Sort photos out of an album

I have (had) a series of albums in which I saved specific photos, e.g., Lake 2014 was to contain only pics from 2014. However, that album now contains pics from other years as well; how do I sort the non-2014 pics out, then place them correctly in their "years?"

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What is the easiest way to sort photos within an album. I have photos from a trip but they are all mixed up. Photos from one part of the trip are showing up in other parts. Please help.

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.

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

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.

Organization: Figuring out what photos are organized into albums

I can't seem to work out a straightforward way of organizing photos once I import them into Aperture 1.5. I shot 2Gb of shots today and imported them. As I start to create Albums within my Project, I drag them to their appropriate places. But sometimes I'll miss one or get interrupted by a phone call, etc.
Or I'll start out with five albums of different categories, say Front Façade, Interior Lobby, etc. (architectural shots). Then I realize that I've got so many Stair shots that I want another album just to keep those organized. But then some shots are stairs in the lobby and I can't figure out if I've put them in one of the albums or neither. I have to scroll through tons of shots to figure it out. It's always confusing.
Has anyone figured out a good workflow for bringing photos in and ensuring that each actually winds up in an album?
PowerBook G4 17 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I've finally figured out the solution to tracking which images have been 'assigned'...it's through the use of keywords and smart albums, not regular albums. It also lets you know whether you've missed assigning any images:
Create a Smart Album called "No Keywords". In the Search HUD that comes up when you do this, click on the "+" drop-down menu and select "IPTC". Click the checkbox next to the new IPTC line that's added to your search criteria, and select "Keywords" and "is empty" from the two drop-down menus. By using this or the "is not empty" or the other criteria in different/multiple combinations (you can add the IPTC line more than once), you can sort for anything.
Once you've set this up, start applying keywords to images. They will 'disappear' from this Smart Album. When the Smart Album is empty, you've assigned a keyword to everything. Keep this Smart Album in case you import other images or to check periodically to see if any images have been 'orphaned'.
Then use your keywords list to create Smart Albums that have keywords singly or in combination. I do this now and don't create regular albums at all.
One great piece of advice I've come across and will repeat here is that it's REALLY best to create ALL your keywords BEFORE you start applying them. In my first couple of projects I created them on the fly and realized that they were not perfect, started modifying, realized that some images needed more specificity, etc. Simply put, I made a mess. Now as I scan through an imported shoot I create the keywords first. Then I apply all the keywords I've made before creating any new ones or renaming ones I created in the first round.
Only then, once all the above-mentioned Smart Albums are created, might I add or adjust keywords. At this point it won't throw a wrench into the works and make me lose my bearings.
I'll continue to improve my workflow, but this finally works well for me, and it's pretty time-efficient.
Anyone have any gems to add to this thread before I mark it answered?
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How to sort photos in albums by date in iPhoto '11

For some reason that I have yet to divine, iphoto 11 jumbles the order of photos in any album I create. For example, I have an album called 'Family', and rather than display the photos by the date they were taken, it jumbles them into a mish mash of images. I took 50 pics yesterday and imported them last night. I opened iphoto today to make some edits, and the photos have been dispersed throughout an album of thousands of images. I know I can go and examine the images in 'Events' or 'Photos', but I'd like to see them in context with the rest of my family photos.
Is there some way to get albums to sort photos by date taken like the older versions of iphoto?
Thanks in advance,
Peter

I may be getting confused with what you need here but does going to:
"View --> Sort Photos --> By Date" solve things?
Andy.

How to find out in which albums a library photo is represented

Basically my problem is stated in the question, I'm trying to find out in which albums certain library/event photo's are represented. Since I'm moving from albums to events this would be a great help in naming the events.
Thanks,
Peter

There is currently now way in iPhoto to do this.
iPhoto Menu -> Povide iPhoto Feedback.
Regards
TD

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?
Regards
Léonie

How do I sort photos by filename. I have some 5000 photos involved in different albums

I have many albums each that need sorting by filename. Any advice?

Is this with iPhoto? Or on an iPad? If iPhoto, have you looked at the View Menu -> Sort Photos options?
Regards
TD

Sorting photos in an album

I am trying to sort photos in an album in a random fashion, like an iPod would shuffle songs. Except here's the small difference, every twenty photos or so I need to insert a specific photo. Playing the slideshow allows for a shuffle, but I want to shuffle them in the album, then insert the specific photos. Sorting manually is an option, but I'm using over 700 photos which gets rather tedious. Any suggestions?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
There is no way to sort Photos in an Album randonly. The only options are
Date, Keyword, Title, Rating or Manually
That’s that you’ve got to work with, I’m afraid.
Regards
TD

Anyone has print out the iPhoto album book by apple after finish editing? May I check is the quality good? I have compiled my photo album book , choosen hard cover option , 100 pages , estimated cost is US150. Not sure worth to print out or not?

Anyone has print out the iPhoto album book by apple after finish editing? May I check is the quality good? I have compiled my photo album book , choosen hard cover option , 100 pages , estimated cost is US150. Not sure worth to print out or not?

All I can say is the books I've created as gifts to my children for their children were received with absolute joy and appreciation (each book chronicled in pictures the first year of each grandchild's life). Granted the sentimental factor had a lot to do with the recipient's enjoyment of the book but they were spetacular. The book with its glossy dust cover is a very impressinve way to present your photos.
As Larry has pointed out so many have posted here that they were very satisfried with their book and Apple is very good about correcting problems.
To make sure there are no errors in the book before you order preview the book as described in this Apple document: iPhoto '11: Preview a book, card, or calendar before you order or print it. If the PDF file shows no errors, either in text typos (my biggest problem) or in missing photos, etc., the printed book will be error free.
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Finding out in which albums I put my photo

Library getting bigger and bigger.
To me it would be very useful sometimes to find out in which album a certain foto has been included, already. I tend to forget.
Since there is a database concept behind iphoto this should be easy. But how? Any clue?
Click a foto in the Library, press a key and there is a list of all Albums where the photo is included. Can even select an Album and press delete if I dont want the photo to be there anymore. Am I dreaming?
Loris

If you named your photos instead of just the default number from the camera you would be able to search for it.

How do I get the photos out of my Blackberry curve 8520 into my Photobucket album?

I never got a USB cable with my Balckberry when I got it from Virgin but I have since bought one. They would not send me one because I have had it for over a year. I need to get my photos out of it cos it's going back to them after my first 2-year contract is up.

Well, I hooked it up to my laptop and new hardware was detected. It ran through several things - including mass storage - and said my Blackberry was installed and ready for use.
There was a message on my Blackberry asking if I wanted to activate mass storage but it said I may lose some media files or something if I did so I clicked on "No".
I then went to Start and My Computer but there was no sign of my Blackberry!
I also looked in All Programmes but there was nothing new on the list.
I'm a bit of a dork about technology - as you will have gathered - but I'd really appreciate more help. I'm keen to learn, at least!

Why does iPhoto delete photos out of secure photo storage apps, and there is no option Not to delete from everywhere ie all albums on all devices

I purchased IPhoto then saw a duplicate photo in my photo album so went to delete it, the delete function came up with a message this photo is in more than one album do you want to delete from everywhere, as no other option available ie " no just this album" I hit delete and then found it had deleted the photo from all my devices 2 iPhones and 2 iPads, the photo was in a " Safe App " supposed to be secure why did this happen, any help would be appreciated

When I downloaded photos from a camera SD card using an adapter, I noticed two Albums were created in the Photo app.(Last Import & All Import). Like you stated, there is no option to delete excess photos without deleting all of them. So this is the lengthy steps I went through to delet the extra album (I hope someone comes up with a shorter process):
1) Connect iPad into your PC (Make sure you configured to Sync with iTunes)
2) Go to My Computer > right click and open Apple iPad > right click and open Internal Storage > right click and open DCIM. (This will show the photos from those to Albums only)
3) Right click on a empty space on the desktop
4) Click on New > Folder
5) Go back to the DCIM files and right click on each file(one at a time) then copy and paste each file over the New Folder.
6) Go back to the DCIM files and open each folder and right click and delete each photo.
You will notice that all the same photos are being deleted on the Photo app simultaneously.
7) Then drag the New Folder into you Pictures on the PC.
8)Then open iTunes on your PC and click on the Photo tab and click Sync on the bottom right to import those photos back to your iPad.
I hope my scenario can apply to you.

How can I organize my photos in icloud by album as on my Mac? And, not just Collections/Events/Year?

How can I organize my photos in icloud by album as they are on my Mac in iphoto? I want to see more than just a sort by Collection/Event/year.

You'll need to wait for all these things to come out to beta testing for that kind if detailed help. But at the moment it seems that you make the Albums in your Photos.app on the Mac or iOS device and these then turn up on the Library in the Cloud. I can see no way to create albums in a web browser, and iPhoto doesn't communicate with the Library.

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