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Duplicate Photo search . Choose this menu item and the Organizer finds all the photos it
thinks might be duplicates. Put your cursor over a photo to see its name, date, and size. If
you're sure the photos are duplicates, click the one you want to remove, and then click
“Remove from Catalog” at the bottom left of the window. It can be hard to tell if the pho-
tos are really duplicates, though, since the thumbnails are pretty small. You can expand
your view by using the Zoom slider at the upper right of the window. If you aren't sure,
you can stack the photos by selecting them, clicking the Stack button (or, if you want to
stack all the photos in a section, clicking the Stack button at the top of that section), and
then expanding the stack in Media view by choosing Edit→Stack→“Expand Photos in
Stack.” This lets you look through larger versions of the photos to see which one(s) you
want to get rid of.
Saved searches . In the search results menu, you can save any of the searches you make
from the search box's menu by clicking the word “Options.” After you've done that, you
can choose this option from the search box's menu to call up your saved searches and use
them again.
If you want to try a different search, click the Close button in the Search Results window or
to the right of the Color/Shape slider in the Search Results window, or click the All Media
button and try again.
In addition to searching from the search box's menu, you can quickly search in the Tags pan-
el ( Media View ). Just click the box to the left of the name of a tag or category, and Elements
finds all the photos associated with it. Click it again to turn off the search results.
Searching by Metadata
As explained on Media View , your camera stores lots of information about your images in
the form of metadata . In the Organizer, you can search by metadata to find, say, all the pho-
tos you took with a particular camera model at a certain aperture and exposure. Figure 2-20
explains how.
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