This isn't exactly an earth-shaking problem, but it's driving me nuts anyway.
I have scanned hundred of rolls of film, and I grouped them by roll (one folder per roll), naming each file sequentially with its frame number. For example, for roll "1990 Roll 1" I have files 1,2,3... etc.
When I use Photoshop to make contact sheets (one per roll), it orders the files differently. Instead of the first row containing files 1,2,3,4,5, it orders them as 1,10,11,12,13. It looks like Photoshop sorts the files as "labels" instead of as "numbers" - it looks at the first digit, then the second digit, etc. I tried using Canon Photorecord as well to make the contact sheets, and it did the same thing. But when I open the folder in Windows and arrange the files by name, it arranges them correctly as 1,2,3,4 etc.
How can I get Photoshop to automatically sort the files the way I want (numberically). No way do I want to manually move the photos on each contact sheet so that they're in the right place!
Thanks, Darin
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
You could just use leading zeroes in your sequencing. So if each roll has less than 100 pictures on it, then if you name them with a single leading zero like so:
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
...
99
Then they'll sort the way you want them to.
HTH,
-Kirk
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
>>I'm still wondering why it's necessary, though... <<
It's just the nature of string comparison and sorting for various algorithms. For instance:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, ...
We would see that those are already sorted because we see them as numbers. But if you just compared the first 'letter' of each number then the order would be:
1, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2, 20, ...
So when you add a leading zero and do the same sorting by comparing the first letter of one number against the first letter of another number then you get:
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