This tip is on how to import and sort your photos from SD card. This is for Mac and would work for Windows too.
I organize my photos by hierarchical folder in the form 'Pictures/yyyy/mm/yyyy-mm-dd/'.
Within this folder, I rename the image name in the format 'yyyymmdd-hhmmss-camera name-filename'
This is mainly because, during family trips, pics from Pentax K-x, K30 and K5ii has to be differentiated.
I use 'exiftool' to accomplish this task.
First I copy the images from SD card to a staging folder (I called Pictures/_Input)
I open a terminal (in Mac) go to the Pictures folder and run the following two exiftool commands
Command 1:
Code:
exiftool -v -r '-FileName<${CreateDate}_${Exif:Model}_${filename}' -d "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S" _Input
Command 2:
Code:
exiftool -v -r "-Directory<DateTimeOriginal" -d "%Y/%m/%Y-%m-%d" _Input
Now open Picasa and see all your photos organized neatly by year/month/date.