Let’s get started!
• Rename your files to the name of the person
on the headstone, eg. Smith, John.jpg
Let’s get started!
• Rename your files to the name of the person
on the headstone, eg. Smith, John.jpg
• Possible ways to speed up this process – rightclick the first photo and select “Open with”
and select Microsoft Office 2010, Photo
Gallery (Windows Live), or other program that
shows the photos in a gallery or slideshow.
Or you can:
• Make a copy of your pictures in another
directory.
• Open the originals in your picture viewing
software.
• In another window, use Explorer to open
the list of copied pictures.
• View the pictures on one side of your
screen and rename the files by right clicking
them in Explorer on the other side of your
screen.
Programs you
will need:
• Irfanview
(free shareware)
http://www.irfanview.com/
Programs you
will need:
• Irfanview
(free shareware)
http://www.irfanview.com/
• Excel (or other spreadsheet program)
you will be using the template datatrick
found here:
http://htmlhelp.rootsweb.com/tutorials/g
enpages/excel.html
Programs you
will need:
• Irfanview
(free shareware)
http://www.irfanview.com/
• Excel (or other spreadsheet program)
you will be using the template datatrick
found here:
http://htmlhelp.rootsweb.com/tutorials/genpa
ges/excel.html
• Note Tab Pro (text html editor)
http://www.notetab.com/download-now.php
Using Infranview:
1. Select File > Slideshow
2. Locate your images, highlight all
and click the add button.
3. Click the Sort files button. Highlight the
radio button “by Name (ascending)” and check
the “Auto sort file list after insert” box.
4. Click the “Save filenames as TXT file” and name
the file. Then click “Save.”
Using Note Tab Pro:
5. Open the text file just created.
6. In the first line, highlight the directory structure, select Search >
Replace. Leave “Replace with:” blank and click the “Replace all”
button. This will leave you with only the names of the images.
7. Repeat the previous step and replace all .jpg with nothing.
9. Select Edit > Copy All.
Using a spread sheet program:
10. Paste the names into a blank worksheet into the
5th (E) column and adjust the column width.
Reopen Irfanview:
11. Select File > Batch Conversion/Rename
12. Open the directory where the images are located,
highlight all and click the add button.
13. Click the Sort files button. Select the radio button “by Names
(ascending) and check the box “Auto sort after insert.” This will
alphabetize the images and save the setting for future use.
14. Output directory: Click the “Use current (‘look in’)
directory” button. Add “renamed” at the end of the URL.
15. Select “Work as:” and select the radio button “Batch rename.”
16. Under Batch rename settings - Name pattern:
Enter the cemetery name followed by ###.jpg – for
example boniface###.jpg
17. Click start. This will bring up a window, that renames all
your files. Tina says: “Don't be scared. <g>”
18. Select File > Slideshow.
19. Open the directory where the renamed images
are located and click the “Add all” button.
20. Click the “Save filenames as TXT file” button. You can
save it over the one used above earlier if you wish.
Using Note Tab Pro:
21. Open the text file just created. (If you have the prior one
open NTP will ask you to reload. Say yes or ok.)
22. In the first line, highlight the directory structure, select Search >
Replace. Leave “Replace with:” blank and click the “Replace all”
button. This will leave you with only the names of the images.
Select Edit > Copy All.
Go back to the spread sheet program:
23. Paste the list of renamed files into the worksheet
in the 3rd (C) column and adjust the column width.
24. Using the data trick, enter the html code into the
other columns. Then copy all html codes to the
bottom of the file list.
25. Highlight and copy the spread sheet and paste between
the <TABLE></TABLE> tags within your html document and
viola!
Sources
Tina’s instructions:
http://usgenweb.org/usgwhelp/proc-cem-photos.htm
This powerpoint:
http://usgenweb.org/usgwhelp/irfanview.ppt
Data trick instructions:
http://htmlhelp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/tutorials/genpages/excel.html
Irfanview:
http://www.irfanview.com/
NoteTab:
http://www.notetab.com/download-now.php