moving pics

[daweatherman]

:confused:I'm new to PSE6.0,I have about a 1000 pics in organizer but some are out of sequence and want to drag and drop to proper area,for the life of me I cant figure it out.

[Byron Gale]

...about a 1000 pics in organizer but some are out of sequence...daweatherman,

Are you viewing Organizer using one of the Date options? The only view that allows you to re-sequence your images is by Collection or Album. The main Tag view will always sort by date or by location/filename.

Looking at the images that are out of sequence, can you verify that their date/time information is, indeed, correct - but they are showing in the wrong order?

Byron

[daweatherman]

I did created a album and pics came up,but only dates below pics is date when I put pics unto organizer (i.g. 11/27/2007),cant one drag and drop pics to were I want them?

[Byron Gale]

daweatherman,

It is my understanding that, in PSE6, you can manually resequence the images in an Album by dragging the thumbnails.

I do not have PSE6, so cannot verify this, myself... anyone else reading who can add to the conversation, please do so.

Byron

[ATR]

Albums are Collections called Albums. The principle is the same. It is a place to place your photos in an order that will be maintained with opening and closing...NOT THE DATE VIEW, BUT THE SORT ORDER.

Once you create/name an Album and you drag the Album tag into a photo, the photo becomes part of that Album. You see the photos in the Album only when you click on the spy glass icon of the Album. And, when you use your cursor to reposition a photo in the Album, you click in the middle of the photo itself and drag it to the new position. Each of the photos in the Album will have a sequential number at the top left, 1, 2, 3,.....

Are you doing all that?

I am not sure why so many reports of "current dates" on images in the Organizer. First check out the Organizer Preferences, Edit/Preferences/Files and see what is checked for:
Use "Last Modified" Date if EXIF Date is Not Found
and
Import EXIF Caption

What type of camera did these photos come from? Also, I am assuming that you are working with individual photos and not Version Sets????

Hope that some of the above helped. I will be watching to see your progress.

ATR

[ATR]

Add on....

You can make more than one Album....maybe one for trip to Spain, one for trip to Holland, etc. Right now, I am just mentioning about Albums, not Smart Albums.

That is not the end all of this Album business. There is a species called Smart Albums, keywords for Find for finding photos in all sorts of ways. But the basic Album should be mastered first.

ATR

[daweatherman]

One quick ? I'm useing the the try out version of PSE6.0 (14days left to go)is there any any differance btwn that and purchased version?also what is a version Sets

[ATR]

Try out/purchased copy, should be about the same. I did not notice any differences. That is one of the perks of the tryout, finding out how the program is going to do in your environment and if it will meet your needs.

This is a crude description, but...versions set is a grouping in the Organizer of your original photo with its edited version(s) derived from your edit(s) of the original.

Say you have a photo in the Organizer, you take it into Full Edit and make some edits, you save (SAVE AS) the edited version and leave the original as it was, in saving you check off the Version Set option in the save dialog......

In the Organizer you will find a thumbnail which contains on top the last addition to that Version Set, and, underneath it out of sight, is the original. You can click on the Version Set to open it to show all its contents and also close it to show just the top photo (the latest edit version).

Best check the programs description of it in Help.

ATR