Importing, Managing, and Saving Photos - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 86

▪ From the Organizer . First, Ctrl-click/ ⌘ -click the photos you want to include to select
them. Then, go to the Albums panel ( Media View ) and click the green + sign. In the New
Album panel that appears on the right side of the Organizer window, name your album
and assign it to a category (explained in a moment) if you wish, and then click OK. Your
new album joins the list of albums.
You can also make an album from files anywhere on your computer, even if they're not
in the Organizer, by heading to the Albums panel and clicking the tiny arrow to the right
of the green + sign, and then selecting “Import Albums from File.”
▪ From the Editor . In the Editor, you can create an album from the Photo Bin's Bin Ac-
tions menu ( The Panel Bin ).
NOTE
No matter which method you use to make an album, it will appear in the lists of albums in
both the Organizer and the Editor (in the Photo Bin's Show menu).
To see the photos in an album, just click its name in the Albums panel. To return to viewing
all your photos, click the Back button at the top left of the thumbnail area.
You can also create album categories , which are just what they sound like: they let you
group albums into categories to make them easier to keep track of (handy if you have lots of
albums). To make an album category, go to the Albums panel, click the tiny arrow to the
right of the green + sign, and then choose New Album Category. Name your category, and it
appears in the Albums list. To add albums to it, just drag their icons onto the category's
name. To remove an album from it, click the flippy triangle to the left of the category's name
so you can see all the albums it contains, and then right-click the album you want to remove
and choose Edit. In the Edit Album panel that appears on the right side of the Organizer win-
dow, click the Category drop-down menu and choose “None (Top Level).” Then click OK at
the bottom of the Edit Album panel.
You can also create subcategories within categories. To do that, in the Albums panel, click
the tiny arrow to the right of the green + sign and choose New Album Category. Then name
your subcategory and, in the Parent Album Category drop-down menu, choose the main cat-
egory under which you want it to appear. The new category appears as a subcategory of the
original one.