Hmm.. I must be missing something here. When I want to move some images to the front of my gallery, I go to "Arrange Photos" and click on each image that belongs at the top (or click and drag, now!) and then click "quick move: start". It gets the job done quickly, and leaves me on a page where it's easy to scoot other photos around if needed.
Would that work for you?
-Anne
Anne, are you saying that in the Arrange Photos you can click and drag? I just tried it and I cannot drag within Arrange Photos. I can, however, click and drag within Drag to Arrange, but I can't seem to select multiple photos in that feature, so it is a bit cumbersome to click and drag if I want to arrange a lot of photos - plus no file names as mentioned in a previous post.
Anne, are you saying that in the Arrange Photos you can click and drag? I just tried it and I cannot drag within Arrange Photos. I can, however, click and drag within Drag to Arrange, but I can't seem to select multiple photos in that feature, so it is a bit cumbersome to click and drag if I want to arrange a lot of photos - plus no file names as mentioned in a previous post.
Sorry, I re-read my post and realized it wasn't very clear.
I meant to say "click and drag to select". The bulk tools now work like your operating systme probably does, where you click the mouse button, hold it, and move it over many images at once. When you release the button, all those images will be selected.
So if the last five images in the gallery should be moved to the front, click click and drag to highlight all five. Release your mouse button. Then click the "quick move: start" button.
Just to be clear, I'm offering this as an alternative to going to those five images in the Arrange Photos (Expert) tool and numbering them 1 through 5.
Yes, we've been working on a photo tools cleanup to make them simpler and more polished, with a few new features. We have more to do but this seemed like a nice step forward.
The drag to arrange tool, for example, lets you select multiple photos to arrange at a time instead of just one. Hopefully the pro pricing tool, rotate tool, and a few others are a whole lot more obvious than they were before.
I really like the "new look" of the photo tools displays...nice work!
I know it's been requested (in the Feature Requests forum I think), but "while you're at it...", I hope one of the new features you hinted at above is clearly marking any "hidden" photos (those with the "hide photo" box checked) in all multi-image views, including Arrange, Bulk Capiton/Keyword, etc...a red "x" watermark across the face of the thumbnail or something similar would be very helpful.
I'd like to see which photo's I've already hidden clearly marked when I'm in the Delete Photos tool, the Drag/Drop Arrange tool, the Move Photos tool, the Rotate tool, or Bulk Caption/Keyword tool etc.
On the other tools, hovering your mouse over the info icon on each thumbnail displays the filename, caption, and a larger image. Is it the effort involved with hovering your mouse that is the problem? Or is there a tool where we're missing the filenames entirely?
Okay, so I figured we're all probably visual people so a visual sample of what I'm talking about would be useful.
The screen grab below is what it looks like in bulk delete after hovering over the image. There are no file names. So based on Anne's post, this feature is not working properly. Is SM looking at fixing this?
It just seems very out-of-character for SM to either remove a very useful feature and/or to release something that apparently isn't working properly. Any estimate on when we might be able to see file names in bulk delete again?
I realize I'm really pushing this issue, but this is very, very important feature for me (and many others even if SM doesn't think so).
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Please take note of the severe problem I'm having with arranging photos. I have placed several notices in the bug report thread. I haven't heard a response yet.
Sorry, I re-read my post and realized it wasn't very clear.
I meant to say "click and drag to select". The bulk tools now work like your operating systme probably does, where you click the mouse button, hold it, and move it over many images at once. When you release the button, all those images will be selected.
So if the last five images in the gallery should be moved to the front, click click and drag to highlight all five. Release your mouse button. Then click the "quick move: start" button.
Just to be clear, I'm offering this as an alternative to going to those five images in the Arrange Photos (Expert) tool and numbering them 1 through 5.
-Anne
IN DRAG TO ARRANGE: I tried the "click drag over images" and see that I can select multiple images that way (normally in Windows, I do the shift or ctrl click to select multiple images). That said, when I then try to move those selected images (without first clicking again), they don't move, and if I hover over the selected images and click on the assumption that I have to click again like I would in a Windows environment to move the selected images, only the image I clicked on gets moved, the rest do not. (I am not a novice when it comes to moving files around, by the way, but this tool has me stumped when it comes to arranging multiple images.)
Arrange Photos: Expert - Bring back the old way At least leave us the option to do the arranging by the old number way. These new "upgrades"... they're not helping. When one has hundreds of photos in one gallery, do you really think we want to have to do the drag and drop??? It takes forever.
At least leave us the options to do it the old way. I know this new crap is fancy and everything... but the old adage applies... If it ain't broke, don't fix it. :bash
I've got a quick request about the new layout for the "Color Effects" tool. I like the fact that the photos are bigger, but now it is difficult to compare the individual color effects with each other. In particular, I frequently compare the "Auto Color" with the "Tanning Salon". This is now very difficult, since they are separated by the "Sepia" effect, and I can't get the two images on the page simultaneously.
The simple fix would be to move "Sepia" to after "Tanning Salon". Even better would be to have an option to switch sizes....
I've got a quick request about the new layout for the "Color Effects" tool. I like the fact that the photos are bigger, but now it is difficult to compare the individual color effects with each other. In particular, I frequently compare the "Auto Color" with the "Tanning Salon". This is now very difficult, since they are separated by the "Sepia" effect, and I can't get the two images on the page simultaneously.
The simple fix would be to move "Sepia" to after "Tanning Salon". Even better would be to have an option to switch sizes....
Thanks for the feedback.
When I open my window wide, I get the previews going two across, so auto and tanning salon are next to each other verticallly (if that makes sense). That's on my 15" laptop so a smaller display might only see the photos in a single column.
It's possible we'll change this, but in the meantime... maybe try opening that same tool in two windows so you can look at the different color effects side-by-side?
As a side note, I always make a second copy first, so if I don't like the effect I chose, I can delete it, make a second copy of the original and go with a different color effect.
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Anne, are you saying that in the Arrange Photos you can click and drag? I just tried it and I cannot drag within Arrange Photos. I can, however, click and drag within Drag to Arrange, but I can't seem to select multiple photos in that feature, so it is a bit cumbersome to click and drag if I want to arrange a lot of photos - plus no file names as mentioned in a previous post.
Sorry, I re-read my post and realized it wasn't very clear.
I meant to say "click and drag to select". The bulk tools now work like your operating systme probably does, where you click the mouse button, hold it, and move it over many images at once. When you release the button, all those images will be selected.
So if the last five images in the gallery should be moved to the front, click click and drag to highlight all five. Release your mouse button. Then click the "quick move: start" button.
Just to be clear, I'm offering this as an alternative to going to those five images in the Arrange Photos (Expert) tool and numbering them 1 through 5.
-Anne
I really like the "new look" of the photo tools displays...nice work!
I know it's been requested (in the Feature Requests forum I think), but "while you're at it...", I hope one of the new features you hinted at above is clearly marking any "hidden" photos (those with the "hide photo" box checked) in all multi-image views, including Arrange, Bulk Capiton/Keyword, etc...a red "x" watermark across the face of the thumbnail or something similar would be very helpful.
I'd like to see which photo's I've already hidden clearly marked when I'm in the Delete Photos tool, the Drag/Drop Arrange tool, the Move Photos tool, the Rotate tool, or Bulk Caption/Keyword tool etc.
Okay, so I figured we're all probably visual people so a visual sample of what I'm talking about would be useful.
The screen grab below is what it looks like in bulk delete after hovering over the image. There are no file names. So based on Anne's post, this feature is not working properly. Is SM looking at fixing this?
It just seems very out-of-character for SM to either remove a very useful feature and/or to release something that apparently isn't working properly. Any estimate on when we might be able to see file names in bulk delete again?
I realize I'm really pushing this issue, but this is very, very important feature for me (and many others even if SM doesn't think so).
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Please take note of the severe problem I'm having with arranging photos. I have placed several notices in the bug report thread. I haven't heard a response yet.
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Thanks for the reply, Andy. Hope that next release comes soon!
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IN DRAG TO ARRANGE: I tried the "click drag over images" and see that I can select multiple images that way (normally in Windows, I do the shift or ctrl click to select multiple images). That said, when I then try to move those selected images (without first clicking again), they don't move, and if I hover over the selected images and click on the assumption that I have to click again like I would in a Windows environment to move the selected images, only the image I clicked on gets moved, the rest do not. (I am not a novice when it comes to moving files around, by the way, but this tool has me stumped when it comes to arranging multiple images.)
At least leave us the options to do it the old way. I know this new crap is fancy and everything... but the old adage applies... If it ain't broke, don't fix it. :bash
The simple fix would be to move "Sepia" to after "Tanning Salon". Even better would be to have an option to switch sizes....
Thanks for the feedback.
When I open my window wide, I get the previews going two across, so auto and tanning salon are next to each other verticallly (if that makes sense). That's on my 15" laptop so a smaller display might only see the photos in a single column.
It's possible we'll change this, but in the meantime... maybe try opening that same tool in two windows so you can look at the different color effects side-by-side?
As a side note, I always make a second copy first, so if I don't like the effect I chose, I can delete it, make a second copy of the original and go with a different color effect.
-Anne
Thing is, I've tried and tried. It just doesn't seem to work.
So, is it working - or not? Or maybe only in certain browsers? I'm using Firefox.
thanks,
teresa