Movement of thumbnails in the Organiser

[David Buckley]

My pictures are currently displayed by input date. I have a picture that I imported today that I wish to display with a group of pictures imported several months ago. Common sense leads me to think, click and drag the thumbnail, but this does not work. Is anyone able to please tell me how to move this thumbnail?

[Byron Gale]

David,

Organizer doesn't let you view your images in an arbitrary order if you are using one of the Tag views. It dutifully arranges the thumbnails by date, input batch, or folder location. Even if you select certain Tags, the images cannot be reordered.

If you create a Collection, add it to the desired images, then view by Collection, you can resequence the thumbnails in any arbitrary order you like.

HTH,

Byron

[efarnstrom]

If you have version 6, you can elect to create an 'album' which operates the same as the 'collection' in other versions.

[David Buckley]

Thank you. I have Elements 4, But this will allow the creation of Albums.

[Wendy]

Hi David ...

Just wanted to say a big welcome to the Village :)

Hope that solved your problem ... if not then do let us know ..

Wendy

[Karin Sue]

David,

Look at the lower left in Organizer. There is a drop down that offers you different view choices: date (oldest first), date (newest first), folder view, import batch view.

date views order images by date and time, folder view orders images by file name within each folder, I'm not sure what order import batch displays, but it groups by sets that were imported at the same time.

You can click on the date to change the date of an image or use file>move to put them in the same folder. This will put them together in date view of folder view but is not the best choice unless the date or folder changes are good ideas on their own

A collection is the way to go if you want to have a group of images in a specific order.

Assigning images a common tag and selecting that tag will bring disparate images together in the photo well.

Check out photofanatic.com for tips on using the Organzier.

[David Buckley]

Thank you for your help.