PSE albums: same picture twice?

[Van_Epscheuten]

Is it possible to have a single picture appear twice in a single album at different positions?

[99jon]

Yes it can be done but you need to create a duplicate. Select your thumbnail and go to the Organizer menu and choose:

File >> Export As New Files

Save a copy to your pictures folder or wherever you prefer. Go to your folder after export and re-name the file. I usually add -2 to the original name. Then import into Organizer and drag it into your album. If you set the sort order to “Album Order” you can drag each image into a fixed position. See images below.

[Van_Epscheuten]

Thanks for your  answer, 99jon. I understand that I might solve my problem by creating one or more duplicates. And I'm willing to believe that duplicates might be the only solution. The reason that I would like to circumvent duplicates and would like to have a single picture/single file is that duplicates may, in the future, diverge by editing at a later stage. If I edit one of the twins (and forget that I'm dealing with twins), they are no longer twins, if you know what I mean. They then are two different files.

[99jon]

I know what you mean but I don’t know of any other method. It is possible to have the same image in multiple albums but not multiple times in the same album.

[Greg_S.]

Van_Epscheuten  wrote

The reason that I would like to circumvent duplicates and would like to have a single picture/single file is that duplicates may, in the future, diverge by editing at a later stage. If I edit one of the twins (and forget that I'm dealing with twins), they are no longer twins, if you know what I mean. They then are two different files.

If you stack the images, either by creating a version set when duplicating them (in the Editor, using Save As) or by manually creating a stack (if you use John's Export method), you will be better able to keep track of your "twins" when editing them later.