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Note: Lightroom 4 Beta
Photoshop Elements: Split Toning, Tips: Passage of Time & Organize Your Photographs (Revised)
Thumbnails will appear in the Organizer of your restaurant photographs.
You can change the size of the thumbnails.
Click, hold, and drag the slider at the top of your screen.
On the right side of your screen, there's the Task pane.
It contains three panes.
• Albums
• Keyword Tags
• Properties
The panes are opened and closed by clicking the tiny white triangles.
You can make them shorter or taller.
Place the cursor over the border between panes, and click, hold, and drag.
If you don't see the Properties pane, go to Window at the top of your screen and select Properties.
If the Properties pane opens outside of the Task pane, drag it into the Task pane.
To create a new Album, in the Albums pane, click the green + icon, and select New Album.
Enter the album name, and click Done.
An Adobe window will open.
Click Cancel, and then click Done, again.
You now have a new album.
To move an album, click the album, hold, and drag.
To delete an album, click the album, hold, and drag it on the trash can icon.
Here are the other key choices in the green + icon menu.
• Smart Album
A Smart Album is where the Organizer searches for photographs that have certain keywords.
For example, let's say you like to photograph doors.
And, you tag ("label") your doorway photographs with the keyword door.
Then, you set up a Smart Album with door as its search criterion.
Your door photographs are still scattered in many albums.
But, they're also gather together in the Smart Album called Doors.
• New Album Category
An album category is a group of related albums.
For example, you could have an album category of Family.
Within the Family album category, you would create albums, such as Relatives, Birthdays, Graduations, and so forth.
• From File
If you have a folder in My Pictures or Pictures, you can import it as an album.
Tags are keywords about a photograph.
Tags allow you do find and sort photographs.
You can see default tags in the Keyword Tags pane.
You can create new ones, as well as categories for them.
Go to the green + icon menu.
In the Keyword Tags pane, the view is set by default as the list of the tags with their icons.
That's the icon with the blue rectangle and brown list.
If you click the cloud icon, the tags are arranged as text only.
If you click the face-and-shoulders icon, the Organizer will search your photographs for faces.
Then, you can tag the photographs with the names of the people.
To tag a photograph, click a tag, hold, and drag it on the thumbnail of the photograph.
What if you want to tag a photograph with more than one tag?
Press and hold Ctrl, and click the tags you need.
What if you want to tag more than one photograph with the one or more tags?
Select more than one thumbnail.
Then, click one or more tags, hold, and drag the tag(s) on one of the selected thumbnails.
Tags: restaurant France créperie sidewalk
Tags for the above photograph include restaurants, France, créperie, and sidewalk.
Let's say you have created the above tags: restaurants, France, créperie, and sidewalk.
To the left of the tag icons in the Keyword Tags pane, you'll see empty gray boxes.
When you click one or more of the boxes, a binoculars icon appears.
Let's say you click the empty box for the France tag.
All photographs with France as a tag appear.
If you click the empty box for the restaurant tag, all of the restaurant photographs, taken in France, appear.
The tag category, or tags, appear below the thumbnail.
As described above, you can find your photographs by clicking on albums or tags.
There are three other ways to find photographs.
You can also the Time Line at the top of the screen.
Move the slider backnad-forth.
If you don't see the Time Line, go to Window and select Time Line.
Enter search terms in the Search box.
There are many search choices in the Find menu at the top of your screen.
You can add a caption and notes to a photograph in the Properties pane.
Again:
• If you don't see the Properties pane, go to Window at the top of your screen and select Properties.
• If the Properties pane opens outside of the Task pane, drag it into the Task pane.
You can stack photographs on top of each other.
This done to reduce clutter.
For example, if you took 12 photographs of the above restaurant, you could stack them on top of each other.
Then, when you're looking at your photographs, you don't have to "wade" through so many.
To stack photographs, select the ones you want to stack.
Then right click the photo you want on top of the stack, and go to Stack > Stack Selected Photos.
Click the tiny gray arrow icon on the right side of the stack to see all of the stacked photographs.
A version set is a stack of the same photograph that has been edited.
You can keep the original photograph, and many edited versions of it, together, in a stack.
For more about version sets, go to Saving Files.
When you use Delete from Catalog, the file is not deleted from it's folder.
Only the link to the file is deleted.
In the Delete window, don't select:
Also delete selected item(s) from the hard disk
If you do so, the file is deleted from your computer.
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