Creating Slide Shop in Photoshop Elements

Question

I want to import a large number of approximately 500 digital images into Photoshop Elements and create a slide show. When I import the images from the Windows Explorer folder, the order of the images is different from my order arrangement before importing. This is a matter of a lot of images that have been rearranged. I have tried Multiple Image Processing to put the desired images in numerical order, but this does not help. Does anyone know how to retain the image order when importing into Photoshop Elements (or either Premier Elements)? Thanks

Answer 1

>Does anyone know how to retain the image order when importing into Photoshop Elements (or either Premier Elements)?
Do you have all of these images files for the slide show in the same Windows folder? And does the file name sequence designate the order in which you wish the photos to be shown in the slide show?
I am guessing that the answer to both questions is yes, because that is usually the case when people have prepared photos for a slide show before they import the photos to Elements.
For Photoshop Elements,
- start a
b Collection
to contain these photos for the slide show. Use Collection tab next to the Tag tab and do a New Collection.
- in the photo well that shows all the thumbnails, look in the lower left hand corner for a pull down box and choose
b Folder Location View
- find the folder that contains these photos within the folder location view and multiple Select all of the photos within this folder
- place these photos in the Collection by dragging and dropping the Collection icon on one of these selected photos. (Note all of these photos for the slide show must be selected at the same time while in the folder view) ,
- to display just the photos of that Collection, click on the box next to the Collection name
- select all the photos of the Collection and use the Create icon to start the slide show process.
With this process your photos then take their sequence for the slide show from the sequence of the Collection, which will actually be the file name sequence you created in that folder. (However, If you add more photos to the collection at a later time they add to the end and you will then need to drag and drop the new photos to the position you wish them to be.)
For Premiere Elements,
Still presuming that your answers to my questions at the beginning were yes and you have a file name sequence, I think that you can add that folder to the Premiere Elements Media Panel. When you do the Create Slideshow dialog, I think that Premiere Elements uses the file name sequence to determine the sequence of the slides.
Two general considerations
1 - whether you make the slide show in Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements, you should make the choice for default slide duration and for default transition before you start making the slide show. This is especially important for Premiere Elem where you can not do a blanket change on all slides.
2- with 500 slides, you will potentially need to downsize the resolution of your photo files before making the slide show in either product. Suggest that you post typical pixel dimensions or the megapixel resolution of your photo files. Also, what do you anticipate will be the duration of your slide show ? Will you write it to a DVD and play it on a TV?