Rename Pictures Portable

Transferring photos from your camera to the PC is an easy task, but finding the ones you want after more sessions can become difficult, because of the default file name. Luckily, there are various applications like Rename Pictures Portable which enable you to add custom name tags to all your pictures to make identification easy.

As the name clearly points out, you don’t even have to go through a setup process to make the application work, which automatically mean registries remain intact. You can easily carry the application with you on a thumb drive, but you need to make sure that the computer you use it on is fitted with .NET Framework.

Needless to say that the application only works with pictures. However, it supports an impressive variety of formats, and even some video formats too. There’s a dedicated panel which shows all of them, and you can choose only formats you’re interested in to make the whole process a bit more efficient.

You need to use the browse dialog in order to add a target folder to the operation. Moreover, it’s possible to target JPG files specifically, without managing the entire format list. The process can be made recursive, so any new picture file going inside the folder gets automatically renamed, but the application needs to be running in this case.

As far as renaming options are concerned, the application uses picture EXIF data to grab creation date, which is the first part of the file’s new name. Extension can be made lowercase or uppercase, and you can choose to append camera model as well. Your intervention only consists of adding a custom suffix, which is an optional field.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Rename Pictures Portable can help organize pictures a bit better, with an impressive variety of supported file types. Renaming rules are grabbed from EXIF data, and you can add your own suffix to make identification even easier.