Sorting photos by keyword - $ value
I recently moved my data from a PC to a Mac. I've got a series of photos of collectibles that had tags (which have converted over to keywords). Each photo has two tags - one for price (e.g. $1, $1.5, $2, etc.) and one tag for year offered (05, 06, etc.) .... I'd like to sort by low to high $ value but don't seem to be able to do so successfully - any suggestions on the easiest way to accomplish this? ... Thanks in advance ....
There isn't a way to do it. The 01 will always preceed the $1.
You could use the Title Field for one or other - Item Offered 06 type of thing...
Regards
TD
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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.
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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.
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That is no problem - but by default they will be intermixed by time since that is how events display
You can assign them different keywords ( make a smart album based on camera and select all photos in it and assign an appropriate keyword) and sort by key words (view menu ==> sort photo ==> by key words) or titles if that does it for you (view menu ==> sort photo ==> by titles)
LN
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IOS 5 sorts photos randomly. How do I get back to viewing them in chronological order?
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Option 1
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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
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...but the films won't copy and comes up with message videos not copied cannot be played on this ipod
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