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Photoshop always opens images in wrong tab order

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
November 17, 2018
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I remember this issue was being discussed many years ago, but I don't see that anything changed.

If I open a sequence of numbered images in Photoshop, they always open in a reversed order. Which means that the last image will always appear in the foremost tab in Photoshop. I would expect some kind of option to arrange that in >Windows>Arrange, but it's not there. This is strange and counter intuitive. I often need to perform repetitive actions on series of images and this problem is driving me nuts, and slows down the workflow... Is there any way dealing with that?

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Chimli Retouch & Motion

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Have you found a solution to this?

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Have you found a solution to this?

By @Chimli Retouch & Motion

I believe that the answer depends on the filenames and where/how the images are being opened.

More information on filenames, exactly how images are opened and screenshots may help.

Chimli Retouch & Motion

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I open them from Lightroom with "Edit in Photoshop". The files are named "Custom name - filename". It has just started to be a problem, they did open after Capture time before, but now when I open them it's no order at all. I want them to be opened after each other since I manually merge bracket photos. Now I have to go to the list and look for filenames and then place correct files togheter. It is very time consuming. Before I could just use ctrl+tab to select next image.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

I wrote a script for that here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/opening-images-in-reverse-order/td-p/11294160

schroef

Inspiring

I noticed the same when using batch. I had a list folder of photos with random numbers going up to 1048 orso.

I noticed it started with the files with 4 digits, then 3 digits, 2digiats and then 1 digit. Nowhere did i found why that is.

I used OSX function to rename everyhting, so i made suffix with 5 digits. Now the order is correct

PS in CS 2018 if i drag it inside the app. The order is correct. This is on OSX though

Grigor Poghosyan

Participating Frequently

because in each tab it opens the first one that ir managed to import first and so on. if you need specific order of tabs , open images in photoshop saperately.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I've just had an idea. Find the images in Bridge, and drag them into the order you want the tabs to appear. Open with Photoshop, and they will open the rearranged order. A bit of messing, but it works. The problem is that if you are going to drag to rearrange them in Bridge, you might as well drag into the required order inside Photoshop.

jane-e

Community Expert

What are these guys making, Trevor.Dennis?

Benjamin Root

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I don’t know the answer to your question off hand. However, you mention repetitive Actions on a batch of images. Perhaps you could use the Batch script along with your Actions to simplify the process?

Trevor.Dennis

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Benjamin Root Hmmm.... that name rings a bell. So where have you been?

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