Importing, Managing, and Saving Photos - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 76

photos in a variety of ways ( A Few More Ways to Share ). You can do all these things from
the bar at the top of the Organizer window.
Working with Folders
If you decide to use the Organizer, you're putting it in charge of keeping track of your pho-
tos. But it can't do that if you move or delete photos from outside the Organizer; if you do,
your photos become unconnected, and you have to help the Organizer reconnect them. So it's
much better to do all moving and deleting from within the Organizer, which includes the
handy Folders panel that makes it easy to move photos around in a way that the Organizer
can keep track of.
To see your folders, head to the panel on the left side of Media view and click the Folders
tab. (If you don't see this panel, click the Show button at the bottom left of the Organizer
window.) This tab is a big improvement over Elements 12, which combined folders and al-
bums into one view.
Adobe gives you two ways to see folders in the Organizer. When you first start out in the
Folders panel, you just see a list of the folders containing the photos currently in the Organ-
izer. In this simple view (which Adobe calls List view ), you can move a photo by simply
dragging its thumbnail from the preview area in the middle of the Organizer window onto the
name of the folder you want to put it in. In List view, you can also right-click/Control-click
any folder to display a pop-out menu that lets you see where it's located in Windows Ex-
plorer or the Mac Finder, watch the folder (if you use Windows—see Opening Stored
Images ) , rename it, delete it, or create an instant album based on it (an album of all the pho-
tos contained in that folder; Elements names the album the same thing as the folder).
That's all well and good, but what if you want to move a photo into a folder that doesn't yet
contain any Organizer photos? Simply click the little four-line square at the upper right of the
Folders panel (circled in Figure 2-11 ) , choose “View as Tree,” and Elements displays an ex-
panded view of the folders on your hard drive. This hierarchical view, aptly called Tree view ,
lets you see all the folders on your hard drive, as Figure 2-11 explains.