Consolidating photos chronologically

I have imported to my desktop computer photos from 2 cameras. These photos are in 2 different folders. How do i open both folders on the same page so I can organize the photos chronologically?

Hello, Suzyrock. I would use Bridge to do so.
Open Bridge (in Photoshop, go to File>Browse in Bridge ), navigate it to your desktop (on the right side, you will find it in the folders list or in the favorites), open one of the folders, do a Edit>Select all. Right-click on an image, and select Move To. And select Choose folder.
Select the other folder and all the photos are moved there. Now go to View>Sort>By Date Created.

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Organize and browse photos Chronologically

I recently moved from PSE 5 through PSE 7 (2 months using version that came with my Epson Scanner), and then to PSE9. Now I'm coming accross some of fhe idosyncronisities of the Organizer that are discussed in other threads. I'm also seeing where many posters are saying that Folder Location View is very broken and that PSE9 is not intended to be a folder view organizer. There are so many quirks in this version I wish I wasn't so invested in PSE.
Since I like to keep my photos mainly organized by Chronological order and by event or location, I would like to hear how others out there are doing it. I'm finding that the views other than Folder View are no better, and in many ways worse. For example, There are only two ways to view the files in Thumbnail view, Olderst first and Newest First..Well, the photo are all jumbled together without a delineation on date or event. Even if I had the witherall to go through my entire collection and tag them, I don't think the display would seperate them. And the tag isn't readily readable in the display like a folder path would be. Maybe I'm wrong, so if other have accomplished this, I'd love to hear about it.
Another problem in Thumbnail View is the ways that PSE decides the order. I'm gessing here but... If a photo was from a camera, I then it picks up the Metadata in the file, but if it was scanned in, it uses the scan date or the date the file was created. I'm in the process of scanning a huge number of slides and negatives from times past so these are classified as 'Newer' when in fact I want them to be 'Older'. I think I saw ways to alter the dates, but that means more steps in the process and I still don't get the event organization.
Even if I tagged everything (which is a big effort) I'd still need a similar organization of the tags. It would be impossible to find things in Explorer or say another photo browser if I were to use that to publish my photos online say in Picasa albums.
And the import batch view is totally useless. Who really cares about that? And there seems to be othe quirks there, like the way TimeLine window works.
Well, unless I get an inspiration from some place, I'll continue to limp along with Folder View where I create the folder structure which does give me control of how the files are ordered.
FYI: My main scheme is:
My Pictures
<year>
<Year-month Event>
<Sets, if this was created from sets of slides or film.>
Also sometimes I have other Folders under this because I have a camera that creates subfolders that I maintain when I use the Panarama assist mode where I can stitch together multiple images into a panarama.
Anyway, I'd like to hear how others are dealing with these issues.
Thanks,
DoctorBrown

>I'm not sure I see any benefit to a tag that says Set-01 and Set-02 as I think I will forget what these mean as the years go by. I would use a descriptive tag, such as "Cruise", "Mountains", "Anchorage" etc.
Again, I am creating my primary order to be by Year-Month and order they were taken. Captions, Tags and Albums will be used to fill in the description, location and make groupings for selected shots. Or if useful, Tags can help with this primary order.
These Sets are older rolls of film or slides (I could call it Roll-001, etc, But the slides are no longer in a roll. ) that I've scanned in and have physically labeled as such (with detailed location) and organized in the order they were taken and grouped by the trip I was on. Therefore I can know exactly where to find the slide if I want to go to it. All the rolls from a given trip are located in a folder that is labled with the trip identifier, with each roll in a subfolder. When I went on these trips I'd use like 25 rolls of film. As like many photographers, I take many more shots than I will ever present in a slide show, print,etc. I probably should delete many more than I do, but I keep them. I do plan to further caption them to add this location info.
I am very aware of ability for multiple heirachial tags. I'm also aware that you can attach multiple tags to each image. I'm spending a lot of time getting these onto my system and debating how much time to spend tagging all these older shots. I'm trying to work with the capabilities of PSE so I can use them the way I want.
> I'm not 100% sure I understand what you mean, but if I understand you properly, tags give you this capability.
In the past, you could set the option so that you see the photos in all the folders and then you could scroll through all your photos. The full path of each folder was displayed in a banner line that separated the folders. Similar to how the Batch View does now. I would click on a folder to get quickly to the starting point and then page up/down review what's near that point to select ones for further use. I found that very useful. Also, I really like keyboard operations (Page up, page down, etc) and want a way to page through multiple tags (or folders as used to be the case). The current implimentation of PSE does neither in a way that's useful. If I could do the same with the Tag heirachy then the tags would be much more useful.
The Batch view has scroll/page capability but the order is nothing like I want to see them. Thumbnail View displays strictly by date and has no concept of the groupings that I want and I can't configure it to do so. In addition, these scanned images are getting dated as of the scan date but I want them to be in the order by the year-month and order they were taken. If I have a specific tag on images in multiple folders, I can only see all the photo with that tag in Thumbnail or Batch View.
I also have a whole host of reasons why the TimeLine window doesn't work for me. (but that's for another thread.)
I do realize that not everyone wants to see their photos these ways. But the product should have sufficient flexibility to accomodate a wide range of preferences. I've spent a great deal of time in earlier PSE versions getting things the way I want and changing to a new organizer would entail huge amount of time. So I'm really not relishing the thought of changing organizers. And I still think the editor is one of the best, if not the best, around.

Why does iphoto not import my photos chronologically into events

I have just updated to the latest version of iphoto and infuriatingly whenever I now import photos, rather than placing them at the bottom of the series of events in chronological order, iphoto now imports them as the second event next to photos from 2000, so I have to move them manually down to the bottom, even though the date being shown is correct, can anyone help?

I have the same. I think it changed with iPhoto 11. I drag them all the way down all the time. Try to set the chronological order, under "Presentation" (sorry I work in a French version Presentation is at the left side of "Window") and then right in the middle "sort events" and check chronological order. Hope this helps.

Syncing and filing of photos: chronological / alphabetical

I don't mind the photos in "Camera Roll" syncing and archiving in chronological order but I would like the photos that I have sitting in sep. folders on the computer and that I sync to the phone to sync and archive alphabetically.
Is there a way of doing this?
Thanks
T

ok, so it only goes by date?
i have a bunch of product photos that I update, but instead of keeping the photos in order (as in A1, A2, A3, B1, B2,...etc.) it will put the last photo added to the folder at the end (so you may end up with A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, A4)...
Would be nice for the folder to sync as per last sync on the computer...

Chronological order to photos....

Is there a way to chronologically order the photos in a book and then autoflow them ?

Yes. In the book mode with the thumbnail tray displayed go to the View->Sort menu and select By Date. That will order the photos chronologically. You can then use the autofill mode to put them in the book.
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TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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Working with scans of old photo collection

I'm trying to use iPhoto 8.0.2 to organize my grandmother's photos, with the end goal of sharing with family on Flickr.
So, an old photo collection which has been scanned.
First, dating. I'd like to be able to order photos chronologically.
I could change the photo dates (losing one link to the original scanned collections (events) which correspond to physical envelopes of actual originals). iPhoto seems to insist upon a month/day/year, and cannot handle anything less than that. Photos that are identified with just a year, or month/year for example. Not to mention the ones that I'll try to estimate a year based upon the apparent ages of the people in them.
Another approach would be to use keywords to tag photos with a year. But then, if I want to use keywords for another reason, I think I lose the ability to sort them in chronological order. Haven't checked out whether one can restrict range in a keyword sort. Or if keywords can be assigned some structure that can be used in the selection/sorting process.
A second concern is keeping the connection clear between the scanned images and the original photos (who has them, where they came from). Hopefully other family might share, so this will grow beyond grandma's photos. Careful editing of event titles should address this. But then I don't think I can create sub-events, right? Is there a way to cluster events together? For example, if my cousin sends me more of grandma's photos, is there a way to associate the new batch with the first set, other than defining an event naming convention?
Thank you for any help you can give on the above questions. I'd especially appreciate thoughts from others working with an 'old' photo collection regarding these issues (dating, keeping the connection between paper & electronic originals), as well as others you've encountered that I haven't thought of yet.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
First, dating. I'd like to be able to order photos chronologically.
iPhoto will get the date of the photo from either the Exif data or the File creation date. As these are scanned photos they will have no Exif data,a nd so their dates will be the date they were scanned, regardless of the subject of the photo.
The most simple way to date the pics is to use a Title scheme - 2009 -04 - 13: John’s Wedding, for instance, will give you the year, month or date to search on, plus John and Wedding.
I would not use keywords for dates.
Is there a way to cluster events together? For example, if my cousin sends me more of grandma's photos, is there a way to associate the new batch with the first set, other than defining an event naming convention?
Don’t use Events, use Albums.
N o you can’t cluster Events, but you can do pretty much anything you want with Albums and Folders.
Regards
TD

How do I change display features for "Photos"?

WHilein iPhot nad the "Photos" window, I see events listed. How do I change this display view so I see thumbnails of my photos chronologically?

View Menu, uncheck Event Titles.
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TD

How to burn photos of 2 different cameras

Hallo, I have a question which nobody can answer: when I am in holidays with my wife we both make photos with our cameras. At home I create in iphoto an album with my photos an another album with my wife`s photos. Then I create a third album in which I drop the photos of the 2 albums chronologically. Until now everything is O.K. But when I burn the third album the photos are no more chronologic. First come my photos and then my wife`s photos (or vice versa). Can I anything do to burn the photos chronological ? I hope I explained my problem sufficient enough would be verry happy to get an answer of this problem. Thank you an advance. Peter

On any burned disk that is viewed by OS X the file will be listed alphanumerically. To get your photos in an alphanumeric order that will represent the chronological order that you desire do the following:
1 - put them all in an album and arrange manually in the order you want.
2 - select all and use the Photos->Batch Change->Title to Text option and check the box top append a sequential number. If you put in "Image" the resulting file names will be "Image-01.jpg", "Image-02.jpg", etc.
3 - Export the files to a folder on the desktop with the option to use the Title as the new file name.
NOTE: If you have more than 99 photos this option will not work as the padded sequential numbers would have to start with -001 for them to be listed correctly. iPhoto only puts in one padded zero, -01.
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Need help to sort out photos

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I just cant figure out something: I have about 3000 photos in my laptop, all in alphabetical order. When I sync them in my iPhone, they never appear sorted in alphabetical order but all mixed up. Anyone could help me to understand what I'm missing?

iTunes stores the photos within each album chronologically. Even though you can re-order your photos within Photoshop Album or Photoshop Elements, iTunes ignores the order and simply sorts the photos chronologically.
Knowing this, however, if you really want your photos sorted in a different order, there are a number of applications out there that will allow you to modify the timestamps of these photos - in fact, Photoshop Elements allows you to do this. As expected, if you change the timestamps, you will change the sort order.

Not all photos synced to cloud

This is a question about a problem where not all my photos from my Photo library are syncing to the cloud.
I have 41.246 photos in my Photo app library. I enabled cloud sync and I have a 200Gb plan with 130Gb free storage.
Only 28.349 photo's are synced to the cloud.
I learned that only consolidated photos will be synced, but when I select all photos in my library and select Consolidate ... from the menu I get a message that all selected photos are already in the library.
What am I missing?

- If the photos were synced to the iPod they are gone
- If they were taken by or saved to the iPod gp to iTunes>Preferences>Devices and look at the date/time of the iPod backup. If it is when you synced then restoring from backup should get the photos back.
- If you had turned on Settings>iCloud>PhotoStream, then set up PhotoStream on the computer and get the last 30 days of photos from PhotoStream. You should also be able to get them back by simply turning one Photostream on the restored iPod.

Kann ich in Elements Photos verschiedener Formate nach dem Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme sortieren? Wie?

Kann ich Fotos verschiedener Speicherformate (P...., DSC, CIMG etc) nach dem Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme sortieren und dann mit neuen Datennamen neu speichern?

That is true, it sorts by oldest or newest, but only within the different camera formats (e.g. P..., DSC..., CIMG--- etc-). But I want to sort all selected photos chronologically. allzeitbereit2

How do you import/where do you put video clips?

With my Windows Vista PC, video clips taken by my iPhone or digital camera were imported by Windows Photo Gallery and stored in the same directories as the photos. These videos could then be synced via iTunes in the Photo tab, when you selected a photo directory that contained video files and clicked on the "Include videos" box.
Now on my new iMac, I see the same "include videos" box under the Photo tab for any given iOS device in iTunes. But, iPhoto did not import even my iPhone-created videoes when I migrated my photo library.
So my question (i'm a mac newbie in case it was not clear): How do I need to setup the video import process so that camera and iPhone videos are stored in the places they need to be, so that they can be synced in iTunes during photo sync? Does iPhoto need to be configured in some way to import the video, or am I supposed to use iMovie to import video clips into a library which can be used by iTunes for syncing during the photo sync process? Or is there some other program I have to configure? When I connect cameras with video clips, my iMac is not bringing up any program by default to import the video - is there some sort of configuration option I am supposed to select?
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JB

I guess the reason I like the iPhoto approach is that it arranges my photos chronologically/as events, which makes it easier for me to view. I also like that I can sync my videos by event. This workflow works for me because I have a tendency to make a lot of video and only get around to editing later, but often still like to look at the raw video from time to time. Meanwhile, I note that viewing clips in iMovie is far less convenient - clearly this is for editing only rather than viewing. So if I understood it correctly, to do it this way, I should convert video clips in iMovie to, I guess, the *.mov format and move those into iPhoto, yes?
I just took a video with my iPhone and confirmed that iPhoto did import it. However, I still can't figure out why iPhoto did not see the existing iPhone mov files in my PC photo library from the USB hard drive when it imported all other photos from the same. I then dragged and dropped some of those mov files manually into iPhoto, and this worked... but not well. Those videos got arranged as a separate event, and then I had to go and put them back into the correct event.
I have hundreds of photo subdirectories from the PC library, and I don't remember which ones have iPhone video files. Is there a way to search the entire photo directory for *.mov files and drag them from there into iPhoto? If I could then see the file name or time/date stamp of the individual mov files, I could then sort the mov files manually into the correct events.
What if I were to make iPhoto reimport from this photo directory, with the hopes that it would automatically pick up the mov files? Would I get duplicates of existing imports by this method?
Finally - am I correct in assuming that I only have to convert my existing avi video clips to mov format in order for iPhoto to be able to handle them?

Iphoto photostream not importing correctly

i use photostream from 2 iphones and an ipad, then manually import from my CF card using a canon EOs DSLR. the manual imports are fine and all devices show the consolidated group of iphoto pics. However when in iphoto i highlight a particular event of all the consolidated photos and drag them over to events. I grabbed 123 photos but only 25 of them appear in the new event, am i missing something? If i try it again it says i am duplicating the import, however i canty find where the photos have gone.
I have been using this workflow for 2 years and only in the last 4 weeks or so has it not been importing all the photostream images, i may revert back to manual imports from the phone unless anybody can help?

However when in iphoto i highlight a particular event of all the consolidated photos and drag them over to events.
I don't understand this. How can you drag an Event to Events. Isn't it already there?

Import wants to import duplicates--why???

I recently consolidated photos on my server from several places and reconnected all the photos in the PSE6 organizer. As a control to make sure that all of the consolidated photos were in the catalog as expected, I imported from that folder and its subfolders expecting maybe a few that had escaped but nothing else.
Instead, it identified over 7,000 of something like 15,000 files for import.
I spot checked those 7,000 and all the ones I checked are ALREADY cataloged by the organizer. Of course, tags and album assignments and updated dates/times (to unknown) all were missing from the new imports. So, to avoid 7,000+ duplicates in the catalog, I undid the import.
Why are these getting duplicated? What can I do to eliminate the duplicates but get PSE Organizer to know that it has all of these files in the first place???

Dick,
Youve stumbled on a new bug (new to me, anyway) in PSE 6 and 7. After reconnecting a file on a network drive, it fails to ignore case in the filename when you try to reimport that file. Heres how to reproduce the bug on Vista (havent tested on XP):
1. Make a new catalog.
2. Do File > Get Photos And Videos > From Files And Folders.
3. Drill down to a file on a network folder and then click Get Photos to import it. Notice that it will start with all upper case, e.g. \\MYSERVER\.
4. In Windows Explorer, rename the file to a new name.
5. Do File > Reconnect > Missing File to reconnect the file.
6. Drag the file from Windows Explorer into the Organizer window to import it. (This is the way I usually import photos.) It will fail to identify the file as a duplicate and import it again with a lowercase server name, e.g. \\myserver.
7. Examining the database that represents the catalog, the volume table has two entries, one for \\MYSERVER and one for \\myserver.
The only way I know of cleaning up this mess in your catalog is to open the database file with a database tool (e.g. sqlite3) and edit the tables. But youd need to be reasonably savvy about relational databases.
I cant predict the long term consequences of not fixing the problem. It may be simply that PSE fails to identify duplicates on import. Or there may be other consequences were not thinking of yet.
You could try contacting Adobe Customer Support. But theyre likely to take a very long time (weeks) to tell you that they cant do anything. Last year someone had a catalog mangled due to a bug, and he could no longer access tens of thousands of photos archived on CD. Adobe took many weeks to acknowledge it was a problem, had him send a copy of the catalog, but then failed to fix it.

Find suspected duplicates after import

I have approximately 11,000 photos to organize. I created a catalog name and chose to skip suspected duplicates. Approximately 8,000 photos were imported. This is reasonable since I consolidated photos from current drives and backups of two computers.
How do I find the suspected duplicates? I want to review the duplicates and delete all duplicates to free disk space. How do I which photos were not imported?
Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.
Ken

Hi Ken!
Lightroom does a fairly decent job finding duplicates during an import but does not make it as easy once the images are in the catalog. Take a look at http://www.lightroom-plugins.com/DupesIndex.php. You can try it for free and see if it will help you out.

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