Photoshop Elements >
Organizer > 3 - Advanced
Make More Than One Catalog
The thumbnails of your photographs are located in a catalog
called My Catalog.psa
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) In the Organizer, 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.
If you don't, you could loose many hours of work creating
albums and tags.
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.
Press the Esc key of your keyboard to close the slide show.
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 of the program, go to File > Catalog.
2) Click Convert.
3)Select the catalog that you wish to convert 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.
Photoshop Elements stores the tags in the catalog, not as
part of the EXIF file that accompanies every photograph.
Therefore, if you decide to use a different organizing
program, the tags will not be present when using the new
program.
Unless, you add the tags to the EXIF files of your
photographs.
In the Organizer, select 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.
How Many Photographs?
If you're curious as to how many photographs are in the
Organizer, do the following.
1) Go to View > Media Types.
Make sure Photos is selected, and deselect unwanted media
types.
2) Go to View > Hidden Files and select Show All Files.
3) Enter gibberish in the Search box, such q1w2e3r4t5y.
4) The Find bar will appear under the Search box.
Find: Items matching "q1w2e3r4t5y" |
Show All |
Options |
5) Click the Options menu in the Find bar, and look at the
number at the end of Show results that do not match.
That's the number of photographs in the Organizer.
If you're experiencing problems with the Organizer, go to
Organizer Problems.
