News!! How To Rename Moving-Picture Exhibit Files Inwards Picasa-Desktop

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

Picasa's desktop software is a goodness tool for organizing in addition to editing photos on your local computer.   And it is withal available for yous to purpose on your computer, fifty-fifty though Picasa-web-albums has been replaced past times Google Albums + Google Album Archive.

For pictures that are of import inwards your blog, I withal recommend preparing them inwards a tool similar Picasa-desktop in addition to therefore uploading the finished versions to Google Photos earlier putting them into a post, because:

• The desktop tool has meliorate editing tools (cropping, zooming, automobile adjustment, adding watermarks) in addition to Picasa-web-albums does.

• It lets yous command the size of the uploaded file

• It's easier to ensure certain that yous withal 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 purpose on web-pages.

Picasa-desktop folders receive got a really overnice human relationship alongside files in addition to directories alongside the Windows file system:

Each Picasa folder = ane directory on your computer
Each Picasa photograph = ane file on your computer.

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

How to associate keywords alongside photos inwards Picasa-desktop

Picasa-desktop has 2 tools for adding keywords to photographs:

• You tin motility into a caption for each photo. This is basically some text, which is stored "inside" the photo, inwards a hidden-field that is exclusively visible when yous 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 yous have.)

• You tin motility into ane or to a greater extent than tags for each photograph - again, text (individual words or phrases) that is stored inwards the  IPTC/XMP Keyword field.

Unfortunately captions in addition to tags aren't shown when yous position a photograph inwards your blog.

This agency that the captions in addition to tags are perchance non used past times Google inwards understanding what the photograph is about: I've never heard whatever SEO experts recommending that the  IPTC/XMP fields should hold upward keyword optimized.   For some bloggers this won't hold upward an effect - but it is if SEO is of import for yous blog.

Another approach is to position the keyword(s) into the file-name, because file-name is ane of the factors that Google looks at when it is indexing images.   And this has a overnice spin-off for yous every bit good - it agency that they keywords are available to whatever file-search tools that yous purpose on your computer, non only to specialised ones that operate alongside images.

For a long time, I believed that to modify the advert of a file, I had to travel out to my Windows files (using Windows Explorer or similar, in addition to rename them there) - in addition to therefore hold back for Picasa to conduct handgrip of upward alongside the modify that I'd made inwards the file system.   But ane solar daytime I accidentally striking the F2 key, in addition to constitute that it opens upward a really useful dialog box indeed.

How to Change the advert of a file inwards Picasa desktop

Navigate to the moving painting that yous desire to modify the file-name for, using the Picasa-desktop software.

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

Type in a novel advert for the file, for instance    concrete-pig-outside-butcher-shop-in-ireland

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

Click Rename to relieve the change


Job done!    The file has a novel advert inwards your computer's file system, in addition to is withal loaded inwards your Picasa database.

How to modify the advert of a file inwards Google Album Archive or Google Photos

Currently at that spot is no way to modify the advert of a file afterwards 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, in addition to re-upload it.   But if yous modify the advert inwards this way, yous also necessitate to modify the link to the file inwards every house that it has already been used.   That said, if yous exclusively purpose your photos inwards ane house each, therefore making a novel re-create alongside a dissimilar name, uploading it in addition to changing all the existing links tin hold upward a goodness way to deal alongside copyright theives who receive got hot-linked straight to your photos.

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

Early SEO advice was to use:

• Lowercase letters exclusively (some computers don't similar uppercase)
• Only hyphens betwixt words (not spaces, underscores, etc)
• Regular characters exclusively (no á é etc)

Today, I'm non certain if it matters therefore much. In most cases, it's likely to a greater extent than of import to purpose rich, descriptive cardinal words  that clitoris all the aspects of the photo, than to worry nigh how they're set out.   But I produce tend to follow the advice anyway - only inwards case.

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