Photoshop Elements /
Organizer / 3 - Advanced
Make More Than One Catalog
The thumbnails of your photographs are located in a catalog
called My Catalog.psa
The above file is located in Local Disk (C:) > Program Files
> Adobe > Photoshop Elements > shared_assets > database > odbc.
You can create more catalogs.
For example, family photographs could be in My Catalog, and
work-related photographs could be placed in a catalog called
Work.
Do the following to create a new catalog.
1) Go to Edit > Catalog.
2) Click New.
3) Enter the name of the new catalog.
4) Click OK.
To switch catalogs, do the following.
1) Go to Edit > Catalog.
2) Click Open.
Your camera names your photographs with a few letters and numbers.
You can give the files more meaningful names by using batch rename.
1) Select the files to be renamed.
2) Go to File > Rename.
Enter a name that will appear on all of the files.
For other ways to rename files, go to
Rename Files.
You can make minor lighting and color balance corrections, and
can remove red eye, on many photographs at the same time.
Select the photographs, and then go to Edit > Auto Smart Fix
or Edit > Auto Red Eye Fix.
Let's say you photographed a dog Frisbee tournament on a cloudy
day.
The dogs and Frisbees are bluish from the overcast sky.
To remove the blue color caste, select the photographs, and go
to Edit > Auto Smart Fix.
You can also do more sophisticated batch processing.
Go to Batch
Processing.
You can backup the catalog to discs or to an external hard drive.
Go to File > Backup Catalog and follow the directions.
Viewing Photographs Side-by-side
You'll want to display two photographs side-by-side if you're
selecting the better of the two.
Or, if you've done an experiment, say with white balance, and
you want to compare the differences between two photographs.
1) Open the two files, and select them by clicking on them.
2) Go to View > Compare Side by Side or press F12.
A slideshow-type screen will appear, making it easy to compare
the photographs.
When you use Delete from Catalog, the file is not deleted from
it's folder.
Only the link to the file is deleted.
Don't select:
Also delete selected item(s) from the hard disk
If you do so, the file is deleted from your computer.
When you upgrade from one version of Photoshop Elements to
another, you have to convert the catalog.
According to Adobe, when you convert the catalog for use in the new version,
the old catalog is not changed.
So, if something goes wrong during the conversion, you can
return to the older version of Photoshop Elements and its catalog.
Do the following.
1) In the Organizer of the new version, go to File > Catalog.
2) Click Convert.
3) Select the catalog that you wish to use from the list.
The catalog is probably called My Catalog.
4) Click Convert.
5) When the conversion process is finished, click Done.
6) In the Catalogs box of the Catalog Manager window, select
the name of your catalog (probably My Catalog), and click Open.
Adobe
Common catalog
issues when you upgrade to Photoshop Elements 6.0
Photoshop Elements stores the tags in the catalog.
The tags are added to the EXIF file that is part of every
photograph file only when you do the following.
• In the Organizer, you select photographs, and go to
File > Write Keyword and Properties Info to Photos.
• Export files from the Organizer
• Edit a photograph with Photoshop Elements
• Send the photograph as an e-mail from Photoshop
Elements
You can embed the tags into the EXIF file by using the
command mentioned above.
Select the photographs, and go to File > Write Keyword and
Properties Info to Photos.
By embedding the tags, you can use them in other programs
that are compatible with the metadata standards of IPTC
(International Press Telecommunications Council) or XMP
(Extensible Metadata Platform).
Collection names, album names, group names, and the star
ratings, are not tags.
Therefore, they're not embedded.
Once you embed the tags, they can't be removed with Photoshop
Elements.
If you delete a tag from a photograph using the Photoshop
Elements Organizer, the tag will still be in embedded in the
metadata for the photograph.
Location of My Catalog.psa.
My Catalog.psa is the file in which the Organizer stores the
thumbnails, tags, and versions sets.
In Photoshop Elements 6.0. you can use the Catalog Manager.
Go to File > Catalog.
You can also locate My Catalog.psa by going to My Computer > Local Disk
C: > Documents and Settings > All Users > Application Data >
Adobe > Catalogs.
You may not see a folder called Application Data.
If so, it's hidden.
To make it appear, do the following.
1) Go to My Computer.
2) Click Tools at the top of the screen.
3) Click Folder Options.
4) Click the View tab in the Folder Options dialog box.
5) In Advanced Settings, select Show hidden files and
folders.
6) Deselect Hide extensions for known file types.
7) Click OK.
