Have you ever come across a situation in which you happened to set the filename as captions. Well lets talk about a scenario that you renamed all you images which you took and then realize that you will have to set the captions in Picasa software again so that it can come up in Picasa Web album or it can be shown on Facebook with the help of Picasa Facebook Uploader. Now you don’t have time to spent and copy paste the file names to the captions in Picasa. we will learn today how to convert them in 3 simple steps.

We will require a tool / a utility for this called EXIF Tool.

1. Download the utility from here (or mirror)

2. Copy the file in the directory where you have your images.

3. Click on Start > Run > type cmd.exe Use CD command to change the directory to the directory where you have your images. example C:\> CD “C:\Documents and settings\Username\My Pictures” and paste this command: exiftool "-IPTC:Caption-Abstract<filename" *.jpg

Tip: Use D: or E: before the command to change the drive if in case the images are not stored on the same drive.

Once this is done you will have some backup files created which you can delete and then launch Picasa. Once Picasa is launched you will see that all the filenames now come as Captions in Picasa.

Below is an example with screenshots on how to do it:

Above Step is copying the exiftool to the folder where the image(s) are stored.

In this step we change the directory and then run the exiftool command with the proper command-line.

Next step is to launch Picasa to fin out that the image which had some name now has the same Caption. Now you can upload them to Picasa web album or upload them to Facebook with the help of Picasa.