Importing, Managing, and Saving Photos - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 51

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If you want to search for duplicates among the images already on your computer, in the
Organizer, go to Find→By Visual Searches→“Duplicate photos,” or click the little mag-
nifying glass at the top of the Organizer and choose “Duplicate Photo Search.” Unfortu-
nately, either method just makes Elements perform a visually based search, and while it
will probably find some duplicates this way, it's also likely to find a lot of photos you
don't consider duplicates. However, you can put your cursor over a thumbnail to see the
image's name, creation date, and size, so you have more help in deciding which images
are truly duplicates. To get rid of the duplicates, select them, and then click the “Remove
from Catalog” button at the window's lower left.
The right side of the advanced dialog box is where you can adjust the settings for where your
pictures are stored on your computer and how their folders are named. Most of these choices
are the same ones you get in the Photo Downloader's standard dialog box ( The Photo Down-
loader ) , but you also get a few extras:
▪ Automatically Fix Red Eyes . If you turn this checkbox on, Elements searches through
all your newly imported photos looking for people with red eyes (caused by camera
flash) and fixes them automatically. It sounds great, but it's not 100 percent reliable and
tends to “fix” things like bright white teeth as well. Fortunately, these changes aren't per-
manent, because Elements makes a version set ( Saving Your Work ) with your original, so
you can ditch the new version if you don't like what Elements did. But the extra time it
takes for Elements to analyze all your photos and the time you'll waste looking for mis-
takes mean you're better off leaving this option turned off and using another method to
fix red eyes later. See Fixing Red Eye for more about Elements' Red Eye Removal tool.
(You may find that, to keep this setting from turning itself back on again, you also need
to turn off Automatically Fix Red Eyes in the Organizer by going to Edit→Preferen-
ces→“Camera or Card Reader”/Elements Organizer→Preferences→“Camera or Card
Reader.”)
▪ Automatically Suggest Photo Stacks . The Organizer lets you group related photos to-
gether into stacks . Turn on this checkbox to use the auto-stack feature, where Elements
automatically finds photos that should be grouped together. This feature works best for
photos taken in your camera's burst (rapid advance) mode—in other words, photos of the
same subject taken in quick succession.