iPhoto: Export photos and maintain manual ordering

April 5, 2007

I was looking for a way to export photos from an album in iPhoto that would name the files numerically, like 0.jpg, 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc. This would make it possible for others to easily view them in, say, Windows Explorer, in the order I intended.

After almost giving up, my last attempt was trying to export them as a web page and it turns out it works!

First open the album you want to export, press Cmd+A to select all photos, click File > Export and select the “Web Page” tab. Then, enter 9999 (or a sufficiently high number) in “Max width” and “Max height” fields in the “Image” group box.

After clicking “Export” and selecting an output folder, three subfolders will be created within it. One of them, named “<album name>-Images”, will contain the photos numbered numerically, in the order they appeared in the album.

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