Manual sorting is a super easy drag-and-drop solution to sorting your images and templates in the Event Window.

We’ve added a new option to the ‘Sort By’ drop down list, called “Manual”. It’s the default option when the window opens.

While this option is selected you can manually drag and drop images or templates to new locations within a Group or Collection. Very handy if the default order options (eg date-and-time or file name) don’t work for you.

Here’s an example…

Say you wanted the B&W image to be the third image in the sequence.

With Manual selected in the Sort By menu, drag and drop the image between the last two images.

Now you can re-sort by date-and-time, filename or whatever, then go back to Manual where Photojunction will remember the changes you made.

Cheers, Nigel

We read this by Finao recently :

InDesign is becoming more and more popular for album design work, however, we do not recommend it for new designers. Unless you know your stuff with InDesign and consider yourself an InDesign master, don’t use it… There are more variables and settings to check with InDesign. Wrong settings and improperly sized linked images are easy to miss and are common problems we have seen with inexperienced (and even some experienced) users… We have also experienced more problems with file corruptions during upload with improperly exported or converted InDesign files. Let this serve as your warning, use InDesign at your own risk.

Finao have an excellent point, and you won’t be surprised if I agree and maybe add to what they’re saying.

InDesign and Photoshop don’t design “real” physical products (and generally the tools that are based on them don’t either). Instead they’re entirely dependent on the user to create a design that complies with all the producer’s requirements, whether that be a book, a magazine, a poster, an album or whatever.

One of the major problems album manufacturers can have is when the orders they receive are not “ready for production”. Here’s a great example.

I believe photographers are familiar with the problem with respect to labs, but in fact it’s far more difficult for album manufacturers. As one example, Asuka’s File Checker is an attempt to address it, by stopping users from sending problematic orders.

And that’s why PJ has built-in presets for both labs and album manufacturers. Not very sexy but very practical.

There is a lot to choosing an album design tool but getting orders to your album manufacturer and lab that are accurate, complete and ready for production is an important consideration.

Warm regards, Danny

Johannes accused us of hiding our light under a bushel. Not very nice. Is it our fault his friend doesn’t know Remix can export HD slideshows? Probably, so here goes.

Remix can export HD slide shows … or iPhone slide shows … or … why not customise?

Just have a play with the Movie Size pop-up on the slide show settings window. My favourite is Custom, so I’m not stuck with the pre-sets.

Cheers, Ian