Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

[Chris G]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:10:27PM +0200, Frode Petersen wrote:
> Chris G:
>> I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good solution.
>>
>> I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other
>> applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want.
>>
>> I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from
>> various different Digikam albums) and place them in a new album in a
>> specific order which has nothing to do with their dates, alphanumeric
>> file name or anything of that sort (no pun intended!).
>>
>> *Surely* people want to be able to do this.  Currently in my case it's
>> simply because I have taken two sets of photographs of the same trip,
>> one lot in one direction and the other lot in the opposite direction.
>> I want to collate a set of pictures of the trip in 'geographic' order
>> from the best images selected from the two albums.  I can't find any
>> way of doing this apart from laboriously renaming each image as I
>> select it and even then if I change my mind and want to add one in the middle
>> somewhere I've got a horrible re-ordering problem again.
>>
>
> You might have tried this already, but let me explain my approach with 
> digiKam:
>
> I store all images in albums named with year/week the pictures were taken. 
> I label all the pictures with different types of data, one being the 
> occation the image was taken at. I then choose to view the images by label 
> instead of by album.
>
> So, in your case, you could create a label for that trip, and a sublabel 
> for 'preferred to view'. Then show the pictures having that label.
>
... and they'd *still* come out in filename (or possibly date) order
and not the order I want.

-- 
Chris Green