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Image sorting - changing order within an album

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plume

Chevereto Member
Is there a way to sort the image order within an album? Drag and drop sorting would be amazing.
 
Sorting is done by criteria and is not manually done. A manual sort criteria could fit nicely for "sets" which is not the same as albums. For me sets are a group of a given images you want to share and showcase, which is not the same as an album. Maybe if sets goes somewhere I could add a drag and drop sorting.
 
Hi Rodolfo, don't forget List View (only title of images showing) and alphabetical sorting based on the titles.. :)
 
Ok but read the thing, I'm not thinking in do album sorting I'm thinking in "sets".
 
Sets would be great Rodolfo, I believe it will serve for the same purpose. Can't wait to see it in action.. More power.. :)
 
Thanks for your response. Would drag and drop sorting be possible at the upload stage. So you can order the images before they go into an album.
 
plume said:
Thanks for your response. Would drag and drop sorting be possible at the upload stage. So you can order the images before they go into an album.
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Album sort still doesn't makes sense to me and that's why I thought in the concept of sets.

You are missing the point here: Albums are large collections that helps you to manage all your (take note of the "your" word) content, for instance photos of a trip, maybe a wedding, stuff like that. It works like folders. Usually when you want to share with someone you either want to share the whole album or just a selection of that album and currently the only thing that we have is the full album. Now, albums can be massive holding countless images which makes unpractical a manual sorting. That's why the concept of sets takes place because is a manually selected limited collection of images.

You have to think that for you is better to sort albums by date/views but for the people that will saw it is better to see it in a manual sort. So to make that work a new container must be introduced, at least is the thing that makes sense to me. Actually sets are a good idea to share curated content and the sort thing is just an extra... But I'm still thinking in why or why not sort albums.
 
Totally get it and a great idea Rodolfo.
Select all the images in an album that you want to share, create and name a set, move or if it's possible 'copy' the images to the set, share.
All the selects remain in the album, you can delete any of the copies and re-edit the set later on without having to move the ones you don't like, back into the album.
 
Rodolfo said:
You are missing the point here: Albums are large collections that helps you to manage all your (take note of the "your" word) content, for instance photos of a trip, maybe a wedding, stuff like that. It works like folders. Usually when you want to share with someone you either want to share the whole album or just a selection of that album and currently the only thing that we have is the full album. Now, albums can be massive holding countless images which makes unpractical a manual sorting. That's why the concept of sets takes place because is a manually selected limited collection of images.
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I use albums for the things you mention. Normally when I want to show photo's from a wedding of holiday, I like to show them in chronological order (from the first photo I made to the last one). But when I edit pictures before uploading, the time of the file changed and it's not chronological anymore in Chevereto. I can't find a way to fix this (or I have to change the date/time from each file before uploading?). Or is Chevereto using the upload date/time?

This is why it will be great to add sorting options. For me it will be great to sort on image_name (database field) because of i use the image names from the camera like IMG_0001, IMG_0002 etc. Hopefully you can add some options where users can choose from when viewing albums.
 
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