Sort Pictures in a New Sequence
Dec 6, 2023 12:12:47 #
Happy Wednesday
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Dec 6, 2023 12:39:34 #
Seems like a Playlist approach for some form of media player.
Only other thought is if you can change the dates created or dates last edited so that a chronolgical sort will result in the desired sequence. Acoarst, the result will be much harder to alter as compared to a playlist !
Only other thought is if you can change the dates created or dates last edited so that a chronolgical sort will result in the desired sequence. Acoarst, the result will be much harder to alter as compared to a playlist !
Dec 6, 2023 12:58:09 #
How many photos are we talking about? And what is the sort criteria (date, location, camera settings, etc.)?
If it's a manageable number (not thousands), you could likely do this yourself without additional software. Most operating systems have the ability to sort files by date, size, name and so on. Some also have the ability to add "extended" attributes (like color of flags, or number of stars) on which you can then sort. Photo cataloging programs like Lightroom have this ability.
Another manual way DOES involve the changing of file names, but only by adding prefix characters or spaces, which then will affect their sort order.
We probably need more information to give you a better answer.
If it's a manageable number (not thousands), you could likely do this yourself without additional software. Most operating systems have the ability to sort files by date, size, name and so on. Some also have the ability to add "extended" attributes (like color of flags, or number of stars) on which you can then sort. Photo cataloging programs like Lightroom have this ability.
Another manual way DOES involve the changing of file names, but only by adding prefix characters or spaces, which then will affect their sort order.
We probably need more information to give you a better answer.
Dec 6, 2023 13:43:27 #
Dec 6, 2023 18:59:54 #
akamerica wrote:
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Your ideas pls.
Art
Not sure if this is exactly what you want, but ... you can use FastStone to sort of do what you want. You can put all files into one folder with whatever names they have, and drag and drop from one position to another. So, when you come back into FastStone later, that directory will still show in the last position of all the files. In this example below, I dragged 03 to before 02 and it now shows just like your desired sequence.
Of course, if you view that folder in say Windows Explorer, sorted by filename as is typical, you will see it sorted by filename. So, using the method shown above, you must always view via FastStone. If you wish to have the files show in Windows Explorer in your desired sequence, you could then RENAME all the files sequentially from say 01 - 08.
Dec 6, 2023 19:22:46 #
akamerica wrote:
A couple of cautionary things here, creating multiple images with the same file name on the same drive is not recommended, ideally each image will have a unique identifier, and coping photos will eat up disk space. Happy Wednesday
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
You can probably do that with your computer Operating System using aliases.
If you have Lightroom you can do something similar using collections. A photo in a collection is essentially an alias, it doesn't really make a new copy, an alias takes up less space than a copy, but it keeps the names the same and you can arrange the collections differently. BUT you can't edit the images with the same name differently. For a different Edit you would want to make a virtual copy.
Dec 6, 2023 20:02:52 #
lreisner
Loc: Union,NJ
akamerica wrote:
Happy Wednesday
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Sounds like something that Lightroom is perfect for. Using collections you can arrange your pictures anyway you want with out creating new files on your computer, unless you need to. You can share collections directly from Lr. As long as you have imported the pictures into LR, you can pick and choose what to put in any collection or even make collection sets.
Dec 7, 2023 09:58:20 #
jbk224
Loc: Long Island, NY
akamerica wrote:
Happy Wednesday
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Some more information might be helpful.
Are these pictures being selected from within an editing program?
If so, once you are able to do everything you indicate above; will you want to access these pictures from your editing program?
Dec 9, 2023 20:36:22 #
akamerica wrote:
Happy Wednesday
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
ACDSee - You can save all your images into a saved basket. These are all copies, the originals are safe in the other folders. Open saved folder and put them in order by drag and drop. Now batch renumber them with a 2, 3 or 4 digit number in from of the original name. I use this for slide shows all the time. So easy and fast. Never lose an image.
Dec 9, 2023 23:56:48 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
akamerica wrote:
Happy Wednesday
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Seeking a program to select random pictures, copy each into a new folder, and arrange into a new sort order without changing their file name. Once into the new folder, arrange and into my selected sequence/order.
Your ideas pls.
Art
Just don't be surprised if you end up with a worse mess than you started with.
Dec 10, 2023 00:42:56 #
Dec 10, 2023 21:35:42 #
The pictures are in various file folders i.e. 2008-12-25 Christmas, 1984-05-15 Vacation in Door County, etc.
My idea is to copy selected pictures from each folder into a "sort" folder that allows me arrange the pictures to better tell the story. I have quite a number of folders to view and select the most "important" pictures. When the selection process is finished, then I can rename the pictures' file names.
Also if the sort folder allows post processing of a picture by another program i.e. RAW to JPG saving in the sorted place that would be a plus.
My idea is to copy selected pictures from each folder into a "sort" folder that allows me arrange the pictures to better tell the story. I have quite a number of folders to view and select the most "important" pictures. When the selection process is finished, then I can rename the pictures' file names.
Also if the sort folder allows post processing of a picture by another program i.e. RAW to JPG saving in the sorted place that would be a plus.
Dec 10, 2023 21:37:05 #
Dec 10, 2023 21:42:19 #
Dec 11, 2023 20:23:06 #
akamerica wrote:
The pictures are in various file folders i.e. 2008... (show quote)
That is exactly what ACDSee can do easily. Drag images to your image basket and this program will automatically made them a copy. NO extra step. Original's stay in their folders. Save to the folder set up for your sorting.
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