How can I add a subscriber to a Photos album - without the order of pictures being scrambled!

Again

shared albums are a photo stream and are displayed in the order added and you can not change that and adding a subscriber does not change that

and as to system 10 - no idea what that is - the current software is High Sierra 10.13.2 - there is nothing I am aware of on a Mac named system 10

there is no 'little person in teh up-per right' to give an email address to!

Sure there is if you are up to date

LN

I guess I could add an extra photo to sereve as a 'Covere photo,

Do that.

Shared albums are really essentially streams and not albums. Just don't expect to be able to use them like albums. Previously, they were called "Shread Photo Streams", and then nobody expected to be able to arrange the photos or to select a cover photos. The shared albums are a communication channel, where you occasionally drop a photo in to send to someone, and the recipient adds a comment or another photo as a reply. The most recently added photo will show as the cover for easy access to the new photos.

if you want to add the photos one-by-one to ensure they are sorted correctly, invite the people to view the shred album only after you are done. The recipients will receive an alert, that new photos have been added, whenever you add photos, and it would be inconsiderate to cause hundreds of alerts about new pictures.

if I share it the order is scrambled

you add a subscriber by opening the shared album and clicking on the little person in teh up-per right and adding the person's email

adding a subscriber does not scramble the order of the photos - it does not change the order at all - share albums are a photo stream and are displayed in the order added and you can not change that and adding a subscriber does not change that

LN

The only way I seem to be able to make it a *shared* album is to create a new shared album, then select all the photos in my original album, and ask for them all to be included in my 'Shared' album. But when the process is finished (takes a minute or two) I find the photos are in no logical order at all.

Create the shared album, empty.

Then open your sorted album with the photos you want to share and select each photo individually, and add it to the shared album, exactly in the order you want the photos to appear in the album. Do not share more than one photo at once, or the order of the photos may change in the shared album.

what I presuemed would be easy is in fact impossible, at least on a Mac.

if what you presumed to be easy was adding a subscriber to a shared album without scrambling the order (your original question) then it is easy as I described and illustrated

If what you presumed to be easy was changing the order of an existing shared album then it is impossible as, for the third time, photos in a share album (really a shared photo stream) are ordered in the order added to the shared album

shared albums are a photo stream and are displayed in the order added and you can not change that and adding a subscriber does not change that

In the future is it best to learn how to use software rather than presume that it works the way you would like it to - nothing in the world is every going to always work the way you presume it will nor is it reasonable to expect it to

And

I'm on System 10.11.6,

is not system 10 - it is system 10.11.6

LN

Create the shared album, empty.

Then open your sorted album with the photos you want to share and select each photo individually, and add it to the shared album, exactly in the order you want the photos to appear in the album. Do not share more than one photo at once, or the order of the photos may change in the shared album.

just follow the directions - nothing about opening two windows - open the sorted album and drag the photos one by one to the empty shared album in the sidebar as directed

LN

In Photos 3.0 on High Sierra the sidebar will always show, unless you are in Full Screen mode.

To open the sidebar in an earlier version of Photos choose "View > Show Sidebar" or enter the key combination option-command-S. ⌥⌘S

I am always keeping the sidebar open. It makes working with Photos much more convenient.

If you do not want to have the sidebar revealed, you can use the Share command to to add each selected photo individually to the shared album.

Anthony Jackson3 wrote:

On my Mac I don't get a sidebar. Nor indeed any directions. So I'll stick with what works, unless any one knows a better way.

then you are not up to date and unless you tell us what you have we have no way of knowing - on older, out of date versions of Photos you show the side bar under the view menu ==> show sidebar

and the directions for doing this have been posted several times

Create the shared album, empty.

Then open your sorted album with the photos you want to share and select each photo individually, and add it to the shared album, exactly in the order you want the photos to appear in the album. Do not share more than one photo at once, or the order of the photos may change in the shared album.

LN