Hi I saw your post and then found something that works for me. Turns out there are a lot of ways to order the images. As evidenced here;
Link to Codex
But I just wanted to define an order of this image and then that one etc. Here is what I did first:
<!-- BEGIN CAROUSEL ================================================== -->[carousel exclude="489,491,529,530,532,536,541,650,3828,3829,3869,3870" orderby ="name" interval="5000" comments="0" file="0"]
<!-- END CAROUSEL ================================================== -->
I added orderby ="name"
which you can see by the codex page I referenced orders by slug. There is a “Slug” field for each image. I simply prepended each image in that carousel with a letter (numbers aren’t advisable), so the first image I wanted to show up now has a Slug starting with “a-” and the second image in order is now “b-“.
Worked like a charm for me. Hope for you too!