Organizing Your Photos

One of the neat things about Picasa is how easy it is to reorganize your photos. You can easily move photos from one folder to another or rename your photos, all from Picasa's library view.

Moving Photos

Picasa displays all your photos in their original folders, with the folders listed in the folder pane. To move a picture from one folder to another, simply drag it from the library window to a new folder in the folder pane. To move all the pictures in the folder to another folder, just drag and drop that folder in the folder pane.

Renaming Photos

It's equally easy to rename a photo. Just select the picture you want to rename, and then select File, Rename. When the Rename Files dialog box appears (as shown in Figure 34.5), enter a new name for the file and click the Rename button. (Alternatively, you can check the options to automatically include the picture's date and/or image resolution in the filename.)

Figure 34.5. Renaming picture files.

To rename a group of photos, select all the photos you want to rename, and then select File, Rename. This time when the Rename Files dialog box appears, enter the common name you want all photos to share. When you click Rename, the photos will be renamed accordingly, with each individual photo having a "-1," "-2," and so on appended to the common name.