I can't change to Elements until you include a filenames feature

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I have been a long time user of Classic and I have never really found it lovely to use but it’s the best option I could find and I’m getting used to it. However I much prefer a WYSWYG approach so I was excited to see Elements. It seemed to be exactly what I want and how I want to work. I downloaded the trial and it is much, much better than Classic. The only issues is I make websites for three artist friends and they want to display their pictures in galleries. There are many pictures and they all have descriptions, media and dimensions, lots of detail to type in and get wrong. But when my friends send me their files, they are all named as the artist wishes so my job becomes much easier as I currently use the Photo Pro stack and it just lifts the filename and allows me to display it in the gallery.

Without that feature I will not be moving to Elements. It’s a fundamental requirement and the AI bot solution of text boxes in a grid is a backwards step for me with lots of fiddly typing and justifying. Please include the option to pick up and display file names (including apostrophes - one weakness with Photo Pro) in the gallery and Lightbox. For artists and photographers it’s a common requirement. Until it’s in Elements, I stay Classic.

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Is the CMS any use to you?

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Could you give me a couple of examples of filenames and how you would like/expect them to be displayed?

I’m unaware of how “Photo Pro” handles this, so if you could share some more information we can then take a look and see if we can support this in the Gallery component :slight_smile:

I am assuming something like the following:

Filename: The_Picture_Title.jpg
Displayed: The Picture Title

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See Batch Resource Setup - Nick Cates Design

“By default, batch image captions and alt tags are generated from image filenames. Caption text formatting will replace filename dashes with spaces, and capitalize the first letter. For example, a file named “macro-flower.jpg”, will be captioned “Macro flower”. The Meta Caption setting can override this if an embedded meta title or caption is found in the image.”