Photoshop Elements /
Organizer / 2 - More Basics
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 bottom of the screen.
Tags are key words about a photograph.
On the right side of the Organizer, in the Organize bin, in the
Organize palette, go to Tags > New > New Category.
Create a tag category called Restaurants.
Tags for the above photograph include créperie, France, and sidewalk.
Go to Tags > New > New Tag.
Create tags for créperie, France, and sidewalk, under the tag
category that you created, Restaurants.
Next, drag all of your restaurant photographs onto the tag category
Restaurants.
Then, drag all of your restaurant photographs onto the tag France,
and onto any other tags that apply.
When you click the empty box next to sidewalk, making a binoculars
icon appear, all of your photographs with that tag will appear.
You can click more than one binoculars icon to narrow a search.
The tag category and tags appear when you place the cursor on
the tag icon, here a blue house, below the thumbnail.
If you have non-restaurant photographs from your trip to France,
create tag categories and tags for them as well.
You can also use tags to rate your photographs.
Go to Deleting
& Sorting.
The term collection is used in Photoshop Elements
5.0, and album is used in 6.0.
On the right side of the Organizer, in the Organize palette,
go to Collections > New > New Collection.
Create a collection called France 2006.
Press Ctrl + a to select all of your France 2006 photographs.
Then, click one of the thumbnails, hold, and drag all of the
thumbnails onto the collection.
Now, when you want to look at them, go to Collections > France
2006.
The collection name appears when you place the cursor on the
collection icon, a blue album, below the thumbnail.
Collection Groups
You can also create collection groups.
A collection group is just a folder that contains related collections.
So, you could create a collection group called Paris 2006.
Then, create collections under the group, such as Restaurants,
People in Cafes, and so forth.
Do the following.
1) Go to Collections > New > New Collection Group.
2) Create a collection group called Paris 2006.
You now have a top folder, a collection group, for all of your
Paris 2006 collections.
Now, make some collections to go into the collection group.
3) Make sure the group is active (highlighted).
4) Go to Collections > New > New Collection.
5) Create a collection called Restaurants.
Other Ways to Find Your Photographs
As described above, you can find your photographs by clicking
on collections, tag categories, or tags, in the Organize palette.
You can also click Date View at the bottom of the screen.
Then choose Year, Month, or Day.
To return to the regular view, click Photo Browser at the bottom
of the screen.
To see all of your photographs, click Back To All Photos.
Go to the Find menu for many more search options.
You can set the Organizer to automatically get new photographs
that appear in folders you specify.
Go to File > Watch Folders.
In the Watch Folders window, select Notify Me or Automatically
Add Files to Organizer.
You can add a caption and notes to a photograph in the Properties
palette, on the right side of the Organizer in the Organize bin.
The the palette isn't present in the Organize bin, go to Window
> Properties.
Click General Properties, and enter the caption and notes in
the boxes.
There are many other ways you can add a caption.
You can stack photographs on top of each other.
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 arrow symbol on the right side of the thumbnail 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.
