Organizing photos within an event
Is it possible to move around or relocate photos in an event. Example, I have a lot of old family photos I have copied both sides of and would like to keep them next to each other, front side photo & back side names on photo. Thanks
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Not within an Event, no. Events are strictly based on date and time. However, make an Alnum from an Event and you can organise things as you prefer.
You can make a Album simply by dragging an Event to the word 'Albums' in the iPhoto Window. Albms take up no extra disk space. As the simply reference photos in the Library, a pic can me in many albums with no duplication.
Regards
TD
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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. -
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Or, if you already have the photo's in an album and you just want to change names / numbering etc....
In iPhoto go to your album/s click on it / them to highlight the album/s.
Then in top menu bar select 'photos' and from from the drop down menu select 'batch change' and follow instructions below ...
Click on the "Set" pull-down menu and change it to "Title," then click on the second pull-down menu and change it to "Text." A text field will appear that you can type in a base name for all the photos, such as "Zoo" for pictures taken at the zoo. Click on the check box that reads "Append a number to each photo."
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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 -
How do you reposition photos within an event
How do you reposition photos within an event? I've tried dragging them over to the spot I want them in, but they do not stay where I put them. Yet, when I want to reposition photos within albums I have made, they drag over without a problem.
cynthiafromfreehold wrote:
How do you reposition photos within an event? I've tried dragging them over to the spot I want them in, but they do not stay where I put them. Yet, when I want to reposition photos within albums I have made, they drag over without a problem.
That is correct - events are basic and time based and photos can not be manually moved within them - albums are logical grouping and photos can be moved manually - that is exactly how it works
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What are the steps to moving photos within an event? I have tried the drag and drop. I have even tried the view>sort by but the manual option is grayed out. Can anyone help?
That may be the answer but it is not helpful. Many people use events to organize their photos and it makes absolutely no sense not to be able to sort them manually within particular events. This is a design flaw.
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Sorting photos within an event
I'm trying to find a way to rearrange my photos within an event. According to the instructions in help:
Sort photos within Events (but not the Events themselves): Select Photos in the Source list, choose View > Event Titles, and then choose View > Sort Photos.
Trouble is, when I try to choose Event titles, it is grayed out. If I go to the event and then select view>sort photos, manually is grayed out and by date and desending are checked.
Anyone have a suggestion.Did you read the answer?
Events are a very limited form of organising. They are sorted on date and time only. If you want more flexibility then you need to use Albums, where there a virtually no limitations.
That is the answer! You can not sort photos within events.
LN
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How do I move the photos within an event so that they are in the order that I desire?
that is not a feature of iPhoto - events are basically time/date based
Use albums for custom order of photos
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Arrange Photos within an event
How do I rearrange photos within an event?
I can move photos between events and arrange photos in slideshows
but not within an event - they stay in the order they were imported.
Can anyone help please?
macsyncMac Sync
Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
How do I rearrange photos within an event?
You can not - events are time based and you can not move tehphotos - you could change the times of the photos to match the order you want but I suggest that you leave the events the way they are and use albums for the specific order organization you want
I can move photos between events and arrange photos in slideshows
but not within an event
That is correct
- they stay in the order they were imported.
They stay in the time date order of the EXIF data from your camera (if there was no EXIF data then the import date and time is used)
In Photo view of the library (as opposed to event view - select in the source pane to the left) you can turn off displaying event titles and then manually sort your photos - but this does not change their order in the events and if you have many photos will make response time very slow - normally it is not the way to go
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Labelling photos within an 'Event'
Can I label photos within an Event folder - i.e. to show different cities visited on the same trip?
Yes. Check out the Places feature, our use Titles or Keywords
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Order of Photos within an event
Hey all,
I've been scanning in a lot of loose photos I had laying around lately and organizing them into events, but I have some photos that are out of place within the event and I would like to group those photos together (I.E. Graduation photos: would like to keep all the marching ones next to each other and all the ones with friends/family posing together).
I thought that previous versions of iPhoto allowed me to drang and drop photos to re-order them but can't seem to figure out how to do that in iPhoto 08.
Within the event I've tried to go to View/Sort Photos/Manually, but Manual is greyed out.
Thanks for any help.Events are meant to be a chronological. If you want free reign to move photos around, you should create an album. Albums allow you total flexibility to rearrange photos and delete some (while keeping them in the original event in the library).
There is a workaround, though, if you only want to reorder a few photos: edit the date & time the photos were taken. You can do this on any number of photos, but it's tedious. So if you have a lot of rearranging to do, then albums make way more sense. But for 1 or 2 misplaced pictures, it's worth the effort.
I, for one, don't bother with albums because I almost always want my events/rolls to reflect chronological reality. Sometimes, however, I miss a shot and go back later in the day to get it, causing it to be logically misplaced in iPhoto.
For example, when visiting a national park I always take a photo of the park's entrance sign. But sometimes the sign is obscured by a huge RV or in shadows, or sometimes I simply miss it. If I can get a good sign shot on the way out of the park, then back home in iPhoto I edit the time that shot was taken and pretend the shot was taken earlier in the day, because the sign photo makes way more sense at the beginning of the event, rather than at the end.
Let's say you want to move a photo C to fit between two other photos, A & B. You have to first look at the times A & B were both taken, and then edit C to have a date & time in between both A & B.
To edit a photo's date & time, use the "i" info pane at the lower left of iPhoto. -
How can I change the order of photos within an event?
iPhoto o9 won't let me change the order of photos within a single event- really annoying! I tried to view photos then click manual sort- but when I look back at the event it is not in the right order. what's wrong? Or can I even do this?
Yes you can do that - IF you go through and assign titles to every photo
You also can change the date/time on photo and iPhoto will then sort them in the new order
And you could assign unique key words to each photo such that the sort order is what you want and sort by key word
But you can not change the order in the sense most people mean - grab a photo and move it to a new location in an event
So yes you are right
LN -
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On iOS 5+ they are sorted by the 'date modified' field - so you either need to manipulate their date modified fields, or you could consider using a third-party photo management app such as Photo Manager Pro which allows you to sort your photos within it by filename or date (ascending or descending), type, or you can drag them into your own sort order
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cactusTony
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
You can't do this is an Event. Events are a very basic time and date based organisation. To change the order of things in an Event, change the time relative to the pic you want to precede.
Or... Make an album of the Event, then you can organise anything anyway you want. To do this just drag the Event to the Albums heading and it will make an album of the same name. As Albums only reference files in the Library they take up no extra disk space and have much better organisation possibilities.
Regards
TD -
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Help, please.when you select any album , there will be a drop down present along with the Organize/Share/Create/Edit tab - "Album Order" - select that , there will Date (oldest/newest first).
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