Organize Tab

Organize tab is a fun one. I added it because moving images around in the index page was too hard. Once I came up with this, I saw other ways to make things easier.

Image Size

Really simple, use the bar to change how big the pictures are. Most of the time you will want them small enough to see them all at once. Then you can drag them into the order you want.

Sorting

While the images are in the order that they were loaded, you can sort them by other fields. Note, there is no "undo" so it is something you want to do when you first start putting them in order, not later.

You can sort by

filename alphabetically
date of the image (uses the date stored in the metadata)
reference number.

Dragging

Image2Web will generate the index page using the images in order. While you can drag the images in the index tab, you can do it here also. Here you can see all of them at once making it easier. Simply drag the images into the order you want them in.

You may not change the order of your images at all. However, if you are telling a story (vacation, wedding, 1st haircut, birthday), you may want to move the images to allow for an introduction, middle, end. Or you may just want to put your favorite images near the top, or group them by subject.

Known bug - if you try to drag an image that has been scrolled, it sometimes does not work correctly.

Propagate

While developing the program, I found that by-hand entering in the data for each image took a lot of time. What we needed was a way to bulk load the metadata, thus Propagate.

Propagate will fill in the metadata values you ask it to. There are three options for filling in the metadata.

Add For Empty Fields Only - it will put the value in to any images which do not already have values there. (e.g. non-destructive add) The best way to use this is if you have values that are already set (such as location, photographer, camera, lens, info1, info2, etc.), then use this option to fill in stuff for the rest.
Overwrite All Entries - it will overwrite any values which are already there. This is great when all your images have the same value (typically photographer, camera, sometimes location, copyright.) You can also use this to blank out the comments field. Also, you can use it at the very beginning to set everything to the same value, then change the images which are different (e.g. most of the images were at the Grand Caynon, but three were in Vegas - start with "All", then change the value for the Las Vegas Images.
All Selected Images- This will add the metadata value to all the images that are selected. This is the most helpful.

Example

If you have 20 images of the Grand Canyon, 3 of Las Vegas and 5 of Lake Powell you can do this.... Select the 3 of Vegas and hit the "Propagate" button. Put in Las Vegas in the Location field and click "Update". Then hit "Done." Then select the Lake Powell images and hit the "Propagate" button. Put in Lake Powell and click "Update." Then switch modes by clicking on the "Add For Empty Fields Only" radio button. Put in Grand Canyon into the Location field and click "Update".

How To

First select your images. You can shift click each one. Or you can drag a region (a square) to select them. Once selected, they will turn blue. You can shift click to unselect them also. To select a large group at once, click in the border near a picture and drag the square.

Once selected, click the Propagate Button. The pane will drop down with the "Selected" option already chosen. Type in the value you want (such as "Grand Canyon" under location), then click the Update Button.