How to rename motion painting files inward Picasa-desktop

This article is nearly re-naming files from within Picasa-desktop, to furnish SEO benefits for your blog.



Picasa's desktop software is a goodness tool for organizing together with editing photos on your local computer.   And it is notwithstanding available for you lot to role on your computer, fifty-fifty though Picasa-web-albums has been replaced yesteryear Google Albums + Google Album Archive.

For pictures that are of import inward your blog, I notwithstanding recommend preparing them inward a tool similar Picasa-desktop together with and then uploading the finished versions to Google Photos earlier putting them into a post, because:
  • The desktop tool has amend editing tools (cropping, zooming, automobile adjustment, adding watermarks) together with Picasa-web-albums does.
  • It lets you lot command the size of the uploaded file
  • It's easier to ensure certain that you lot notwithstanding receive got full-size files on my local machine for printing etc, every bit good every bit smaller, to a greater extent than optimized, copies to role on web-pages.

Picasa-desktop folders receive got a real dainty human relationship alongside files together with directories alongside the Windows file system:
Each Picasa folder = 1 directory on your computer
Each Picasa photograph = 1 file on your computer.

And this agency that you lot tin set diverse properties (eg file name) from either within Picasa or from Windows.


How to associate keywords alongside photos inward Picasa-desktop

Picasa-desktop has ii tools for adding keywords to photographs:
  • You tin come inward a caption for each photo. This is basically some text, which is stored "inside" the photo, inward a hidden-field that is entirely visible when you lot are using a software tool that displays the captions. (In technical terms, the caption is stored within the  IPTC/XMP Description field within the JPEG etc file that you lot have.)
  • You tin come inward 1 or to a greater extent than tags for each photograph - again, text (individual words or phrases) that is stored inward the  IPTC/XMP Keyword field.

Unfortunately captions together with tags aren't shown when you lot pose a photograph inward your blog.

This agency that the captions together with tags are mayhap non used yesteryear Google inward understanding what the photograph is about: I've never heard whatever SEO experts recommending that the  IPTC/XMP fields should live on keyword optimized.   For some bloggers this won't live on an result - but it is if SEO is of import for you lot blog.

Another approach is to pose the keyword(s) into the file-name, because file-name is 1 of the factors that Google looks at when it is indexing images.   And this has a dainty spin-off for you lot every bit good - it agency that they keywords are available to whatever file-search tools that you lot role on your computer, non simply to specialised ones that locomote alongside images.

For a long time, I believed that to alter the get upward of a file, I had to become out to my Windows files (using Windows Explorer or similar, together with rename them there) - together with and then hold off for Picasa to grab upward alongside the alter that I'd made inward the file system.   But 1 24-hour interval I accidentally hitting the F2 key, together with constitute that it opens upward a real useful dialog box indeed.





How to Change the get upward of a file inward Picasa desktop

Navigate to the painting present that you lot desire to alter the file-name for, using the Picasa-desktop software.

Press the F2 key. This opens a Rename Files window.

Type in a novel get upward for the file, for representative    concrete-pig-outside-butcher-shop-in-ireland

Click the option buttons if you lot desire to include today's appointment or the file-resolution inward the get upward  (I don't unremarkably produce this, because I organise my photos into folders according to the appointment they were taken)



Click Rename to salve the change


Job done!    The file has a novel get upward inward your computer's file system, together with is notwithstanding loaded inward your Picasa database.



How to alter the get upward of a file inward Google Album Archive or Google Photos

Currently in that location is no way to alter the get upward of a file subsequently it is uploaded it to either Google Album Archive or Google Photos:  .

One selection is to download the photo, rename the file on your desktop, together with re-upload it.   But if you lot alter the get upward inward this way, you lot also require to alter the link to the file inward every house that it has already been used.   That said, if you lot entirely role your photos inward 1 house each, together with then making a novel re-create alongside a dissimilar name, uploading it together with changing all the existing links tin live on a goodness way to deal alongside copyright theives who receive got hot-linked straight to your photos.



How to conduct "good" names for your painting present files

Early SEO advice was to use:
  • Lowercase letters entirely (some computers don't similar uppercase)
  • Only hyphens betwixt words (not spaces, underscores, etc)
  • Regular characters entirely (no á é etc)

Today, I'm non certain if it matters therefore much. In most cases, it's in all probability to a greater extent than of import to role rich, descriptive cardinal words  that depict all the aspects of the photo, than to worry nearly how they're set out.   But I produce tend to follow the advice anyway - simply inward case.



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