There are different security/sharing options for Albums on Photoshop.com:

Private: Only you, or someone logged into your account, can view them

Shared: Anyone who has the URL can view the files.

-Also Share on Photoshop.com: This will place your images in your Gallery.

The difference between Shared and "Share on PS.com" is: Shared means you can send your friends a link and only they can see them, Share on PS.com means than even strangers can view your images if they visit your gallery page.

The reason for having this separation is that there are perfessionals that may want to have a client view a certain album, but not others, who are visiting the gallery to see the full, public facing, portfolio.

Tom, when you create an Album, Photoshop.com chooses an images as the "Album Cover" (usually, this is the first file that was uploaded and/or added to this album). To change the Album Cover, and thus which image appears when sharing the album, in the Adobe Photoshop Express Organizer (so online), open the album in question and hover your mouse over the thumbnail of the image you want as the Album Cover. After a second, you should see "Photo Options" (may be shortened to "Options" on portrait images). Click on this and you will get a menu of options. About three-quarters of the way down the list you will see "Use as Alubm Cover", select this.

The custom order you have set in your album in Photoshop Elements Organizer should be reflected in Adobe Photoshop Express Organizer. But they can also have their order set individually. Online, with the Express Organizer, when you are viewing an Album, at the top you have three drop-down menus. The middle one is the Sort order. If you created a custom order in Elements Organizer (by rearraning the images while in the Album view), you should have an additional choice in the Sort drop-down called "Sort by (Custom Order)". You have similar options in Elements Organizer for the sort order, there is a drop-down menu in the upper right (just above the Ratings filter). There is a choice on this list called Album Order. Album Order in Elements Organizer is the same as Custom Order in Express Organizer.