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Places view and the process is the same. There's one important difference, though: Tags you
create this way have
no
GPS location data associated with them.
Editing and Deleting Place Tags
To remove either kind of place tag from a photo, in Media view, right-click/Control-click the
tag icon below the image, and then choose “Remove from [name of place]” from the pop-out
menu. You can also edit a tag's name by right-clicking/Control-clicking it in the Tags panel,
and then choosing Rename from the pop-out menu.
To completely delete a place tag from Elements, right-click/Control-click the tag in the Tags
panel, and then choose Delete. When you delete a tag, any sub-tags of it
also
get deleted. So
if you have photos tagged, say, “United States, North Carolina, Linville Falls,” deleting the
United States tag also deletes the North Carolina and Linville Falls tags, as well as any other
tags that are below the United States tag.
Working with Events
After learning about all the effort involved in tagging people and places (if your camera
doesn't have GPS), you'll be pleased to know that Elements can deal with events
automatic-
ally
. The first time you enter Events view by clicking its tab at the top of the Organizer win-
dow, you see a whole lot of empty gray space with no photos, and a message suggesting you
try Smart Events. Click the Events/Smart Events switch at the top left of the window and
presto! Elements fills the window with piles of photos, all neatly divided based on when they
were taken. As with the program's other views, you can move your cursor across an event's
pile to see preview thumbnails of all the photos, or double-click one to see an expanded
view.
You can name an event to make it easier to search for later on. To do that, either right-click/
Control-click the event's stack and choose Name Event(s), or click the stack to select it and
then click the Name Event(s) button at the bottom of the screen. Either way, in the Name
Event window that opens, type a name for the event and, if necessary, use the Start Date and
End Date fields to adjust the event's date(s). If you wish, you can add a description, too.
(You can select multiple events before opening the Name Event window, but if you do, they
all get assigned the same name. This is handy when Elements makes multiple events for one
real event in your life.)
You can also create events manually. To do that, click the Events/Smart Events switch above
the image area to set it to Events. Your smart events disappear, and you're back to the empty
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