File and Folder Naming

File and Folder Naming

When you use ImageMapper, you create new files and folders on your computer. For example, when you use the Input Profile Assistant, you create files called ICC profiles. When you process a folder of pictures for a specified output, you create new folders in which to store the processed pictures.

By default, ImageMapper automatically assigns names to these files and folders when they are created. Note that you can override the default names and change them to something that is meaningful to you in your particular workflow.

Here is how ImageMapper assigns the default names to the files and folders that are created.

ICC Profiles

When you use the Input Profile Assistant to create a custom ICC profile for your camera, ImageMapper uses the folder and filename of the original picture that contained the GretagMacbeth ColorChecker, and it also appends the file extension ".icc". The format is: foldername_filename.icc.

Example: If you use the Input Profile Assistant to create a profile from a picture containing a ColorChecker called kitchen001cc.tif, which originally was located in a folder named kitchen2, the resulting profile will be called kitchen2_kitchen001cc.icc. (Note that the ".tif" extension that was part of the original picture filename is not used).

Note: ICC Profiles have both a regular filename as well as a profile description. The profile description is a string of text stored internally in the profile itself. Some software programs – for example, Adobe Photoshop – use the profile description rather than the filename, when opening a profile under certain circumstances. To avoid confusion, ImageMapper makes the profile description and filename identical.

Output Folders

By default, output folders for processed pictures are named the same as the folder from which the original, unprocessed pictures came, except that the name of the destination profile is appended to the end of the folder name. The format is: originalfoldername_destinationprofile.

Example: If your original pictures came from a folder called kitchen2, and you process those pictures using a destination profile called SWOP (TR001), the resulting folder of processed pictures will be called kitchen2_SWOP (TR001).