Hi,
I have a lot of images I want to make into a web photo gallery. These images are stored in multiple subdirectories under my import directory. I would like to keep them in the order created by the subdirectory structure, however when I use the wizard to create the web ablbum it re-arranges them in alphabetic order. Does anyone know how to stop this from happening (apart from renaming all my images)?
I am using photoshop elements 2.0 on XP.
Thanks
#1
That alphabetical ordering is a function of your computer's OS, not Elements, and it works the same on both Win and Mac systems. Unfortunately, the only way to maintain a specific order is to rename the files. Using a numeric system, with a leading zero, is the choice of most of us; for example, for a total of less than 100 files, you'd want to do 001, 002, 003, etc. If you have more than 100, add a fourth digit - 000l, 0002.
#2
Here's a way to reorder the pics without renaming them:
The Web Photo Gallery creates the file ThumbnailFrame.htm in the destination directory. Use a text editor to edit this file. For each picture there is a set of lines, for example:
-- Thumbnails with hyperlinks --
href="pages/pic004.htm" target="RightFrame" IMG src="thumbnails/pic004.jpg" border="2" alt="firepsd" align="BOTTOM"
You can move these sets around to be in the order you want (the first line in the set is just a comment and doesn't really need to be moved).
Mark
#3
I like Beth's approach the best. Renaming the files in XP is a bit cumbersome, though. Reading this thread I got interested if there is not any software around to handle this more easily. I found 'A.F.5 Rename your files 1.1':
http://www.tucows.com/preview/279335.html It's free and works like a charm as far as I can tell after a quick tryout.
Juergen
#4
What's wrong with the batch rename in Elements? I have never used it but it seems it would suffice for this.
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James Hutchinson
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I like Beth's approach the best. Renaming the files in XP is a bit cumbersome, though. Reading this thread I got interested if there is
not
any software around to handle this more easily. I found 'A.F.5 Rename
your
files 1.1': http://www.tucows.com/preview/279335.html It's free and
works
like a charm as far as I can tell after a quick tryout.
Juergen
#5
James, I haven't tried Batch rename, but it seems - at first blush - that you'd run into essentially the same problem with the ordering. If the OS reorders files alphabetically within the folders, then the order would change before you had a chance to add the numerals, wouldn't it? The Source folder function for either Batch or Save for Web would work about the same way, I think - alphabetize first and then rename. ??? It's worth a try on a small sample, though.
#6
You are probably right Beth. BTW it's good to see you here.
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Have A Nice Day, :-)
James Hutchinson
http://www.pbase.com/myeyesview http://www.myeyesviewstudio.com/ wrote in message
James, I haven't tried Batch rename, but it seems - at first blush -
that you'd run into essentially the same problem with the ordering. If the OS reorders files alphabetically within the folders, then the order would change before you had a chance to add the numerals, wouldn't it? The Source folder function for either Batch or Save for Web would work about the same way, I think - alphabetize first and then rename. ??? It's worth a try on a small sample, though.
#7
Regarding my suggestion of editing the ThumbnailFrame.htm file, the reason I mentioned it is that batch renaming a bunch of files will simply number them 001, 002,... If you want to fix the order, such as chronologically for a set of vacation pics, you will still have to rename them manually to get the desired numerical order.
I use the utility Lemmy, which emulates the UNIX VI editor (the best text editor on the planet!), to quickly rearrange the pictures in ThumbnailFrame.htm.
Mark
#8
Mark,
I enjoy editing the htm files and you have a good method there. Many folks don't want to tackle HTML code, though. That's why I mentioned the little utility that I found. With it you can arrange the files in any order and then rename them or put the sequential numbers in front of the filenames.
Juergen
#9