Sorting Photos

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

This tutorial explains how to automatically sort digital photos in Embird. The sorting is done based on the "date taken" information stored in the digital photo file. Embroidery designs do not contain such information; therefore, this command does not allow you to sort them.

Note: See also the tutorial Sorting Designs and Images in Embird, which explains manual sorting of designs and photos.

1 - Run Embird; it will start in "Manager" mode.

2 - Select the "Right Panel > Image Operations > Sort Photos" menu (Picture No. 1).

1. Select "Right Panel > Image Operations > Sort Photos" menu

3 - A dialog box will appear on the screen (Picture No. 2). Click the button in the red square to browse and select the Source folder which contains the digital photos.

2. Sort Photos dialog box

4 - Browse and select the Source folder which contains the digital photos (Picture No. 3). It might contain other sub-folders with photos - in this example, the photos were copied from a digital camera to folders "New 1" and "New 2".

3. Select source folder

5 - Specify the Destination folder or leave the box empty if it is the same one as the Source folder (Picture No. 4). This is the folder where sorted photos will be placed.

6 - Click the "OK" button to start sorting. Before you click this button, consider changes to other settings - if you want to keep the sub-folder names ("New 1" and "New 2" in this example), then select the option "Keep sub-folder names". If you want to copy the photos from the source folder to the destination folder and keep them in the source folder, select the option "Copy files" instead of "Move files". Another option allows you to choose which part of the date taken information will be used for sorting (year, year and month, etc.). Finally, the last setting allows you to choose the way of creating folders with sorted files - either a hierarchical folder structure or an equal-depth folder structure.

4. Check settings and start sorting

7 - When the sorting operation is completed, its result is shown on the screen (Picture No. 5).

5. Operation Result

8 - Back in Manager, you can check the results - the new sub-folders (year 2018, month 07, days 12, 13, etc.) were created in the Destination folder and the photos were moved there (Picture No. 6). Now it is easier to find a photo taken on a specific date.

6. Check results of sorting

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