Sort by creation date

Tometa · Post by **Tometa** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:06 am

Hi!
Sorting or arranging images in list is done by modification date (changed date). Therefore, if some image is rotated after downloading from camera it appears on wrong place in timeline. Is there any way to sort images by creation date (date created) in image list?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:38 pm

You can use the 'change time stamp' function and change the date and time to the EXIF date and time.

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:45 pm

Anonymous wrote:You can use the 'change time stamp' function and change the date and time to the EXIF date and time.

This is a good way to fix the problem for files that you have rotated already.

An easier way and direct way is to check
[x] Keep original date & time attributes
in the dialog "JPG lossless rotation. When activating this setting, the timestamp of your JPG file will remain unchanged and sorting will work.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:36 pm

helmut wrote:An easier way and direct way is to check
[x] Keep original date & time attributes
in the dialog "JPG lossless rotation. When activating this setting, the timestamp of your JPG file will remain unchanged and sorting will work.

But it works only for changes in that dialog, not for rotation in viewer, as I tried.

Thank you all!

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:49 pm

Anonymous wrote:
helmut wrote:An easier way and direct way is to check
[x] Keep original date & time attributes
in the dialog "JPG lossless rotation. When activating this setting, the timestamp of your JPG file will remain unchanged and sorting will work.
But it works only for changes in that dialog, not for rotation in viewer, as I tried.

I understand. If possible, you should use the JPG lossless rotation for correcting the orientation of JPG image rather than normal rotation:

- Normal rotation
Normal rotation is good if an image was taken and you now want to rotate the image a bit with arbitrary angles. But quality will be affected a bit and some quality is lost
1.) when rotating
2.) when saving the image as JPG (even 100% JPG quality is lossy)

- JPG lossless rotation
JPG lossless rotation allows only 90, 180 and 270 degree rotations, but as the name says it is lossless. For just correcting the orientation of your JPG images, you should use the JPG lossless rotation. See also hints on automtatic orientation in topic 'Automatic EXIF orientation'