Web Photo Gallery tool in PS (CS2)

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Jamie_Ferry
Feb 5, 2007
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Hello. I love and regularly use the Web Photo Gallery option in Photoshop CS2 (found under: File>Automate>Web Photo Gallery in the Windows version of the software) to process pictures for websites. However, I can’t find a way to sequentially order the pictures the way I want (for example, to show a series of steps in a specific order). I’ve tried numbering the pictures, but that doesn’t work because of the goofy numerical sorting done by pcs (you’ll get: 1,11,12,13,2,3,4,5, etc). The only way I’ve been able to get specific order so far is by using letters (a,b,c,d, etc) but that only works up to z, then I have to use aa,bb,cc, etc., where the final sequence will end up being a,aa,aaa,b,bb,bbb,c,cc,ccc, etc. I find this frustrating. Anyone have a solution to this problem?
thanks much!
Jamie
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chrisjbirchall
Feb 5, 2007
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Also, you can sort the images manually in Bridge adn, providing you invoke Web Gallery from the Bridge tools menu, they will remain in sequence regardless of the numbering.

Hope this helps.

Chris.
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Daryl_Pritchard
Feb 5, 2007
Jamie,

It seems everyone is posting similar or related Web Photo Gallery questions lately. At least doing that has prompted me to explore it a bit more myself, specifically in conjunction with using Bridge. So, here is one solution:

Using Bridge, open your folder of images that you’ll create the web gallery for. Arrange the images by moving them around in the thumbnail view until you’ve got the order you desire. Select all images and perform a Batch Rename, building the name perhaps as a meaningful prefix plus an indexed count that is padded to a fixed length, that padding taking care of the "goofy numerical sorting" you referred to.

That done, you can then launch Web Photo Gallery from Bridge (Tools > Photoshop > Web Photo Gallery) and have that selection of images available. If you prefer to wait until later and open Web Photo Gallery from Photoshop, the renamed files should provide an alphanumerically ascending order that Web Photo Gallery will use by default.

As long as you work from Bridge to launch Web Photo Gallery, you don’t have to rename the files since Bridge will handoff the files to Web Photo Gallery in the order desired.

Regards,

Daryl
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Jamie_Ferry
Feb 6, 2007
Thank you Chris. I tried the Bridge idea and like it. One further question: Bridge loads incredibly slow. Are there any tweaks to make it load faster? PS CS2 loads fairly fast in comparison and I have a Pentium M 2.0 GHz, 1.0gig Ram, 7200rpm hard drive (yep, it’s a laptop, but that’s all I have and it works!).
thanks,
Jamie
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Jamie_Ferry
Feb 6, 2007
And thank you Daryl. I really appreciate your detailed explanation, especially since I haven’t really used Bridge much before. I like the Bridge idea. One further question though (as I posted for Chris): Bridge loads incredibly slow. Are there any tweaks to make it load faster? PS CS2 loads fairly fast in comparison and I have a Pentium M 2.0 GHz, 1.0gig Ram, 7200rpm hard drive (yep, it’s a laptop, but that’s all I have and it works!).
thanks,
Jamie
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Feb 6, 2007
If you haven’t used Bridge much, it probably doesn’t have a cache built up, so every time you open a folder it has to try to construct thumbnails and previews of every file. The remedy is to go to the top of your image file hierarchy, tell bridge to build cache for subfolders, and go to bed, letting it work overnight. Next day Bridge will be quite snappy instead of laggy.
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chrisjbirchall
Feb 6, 2007
Just to add to Michael’s accurate and valid suggestion:

Make sure you don’t have Photoshop’s memory allocation set too high in Preferences. PS ships with 55% as the default. As you only have 1GB of RAM, you may want to lower this a little. Bridge runs outside of the memory allocated to PS itself, so is easily starved of resources. (Better still, get another Gig of RAM!)

Whilst in Preferences, set the file handling to "Always Maximize Compatibility" This will force Photoshop to include a composite version of layered files when you save PSDs, which will speed up the thumbnail and preview making process in Bridge.

Hope this helps.

Chris.
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Jamie_Ferry
Feb 6, 2007
Thanks Michael & Chris. Your expert help is very much appreciated. have a great day,
Jamie

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