Sort photos by time created
I use more than one camera at events and each camera has a specific prefix on the photo numbers (ex. EW1_ and EW2_). I'd like to be able to sort these photos by time created rather than date created so they are listed in an order of how the event happened. Right now, the only option I see within the Finder and Automator is to sort them by date, but since the event is only one day it doesn't help me. You would think that sorting by date would also sort the time, but it doesn't. Any ideas?
Really? I'm annoyed that iPhoto for iOS is sorting all my synced pictures in chronological order. They don't appear in the custom order I've put them in iPhoto or Aperture. I don't want them in random order, but most of my iPhoto/Aperture albums on my Mac are in a particular order so they tell a story. While I do my best to to keep them approximately in chronological order, sometimes a later one just looks beter coming before an earlier one. There's no way to change the order once the pictures are in iPhoto for iOS.
I just sent Apple feedback asking to be able to manuall change the order of pictures in an album in iPhoto for iOS or for it to al least mirror the order they appear on my Mac's photo application.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto_ios.html
-Doug
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In Photoshop 9 can I view or sort photos by time taken not just by date taken?
You can check Edit >> Preferences >> General Dialog as depicted here-
Thanks
Andaleeb -
trying to create an Aperture book and have sorted 900 photos in manual order...the book application resorts my photos and i have to search 900 photos each time to place a photo. how can i set the sorting to stay in my manual setup?
1. If you manually sort Images in a Project, and then create a new Book w. "Include selected Images" checked, your manual sort order will be preserved.
2. As a workaround for when you have already created a Book, batch rename your Images with a leading index or counter after setting the order manually. You'll have to create a Naming Preset, e.g.: "{Index}_{Version Name}". The renaming should go in the order that you selected the Images, so be sure to select the first one first, and then use "Edit→Select all" to extend the selection to all Images. Once the Images are in your Book, a sort on Version Name should be the same as the manual sort you created.
3. At the risk of stating the obvious, you could create the Book, import the Images, and then sort them. The Book -- it is, to Aperture, just a special kind of Album -- retains its own manual sort order. I recommend using Albums this way. Use Projects to cull and develop Images, and use Albums for output. Sorting for a Book (or any output) is better done in the container devoted to that output (and not in the Project, which is more general).
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger -- added #3. -
Sort records in a csv file in the descending order of time created attribute
I have an excel (.csv) file with the following column headers :-
Client,
SourceNetworkAddress
,TimeCreated,
LogonType
,User,
Message
Values like :- ABC, 10.5.22.27, 11/23/2014 9:02:21 PM, 10, testuser
The file is a combination of a report generated everyday using multiple scripts. The data is appended each day therefore, I would like to sort the final output file in descending order of time created (a combination of date and time) fetched from events
i.e. the latest record with the latest date and time should be at the top of the list.
I tried using the following command however, I get a sorted list according to the date but not the time. The command does not consider the AM/PM mentioned in the time instead simply sorts them as per numbers
Import-Csv "C:\Users\a\Desktop\report.csv" | sort Timecreated -Descending | Export-csv "C:\Users\a\Desktop\report_sorted.csv" -force -NoTypeInformation
So if I have a record with 9:02:21 PM(latest) and a record with time 10.44.10 AM on the same date, the command will sort the list with record 10:44:10 AM first and then record with 9:02:21 PM however it should be the opposite as per descending order.
Kindly help !!Hi jrv,
Thanks for your response. However, I get errors while I run this command in Powershell :-
Import-Csv <file> | Select Client,SourceNetworkAddress,LogonType,User,Message,@{N='TimeCreated';E={[datetime]($_.TimeCreated)} | Sort TimeCreated -Descending | Export-csv <file> -force -NoTypeInformation
Missing expression after ','.
At line:1 char:150
Unexpected token 'LogonType' in expression or statement.
At line:1 char:151
Unexpected token ',' in expression or statement.
At line:1 char:160
Unexpected token 'User' in expression or statement.
At line:1 char:161
Unexpected token ',' in expression or statement.
At line:1 char:165
Unexpected token 'Message' in expression or statement.
At line:1 char:166
The hash literal was incomplete.
At line:1 char:174
Please help!
You are missing a second curly brace -
Import-Csv <file> | Select Client,SourceNetworkAddress,LogonType,User,Message,@{N='TimeCreated';E={[datetime]($_.TimeCreated)}} | Sort TimeCreated -Descending | Export-csv <file> -force -NoTypeInformation -
How can i sort photos by date taken, not date created?
How can i sort photos by date taken, not date created?
I'd like this feature as well. I tend to browse my photos by date in Aperture, but on ios thay always appear in some bizzare random order.
I've tried several workarounds but with no luck. As metadata is present, surely this should be simple... -
Can I over-ride the default setting in Organizer to allow sorting photos by filename ?
I am converting slides from the 1970's and 80's to digital files and using PSE 8 to Organize them but it is important to me that they stay in the order of the file name I give them and NOT "Date: newest first or last" because it would seem that PSE, in the absence of metafile information, uses the date and time I uploaded the file to the Organizer as the "Date:". ACDSee has a much more sensible arrangement in giving me full control of how my photos are sorted. I am being driven to using ACDSee as the organizer and PSE as the photo editor, a not very convenient arrangement. So my question is, "Can I over-ride the default setting in Organizer to allow sorting photos by filename ?"
The type of file system that you're trying to set up, is actually done better by creating you own file heirarchy in Windows, and then viewing by import batch. For example; you might create a top level folder "My Slide Scans", then perhaps, "My son John". So, the scans of john all go in the same folder, you import the folder in one batch, and you're where you want to be.
That said, PSE will fight you at every turn to do this, since with the scanner hooked up with PSE, PSE is going to want to store your photos in "scanned photos" and import them as you scan them.
I woud suggest this. After the scan and import, use PSE to move the photos to their final destination folder, say " Hawaii 1994", and create a tag of the same name". Then when you're done scanning photos of this event, use the tag to view all the scans at once. Then, delete all the photos from the organizer. (Yeah, sounds radical I know). Take heart! All you've gotta do then is to reimport the whole folder. All the same name photos will be in one import batch. And with all the photos of any given topic in one folder, you'll be able to also use Windows Explorer in any number of modes to view the photos outside PSE.
Keep in mind you can rename batchs of photos by selecting them, or by import batch or even tag, then "Ctrl. > Shift > N" will bring up the name change dialog box.
This technique is quite contensious, but, it makes a whole lot more sense than storing all your photos in the "My Photos" folder on the "C:/" drive where any viral or malware hiccup might cause the necessity of a reformat, which could cause the loss of years of work.
If a name search is a priority, that would be "Ctrl ."Shift" > "K" then type in whatever your heart desires.
Caution: Before attempting a delete/ reimport manuver, Alway, always, write the tag and file info to the photo. "File" >"Write Tag and Properties Info to File".
I always am quite adamantine about suggesting that you do NOT use the same physical HDD that contains Windows to store your photos, that's just asking for trouble. HDDs are quite cheap nowadays, and they're worth every penny in piece of mind. Plus to use a storage ("Volume") drive, you have to create your own file heirarchy anyway, so that leads right back to the beginning of this discussion. -
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. -
Sorting by "Capture time" does not seem to work right in LR3.4.1. In Grid view, with compact cells, top label: capture date/time, and using Sort: Capture time, I see pictures from 2009, then 1900, 1910, 2010. The files are .jpg and .psd - no movies. Metadata -> Edit capture time... also shows the correct date/time. It's just the sorting that does not get things in the right order. Most of the files are imported from PSE6, which sorted correctly. For some JPGs, LR3 seems to show the windows file creation date (as can be seen in the Windows file properties), not anything in the metadata. For the PSD files, the correct date I want to sort by (the one PSE6 showed) is shown as Exif metadata "date time original" and "date time digitized".
This makes me wonder what date is actually used by LR3 for sorting by capture date?
Any suggestions for getting LR3 to sort the way I want?
Tia,
AlexInteresting -- I was able to confirm the same thing. It appears that if an image is missing metadata date/time fields, then LR uses the file date-modified for filtering and sorting, and it uses file date-created to display in the grid view. Seems like a blantant bug to me -- you could report it at the new feedback site, http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/products/photoshop_family_photoshop_lightro om, where Adobe employees reguarly participate. Adobe may not make this a priority to fix, since their priority is LR's focus on images taken with digital cameras (which always attach a date to the metadata), and those of us using LR to manage non-digital-camera images get lower priority.
So there are two problems:
1. You have images with metadata fields XMP:DateTimeOriginal that omit seconds, and when these were imported by a LR version earlier than 3.4, they produced corrupted catalog capture-date entries. You could try doing Metadata > Save Metadata To File followed by Read Metadata To File for these images -- that may clear the corrupted catalog dates and be a little bit easier than removing the images and reimporting them (which would lose your stacking and collections).
2. As described above, LR uses file date-created and date-modified inconsistently for images without metadata date/times. A workaround is to make sure all your images have the field EXIF:DateTimeOriginal in their metadata. You could do that one photo at a time using the Medata > Edit Capture command. Alternatively, you could use Exiftool to copy the file date-modified or file date-created into the EXIF:DateTimeOriginal field for just those images that don't already have that field. That will take some study of Exiftool documentation to come up with the precise command line -- it's a powerful tool but not easy to use at first.
You'll have to figure out whether the file date-modified or the date-created is the best date to use for your images. Beware that on Windows, date-modified is generally preserved when a file is copied, whereas date-created is not, and some backup programs won't properly preserve date-created. -
IOS 5 sorts photos randomly. How do I get back to viewing them in chronological order?
iOS 5 sorts photos randomly. How do I get back to viewing them in chronological order?
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create 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.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD -
Possible to search for photos via time?
I do not see this option; date, yes, but not time. I'd like to search, say for all pics shot at 12:37. Putting that in the search box gets no results, though there are pictures with that time. (I do know I can change the View choice, from Alpha by title to view by date.)
Why would I want this? We go on wildflower walks and shoot hundreds of photos, perhaps dozens of species. Sometimes it's hard to know if Picture A & B, depicting very similar plants & flowers, actually show the same species. (We're still beginners at this, and some families like the penstemons and paintbrushes have lots of very similar species). So I use time as a helper. If they were shot within a couple of minutes, probably they are of the same plant.
My new technique is to shoot a "spacer photo" when I switch plants, which helps to separate "bouts" of photography. But previous outings don't have these.
Thanks!Right, now I see how it works for you.
Just temporarily switching the event sort to Sort By Date while you do all your initial titles is probably the simplest improvement to make in your workflow, and sounds like it would eliminate some hassle.
But I'll tell you how I would do it, just because workflows interest me and you say you are thinking about it.
Each wildflower walk is an Event. Keep your events sorted by Date/Time as you process and sort photos. Retitle as desired.
Create a smart album to actually show off and browse your wildflowers--perhaps based on Keyword is Wildflower. Easy enough to apply the Wildflower keyword to an entire event each time you download photos and un-apply it from the occasional people shots as you process. The Wildflowers smart album can be sorted by title so that you can group all the same flowers from multiple places, rate the best shots of that flower, etc.
Of course, that approach separates most browsing and rating from the initial sorting process--this helps me because I tend to bog down on the rating part, but might feel weird to others.
(I also name the Event with a precise location--eg, Crater Lake Wildflower Meadow--and then use Photos>Batch Change to put that same info into the Description. Then it's easy enough in the combined smart album to say "okay, where did I take that shot?" and check the Description. However, Places might serve that need more efficiently. Sometimes I use the overall Event Description for a sort of diary entry--"third trip to this garden, after a rainy March had the best flowers")
I never use the Title field and use Description a lot, but in this case, I'd say using Title instead of Description would be really annoying because I think you'd have to use the mouse to get to the description field every single time, instead of just being able to tab and type across photos, and you'd have to keep looking down to see if you already labeled the photo or not instead of that being right in your face. Photos>Batch Change would let you change a bunch at a time, but that's probably still slower. I tend to use Description for big general info like place and would think Title is more appropriate for very photo-specific info like flower names.
Although, using Keyword instead of Title might be an idea. With the long Latin names which I presume are a hassle to type, being able to just click or apply pre-entered names with a shortcut could be good, and iPhoto will auto-fill Keywords but I don't think it auto-fills repeated Titles? Keyword Manager is a third-party utility, I don't use it myself but Terence recommends it as excellent. If you are seeing the same flowers over and over again, keywords might make life easier, and if you frequently have variations on species--eg Poppies (California), Poppies (Opium), Poppies (I've exhausted my knowledge of flowers)---then Keyword Manager handles nested keywords and I think it would automatically let you really quickly browse ALL your poppies and then each type of poppy. Might be worth checking--there should be a free trial. A keyword approach would also eliminate the possible problem where you have multiple flowers in one sort, but Sort by Title misses the flowers that aren't first (although Title-based Smart Albums would also eliminate that problem).
One of the other things to consider there is what you intend to do with the photos, though--various forms of printing/publishing to web have varying support for automatically including the Title, etc. So if you know what you'd like to do with the pictures--slideshow? photo book?--it's worth playing around to see what the export options and integration are like before you process your backlog.
An interesting challenge! Have fun. -
How to sort photos in an album by filename?
I have imported 273 photos into an album in Photoshop Elements Organizer. They originally came from 2 different digital cameras, so the date stamp on them is different. All the photos were combined and sorted by filename before they were imported. I want to keep them in this order for creating a DVD. The Media Browser Arrangement indicates you can sort by date (oldest or newest) or Album. I have searched the Help topics until my eyes are ready to pop out of my head and have spoken with support (for 45 minutes) until we got disconnected. Help!!!
stone09 wrote:
I have imported 273 photos into an album in Photoshop Elements Organizer. They originally came from 2 different digital cameras, so the date stamp on them is different. All the photos were combined and sorted by filename before they were imported. I want to keep them in this order for creating a DVD.
stone09
This approach has worked in many versions of Photoshop Elements for making an Album based on file name within a single Windows folder - but I can't say for sure about version 8.
Since you say they were combined and sorted by filename, I am guessing that you have all of those photos in a single Windows folder.
So try switching to the Folder Location view of the thumbnails, navigate to that Windows folder within the PSE Organizer left side of the screen foldeer structure and verify that the photos are displaying in name sequence within that folder.
Using the Folder Location view (where the photos are displaying in name sequence), select those photos and add them to a newly created PSE Album from their display under the Folder Location view.
Another consideration -looking ahead to your actions
You mention burning to a DVD - if this will be a slideshow burned to a standard definition video DVD for TV playback, I wonder what resolution those photos are? For example, were they from a 5 megapixel camera or a 12 megapixel camera ?
The dilemma is that the resolution of your photo files could be too high for processing 273 photos to make the slide show. If you will be burning a standard definition video DVD from Premiere Elements, there is a recommendation to have the photo files used for the slide show be a resolution of approximately 1000x750 pixels (or equivalent adjustment if you will do widescreen). In a way this is the opposite of printing where if the resolution is too low, the print quality will be poor. For slideshows written to video DVD, too high a resolution stresses the process of making the video and can either reduce quality of image in the final video or cause crashes.
If you will be burning to a Bluray DVD or displaying on a computer monitor , then the resolution should be somewhat higher - but a 12 MP camera will still give too large a resolution. The Process Muliple Files function in the PSE Editor or the File > Export new file in the Organizer provide methods to take your entire folder of photo files and create "downsized" resolution files that are written to a different folder so that your current files are untouched. -
Working on an IMac - with IPhoto v.9.6
This is my first experience with IPhoto... trying to move files from a PC over to a Mac.
I don't have a ton of photos but I created about 6 albums - standard albums - and dragged and dropped individual photos into each of the albums. I named each of the albums as well so I would know what was in each. After i was finished, I created a folder called 2014 and moved each of the albums into that folder. Before moving ANY of the albums, I opened each of them up to make sure that all the photos I wanted in each were indeed there - and since there were some errors on my part, I deleted any duplicates first. SO, I KNOW the photos were actually in each of the albums BEFORE i moved them into the 2014 folder.
My intention was to then delete the photo files in my document file but once I got there I thought I would go back and double check the IPhoto file just to make sure... and the pictures were NOT in the albums where I had placed them... is there a need to save this before you move on and if so, to where and how? I was under the impression that once files were moved to albums, they remain there.
The photos are still in the photo library but unsorted now again... I cannot even open the 2014 folder at this point.
Thanks for any help!!Was back on IPhoto this morning. The folder did not open at all so I deleted it. Beside Albums, nothing showed at all. It was like I had done no work at all except to import my photo folder. Nothing was in my trash bin either.
I started again and created one album at a time. I dragged and dropped photos into the album and exited out of IPhoto, opened up other programs and then returned to IPhoto to see if the album was still there and it was this time. I created a second album and did the same thing. This time, for some reason, the albums seem to be staying in place. I am not doing anything differently than last time. After creating three albums, I created a folder called 2014 and dragged and dropped the three albums into the folder and exited IPhoto. They were still there when I returned - YEAH! It seems to be working - for now! I am keeping my fingers crossed that my photos are not going to disappear but I am not going to delete my photo folder from my files just in case!
Thanks for the suggestions but this may just have been a funny glitch... not sure what happened. I didn't change anything or do anything differently this time except that I am doing it one album at a time and exiting the program between creating each of them and coming back to check... very strange. -
I have a MacBook Pro laptop and am trying to use iPhoto. I uploaded pictures but they uploaded out of order. Photos taken from different locations on my trip are all mixed up and I would like to sort them in chronological order. Things I have tried have been time consuming and often take several attempts before the moved photo "takes" to its new location within the album. If anyone can provide step by step instructions for this senior, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
following article tells how to sort photos in iphoto:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2397
also
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2388
article on smart albums in iphoto as well:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2389
these should help answers your questions, also in every apple application if you look on the main menu bar they all have a help section that is very useful in getting basic how to instructions. -
Hi have had problems with photo's and films going onto a 2010 Apple Classic mp3. Have managed to sort photo's but the films won't copy and comes up with message videos not copied cannot be played on this ipod
razzbust wrote:
...but the films won't copy and comes up with message videos not copied cannot be played on this ipod
Self explanatory.
You could try creating an iPod version of the films.
Use CTRL and B to display the Menu bar shown above. Alternatively, use the ALT key, followed by the F key, the W key and finally the I (eye) key - that's (menu)/File/Create New Version/Create iPod or iPhone version. -
Hello, does anyone have any advice on how to sort photos in an albumn on an Iphone by date of photo? I've ordered them all in my Pictures but then when I sync them across through Itunes, they all end up in a jumble on my phone. Thanks!
When viewing an album on the iPhone you can tap "Photos" at the bottom and that will show all photos by date. Unfortunately though it is all photos, not just the album you are currently viewing.
What I have done is the following. On the computer I have a main folder (e.g. iPhone photos) and then make sub-folders within that. Placing photos that will be synched to the iPhone into various subfolders gives quite a bit of organizational capablility. In iTunes when you select the main folder to sync, the sub-folders will show on the iPhone as separate albums. Beyond that, in one case where I really wanted a specific sort within an album I renamed the photos on the computer (something like A-picxxx, B-picxxx) so they sorted on the computer alphabetically in the order I want on the phone. That sort order was maintained after the sync.
Note that each time you sync using iTunes, the non-Camera Roll pictures on the phone will be set to match the current iTunes settings/photos -- so you can experiment.
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