Re: Renaming Photos

[derek vandivere net]

To set the photo's caption, you can go into edit mode by double clicking
the thumbnail. The text field below the image is the caption - I think
that at least for the Gallery (v1) export, the caption is copied over when
you export.

> This one time, at band camp, Kevin Kubasik wrote:
>>I couldn't find anything about this on the list, but I have noticed
>>that once I import a photo, I am stuck with the name my camera gave
>>the photo. I'm no professional photographer, and generally just upload
>>my photos to flickr for my friends, but atm, all my photos are named
>>dsc....jpg. Perhaps I am missing how to do it, but it seems that the
>>box in the bottom left would do the trick, yet for some reason it
>>doesn't is this a bug? or is it me simply missing the obvious, it
>>seems like a fairly obvious feature to support, but perhaps I am
>>wrong....
>
> I second this, with a twist: I'd like a 'title' for the photo that doesn't
> change the filename.  I noticed the database stores the path to the photo
> and the filename in separate columns, which seemed odd: the path could
> store
> the entire pathname and the name field could store the title.
>
> I'd use it for the same reason: so that photos uploaded to flickr have
> their
> title set nicely and their description from the photos comment.
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