Skip to main content
D.A.R
Legend
April 13, 2011
Released

P: Search or Filter by Pixel Dimensions, Long Edge Dimension & Aspect Ratio

  • April 13, 2011
  • 43 replies
  • 3205 views

I have the need to search for images based on their pixel dimensions. For example I want to find images that have a horizontal or vertical dimension of more than 1000px. The pixels dimensions are recorded in the metadata but I cannot see a way of searching or filtering by such criteria.

43 replies

Participant
August 29, 2025

I wrote a python program that searches aspect ratio then subgroups by dimensions then scans for patterns to further meta data optionally email me <email redacted>

johnrellis
Legend
July 14, 2025

"we can't sort by ... pixel dimensions"

 

That has been added in the years since this Idea was first posted: In the toolbar at the bottom (View > Show Toolbar), click the Sort drop-down menu and select Pixel Dimension. That will sort the visible photos by their longest edges.

BK_2069
Known Participant
July 14, 2025

It's been like 20 years we can't sort by file size or pixel dimensions... WTF Adobe? I get there are like 20 plugins for this, but seriously this would take a developer about 1 day.

johnrellis
Legend
March 28, 2023

Which missing functionality are you missing?  This thread wasn't well-curated and mixes lots of things together.

Participant
March 27, 2023

The links to new conversations all seem dead. Is there a current thread addressing this issue? I have many thumbnails or super small images in the 108K files I've been accumulating for two decades. 

johnrellis
Legend
August 10, 2019
Participating Frequently
August 10, 2019
REALLY WOULD LIKE THIS OPTION!!!
PhotoBean
Participating Frequently
February 20, 2019
Wellie, welly, well, my Droogies.  Here it is 8 years later and still no sort by size in Lightroom CC.  Much caring about customers, yes.....
 
johnrellis
Legend
December 20, 2018
Merging with more appropriate topic.

Please reference the new conversation here: Lightroom: Sort by file size
johnrellis
Legend
December 20, 2018
Merging with more appropriate topic.

Please reference the new conversation here: Lightroom: Filtering on crop ratio