lenames.
4 In the New Filenames section, type Hawaii_ in the text field to the right of default criteria of Text.
5 In the Sequence Number row, verify that it is set to Two Digits.
6 Confirm that the sequence number is starting at 1. You can start it anywhere if you are adding addi-
tional images to a folder later.
7 If there is any other criteria, click the Minus sign button ( ) (Remove this text from the file names) to
remove them. The New filename in the Preview section becomes significantly shorter.
You can change multiple files names simultaneously in Adobe Bridge.
If you look in the Preview section at the bottom of the dialog box, you can see that the new filename
is a very simple Hawaii_01.jpg now. Click the Rename button. All the selected files automatically
have their name changed.