Numbering photo's in sequence

[1928newnham]

Hello Forum,
I bought Photoshop Elements 7 three weeks ago. I belong to the local historical Society and we act as guides when we take party’s around our town to look at some 250 listed buildings. I hope to make a DVD with the local architect giving the narration.
I will be importing photographs from a CD that have come from a digital camera and hard copies from my SLR camera that are scanned into PSE 7. So far I have tagged just 10 photographs as a trial that I wish to be in a sequence and have tagged the photographs in that order. I.E. 001diss to 010diss. Sadly they do not present themselves on the monitor in that order.
I have found on the PSE help line the following information.
1 Select an album from the Album Palette, which I do, as I have only one album working at this time.
2 In the Photo Browser arrangement's menu in the upper right area of the Photo Browser select album order. You have three choices here Oldest first, Oldest last and Album order.
When I do this the pictures disappear from the page. So I select Show all and the upper right area of the Photo Browser that has the Album palette in disappears and any one of the other two namely Oldest first or Oldest last appears in the slot. This means that you cannot proceed to the next action.
3 Which is, Select on or more photos, drag the selection between two photos in the album to get the right sequence. It goes on to say You can also drag the selection before the first or after the last photo in the album.
I started to do this on the 2nd February 2009 spending so far some 50 hours trying various combinations.
I will be most grateful for help please.
Kind regards,
1928newnham

[Priyanka Azad]

Hi,

There is a simple way that you can achieve this in PSE. In the editor, there is an option: File -> Process Multiple files. Here you can specify a folder path where your files are located, which PSE will pick up, resize/rename/change extension etc for you.

In one click you can rename files from Pic001 to Pic100 and it does a neat job for you. There are many more options in the area to explore :)

Hope it helps,
~Pri

[Karin Sue]

Maybe what you have selected is a Smart Album rather than a regular Album (which used to be known as collections). I believe Smart Albums behave differently than regular Albums.

Try making a new Album. Album order is the order in which images are added to the album. From there you can drag and drop to change the order.

When you finally get your images in the correct order in the Album you can export them with renaming to a common base name. This will make the filename order on the cd match the album order.