Manually sorting photo's

I am trying to manully sort photo in Iphoto 09.  It is grey'd out.  How do I enable it?

If you want to sort manually, use albums. Albums can be arranged freely. Events only allow basic sorting.

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    How do you manually sort photos in Photo Stream?

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  • Manual Sort Photos

    I can sort my Events manually. Now I would like to sort my photos manually within the Events. Under View - Sort Photos ... Manually is dimmed as is "Reset Manual Sort." Is it possible to sort photos manually?

    Thanks for the comments, but that doesn't really solve the problem. Remember, I'm trying to group photos so I can select the ones I want to remove from my hard drive. If I did that in an album, I would only be removing the photos from the album, not from the library and hard drive altogether.
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    - create an album from the event in question
    - sort the photos to group them so it's easy to pick the ones I want to delete
    - rate the photos I want to remove with a specific rating, different than the ones I want to keep
    - go back to the event
    - find the photos based on rating
    - move them to trash
    - remove the album (or keep it if I'm going to make an album anyways)
    Anybody has a simpler recipe ?
    Also I like the "Events" view very much, where I can skim over large icons that represent each event to see pictures. Is there a similar view for Albums somewhere ?
    PS: I did send feedback already, thanks for the suggestion.

  • Sorting photos inside events

    Still wondering whether it is possible to sort photo's within events (manually). The I Photo Help says the following...
    **Sort photos (regardless of Event): Select Photos in the Source list, choose View and make sure Event Titles is unchecked, and then choose View > Sort Photos.
    ...But these instructions don't work.
    it is clearly not possible to click on "Event>Title" since it is greyed out, so you can't get into an event after you have selected Photos in the Source List (which I assume means Library here).

    The Help file is not correct - you can not sort photos manually in events
    You can manually sort photos in Photo view move but not in events
    You can sort photos in albums
    Larry Nebel

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  • Sort photos in an event manually

    Why would the sort manually option be grayed out, not able to choose?
    I went into event click view, click sort photos but the manually option is not available.
    Is there a way to change this?
    Thanks

    Because manual sorting of events or photos within an event is not a feature of iPhoto '09 - and no there is now way to turn it on
    albums can be manually sorted - events are (by default) in time/date order
    LM

  • How can I sort photos within an event? When I follow the Help instructions, I can sort manually in Photo format, but when I return to Event format, the original order is restored.

    How can I sort photos within an event? When I follow the Help instructions, I can sort manually in Photo format, but when I return to Event format, the original order is restored.

    Events are organisation for those who can't really be bothered. They are automatic - based entirely on Date and Time the camera records the photos as taken.
    You can move photos between Events, you can Merge Events, you can Rename them and sort them in various ways except one: You cannot manually sort in an Event as Events are all automated.
    If you want to manually sort in an Event then you've outgrown Events as an organising tool. Now it's time to look at albums (Where you can manually sort) which are much more flexible than Events as an organising tool.

  • HT3805 why is Manual grayed out in sort photos

    why is Manual grayed out in sort photos

    will try and find This Solved My Problem
    You will not find it, Mike. You posted this thread as a discussion, not a question, so there is no "This solved my Problem".  Theer two different kind of threads - discussions and question. You can award points only for questions.
    I just tried to answer your other question, but it vanished, after I posted my answer   Re: in Aperture 3.4.3 how do you sort photos manually?
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    Léonie

  • IPhoto:  How can I sort photos within an event?  I can't figure out how to activate the Manual Sort.

    iPhoto:  How can I sort photos within an event.  I can't figure out how to activate the Manual Sort button.

    Only albums can be sorted manually. Events can only be sorted automatically according to one of the predefined settings "Date, Keywords, Title, Rating".
    If you need a manual sort order, selectaall photos in the event and create an album: File > New Album

  • Sorting photos manually in events

    I have all my events sorted 'manually' and want to have my photos in each event set the same way, so I can change the order of them instead of sticking with the order iPhoto puts them in. However when I am in an event and try to sort photos 'manually' instead of 'by date', it wont let me do this (the manually option is not highlighted like the 'by date, by keyword, by title' etc are). I have tried resetting all my events to 'by date' but that made no difference. Is there a way to sort my photos in each events 'manually' or do i just have to leave them in the order iphoto chooses?

    Manual sorting of photos within event is not available - and the "order iPhoto choose" is the order you took the photos in - it is data and time order
    For other sorting use albums
    LN

  • The new i photo won't let me manually sort my own photos. . . a must have for my business!  can i revert to the prior i photo, or???

    the new i photo won't let me manually sort my own photos. . . a must have in my line of work!  can i revert to the old i photo, and if so how?  if not, what are my options?

    I have no idea what you are doing - folders in iPhoto do not hold photos - they only hold other folders or albums - and albums can be sorted manually - and again have no idea what you mean by you hade to "minimize the size" - adding photos to albums has nothing to do with their size
    iPhoto is really easy - but does have a learning curve - under the help menu there is an iPhoto help section that contains several very good videos to helo you get started with learning iPhoto - the owuld be well worth the time to watch
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  • How do I sort photos the way I want them to appear within an Event? Sort Manually is always grayed out. SAR

    Keep trying but sort manually stays grayed out. All I want to do is sort photos within one event the way I want them to appear.

    It's like iTunes:
    You can view an music album on iTunes and there are all the tracks. The hit single, the annoying filler that they stuck on, all there.
    Or you can create a Playlist of just the singles, or tracks from various albums that work together well, or just your favourite tracks from different artists and so on.
    In iPhoto: the Event has all the photos taken at that time. So, all 812 photos you took at the Wedding. All there.
    An Album allows you to just use the 50 best ones, and possibly group them with 12 from the Rehearsal and five others from the day after. Just the best shots. Or bunch all the photos of the groom from birth to today, or all the photos of the bride and her dog. Or whatever. Really, the limit is your imagination.
    Like Playlists in iTunes, images in an iPhoto album are simply referenced from the Library. So a photo can be in any number of albums and use no extra disk space.
    Then, once you couple your imagination with metadata...
    I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively. I title the pics broadly.
    I keyword on a
    Who
    What
    Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
    Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 50k library in a couple of seconds.
    So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a  typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
    File -> New Smart Album
    set it to 'All"
    title contains Seattle
    keyword is mountain
    keyword is snow
    rating is 5 stars
    Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
    New Smart Album
    Keyword is John
    Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
    Want only the best pics?
    add Rating is greater than 4 stars
    The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John  to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
    In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.

  • How do i keep the original manual sort of my photos that i had in previous library after a rebuild in iphoto library manager?

    how do i keep the original manual sort of my photos that i had in previous library after a rebuild in iphoto library manager? and keep the events in the same order with blank events also

    Not sure you can.
    Library Manager creates an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.

  • Sorting photos manually

    Does anybody know how I can have my photos sorted by date, and then move them around manually after wards to fine tune the order? I know how to go into view, then have them sort by date, but the 'sort manually' option is faded out and unselectable (for lack of a better word). Am I missing something?
    Thanks!

    In the event view of your library you can not reorder photos manually
    In photo view with event titles turned off you can manually sort your photos (but this does not change the order in events - just in the photo view - and in photo view with event titles turned off loading may be slow since there are so many photos to image
    Generally albums are the place to control the specific order of photos
    You also can change the time and date on photos so that the event sort by date/time will do what you want
    LN

  • Photos missing after manually sorting them.

    After moving photos from camera roll to iTunes image-sync folder, some images will not resync to my phone. I do not use iPhoto. Pictures was taken by the iPhone 4. Help?
    I have a folder on my computer where from iTunes Autosync images. I use this to be able to sort my images into folders/albums without using iPhoto. However after doing this not all of the photos taken by the iPhone 4 will resync to the iPhone and I cannot figgure out why.

    When you copied them to the flash drive you took them out of iPhoto and into the Finder. The Finder doesn't understand manual sorting.
    Here's one (of several) way(s) to do what you want:
    Make an Album of the photos, then drag the pics into your preferred order.
    Then Photos Menu: Batch Change -> Set Title to Text "John's Birthday", for instance, and tick the box to append a number to each Photo. Now your photos are titled 'John's Birthday 001, John's Birthday 002 ... etc'
    Then File -> Export and in the Export dialogue set the Filename to "Use Title"
    Sort on Filename in the FInder and you end up with a folder full of images in the same order as the Album in iPhoto.

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