Apple's Photos app on the Mac has a lot of hidden features that you can’t easily discover, because the options don’t live quite where you expect them—especially if you used iPhoto for many years, and still feel like you’re missing features.
Macworld reader Lisa created a Photos album from different camera sources, and dragged the images into the order she wanted. But she then wanted to export these to duplicate this order for creating an album and an archive elsewhere, and was stymied. Is there a way to mark images in sequence?
There is: in the Export dialog.
- Select the images in your album.
- Choose File > Export > Export X Photos. (This also works with Export Unmodified Original.)
- After picking any option in the Photos and Info section, under File Naming, click the File Name pop-up menu and choose Sequential.
- Optionally add a prefix that will be prepended in front of the number assigned in order to each image.
- Click Export.
Voilà! Numbered images in album viewing order.
