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Inspiring
August 7, 2015
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P: Sort by more fields, sort by multiple fields

  • August 7, 2015
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Metadata fields provide an opportunity to liberate us from the difficulties of using the file system (filenames and directories) for sorting and searching. The Lightroom sort options should take advantage of this. I would particularly like to sort on the Title and Caption fields, and to use multiple sort criteria, as in Sort by Title and then by Capture Time.

46 replies

Inspiring
July 9, 2016


sorting grid images by their titles or captions would go a long way to allowing flexible arrangement of images for varied destinations.
Geoff the kiwi
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 24, 2016
That is a bug!!! 😞
johnrellis
Legend
May 24, 2016
Luc posted his reply 4 years ago, but it was just merged with this topic. Unfortunately, the Get Satisfaction software doesn't show the original date.
Geoff the kiwi
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 24, 2016
Luc, nothing will be done with Lightroom 4 which has long finished.
Participant
May 24, 2016


LR4 :I 'd like to sort out pictures by the gps tag or by location, directly in the library module.
Participant
May 24, 2016


Feature Request: Please add the ability to sort by Copy Name. Thanks.
Participant
May 24, 2016


I want to sort my images by TITLE. Can this be done in Lightroom 4.4?
Participant
May 24, 2016


Can we get the ability to sort photos by dimentions in Lightroom CC. I'm using photos for a video presentation and need photos large enough to allow zooming in to show features. This is avaiable in Photoshop Bridge, but Lightroom is far more efficient at this. In the past, I believe that you've wanted to induce folks to buy photoshop, but now anyone with Lightroom CC also has photoshop anyway so no reason to cripple lightroom CC.
Inspiring
May 24, 2016


I shoot multiple exposure, and in LR, I will choose 3,4,5,6 exposures to combine to make one image. I'd really like to be able to sort my stacks by number of images in each stack


I'm sure I'm not the only person who does this, and it would really be a very useful time saving sort option
Participating Frequently
May 24, 2016


The sort by functionality in ligthroom is very limited and when exporting web libraries the order of the web library is dictated by the sort order in lightroom, hence managing large libraries that need to be regularly exported for web is very cumbersome...