User blog:Belle pullman/Image Names

When uploading photos, PLEASE use a descriptive title! for example - "Misto Victoria London 97.jpg" - just type it in to re-name when you upload it. It makes it far easier to see what's what rather than "DCS1749639dgbkhspotato.jpg" - who knows what that relates to!

At the moment I'm going through re-naming photos. The most important thing is that the file name leads with the character/s or scene - then additionally names of performers if possible, production and year. If there's 3 or 4 characters, don't put the performers names in the filename, use the "Image Description" to add extra information. Also, don't use punctuation in file names, it causes errors too easily. File names need to be descriptive but not two lines long!

Renaming images is a tedious and cumbersome job, as most images end up in three places - the production gallery, the character gallery, and the performer's page. But with so many photos uploaded with different file names, there's also a lot of duplications, and it's hard to find if a photo already exists on the wiki.

So please, before uploading photos, use the file name format of "Character/ (performer) / Production / Date" - and use "Image Description" for additional information like special occasions, multiple performers, anything extra.

Thank You!