Organize - Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 for Photographers - page 74

added in the window. After setting up a new Album for the download, clicking OK will close
the Settings window and Get Photos will download the pictures and add them to the new
Album.

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Keyword Tags and Albums
are used to organize the
pictures in the Organizer
workspace. One photo can
belong to many different
Albums and contain mul-
tiple tags but it is only
stored once in the catalog.
(1) Keywords Tags panel
(2) Organizer thumbnail
with Keyword Tags
(3) Keywords Tags listed in
the Properties dialog.

Organizing and searching features
The Organizer workspace not only provides thumbnail previews of your photos but images
can be categorized with different tags (keywords), notes and caption entries, split in different
Albums (Collections) and then searched for based on the tags and metadata associated with
each photo. Also, photos that are alike in appearance or subject matter can be stacked or
grouped together. Unlike a traditional browser system, which is folder based (i.e. it displays
thumbnails of the images that are physically stored in the folder), the Elements Organizer
creates a catalog version of the pictures and uses these as the basis for searches and orga-
nization. With this approach it is possible for one picture to be a member of many different
albums and to contain a variety of different keywords.

Tagging your photos
Keyword Tags are simple descriptors which can be added to your photos and used to help
organize your images. The Keyword Tags panel stores the tags, provides an easy drag-and-
drop approach to adding tags to selected photos, and sits to the right of the main thumbnail
area in the Organizer workspace. The pane is no longer grouped together with the Albums
panel. Instead it is positioned on the right of the workspace with the Info and Instant Fix
panels. Tags are applied to a picture by selecting and dragging them from the panel onto
the thumbnail or, alternatively, the thumbnail can be dragged directly onto the Tags pane.
Multiple tags can be attached to a single picture by multi-selecting the tags first and then
dragging them to the appropriate thumbnail.