Lightroom Keyword Database sorting

Report · Jan 06, 2017

I have a huge database of transport museum/car show photographs.

I keyword all photos by manufacturer, model, year, etc.

The only way I have found to produce a slideshow that displays all of a particular model of a car by year is to maintain the Title Field with the year of manufacture and manually sort the slideshow by displaying the title in the Grid View and sliding the photos around, (which "crashes" every 40 or so shifts meaning restarting the database).

So when I choose something like Ford Mustang which produces 300+ Mustangs to shuffle, it takes quite some time to reorganise. I save the slide show, so when I go to the next car show and add another 20 or so Mustangs, I then at least have a head start to manually shuffling them back into the slideshow in the correct places.

It would be really great to have a single numerical field in the database - in my case always the title field - that I could tell the filters to sort by, which would save me hours of work

Report · Jan 06, 2017

Feature requests should go to Photoshop Family Customer Community

Report · Jan 08, 2017

The Data Explorer plugin will let you sort by pretty much any field, e.g. Title.

Report · Jan 09, 2017

This is an Export Filter as I read it.

I am not exporting anything, I am simply trying to use metadata to produce a slideshow within Lightroom - In the Lightroom Slideshow Module.

I am trying to use the Metadata that is presented in the Library Filter of the Library Module.

I am using the Title Field, populating it with the year of manufacture for everything I photograph, then by viewing the Title Field in the Library Grid, I have to manually shuffle the the photos into year order to get the slideshow as required.

What I am looking for some way of doing is using the Library Filter to perform a sort.

Report · Jan 10, 2017

This is an Export Filter as I read it.

No, it groups and sorts in Library view into collections. But I was mistaken -- it doesn't do Caption and Title.

However, this plugin does sort by Title, Caption, or many other fields into a collection -- I just verified it with my copy: https://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/jbeardsworth/listview/

Report · Jan 10, 2017

Thanks I will explore this one further - It looks much more promising.

Plus - I HAVE EGG ALL OVER MY FACE -

I am using Copy Name NOT Title - may have had a very senior moment when I typed this enquiry

Report · Jan 10, 2017

List View can also sort by Copy (what it calls Copy Name).

Report · Jan 10, 2017

Maybe I don't understand how to use this?

I was expecting when I ran it to see the grid view reorganise itself into the sorted order of the digits I have put into the Copy Name Field.

What ever I have tried I just end up with the Grid looking the same as when I started. Even if go go back and reselect the result under the Data Explorer Filter.

Report · Jan 16, 2017

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Oops, sorry for the delay in responding. In the List View plugin, set the first column to Copy, set Sort By to Copy, and then click the button "Close to (sorted) collection":

The selected photos will be added to the collection List View > Sorted By Copy. If you select that collection and then do View > Sort > Custom Order, you'll see the photos sorted by Copy Name.

Report · Jan 18, 2017

Thanks - done this now. it changes the order in the copy column.

When I click close to (sorted) Collection, I get a new collection with the new name but still in the exact same oder as before I did the sort?

I have tried it several times - selecting all the photos first in the grid, not selecting them all, setting up only 19 test photos to stay in the limit of the software before I prove it and pay some money etc - but I always end up with a new collection which is an exact mirror of the starting collection.