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malowz wrote on 4/21/2010, 11:15 PM
i use acdsee. normally, jpeg photos have their shot timestamp inside the exif, and i can sort files from there, then do a batch rename in acdsee also to put in order.

if you talking about "real" printed photos, i said to them to do sequence number on the back of the photo.
Rory Cooper wrote on 4/21/2010, 11:21 PM
Tel your client you need him to be a part of the creative process and let him put it in the right order.
ritsmer wrote on 4/22/2010, 1:21 AM
Could also sort the pics using a column "Date taken" in Windows Explorer.
(if the cameras clocks are right and if this info is available :- )
TeetimeNC wrote on 4/22/2010, 1:57 AM
I just did a google search and came up with this free program: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stamp.html

Stamp lets you rename your digital camera photos so they sort in chronological order. It uses the EXIF metadata that is contained in digital photos and renames the files, using the date information as the name, in addition to incremental numbers as well as optional batch information and sequence numbers. Since the program sets the date information as first part of the file name, they can be easily sorted in Windows Explorer, using the true creation date.

/jerry
rs170a wrote on 4/22/2010, 3:05 AM
Rory has the right idea.
Cooldraft has no way of knowing what order the client wants the pictures in so sorting them chronologically (or any other way for that matter) probably won't help.

Mike
Cooldraft wrote on 4/22/2010, 6:42 AM
Yeah after sleepin on it. Ihave no way to order these (actual pictures scanned by us) except to have my awesome wife go through a printed catalog and try to guess by their age (it is for a wedding Saturday), or give the couple the same op to get them in the correct order of "growing up". Thanks for the ideas, thought that you pros would have been through this also.
richard-courtney wrote on 4/23/2010, 2:13 PM
They never are.

Print a proof sheet after you have processed and cleaned up the scanned images.

You can never guess correctly the order and when you have duplicates.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/23/2010, 10:36 PM
I'd sort by date taken/created/whatever, but then they are temporally sorted. If they were all scanned randomly, then the client needs to go in there name them for you, or you need to bill him to figure it out.

Dave