IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 |
(music playing)
| | 00:05 | Hi, I'm Jan Kabili.
| | 00:06 | Welcome to Photoshop Elements eleven
Essentials, Importing and Organizing Photos.
| | 00:11 | I'll start by showing you how to import
your photos into an organizer catalog.
| | 00:16 | We'll look at ways to review and
evaluate your photos, including viewing photos
| | 00:20 | in a full screen slideshow.
| | 00:22 | I'll cover how to automatically
organize your photos of people, how to map your
| | 00:25 | photos by location, and how
to group your photos by event.
| | 00:29 | I'll explain how to find particular
photos among the many that you've shot.
| | 00:33 | We'll be covering all those features,
plus plenty of other tools and techniques
| | 00:37 | that you'll find in the organizer.
| | 00:39 | So let's get started with Photoshop
Elements eleven Essentials, Importing
| | 00:43 | and Organizing Photos.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| What is the Organizer?| 00:00 | Nowadays, anyone with a digital camera
has the freedom to take lots and lots of
| | 00:05 | photos, but that freedom comes with a price.
| | 00:07 | The more photos you take, the more
important it is to keep them organized so
| | 00:11 | that you can find just the photo you're
looking for later among the hundreds of
| | 00:15 | photos that you may have
scattered across drives and discs.
| | 00:18 | And that's where Photoshop
Elements Organizer can help you.
| | 00:21 | The organizer has lots of options to
help you keep track of your digital photos.
| | 00:26 | Those include features for importing
your photos, for reviewing and evaluating
| | 00:30 | them, for organizing them, and for
finding them later--all of which we'll
| | 00:34 | cover in this course.
| | 00:35 | As you'll learn here, the organizer uses
catalogs--which are databases under the
| | 00:40 | hood--to manage your photos.
| | 00:42 | Your first step in using the organizer
will be to import information about your
| | 00:46 | photos into an organizer catalog.
| | 00:48 | Your next step will usually be to
review and evaluate your photos, and the
| | 00:52 | Organizer offers plenty of options for that.
| | 00:55 | In the organizer's media view, you can
view your photos as thumbnails or single
| | 00:59 | images, access through metadata,
and rank them with star ratings.
| | 01:04 | You also have the option to review
photos in full screen view, where you can
| | 01:08 | apply instant edits and organizing techniques.
| | 01:11 | You can review photos in a simple full
screen slideshow, or compare them side by side.
| | 01:17 | Next, you can choose from a
variety of ways to organize your photos.
| | 01:21 | Virtual albums are useful for viewing
photos located in different folders.
| | 01:26 | Keywords are a powerful way to organize
your photos by searchable subject matter.
| | 01:30 | People view, with it's automatic face
recognition technology, gives you a way to
| | 01:34 | organize your photos by the people in them.
| | 01:37 | Places view offers a map on which to
organize your photos by the locations in
| | 01:41 | which they were shot.
| | 01:42 | And, in events view, photos are
grouped by the events they depict.
| | 01:46 | There are also two views of a
Folders panel that reflect the physical
| | 01:51 | organization of photos and
folders on your hard drives and disks.
| | 01:55 | If you need to move a file or a folder,
you'll do that in the Folders panel
| | 01:59 | inside the organizer to avoid breaking the
links between your catalog and your files.
| | 02:04 | But if those links do break, the organizer
will help you to reconnect missing files.
| | 02:10 | You also can make use of a number
of search options in the organizer.
| | 02:13 | There's a find menu, searching by metadata,
visual similarity searching, and a timeline.
| | 02:20 | All there to help you find just
the photos you are looking for.
| | 02:23 | And you can save your searches to
quickly access the results in the future.
| | 02:27 | Finally, the organizer offer sa backup
utility to keep your photos and your
| | 02:32 | organizational catalogs safe.
| | 02:34 | All of those features will help you
to keep track of your digital photos.
| | 02:38 | But that's half the story, Photoshop
elements is actually two programs in one.
| | 02:43 | In addition to the organizer--which
you'll master in this course--Elements also
| | 02:47 | has an editor for editing
and enhancing your photos.
| | 02:50 | I cover the editor in detail
in another course in the series,
| | 02:54 | Photoshop Elements eleven, Editing and
Retouching, and I invite you to work your
| | 02:58 | way through that course in addition to this one.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Touring the Organizer| 00:00 | Let's take a tour of the organizer to
see how its interface is laid out, and
| | 00:04 | where its major features are located.
| | 00:06 | You can open the organizer from the
welcome screen, which is usually the first
| | 00:10 | screen you'll see when you launch Elements.
| | 00:12 | If you'd rather bypass this welcome
screen and go right to the organizer every
| | 00:16 | time you launch elements, click the
gear icon at the top right of the welcome
| | 00:19 | screen and change this drop down
menu to organizer, and then click done.
| | 00:24 | You can always get back to the
welcome screen if you want to change that
| | 00:27 | back, by going to the help menu at the top
of the organizer and choosing welcome screen.
| | 00:32 | To go from the welcome screen to the
organizer, I'll click this big organizer button.
| | 00:37 | That launches the organizer, which
may take a moment to open because it is
| | 00:40 | a separate program.
| | 00:42 | My organizer is displaying some of
my personal photos at the moment.
| | 00:45 | In the next chapter, I'll show you how
to import your own photos, and the course
| | 00:49 | exercise files into the organizer.
| | 00:51 | But for now, you can just sit back and
watch as I introduce the major features
| | 00:55 | and the layout of the organizer workspace.
| | 00:58 | The organizer offers four different
views, which are named up here across
| | 01:02 | the top of the screen.
| | 01:03 | The Media view, which you see,
is the default view. It displays a
| | 01:07 | thumbnail-size preview of each of the
photos, video files, and other media
| | 01:11 | files that you've imported into the
active organizer catalog. And we'll talk
| | 01:16 | more about catalogs in the next movie.
| | 01:18 | The other three views people, places,
and events, are meant to help you organize
| | 01:23 | your photos in ways that many of us
think about our photos intuitively.
| | 01:27 | We'll be looking at each of those
views in detail in the course as well.
| | 01:31 | The column on the left has a big import
button that you can use to bring photos
| | 01:35 | into an organizer catalog from your
camera or from your computer, which I'll
| | 01:39 | cover in the next chapter.
| | 01:41 | In the column on the left, there are two panels.
| | 01:43 | I'll show you how to use the Albums
panel to make virtual collections of photos,
| | 01:48 | so that you can access photos even if
they're not located in the same physical
| | 01:52 | folder on your computer.
| | 01:53 | And down here is the My Folders panel.
| | 01:55 | This contains at least one photo that
I've already brought into this catalog.
| | 01:59 | If I click on one of these folders, then
in the grid on the right, I'll see just
| | 02:04 | the photos in that folder.
| | 02:06 | If I want to get back to see all of
the thumbnails in this catalog, then I'll
| | 02:10 | click the All Media button.
| | 02:11 | Let's move down to the bottom of the
organizer workspace, where you can see the Taskbar.
| | 02:16 | The Taskbar contains nice big buttons
that are easy to see, and they give you
| | 02:20 | access to some of the things that
you'll often do in the organizer.
| | 02:24 | For example, if you make a change to a
photo, and you want to undo that change,
| | 02:28 | there is an Undo button that you can click here.
| | 02:31 | If you want to hide this panel on the
left, you can click the hide panel button
| | 02:34 | like this, and it
changes to a show panel button.
| | 02:37 | If you click that, that brings the
column on the left back into view.
| | 02:41 | If some of your photos are rotated the
wrong way in this grid, you can rotate
| | 02:46 | them by selecting them in the
grid and clicking the Rotate button.
| | 02:49 | The next three buttons, the add people,
places, and events button, are used to
| | 02:53 | add media to each of the other three
views--the people, places, and events views--
| | 02:57 | that we'll be looking at later.
| | 02:58 | Clicking the Slideshow button will
run an instant slide show of all of the
| | 03:03 | thumbnails that you see here, so that
can quickly review your photos that way.
| | 03:08 | And then, there is a button that takes
you to the editor, where you can edit and
| | 03:11 | enhance your photos.
| | 03:12 | Over here is a zoom slider for making these
thumbnails in the grid bigger and smaller.
| | 03:18 | And there are two buttons, either of
which will open a column on the right.
| | 03:22 | If I click this Instant Fix button,
that does open the column on the right
| | 03:27 | to reveal some instant photo fix options,
which I'll be showing you later in the course.
| | 03:33 | There's also a Tags Info button,
and if I click that, I have access to
| | 03:37 | two different panels.
| | 03:39 | The information panel comes into play if
I select a photo in the grid, and then
| | 03:43 | I can see information about that photo
over here in the column on the right.
| | 03:47 | And the tags panel is the place you'll
go to create and apply keyword tags, as
| | 03:52 | I'll be showing you how
to do later in the course.
| | 03:55 | These two buttons--the Create and Share
buttons--give you access to other parts
| | 03:59 | of Elements, which are outside the
scope of this particular course, but I'll be
| | 04:04 | addressing in future courses.
| | 04:05 | And finally, up at the top of the
screen, you'll find some menus that contain
| | 04:10 | lots of commands for working with your
photos here in the organizer workspace,
| | 04:15 | as we'll see as the course goes on.
| | 04:17 | So that's a quick overview of the
organizer's interface, which has been revamped
| | 04:21 | to make its major features
easier to discover and use.
| | 04:24 | We will work with all of the features I
mentioned here as the course continues.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Moving between Organizer and Editor| 00:00 | One of the basic uses of the
organizer is to give you a visual way to
| | 00:03 | find photos that you want to edit in the
editor, which is a separate part of Elements.
| | 00:08 | So I wanted to take a minute to make
sure you know how to move photos back and
| | 00:13 | forth between the organizer and the editor.
| | 00:15 | The first step is to select the
photo or photos that you want to edit.
| | 00:19 | If I want to edit just one photo, I'll
click on it here in the grid in Media View.
| | 00:24 | If I want to edit more than one photo,
and those photos are contiguous or next
| | 00:29 | to one another here in the grid in Media View,
| | 00:31 | I'll hold the Shift key, and
I'll click on another photo.
| | 00:35 | And that will select that other
photo, and all in between as well.
| | 00:39 | And so, if I were to go to the editor
now, all of those photos would be open in
| | 00:43 | the editor, ready for editing.
| | 00:45 | If I click in a blank area of the
grid, that will deselect everything.
| | 00:49 | Now, I want to show you how to select
photos that aren't next to one another in
| | 00:53 | the grid, non-contiguous photos.
| | 00:55 | I'll click on this photo of a leaf,
and then I'll hold the Ctrl key on a PC--
| | 01:00 | that's the Cmd key on a Mac--and I'll
click on this yellow photo of the tree.
| | 01:05 | So that's how to select non-
contiguous photos in media view.
| | 01:09 | Now I'm ready to open
both photos into the editor.
| | 01:12 | To do that, I'll go to the Taskbar at
the bottom of the organizer, and there
| | 01:17 | I'll click the editor button.
| | 01:18 | That will launch the editor, which is
a separate workspace, so it may take
| | 01:22 | a moment to launch.
| | 01:24 | When it does launch here in the
photo bin, I can see both photos that I'd
| | 01:28 | selected in the organizer; and in the
document window, one of those photos is
| | 01:32 | available for editing.
| | 01:33 | So, let's say I make a
change here in the editor.
| | 01:36 | I'll do something simple, clicking the
Smart Fix button in the column on the
| | 01:40 | right, and then clicking the Auto button.
| | 01:42 | Now, at this point, I
would usually save the image.
| | 01:45 | So now let's say I'm done
making changes to this photo.
| | 01:48 | Now,I want to save the
corrected version of this file.
| | 01:51 | So, I'll go to the File
menu, and I'll chose Save As.
| | 01:55 | In the Save As window that opens,
I can choose the destination for the
| | 01:58 | corrected version of the file.
| | 02:00 | If I'm going to save it back to same
folder as the original, I have to make sure
| | 02:04 | that I don't write over the
original, unless that's my intention.
| | 02:07 | So, I'm going to leave the location set
to the same folder as the original, and
| | 02:12 | then I'm going to come down here and
I'm going to make sure that Include in
| | 02:15 | the Elements organizer is checked.
| | 02:17 | That's important, because if this box
isn't checked then, I would have to import
| | 02:21 | the corrected version manually back
into the organizer, using the Import from
| | 02:25 | Files and Folders command.
| | 02:27 | So I do make sure to check
include in the Elements organizer.
| | 02:30 | There's another check box here,
Save in Version Set with the Original.
| | 02:34 | This is completely optional. I'm going
to go ahead and check that, and as I do,
| | 02:39 | keep your eye on the file name here.
| | 02:41 | When I check Save in Version Set with
the Original, that's telling Elements that
| | 02:45 | I want to keep the original photo, and
have a second photo--the edited version--
| | 02:50 | and that I want to put those together in
a group or a stack, so that I know that
| | 02:55 | they relate to one another.
| | 02:56 | And the fact that the file name has
automatically changed--Elements added the
| | 03:00 | words edited1 to the original file name--
means that there's no chance I'll be
| | 03:04 | saving over the original.
| | 03:05 | I'm going to leave all the other
options at the defaults, and I'll click save.
| | 03:09 | I'll click okay at the JPEG options,
and then to close this photo from the
| | 03:13 | Editor, I'll click the X at the top
right of the document editing window.
| | 03:17 | I'm going to leave the other photo
open for a minute, and I'll jump back to
| | 03:21 | the Organizer by going to the bottom of
the Editor and clicking the Organizer button.
| | 03:25 | There are two things to
see here in the Organizer.
| | 03:28 | First, here's the edited version of the
photo that I just saved from the editor,
| | 03:32 | and you can see that its name
contains that edited1 suffix.
| | 03:36 | The icon on this photo, and the arrow to
the right of the photo, means that this
| | 03:40 | corrected version is an aversion
set--or a stack--with the original.
| | 03:44 | If I want to see the original here on
the face of the organizer, I can expand
| | 03:48 | this stack by clicking this arrow.
| | 03:50 | So here is the original photo and
here is the slightly edited version.
| | 03:55 | I can either leave the stack open like
this so I see both photos; or to save
| | 03:59 | space in my organizer, I can click
this arrow to collapse the two photos.
| | 04:02 | They're both still here.
| | 04:04 | They're just stacked one on top
of the other in this version set.
| | 04:07 | Another thing to notice in the
organizer is that on the photo that's still open
| | 04:11 | in the editor, there's a red band and a
lock that indicates that this photo is
| | 04:16 | open in the editor, and it will stop
me from doing pretty much anything with
| | 04:20 | this photo here in the organizer.
| | 04:21 | So, I want to go back to the editor to
close the photo from the editor, and then
| | 04:25 | this band and this lock will
disappear in the organizer.
| | 04:28 | So I'll go down to the bottom of the
organizer and I'll click the Editor button,
| | 04:32 | and here in the editor I'm just going to
close this photo without working on it.
| | 04:36 | I'll click the X at the top
right of the document window.
| | 04:39 | Because there are no photos left open
in the editor, the editor closes and I'm
| | 04:43 | back in the organizer.
| | 04:44 | And as you can see, the band and the
lock are now gone from this photo and I can
| | 04:49 | work with it here in the organizer.
| | 04:50 | So, that's a look at how to work
with photos between the organizer and
| | 04:54 | the editor.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Working with catalogs| 00:01 | The mechanism that the Organizer uses
under the hood to keep track of your
| | 00:04 | photos is a database.
| | 00:06 | That database is called a
Catalog in Elements parlance.
| | 00:10 | Understanding how an Organizer
Catalog works will helps you maintain the
| | 00:13 | important links between
the catalog and your photos.
| | 00:17 | If you're trying to picture what an
organizer catalog is, you might think about
| | 00:21 | the big card catalog that
you'll find in a traditional library.
| | 00:25 | It almost goes without saying that
the library card catalog itself doesn't
| | 00:29 | contain library books.
| | 00:30 | Instead, it contains cards, each of which is a
record of information about a particular book.
| | 00:37 | Included in that record is an
indication of where that book can be found out on
| | 00:41 | the library shelves.
| | 00:43 | If a book is moved from its original
location on the library shelves, its record
| | 00:48 | will need to be updated or the
book will be considered missing.
| | 00:52 | A Catalog in Elements
Organizer works the same way.
| | 00:56 | It contains a record of each photo,
video, or other media file that you
| | 01:00 | include in that Catalog.
| | 01:01 | That record contains three kinds of things.
| | 01:04 | It contains the Preview Thumbnails that
you see in this Grid; it contains some
| | 01:08 | information about each photo, called
Metadata; and it contains a link to each
| | 01:13 | photo wherever you happen to store
that photo out in your file structure.
| | 01:17 | So, when you're importing photos to an
organizer catalog, as I'll show you how
| | 01:22 | to do in the next chapter, don't be
misled by the word Import that Elements uses
| | 01:26 | to label that process.
| | 01:27 | When you import, you're not actually
importing your photos into a container
| | 01:31 | called a catalog, you're just importing
information about the photos, along with
| | 01:36 | links to the actual photos,
into your Organizer Catalog.
| | 01:39 | There are a couple of consequences of
working with a catalog that you should be aware of.
| | 01:43 | For one thing, remember that the
thumbnails that you see on the face of the
| | 01:47 | organizer are not your actual photos.
| | 01:50 | They're just small copies that are
automatically made for display on the face of the organizer.
| | 01:55 | So don't make the mistake of
throwing away your actual photos in your file
| | 01:59 | system, thinking that you have a
full sized copy here in the Organizer.
| | 02:03 | Second, it's important to maintain
the links between your catalog and your
| | 02:07 | actual photos out in your file
system so that Elements doesn't think the
| | 02:10 | photo has gone missing.
| | 02:12 | That means that once you've included a
photo in the organizer, you should never
| | 02:15 | move it or rename it out
in your operating system.
| | 02:18 | Instead, you should do that sort of
work from inside the organizer, as I will
| | 02:23 | show you how to do later in the course.
| | 02:24 | I'll also show you how to relink a photo,
should it go missing from your organizer.
| | 02:28 | You'll start out with one catalog
that's made out for you automatically.
| | 02:33 | The name of that catalog is My Catalog.
| | 02:35 | You can see its name down here at
the bottom right of the organizer.
| | 02:39 | If you want to create a new catalog or
change the name of this catalog, or move
| | 02:43 | the location of this catalog, then
you'll go to the Catalog Manager, which is
| | 02:47 | located under the File menu.
| | 02:50 | From File, I'll choose Manage
Catalogs to open the Catalog Manager.
| | 02:54 | Here, you can see all the existing catalogs.
| | 02:57 | There's currently just one.
| | 02:59 | And if I select that catalog, I could
then come over here and click Rename to
| | 03:03 | change the name of the catalog, or
Move, to move the physical location of the
| | 03:07 | Catalog file, which is a
separate file from your photos.
| | 03:11 | If your catalog is reacting slowly, you
can try to optimize it to speed it up or
| | 03:16 | you can repair a catalog
that isn't working properly.
| | 03:20 | If you made a catalog in an earlier
version of Elements, you can use the Convert
| | 03:23 | button here, to convert that
catalog into an Elements eleven catalog.
| | 03:28 | You're also offered that opportunity
when you first launch the organizer.
| | 03:32 | From here you can create a new catalog.
| | 03:34 | I recommend that, for the most part,
you stick with one single catalog and put
| | 03:38 | all of your personal files there.
| | 03:40 | That's because you can only see and work
with one catalog at a time, and Elements
| | 03:45 | can only search through one catalog at a time.
| | 03:47 | But there are some special cases in
which you may want to make a new catalog.
| | 03:50 | For example, using Elements on the same
computer, each might want to have
| | 03:54 | his or her own catalog.
| | 03:56 | Another special case where you may
want to have a new catalog is for
| | 04:00 | the Exercise Files for this course,
so that they don't get mixed in with
| | 04:03 | your personal files.
| | 04:05 | So let's make a new Exercise Files catalog.
| | 04:08 | I'll click the New button here.
| | 04:10 | I'll call this Catalog Ex Files. and
I do want to import free music into
| | 04:15 | this Catalog so that I have some background
music that I could use with the slideshow.
| | 04:19 | So I'll check that box and then I'll click okay.
| | 04:24 | That closes the Catalog Manager
and switches me to my new catalog, my
| | 04:28 | Exercise Files catalog.
| | 04:30 | You can see the name of that catalog
down here at the bottom-right of the screen.
| | 04:33 | In this catalog, the only existing
files are the Sample Music files.
| | 04:37 | And each one has a thumbnail here.
| | 04:39 | I don't really want to see these
thumbnails in the Organizer, so I can make them
| | 04:43 | invisible by going up to the
View menu and choosing Media Types.
| | 04:49 | And here, I have a list of all of the
Media Types that you can import into
| | 04:53 | an Organizer Catalog.
| | 04:54 | You can import photos, video clips, audio
clips, Elements projects, and PDF files.
| | 05:00 | Since I don't want to see these music
thumbnails, I'll uncheck Audio here.
| | 05:04 | And the thumbnails disappear,
although that music is still here in the
| | 05:07 | Catalog to be used.
| | 05:09 | Let's say that I needed to switch
back to my other Catalog, the My Catalog.
| | 05:14 | In that case, I could go back to the
File menu, and again choose Manage
| | 05:18 | Catalogs, and select My
Catalog here in the Catalog Manager.
| | 05:22 | But I want to stick with my Exercise
Files catalog open so that I can show you
| | 05:26 | how to import photos from the Exercise
Files into this catalog in the beginning
| | 05:31 | of the next chapter.
| | 05:32 | So, I'll click Cancel here.
| | 05:33 | Now that you know what a catalog is and
how it works, I think you'll be better
| | 05:38 | able to keep your own catalogs in
healthy working order and stay tuned for the
| | 05:41 | next chapter, where I'll cover how to
import photos into an organizer catalog.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
1. Importing PhotosImporting the exercise files| 00:00 | If you're a premium member of the lynda.com
Library or if you're watching this
| | 00:04 | course from a DVD, you have access to
the exercise files that I prepared for the
| | 00:08 | course and that I use as examples in the movies.
| | 00:11 | Now, you don't have to have the
exercise files to work along with me
| | 00:15 | through this course.
| | 00:16 | You can use your own photos. But if you
do want to use the exercise files, I want
| | 00:20 | to show you how to import them into an
organizer catalog so that they're ready
| | 00:24 | to use as we examine the organizer.
| | 00:26 | You can see that I've put my exercise
files out here on my desktop so that
| | 00:30 | they're easy to access.
| | 00:32 | Remember that if you've downloaded your
exercise files, you'll need to extract
| | 00:36 | them from the Zip file so that
you can work with the actual files.
| | 00:39 | I'm going to open my organizer.
| | 00:43 | And you can see, if you look at the
bottom right corner of my organizer, that
| | 00:47 | I'm using the Exercise Files catalog
that I suggested in the last movie that you
| | 00:51 | make to keep your exercise files
separate from your personal files.
| | 00:55 | My Exercise Files catalog is
currently blank and so I want to import the
| | 01:00 | exercise files into this catalog.
| | 01:02 | To do that, I'll go to the Import
button at the top left of the organizer, and
| | 01:06 | I'll choose from Files and Folders.
| | 01:09 | I'll navigate to my desktop and
I'll select the Exercise Files folder.
| | 01:13 | I'm going to leave all the
options down here at their defaults.
| | 01:17 | It's important that Get Photos from
Subfolders is checked, and then I'll come
| | 01:21 | down to the Get Media button and I'll click.
| | 01:23 | And the organizer goes about importing
all the exercise files into the organizer.
| | 01:29 | When the import is finished, here at the
top of the organizer, you'll see Last Import.
| | 01:34 | Click the Back button and that takes
you back to the regular view of all the
| | 01:38 | media in this catalog.
| | 01:39 | Over here on the left side of the
organizer, you'll see a column with an albums
| | 01:43 | and a My Folders panel.
| | 01:45 | If you don't see this column, then come
down to the Taskbar at the bottom of the
| | 01:49 | organizer and click the first
button, which will read Show Panel.
| | 01:52 | Make sure that the arrow to the left of
My Folders is facing down, so that you
| | 01:56 | have access to all the
folders in the My Folders panel.
| | 01:59 | As you work through the course, if you
see that I've clicked on a folder in this
| | 02:03 | panel, go ahead an click on it too,
and that will display just the photos in
| | 02:07 | that particular folder.
| | 02:09 | These folders correspond to the
movies in the course for which there are
| | 02:12 | exercise files; and there will be some
movies that don't have any exercise files,
| | 02:17 | so you won't see a folder here in
the My Folders panel for those movies.
| | 02:21 | Later in the course, I'll show you that
the My Folders panel can be changed to
| | 02:25 | show a hierarchical view, which
you'll access by clicking this button.
| | 02:30 | So there will be some movies
later in the course where you'll see a
| | 02:33 | folder selected here in the
hierarchical folders view, and you can just
| | 02:37 | select the folder here too.
| | 02:39 | So that's a look at how to import the
exercise files into the Exercise Files
| | 02:43 | catalog in the organizer, and how to
access specific folders of exercise files as
| | 02:48 | we work through the course.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Importing photos from your computer| 00:00 | Let's talk about how to import your
own photos into Elements Organizer.
| | 00:04 | I suggest that you start by
importing existing photos, those that you've
| | 00:07 | offloaded from your camera in the past.
| | 00:09 | Once you get those existing photos into
Elements, you'll have a structure into
| | 00:13 | which you can add new photos from your
camera each time you complete a shoot,
| | 00:16 | which I'll show you how to do
in the very next movie.
| | 00:20 | The first step that I'm going to suggest
is an optional one, but I think it's one
| | 00:24 | that will make things
easier for you down the line.
| | 00:26 | And that is to arrange all your
existing photos into a coherent, consistent
| | 00:30 | folder structure on one large internal
or external drive before you import those
| | 00:35 | photos into Elements Organizer.
| | 00:37 | Now, that is optional because
Elements can keep track of photos on various
| | 00:41 | drives, even if those drives are offline.
| | 00:43 | But having all your photos in one
place will mean that you won't have to go
| | 00:48 | searching through closets or boxes for
an old disk or drive when you want to
| | 00:52 | edit a photo in Elements.
| | 00:53 | The structure that I like to use on my
drive is to have one parent folder inside
| | 00:57 | of my Pictures Library, which I name
something like, My Elements Photos.
| | 01:01 | And then inside of that folder, I make
a subfolder for each shoot, and I name
| | 01:06 | the subfolders by date first, and then
I'll add a word or two to identify the
| | 01:11 | subject matter of the shoot.
| | 01:12 | Sometimes that's the place or
sometimes it's the subject.
| | 01:15 | I've already imported some of these
subfolders into my Elements catalog by I
| | 01:19 | haven't yet imported these subfolder.
| | 01:21 | So, let's switch back to the Elements
Organizer to see how to import photos from
| | 01:26 | a drive or disk into an Elements catalog.
| | 01:29 | In the organizer, I switched to My
Catalog, a catalog of my personal photos from
| | 01:34 | the Exercise Files catalog as I
showed you how to do in an earlier movie by
| | 01:38 | going up the File menu and
choosing Manage Catalogs.
| | 01:42 | You can see that I've already
imported some photos into this catalog.
| | 01:45 | Now, I want to import some more existing photos.
| | 01:48 | So, I'll go up to the Import menu.
| | 01:50 | From this menu, I'll choose from Files
and Folders whenever you're importing
| | 01:54 | photos from your computer, from an
external drive, or from CDs or DVDs.
| | 02:00 | In the Get Photos and Videos window
that opens, I'll navigate to the files that
| | 02:05 | I want to bring into the organizer.
| | 02:07 | I could go inside of the Crested Butte
folder and select individual photos, but
| | 02:12 | I know that I want to bring that entire
folder into my Organizer, so I'll just
| | 02:16 | click on the folder.
| | 02:17 | Down here, some of these options are available;
I'm going to leave them all at their defaults.
| | 02:22 | If there were a subfolder inside the
Crested Butte folder that I wanted to bring
| | 02:25 | into the Organizer, I would make
double-sure to have a check mark next to Get
| | 02:29 | Photos From Subfolders.
| | 02:31 | I'll leave these other options
unchecked because I can always perform Red-eye
| | 02:35 | Fixes and Photo Stacking later after
I've imported photos to the program.
| | 02:40 | Now I'll click the Get Media button,
and in just a second, all of the files
| | 02:44 | inside of the Crested Butte
folder appear here in my organizer.
| | 02:48 | This view is just showing the last import.
| | 02:51 | If I want to see all the photos that are now
in my organizer, I'll click the Back button.
| | 02:55 | So here are the Crested Butte photos.
| | 02:59 | And down here are the rest of the photos
that I already had imported into this catalog.
| | 03:03 | And over in the My Folders panel you
can see the Crested Butte folder listed.
| | 03:08 | The Crested Butte folder out on my
hard drive still contains the full
| | 03:12 | sized photos that I shot.
| | 03:14 | Using the Import command
didn't move those photos.
| | 03:17 | What it did do was create a small
preview of each of the Crested Butte photos
| | 03:21 | along with a link to the actual
full sized photos out on my drive.
| | 03:26 | Earlier in this movie, I suggested that
you arrange your existing photos on one
| | 03:29 | large drive before importing them into Elements.
| | 03:33 | As I said, that step is optional
because the organizer can keep track of the
| | 03:37 | files even if they're physically
located on multiple drives or disks, and even
| | 03:43 | if those drives or disks are offline.
| | 03:45 | So I just wanted to show you that I
imported into this Catalog from a removable
| | 03:49 | drive that is no longer
attached to this computer.
| | 03:52 | Even so, the Organizer still
displays a preview of the photo.
| | 03:56 | And if I wanted to add keyword tags
to this photo or include it in albums,
| | 04:00 | subjects I'll cover later in the course,
I could do that even though the drive
| | 04:04 | that contains the actual photo
is not attached to this computer.
| | 04:08 | But if I wanted to edit this photo, I
couldn't do that unless I went and found
| | 04:13 | that external drive and
attached it to this computer.
| | 04:16 | So, that's one of the reasons that I
suggested moving all your existing photos
| | 04:20 | that you want to bring
into Elements onto one drive.
| | 04:22 | So, that's how to import into the
Organizer existing photos that are already
| | 04:26 | on a drive or a disk.
| | 04:28 | The import process is different if
you're bringing in new photos directly from a
| | 04:32 | digital camera or a camera memory
card as we'll see in the very next movie.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Importing photos from your camera| 00:00 | When you finish a shoot, you can use
the From Camera Or Card Reader option
| | 00:05 | under the Import button to bring in new
photos directly from your camera's memory card.
| | 00:10 | The beauty of this method is that it
both offloads photos from your camera and
| | 00:14 | includes those photos in your
Organizer, combining two big steps into one.
| | 00:18 | Start by plugging your camera
directly into your computer or inserting
| | 00:22 | the memory card from your camera into a
memory card reader attached to your computer.
| | 00:27 | I prefer the memory card reader to
avoid the possibility that my camera battery
| | 00:31 | could die while I'm importing photos.
| | 00:34 | When you do that, if you're on Windows,
you may see an AutoPlay window like this.
| | 00:39 | I suggest you just close this window by
clicking the red X. If you're on a Mac,
| | 00:44 | iPhoto may open to try to
import the photos for you.
| | 00:47 | I suggest you go ahead and
close iPhoto if that happens.
| | 00:51 | Instead, in Elements Organizer, click
the big Import button and choose From
| | 00:56 | Camera Or Card Reader.
| | 00:57 | That will open the Photo
Downloader to its Standard view.
| | 01:02 | I covered the Standard view in my
introductory lynda.com course, Up And Running
| | 01:06 | With Photoshop Elements eleven.
| | 01:08 | So, let's take a look this
time at the Advanced Dialog.
| | 01:11 | I actually prefer the Advanced
Dialog because it offers more options.
| | 01:15 | By the way, if your Screen Resolution
is set to less than 768 pixels in height,
| | 01:21 | you won't see this Advanced Dialog
button, so go ahead and increase your Screen
| | 01:25 | Resolution to access this button,
which I'm going to click now.
| | 01:29 | That switches the Photo Downloader to this view.
| | 01:32 | In this view, I'll start in the
Source Field by choosing my camera or card
| | 01:36 | reader from this list.
| | 01:38 | If you don't see yours listed
here, then try refreshing the list.
| | 01:41 | When I do that, the downloader goes out and
searches for all the photos on my memory card.
| | 01:48 | And in just a moment, it shows me a
thumbnail-sized version of each of those photos.
| | 01:52 | This is the big reason that I prefer
the Advanced over the Standard Downloader
| | 01:56 | window, because now I have the option
to select just some of these photos and I
| | 02:01 | can choose the ones that I want visually.
| | 02:03 | If I did want to import all these
photos, I would leave all of them checked.
| | 02:07 | If I've got more than one shoot on
a card, then I like to import each
| | 02:10 | shoot separately to get them into the right
folder in my Organizer right from the get-go.
| | 02:15 | So I'm going to come down here and
click Uncheck All, and then I'll use the
| | 02:19 | Scroll bar to scroll down to
the photos that I want to import.
| | 02:23 | I'd like to bring in just the photos of
these flags that I shot in Frisco, Colorado.
| | 02:28 | I could click the check box under
each one of those to select it; or to save
| | 02:32 | time, I can click on the first of
those photos, hold down the Shift key, and
| | 02:36 | click on the last of those to select
all of them; and then click the check box
| | 02:40 | under any of the selected photos to
check all of the other selected photos.
| | 02:44 | Then, I'll go over to the column on the right.
| | 02:47 | The first option there is to
choose a location to which I'm going to
| | 02:50 | import these photos.
| | 02:51 | This could be a folder on my main computer,
the default is the Pictures folder there.
| | 02:56 | Or, it could even be a
folder on an external drive.
| | 02:59 | I'm going to click the Browse button
and I'll browse to the folder to which I
| | 03:04 | want to import these particular photos.
| | 03:06 | And I'll click Select Folder
on Windows or Choose on the Mac.
| | 03:10 | Inside of that folder, my Elements
Photos folder, I can create a subfolder for
| | 03:15 | this particular shoot.
| | 03:16 | From this drop-down menu, I can
have the Organizer do that for me
| | 03:19 | automatically, naming the subfolder
with today's date or with the date of the
| | 03:24 | shoot in various configurations.
| | 03:26 | In the last movie, I showed you that I
like to include both the shoot date and a
| | 03:31 | couple of words about the
subject matter or location of a shoot.
| | 03:34 | So, I'm going to choose Custom Name,
and that opens another field where I can
| | 03:38 | create my own name for this subfolder.
| | 03:41 | So, I'm going to type the year and the month,
and I'll type Flags as the subject matter.
| | 03:47 | Next, I could choose to rename the
files that I'm importing if I wish.
| | 03:50 | I usually don't rename files when I import.
| | 03:53 | The reason for that is that that
will make it easier to recognize any
| | 03:57 | duplicates of photos that
happen to be on my computer,
| | 04:00 | since duplicates will all have
the same base name as the original.
| | 04:04 | By the way, the downloader tries to
prevent you from downloading duplicates by
| | 04:07 | hiding duplicates by
default over here in the Previews.
| | 04:10 | If you do want to see a duplicate of a
photo you have already downloaded, you
| | 04:14 | can click this button to show duplicates.
| | 04:17 | And then, you'll be able
to select a duplicate here.
| | 04:20 | The duplicate will be downloaded to
your hard drive, but it won't be imported
| | 04:24 | into your organizer.
| | 04:25 | So, I'm going to leave Rename Files
set to Not Rename Files, but if you did
| | 04:30 | want to rename your files, you could
make a choice from this menu to rename
| | 04:34 | files automatically with today's date,
with the shoot date, or with a custom
| | 04:38 | name that you specify.
| | 04:41 | If you do choose Custom Name, you can
even set the start number for a sequential
| | 04:46 | naming system that will give
a unique number to each file.
| | 04:49 | But as I said, I'm going to
choose Do Not Rename Files.
| | 04:53 | If you do rename your files, then be sure
to check Preserve Current Filename in XMP.
| | 04:58 | So you'll at least have the original
filename in the Metadata under the hood.
| | 05:03 | In the next field, there
are some Advanced Options.
| | 05:06 | If you don't see these, then click this arrow.
| | 05:09 | And here, you can have Elements
automatically fix any red eyes from flash in
| | 05:13 | people photos, suggest stacks
of related photos, and more.
| | 05:17 | But these are all things that you can
do later in the Organizer, so I usually
| | 05:21 | leave all of these unchecked.
| | 05:23 | Down here is an important field where
I'll specify what I want to have happen to
| | 05:27 | my memory card after the
files are copied off of it.
| | 05:31 | I think it's important to set this to
After Copying Do Not Delete Originals, just
| | 05:36 | so that I'm sure that all of my photos
made it on to my computer before they're
| | 05:40 | deleted from the memory card.
| | 05:42 | Then later, I'll insert the memory card
back into my camera and use the menus on
| | 05:46 | my camera to delete the originals.
| | 05:49 | In the next field, I can apply some
Metadata to each of the photos that I'm importing.
| | 05:54 | After clicking the triangle next to
Apply Metadata, I usually go down here and
| | 05:58 | choose Basic Metadata, and then I can specify
the creator and the copyright for these photos.
| | 06:04 | I'll type my name in the Creator
field, and in the Copyright field, I'll
| | 06:08 | include a copyright symbol.
| | 06:10 | In Windows, that's done by holding
the Alt key as you type zero+1+6+9 on a
| | 06:16 | keypad and then release the Alt key.
| | 06:19 | On a Mac, that's done by
pressing the Option key with the G key.
| | 06:23 | And then again, I'll type my name and the year.
| | 06:26 | Finally, for Windows users only,
you have the option to check the
| | 06:30 | Automatic Download check box.
| | 06:32 | If you do that, then the next time
that you plug in your camera or your car
| | 06:37 | reader, the organizer will
automatically download your files without displaying
| | 06:41 | the Photo Downloader options.
| | 06:42 | It will use the preferences for
downloading that you specify under Edit
| | 06:47 | Preferences > Camera Or Card Reader.
| | 06:49 | I like to set my own parameters for
downloading each time, so I usually
| | 06:52 | leave this unchecked.
| | 06:54 | Now that I've chosen all the fields here,
I'll come down and click the Get Media button.
| | 06:59 | And the downloader goes about copying
the files off of my camera's memory card
| | 07:04 | and importing them into my
catalog here in Elements Organizer.
| | 07:10 | The Organizer at first shows me just the
photos that I imported off at that card.
| | 07:15 | If I want to see all the other files
in this Catalog as well, then I'll click
| | 07:19 | the Back button here.
| | 07:20 | And here, you can see the photos that I
just imported from my memory card along
| | 07:24 | with all the photos that
were already in this catalog.
| | 07:26 | But using the Photo Downloader like this
isn't the only way to work photos from a shoot.
| | 07:32 | For example, you could just drag files
from your camera's memory card onto your
| | 07:36 | hard drive, and then use the method
that I showed you in the last movie, Import
| | 07:42 | From Files And Folders, to bring
the photos into your Organizer.
| | 07:46 | But why not take care of both of
those steps all at once by using the From
| | 07:51 | Camera Or Card Reader command and
the Photo Downloader as I showed you in
| | 07:55 | this movie.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Importing photos from iPhoto (Mac only)| 00:00 | This is a lesson for Mac users only.
| | 00:03 | If you've been using iPhoto to manage
and edit your photos on a Mac and you'd
| | 00:07 | like to switch over to Elements instead,
here's how you can import your existing
| | 00:11 | photos directly from the latest version
of iPhoto, which is iPhoto eleven, to the
| | 00:16 | Organizer in Elements eleven.
| | 00:17 | Here, you can see iPhoto on my computer
where I've already imported some photos
| | 00:22 | and I've used some iPhoto
organizational features like Albums to manage my
| | 00:26 | photos inside of iPhoto.
| | 00:28 | Those organizational techniques
won't come along with these photos when I
| | 00:32 | import them to Elements.
| | 00:33 | So, I do want to import the photos to
Elements so that I can organize them there
| | 00:37 | and edit them there.
| | 00:39 | I'll switch over to Elements.
| | 00:41 | And here, in my Elements
Organizer, I'll go to the Import button.
| | 00:45 | If you have an iPhoto Library on
your computer, you should see a From
| | 00:49 | iPhoto item in this menu.
| | 00:51 | I'll choose From iPhoto and Elements
quickly imports copies of all my photos
| | 00:58 | that were in iPhoto over here
into the Elements Organizer.
| | 01:01 | Right now, we're just looking at that
last import to see the same photos along
| | 01:05 | with all the other photos in my
personal Catalog, I'll click the Back button
| | 01:11 | and I'll Scroll down, so you can see the
photos here that I just imported from iPhoto.
| | 01:19 | Over in the Folders panel, you'll see
these new folders with numerical names.
| | 01:23 | Photos that were imported to iPhoto
originally at different times appear here in
| | 01:28 | Elements My Folders panel in different folders.
| | 01:30 | Now, those folders don't correspond
to iPhoto events, they correspond to
| | 01:34 | iPhoto import dates.
| | 01:36 | If you don't like these folder names,
you're welcome to rename these folders by
| | 01:40 | right-clicking on a folder here in my
Folders view and choosing Rename Folder,
| | 01:44 | as I'll show you how to do later in the course.
| | 01:47 | And later in the course, I'll show you
how you can move photos between folders
| | 01:51 | so you're not stuck with these odd
folders that come in from iPhoto.
| | 01:54 | I mentioned that when you import photos
from iPhoto to Elements, iPhoto features
| | 01:59 | like Albums, don't come over
into Elements with those photos.
| | 02:02 | Of course, you're welcome to make your
own albums in Elements, as I'll show you
| | 02:07 | how to do later in this course.
| | 02:08 | But if you've spent lots of time back
in iPhoto organizing your features into
| | 02:13 | Albums and using other iPhoto
techniques to manage your photos, you may want to
| | 02:17 | continue to manage your photos in iPhoto,
but take advantage of the great editing
| | 02:22 | features here in Elements.
| | 02:24 | And you can do that.
| | 02:25 | Let me show you another
technique that will allow you to do that.
| | 02:29 | So, let's assume that I haven't
imported these photos into Elements organizer.
| | 02:33 | I'm going to go back to iPhoto now.
| | 02:36 | And in iPhoto, I'll go up to the
iPhoto item in the Menu bar and from there
| | 02:41 | I'll choose Preferences.
| | 02:43 | In iPhoto's Preferences
window, I'll go the Advanced tab.
| | 02:46 | I'll go to the Edit Photos field and
from the drop-down menu, I'll switch to
| | 02:51 | whatever is the second entry in that
menu--that might be a specific program, or in
| | 02:55 | this case, it's Photoshop, or it might say other.
| | 02:58 | I'll choose that menu item, I want to
navigate to Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor.
| | 03:04 | Here's where it is.
| | 03:06 | It's in the Applications folder.
| | 03:09 | Here, inside Adobe Photoshop
Elements eleven and inside the Support Files
| | 03:14 | subfolder, there you'll find
Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor.
| | 03:18 | Select that and then click Open.
| | 03:21 | And that sets iPhoto to edit photos
in Elements Editor, not here in iPhoto.
| | 03:26 | To show you how that works out, close
the preferences by clicking this red
| | 03:29 | button and I'll select a photo here
in iPhoto, and then I'll go down to the
| | 03:34 | bottom of the iPhoto window and I'll click Edit.
| | 03:37 | One of the nice things about Elements
Editor is that it offers several different
| | 03:40 | editing workspaces according
to your level of expertise.
| | 03:44 | Let's go to the simple Guided Edit
Workspace, and here, I'm going to go to the
| | 03:48 | Enhance Colors touch up.
| | 03:50 | And just to do something that we can
really see, I'm going to take that Hue
| | 03:54 | slider and drag it all the way over to
the left to give this photo a sort of
| | 03:58 | psychedelic look, and then I'll click Done.
| | 04:00 | Now I want to save the photo, so I'll
go to the File menu and I'll chose Save.
| | 04:06 | In the Save As dialog that opens, it's
important not to change the Save As or
| | 04:10 | the Where or the Format menus, because I
want to save over the original photo so
| | 04:15 | that iPhoto can recognize the changes.
| | 04:17 | I'll make sure that Include In The
Elements Organizer is not checked, because the
| | 04:21 | whole purpose of this technique is to
manage the edited file not in the Elements
| | 04:25 | Organizer but in Apple's iPhoto.
| | 04:28 | So, I'll click Save and I'll click Replace.
| | 04:32 | In the JPEG options, I'll just click
okay and then I'll close the photo by
| | 04:36 | clicking this X. Now, I'm
going to go back to iPhoto.
| | 04:40 | And as you can see, iPhoto has
recognized the changes that I just made to
| | 04:44 | this photo in Elements.
| | 04:46 | And by the way, if you don't like this
change, you can always go back to the
| | 04:50 | original photo in iPhoto by going up to
the Photos menu and choosing Revert To
| | 04:54 | Original, but I'll leave
things as they are for now.
| | 04:58 | So now you have two ways to go if
you've been using iPhoto and you want
| | 05:02 | to switch to Elements.
| | 05:03 | You can either bring your photos
into Elements Organizer and then do
| | 05:06 | everything, organizing and editing in
Elements from now on as I showed you at
| | 05:11 | the beginning of this movie. Or you can
use the second technique that I showed
| | 05:15 | you here if you want to continue to
manage your photos in iPhoto so you can keep
| | 05:19 | your existing albums and other
organizational features there, but take advantage
| | 05:23 | of the excellent editing features in Elements.
| | 05:26 | And by the way, if you prefer to use
Adobe Lightroom to organize your photos but
| | 05:31 | you like to edit them in
Elements, you can do that, too.
| | 05:34 | And I explain how in another one of
my lynda.com courses, Using Lightroom
| | 05:38 | and Photoshop Together.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
2. Managing Photos in Media ViewViewing photos| 00:00 | You'll spend most of your time in the
Organizer in Media view, where you can
| | 00:04 | review and manage the photos and other media
files that you've included in your catalog.
| | 00:08 | When you first open the
Organizer, it defaults to Media view.
| | 00:12 | And if you happen to be in one of the
other views, you can always get back to
| | 00:15 | Media view by clicking the
button at the top of the screen.
| | 00:18 | In this chapter, we'll look at some
ways to look at photos in Media view,
| | 00:22 | starting with ways to view photo previews here.
| | 00:25 | For this movie and for the rest of the
course, I'll be working with the files in
| | 00:28 | the Exercise Files catalog that I
showed you how to make earlier in the course.
| | 00:33 | In Media view, you can see previews of
all the photos in your Catalog or limit
| | 00:38 | the view to just those photos in a
particular album or in a particular folder,
| | 00:43 | as I've done here by clicking on this folder.
| | 00:46 | If I wanted to see all the files in
this catalog, I could do that by clicking
| | 00:50 | the All Media button at the top of the Grid.
| | 00:53 | If I want more room to see my photos, I
could come down and click the Hide Panel
| | 00:57 | button and that will
collapse the column on the left.
| | 01:00 | If I ever want to bring that column
back, for example, if I want to access a
| | 01:04 | different folder, then I'll click that
same button again which has changed to
| | 01:08 | become the Show Panel button.
| | 01:10 | I can change the size of the photo
previews in this Grid by using the Zoom
| | 01:14 | slider down here in the taskbar.
| | 01:16 | Dragging the Zoom slider over to the
left makes the photos smaller so that I
| | 01:20 | can see more of them.
| | 01:22 | This comes in handy when I'm
looking at lots of photos at once.
| | 01:26 | If I drag the zoom slider over the right,
that zooms me in closer for a better view.
| | 01:31 | When I'm reviewing my photos in Media
view, I usually do start with the Zoom
| | 01:34 | slider zoomed out so that I
can see multiple photos at once.
| | 01:39 | But, in order to judge the detail and
sharpness of an image, I urge you to get
| | 01:42 | in closer to the photos you really care about.
| | 01:45 | You can do that by viewing
an image in Single Image view.
| | 01:49 | You can get to Single Image view by
selecting a photo and then either dragging
| | 01:53 | the Zoom slider all the way over to
the right, or--and this is the method I
| | 01:57 | prefer--just double-clicking that photo.
| | 02:00 | And that enlarges it to take
up your entire display area.
| | 02:04 | Now to move through the photos, I can
use the arrows up here at the top of the
| | 02:08 | Display area, or I can use
the arrows on my keyboard.
| | 02:14 | If you noticed that an image looks
blurry in Single Image view like this one, it
| | 02:18 | could be because that photo is being
scaled up beyond its actual size in pixels.
| | 02:23 | This photo happens to be one that's
smaller in width and height in pixels than
| | 02:27 | the available display
area, so it does look blurry.
| | 02:30 | I could fix that by dragging the Zoom
slider over to the left for just this one photo.
| | 02:35 | But if you want to avoid this
problem on all photos, there's a default
| | 02:38 | preference that you can tweak.
| | 02:40 | To get the preferences on
Windows, go up to the Edit menu and
| | 02:44 | choose Preferences.
| | 02:45 | On a Mac, Preferences is located under
the Adobe Elements Organizer eleven menu
| | 02:50 | at the top-left of your screen.
| | 02:52 | In Preferences, I'll go to the
General category of Preferences.
| | 02:56 | And here, I'll uncheck Allow Photos To
Resize, which when checked, allows photos
| | 03:02 | to scale up past 100%.
| | 03:03 | So with that unchecked, I'll click okay, and
then I'll take the Zoom slider and zoom back out.
| | 03:11 | Now, if I were to take that same
image to Single Image view by selecting it
| | 03:15 | and then double-clicking it, you can
see that it does not resize to fill my
| | 03:19 | entire Display area, it just resizes to
its maximum actual size. And it doesn't
| | 03:25 | look blurry anymore.
| | 03:26 | Finally, to return to the Grid view
from Single Image view, I could move the
| | 03:31 | Zoom slider as I just did, or I can go
up to the Grid button at the top of the
| | 03:35 | screen and click there.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Displaying photo names and dates| 00:00 | By default, Media View displays your
photos in this nice clean interface without
| | 00:05 | any text surrounding the photos.
| | 00:07 | But there will be times when you want
to see some details about a photo, like
| | 00:11 | its filename or its date.
| | 00:13 | You can see that kind of information
right here in the Grid in Media View if you
| | 00:17 | go up to the View menu and you enable Details.
| | 00:21 | That displays the date associated
with each photo, along with a line of
| | 00:24 | stars that you can use to rate each photo, as
I'll show you how to do later in this chapter.
| | 00:29 | If you want to see the filenames here
as well, then in the View menu, you are
| | 00:34 | not only have to enable
Details but filenames, too.
| | 00:37 | And filenames won't be available here,
unless you first have enabled Details.
| | 00:41 | So I'll click on Filenames to enable
that, too; and now under each photo, I
| | 00:46 | see the filename, including the suffix,
that indicates the format of the file,
| | 00:50 | which is also a useful information to have.
| | 00:53 | In fact, I think this information is so
useful, that I usually leave it showing
| | 00:57 | all the time, as I'll do
for the rest of the course.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Adjusting photo dates and times| 00:00 | You may notice that some of the dates
or times that are associated with photos
| | 00:04 | in the Organizer don't seem to be
correct, and that can happen when you shot
| | 00:09 | photos in another time zone, as I
did these four photos in France.
| | 00:12 | Or if you've scanned a photo, in which
case, you may see the date and time that
| | 00:17 | the scan took place; or perhaps you've
exported a photo from another program and
| | 00:21 | you'll see the date and time of export.
| | 00:23 | You can adjust the date and time
associated with the photo, either one photo at
| | 00:27 | a time or on multiple photos.
| | 00:30 | If I select just one photo here and
then I go up to the Edit menu, I have a
| | 00:35 | choice to Adjust Date And Time.
| | 00:37 | I'll select that, and here I have three options.
| | 00:41 | If I know the exact date and time on
which I took that photo, I can choose
| | 00:45 | Change To A Specified Date And Time.
| | 00:48 | If I choose Change To Match Files
Date And Time, in this case the photo
| | 00:53 | will switch to the day on which I
exported this photo from another program
| | 00:56 | so that isn't what I want.
| | 00:57 | Or I can shift the date and time by a
set number of hours, which is great for
| | 01:02 | doing a time zone adjust like this.
| | 01:04 | But I want to show you what Change To A
Specified Date And Time looks like, so
| | 01:08 | I'll leave it set to that and I'll click okay.
| | 01:11 | Here, I can change the year,
the month, and/or the day.
| | 01:15 | So for example, if I'd shot this on a
different day, I would click this menu
| | 01:18 | and choose the Date.
| | 01:20 | If I happen to know the time on which I
shot an image, I can leave this set to
| | 01:24 | known, and then use these arrows to
change the hour; or if I click here to
| | 01:30 | change the minutes; or if I click
here to change from a.m. to p.m.
| | 01:35 | Usually, I don't know the exact time on
which I've shot a photo, so I can either
| | 01:40 | estimate it here or if I click Unknown,
and that will remove the time from the
| | 01:45 | Date label altogether.
| | 01:46 | I'll click okay and you can see that that
has changed the date and removed the time.
| | 01:51 | When you shot a lot of photos in a
different time zone, its a lot quicker to
| | 01:55 | adjust their date and time all together.
| | 01:57 | To do that, I'm going to select these
three photos, clicking on one, holding
| | 02:01 | the Shift key, and clicking on another.
| | 02:03 | And then, I'll go back to the Edit menu,
and notice that the Adjust Date And Time
| | 02:07 | command has changed.
| | 02:08 | Now it says, Adjust Date and Time of
Selected Items, meaning that the organizer
| | 02:12 | recognizes that I have
more than one photo selected.
| | 02:16 | Here, I have the same three options
that I had when I was adjusting the date
| | 02:19 | and time of one item, as well as a
new option, which is to Shift To A New
| | 02:24 | Starting Date And Time.
| | 02:25 | If I were to choose that, then I would
set the starting date and time of the
| | 02:29 | earliest of the photos that I've
selected, and all the other selected photos
| | 02:33 | would change accordingly.
| | 02:34 | So that would work in this case, but
it's even easier when I'm doing a time
| | 02:38 | zone adjustment to select this last option,
Shift By Set Number Of Hours (Time Zone Adjust).
| | 02:43 | I'll select that and I'll click okay.
| | 02:46 | Here, I can choose to set the date
and time ahead or back, and I can choose
| | 02:52 | the number of hours.
| | 02:53 | So, I just Googled and found out that France,
where I shot these photos, is eight
| | 02:57 | hours ahead of Colorado,
where I'm working on them now.
| | 03:01 | So I'll set the Hours menu to eight hours,
and leave this set to Ahead, and click okay.
| | 03:08 | Now keep your eye on the time
under each of the photos as I do this.
| | 03:13 | And it did move eight hours ahead, so
it no longer looks like I was shooting
| | 03:17 | at 3:00 a.m. for these photos; and as I
remember, this photo was taken in the evening.
| | 03:23 | So, if you notice that you have wrong
dates or times under your photos, don't worry.
| | 03:27 | It's quite easy to change using the
Adjust Dates And Times commands that I
| | 03:31 | showed you in this movie.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Sorting photos| 00:00 | You have some control over the order in
which the photos appear in the grid in
| | 00:04 | Media View, but you don't have complete control.
| | 00:06 | Let me show you what you can do to
reorder your photos here in Media View.
| | 00:11 | And what I'm going to show you applies
whether you are working with a folder of
| | 00:14 | photos as I am, or whether you're
working with your entire Catalog, as I could
| | 00:18 | be if I clicked All Media up here. But
I'm just going to stick with this folder.
| | 00:22 | By default, photos in the Grid are
arranged with photos from the latest shoot
| | 00:26 | day first, at the top of the Grid, and
photos from the oldest shoot day, down
| | 00:31 | here at the bottom of the Grid.
| | 00:32 | And then, within each shoot day, photos
are arranged by default with the oldest
| | 00:37 | photo first and the newer photos to follow.
| | 00:40 | Now, if you'd rather see your very
newest photo first and your very oldest photo
| | 00:44 | last, then there's a preference you can change.
| | 00:47 | And that is to go to the Edit menu on
Windows or the Adobe Elements Organizer
| | 00:51 | eleven menu on a Mac, and from
there, choose Preferences > General.
| | 00:57 | In the General Preferences, change this
radio button to show newest first within
| | 01:02 | each day, and click okay.
| | 01:04 | And now, I have my very newest photo
first and my very oldest photo last.
| | 01:10 | There are also some options for
changing the order of photos here in this Sort
| | 01:14 | By menu on the top of the Grid.
| | 01:16 | I can change this to Sort By Oldest
rather than newest, or to Sort By Import Batch.
| | 01:24 | And that divides the photos into batches
according to the time and date on which
| | 01:27 | I imported them into the Organizer.
| | 01:29 | I'm going to go back to Sort By Newest,
the default, because I want to show you
| | 01:34 | one thing to watch out for.
| | 01:35 | If you have more photos in your Grid than
it will appear in a single screen like this,
| | 01:40 | then you'll have to use the Scroll
bar when you change the Sort Order.
| | 01:43 | Here's what I mean. I'm going to take
the Zoom slider and zoom in so that some
| | 01:47 | of these photos are off the screen.
| | 01:49 | And then, I'm going to change the
Sort Order from Newest to Oldest.
| | 01:54 | That takes me down to the bottom of the grid.
| | 01:57 | If I want to get back up to the top to
see the oldest photos first, then I need
| | 02:01 | to take the Scroll bar and
scroll up to the top of the Grid.
| | 02:05 | And to see all the photos again, I'll take my
Zoom slider and I'll drag it over to the left.
| | 02:10 | A question I get a lot is whether you
have the option to manually resort the
| | 02:14 | photos to your liking here in
the Grid, and the answer is no,
| | 02:17 | at least when you're working in a
folder like this or when you're working with
| | 02:21 | your entire Catalog.
| | 02:23 | But you can manually change the Sort Order
of photos if you're working inside an album.
| | 02:28 | Later in the course, I'll show you how
to make albums and how to move photos
| | 02:32 | around within an Album.
| | 02:33 | And I'll even show you how you can
make an instant album from a folder
| | 02:36 | of photos like this one, for the
very purpose of changing the order of
| | 02:40 | its contents.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Rating photos| 00:00 | One of the simplest ways to organize photos is
to make use of star ratings in the Organizer.
| | 00:05 | In this movie, I'll show you how to
apply stars to your photos and how to filter
| | 00:09 | photos by star rankings.
| | 00:12 | You can apply stars here in the
Media view's Grid in Single Image view or
| | 00:16 | in Full Screen view.
| | 00:18 | I usually start here in the Grid,
reviewing my photos right after a shoot.
| | 00:22 | The first step is to go to the View
menu and make sure that Details is checked
| | 00:27 | so that you can see this line of
gray stars under each photo in the Grid.
| | 00:31 | You'll use these stars to mark
each photo with its star ranking.
| | 00:34 | You're welcome to use all five stars,
but I find it hard to distinguish
| | 00:39 | between two, three, and four-star
quality photos, so I just use a simple or
| | 00:43 | two star ranking system.
| | 00:45 | I give my worst photos one star to
mark them as Rejects and I give my best
| | 00:49 | photos five stars to mark them as Favorites.
| | 00:52 | All those in between, I leave with no stars.
| | 00:55 | So, right after I import new photos from
a shoot, I do a quick initial review in
| | 01:00 | this Grid, looking for photos that
stand out as either Rejects or Favorites.
| | 01:05 | Later, I fine tune those rankings in
Single Image view or Full Screen view.
| | 01:09 | You can apply a star ranking to one
photo at a time by going to these stars and
| | 01:14 | clicking on the appropriate number of stars.
| | 01:16 | So this is a Reject to my
mind, so I'll choose one star.
| | 01:21 | It's quicker to apply star
ranking to multiple photos at once.
| | 01:24 | I'll select a couple of photos down here,
this one; and then I'll hold the Ctrl
| | 01:28 | key or the Cmd key on a MAC; and this
one, too; and then I'll click on one star
| | 01:33 | underneath either of the selected
photos. And that will apply that ranking to
| | 01:37 | both selected photos. I'll
click in this gray area to deselect.
| | 01:41 | I see some other photos here that
are potential five-star Favorites.
| | 01:45 | So I'll select them, I'll click on this
one; I'll hold the Ctrl or Cmd key, and
| | 01:49 | I'll click on this one, too.
| | 01:51 | And then, I'll go under either one of
those and click on the fifth star to apply
| | 01:56 | a five-star rating to both, and
then I'll click off to deselect.
| | 01:59 | Next, I'll make another evaluative
pass through my photos, this time in
| | 02:03 | Single Image view or in Full Screen view,
where I can really see the details of the photos.
| | 02:08 | At this point, I can change my
mind about my initial star ratings.
| | 02:12 | So I'll start by double-clicking the
first photo to bring it into Single Image view.
| | 02:16 | The star rankings are down at the
bottom left in Single Image view.
| | 02:20 | I've given this photo one star back in
the Grid, but now that I see it closer,
| | 02:24 | I think I can save this photo so I'd
rather it have no stars and be in my
| | 02:29 | category of middling photos.
| | 02:30 | To remove one star from a photo,
I'll just click on that star.
| | 02:34 | It's a little different if I
want to remove multiple stars.
| | 02:37 | I'll show you that on the next photo,
which I'll access by clicking this arrow
| | 02:41 | at the top of the screen or
using the arrow keys on my keyboard.
| | 02:45 | I've given this photo five stars in
the Grid, but I really don't think it
| | 02:49 | deserves five stars.
| | 02:50 | It's another middling photo, so
I want to remove all five stars.
| | 02:54 | Here's how to do it.
| | 02:55 | I'll click on the first star and now
there's just one star left; and then I'll
| | 02:59 | click on that one star again; and
that's how you get back to no stars.
| | 03:03 | I'll continue moving through the photos,
re-evaluating my initial star rankings.
| | 03:07 | Here, I see a photo that I
think should get five stars.
| | 03:11 | It doesn't have any stars at the moment.
| | 03:13 | You can add stars here in Single Image
view the same way that you do in Grid view.
| | 03:17 | I'll just click on the fifth star here.
| | 03:19 | When I'm done in Single Image view, I'll
click the Grid button to return to the Grid view.
| | 03:25 | The whole purpose of adding those
stars is to let me quickly find different
| | 03:29 | groups of photos in the future.
| | 03:31 | Maybe I want to find my favorites to
show to my friends, or the middling photos to
| | 03:35 | try to improve them, or the rejects to hide them.
| | 03:38 | The most direct way to do that is
to use the ratings filter here at the
| | 03:42 | top-right of the Organizer.
| | 03:44 | By default, this filter is set to find
photos that are greater than or equal to
| | 03:49 | a certain number of stars.
| | 03:51 | So if want to find my favorite photos,
I'll just click on th e fifth star
| | 03:55 | here and that displays the photos that are
greater than or equal to five stars here in the Grid.
| | 04:00 | Of course, there is no greater than,
so I just get my five stars photos.
| | 04:05 | If I want to see my rejects, I'll come
back to my filter and I'll click on the
| | 04:09 | greater than or equal to symbol.
| | 04:11 | And from the drop-down menu, I can
choose either Rating Is Less Than Or Equal To
| | 04:16 | or Rating Is Equal To.
| | 04:18 | I'll go with Rating Is Equal To, and
then I'll click on just one star here in
| | 04:22 | the filter, and there are my one star photos.
| | 04:25 | To see my middling photos, those with
no stars, I'll leave this drop-down menu
| | 04:30 | set to Equal To and I'll click on
that one star again to remove all stars.
| | 04:36 | So here are those photos
whose rating is equal to no stars.
| | 04:41 | And to see all the photos in this
folder again, I'll return to that Equal To
| | 04:45 | menu and I'll change it back to its
default, Rating Is Greater Than Or Equal To,
| | 04:50 | and I'll leave all the stars deselected.
| | 04:52 | Now, you don't have to use
star ratings in the Organizer.
| | 04:56 | There are plenty of other ways to keep
track and organize your photos, as we'll see.
| | 05:00 | But this is a quick and simple
method that really pays off if you're
| | 05:03 | consistent about applying it.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Viewing metadata in the Information panel| 00:00 | An Elements Catalog stores lots
of information about your photos.
| | 00:04 | The Information panel in Media view
is a one-stop shop for viewing that
| | 00:09 | information and for adding new information.
| | 00:11 | Before I open the Information panel,
I'll select a photo here in Media view, and
| | 00:16 | then to open the Information panel, I'll
go down to the taskbar in Organizer and
| | 00:20 | I'll click the Tags Info button.
| | 00:22 | That opens the column on the right,
which contains both the Tags panel
| | 00:26 | for keyword tagging, which I'll cover
later in the course, and the Information panel.
| | 00:31 | I'll click Information to
see the Information panel.
| | 00:34 | The Information panel is
divided into three sections.
| | 00:37 | My General section is open.
| | 00:39 | If yours isn't, then click the
arrow to the left of General.
| | 00:43 | The General section displays general
properties of the selected file, like its
| | 00:47 | filename, its file size, and its date.
| | 00:50 | Many of these setting are interactive,
so you can add a caption here by typing
| | 00:54 | in the Caption field, or you can add
notes here, or here's another place from
| | 00:58 | which you can apply a star rating.
| | 00:59 | And you can see that, that star rating
is now here under the photo in Media view.
| | 01:04 | If you need to change the date or time
on a file, this is another place from
| | 01:08 | which you can do that.
| | 01:10 | And remember that the photo that you see
here in Media view isn't the actual photo.
| | 01:14 | It's a Preview of the photo that links out
to the actual photo in my File structure.
| | 01:19 | Here is a path to that actual photo.
| | 01:21 | And if I want to go directly to that
photo in my File structure, I could click
| | 01:26 | Location from here in the General
section of the Information panel.
| | 01:30 | I'll close that section by clicking
its arrow and I'll click the arrow to the
| | 01:34 | left of the Metadata section.
| | 01:35 | This opens to its brief view, where
you can see more information about this
| | 01:39 | photo, some file properties, as well as some
data that came directly out of my digital camera:
| | 01:44 | everything from the ISO to the shutter speed,
to the F stop--even whether the flash fired.
| | 01:50 | And there's more.
| | 01:51 | If I click the Complete icon here, I'll
see even more information about this file.
| | 01:57 | I'll close the Metadata section, and
I'll come down to open the History section.
| | 02:03 | Here, you can see a brief history of
what's happened to this file, like the
| | 02:07 | dates on which it was imported and modified.
| | 02:09 | Now, all of that information is in my
Elements Catalog, which is a separate
| | 02:14 | document from my actual photos.
| | 02:17 | If you plan on sharing a photo with
someone else, or using a photo in another
| | 02:21 | program, and you want the Metadata to
be accessible there, then I suggest that
| | 02:26 | you save the Metadata into the photo
as well as have it here in the Catalog.
| | 02:31 | To save Metadata to a photo, go to the File
menu, and go down to Save Metadata To File.
| | 02:36 | Now if I need to use that photo in
another program, for example here I'm in
| | 02:42 | Adobe Bridge, you can see the
Metadata that I'd added to the file here in
| | 02:47 | Bridge, those five stars.
| | 02:49 | And if I select the photo in Bridge
and go to its Metadata panel, you can see
| | 02:53 | all the Metadata that's
now embedded in that photo.
| | 02:56 | By the way, if you're using the
Information panel and suddenly all that
| | 03:01 | information disappears, it's probably
because you've clicked off the photo in
| | 03:05 | the Media view, like this.
| | 03:06 | So, just click back on the photo and
you'll see all that useful information
| | 03:11 | again in the Information panel.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Adding photo captions| 00:00 | A caption is a bit of a searchable text
that you can add to any photo in the Organizer.
| | 00:05 | In the last movie, we saw that you can add
a caption from inside the Information panel.
| | 00:10 | You can also do that from right
here in Media View in the Organizer.
| | 00:14 | To add a caption to a photo, I'll right
click on the photo and I'll choose Add Caption.
| | 00:19 | And in this window, I'll type a caption.
| | 00:21 | I'll type, A beautiful
fall day, and I'll click okay.
| | 00:28 | You don't see the caption here in the
Grid, but if I open this photo into either
| | 00:32 | Single Image view or Full
Screen view, I will see the caption.
| | 00:36 | I'll double-click the image to open it
into Single Image view, and there is the
| | 00:39 | caption, A beautiful fall day.
| | 00:41 | In fact, I can even add a caption or
edit a caption right here in Single
| | 00:45 | Image view by clicking on the caption, and that
opens a Text box where I can continue to type.
| | 00:50 | So I'll type in Colorado
and press Enter or Return.
| | 00:55 | So, what else can you do with the caption?
| | 00:58 | Well when you go to print an image,
you'll find an option in your Print dialog
| | 01:02 | for adding the caption to your printed image.
| | 01:05 | And, if you are searching for a photo,
a caption can really come in handy
| | 01:08 | because it is one more way to locate the photo.
| | 01:11 | For example, if I go back to Grid view
by ckicking the Grid button, and then
| | 01:15 | I'll go to the Find menu and I choose
the Find By Caption or Note, I can type
| | 01:21 | all or part of that caption into this window.
| | 01:24 | I'll just type Colorado, and I'll
select Match Any Part Of Any Word In Captions
| | 01:30 | And Notes and I'll click okay.
| | 01:33 | And immediately, that returns the photo
that contains the caption with Colorado in it.
| | 01:38 | So, adding a caption to a photo is just
one more way to help you keep track of
| | 01:42 | your photos here in the Organizer.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Hiding and showing photos| 00:00 | When you're evaluating lots of files
in Media view, it can help to reduce the
| | 00:04 | clutter on your screen to temporarily
hide those photos that you're really not
| | 00:08 | interested in, perhaps those
that you have identified as rejects.
| | 00:12 | You may not be ready to delete those
files from your hard drive altogether
| | 00:16 | because you may change your mind about
them later or find a use for them, but
| | 00:19 | you can hide them temporarily like this.
| | 00:22 | I'll start by selecting the
files that I would like to hide.
| | 00:25 | Here are a couple that I really don't care for.
| | 00:27 | This one, and I'll hold the Ctrl key or the
Cmd key on a Mac, and select this one, too.
| | 00:33 | And then, I'll go up to the
Edit menu and down to Visibility.
| | 00:38 | Notice in this menu that there are two sections.
| | 00:41 | The first section is used to mark files
as either Hidden or Visible, the second
| | 00:45 | section determines what will happen to
those files that are marked as Hidden.
| | 00:50 | By default, this is set to Hide Hidden Files.
| | 00:53 | So as soon as I choose to mark these
two selected files as Hidden, they will be
| | 00:58 | hidden, they will disappear from the Media view.
| | 01:00 | I'll go ahead and choose Mark As Hidden.
| | 01:04 | And indeed, those two
files do disappear from view.
| | 01:07 | But they're not deleted from my hard drive,
and they're still included in the Organizer.
| | 01:13 | So, if I mark them as Visible, they'll once
again appear here in Media view of the Organizer.
| | 01:18 | Let's say that I want to go back and
see all the files that I've hidden to
| | 01:21 | re-evaluate them to see if there are any
that are worth bringing back into view.
| | 01:25 | To do that, I'll go to the Edit menu
and I'll go down to Visibility; and I'll
| | 01:30 | choose to Show Only Hidden Files.
| | 01:33 | And that shows me just those two
files that I've marked as Hidden.
| | 01:36 | At the bottom-left of each one of those
photos, there's a little eye icon that
| | 01:40 | indicates that that photo has
been marked as a Hidden file.
| | 01:43 | Upon re-evaluating these files, I think
I actually like this photo and I'd like
| | 01:48 | to bring it back into my
Media view in the Organizer.
| | 01:50 | So, I'll select this photo and once
again I'll go to the Edit menu and down to
| | 01:55 | Visibility, and I'm going to choose
to mark this particular file as Visible.
| | 02:00 | I'll leave the other one hidden.
| | 02:02 | So I'll choose Mark As Visible, and
that file disappears from this view of
| | 02:07 | just the hidden files.
| | 02:08 | Now I want to go back and see all the
photos in this folder except for this
| | 02:13 | one that I've hidden.
| | 02:14 | So once again, I'll go up to the
Edit menu and down to Visibility.
| | 02:18 | And this time, I don't want to Show
All Files because that would include the
| | 02:22 | hidden file; I want to choose Hide Hidden Files.
| | 02:26 | And now, I have a view of all of the
files in this folder except for that one
| | 02:31 | file that remains hidden.
| | 02:32 | But you could do the same
thing in your entire Catalog,
| | 02:36 | if instead of choosing just one folder,
you click on All Media and go though the
| | 02:41 | process in your Catalog.
| | 02:42 | I think that menu can be a little
confusing, but once you figure it out I think
| | 02:46 | it will help you to reduce the clutter
on your on screen so that you can work
| | 02:50 | with your best files, moving your
rejects out of the way temporarily.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Stacking related photos| 00:00 | Stacking is a way of grouping photos
together in the Organizer to reduce the
| | 00:05 | space that they take up and to
keep related photos together.
| | 00:09 | I'll sometimes stack photos together if
I bracketed exposures of the same scene,
| | 00:13 | shooting with different
exposures in quick succession.
| | 00:16 | Another time that I'll stack photos is
when I shot a set of photos for a Panorama,
| | 00:21 | and I want to be sure that I know
which photos go together for the Panorama
| | 00:24 | here in my Organizer.
| | 00:26 | I do happen to have two sets of
bracketed photos in this folder and I would like
| | 00:30 | to create two separate stacks
of them to keep them together.
| | 00:33 | I can do that automatically or manually.
| | 00:35 | To automatically stack photos, I'd
first need to select a group of photos.
| | 00:40 | I'll select all the photos in this
folder by pressing Ctrl+A on the Windows
| | 00:44 | keyboard, or Cmd+A on the Mac keyboard,
which is the shortcut for Select All.
| | 00:49 | And then, I'll go to the
Edit menu and down to Stack.
| | 00:52 | Now Stack won't be available here
unless I've selected some photos.
| | 00:56 | I'll come over and I'll click
Automatically Suggest Photo Stacks.
| | 01:00 | Elements analyzes my photos and it
opens this window, suggesting two different
| | 01:05 | stacks of photos based on the timing
and the visual similarity of these photos.
| | 01:11 | In this case, Elements has gotten it right.
| | 01:13 | It has identified these two separate
groups of photos and it's asking whether I
| | 01:17 | want to make a stack out of each one.
| | 01:20 | If I come down here to Unique Photos
and click this arrow, you'll see the two
| | 01:24 | photos that Elements has identified
as not similar, and therefore it hasn't
| | 01:29 | suggested stacking those.
| | 01:30 | I'm going to go ahead and stack this group
of photos by clicking the Stack button here.
| | 01:36 | I'll leave this group unstacked so
that I can use those to show you how to
| | 01:39 | manually stack photos in just a second.
| | 01:42 | I'll click down in this window.
| | 01:44 | And now, back in my Grid in Media
View, you can see the stack that's
| | 01:48 | been created for me.
| | 01:49 | Where there once were three
photos, we now see only one photo.
| | 01:52 | But those three photos are all still there;
they're just stacked one on top of the other.
| | 01:57 | I know this is a stack because here
is a Stack symbol on the topmost photo,
| | 02:02 | and here's an arrow.
| | 02:03 | If I click this arrow, that will expand
the stack so that we can see all three
| | 02:08 | photos that are in that stack.
| | 02:10 | And those three photos are
surrounded by a darker gray frame.
| | 02:14 | If I want to collapse this stack again,
I'll come over and click the arrow on the
| | 02:17 | far right of the stack to collapse it.
| | 02:19 | So, that's how to automatically stack
photos and that command comes in really
| | 02:23 | handy when you have a lot of
bracketed photos in a shoot.
| | 02:26 | But you can also stack photos manually.
| | 02:29 | You might do this if you
just had one stack to create.
| | 02:32 | So here, I have three
different exposures of the same scene.
| | 02:37 | I'll select this photo, I'll hold the
Shift key, and I'll select this photo, and
| | 02:40 | that selects all three.
| | 02:42 | And then, I'll go up to the Edit menu
and down to Stack, and this time, I'll
| | 02:46 | choose to manually stack selected photos.
| | 02:49 | So now, I have these two separate
stacks in Media View and that really helps me
| | 02:54 | to clean up my display.
| | 02:55 | Now if I expand one of these
stacks, I have a couple more options.
| | 02:59 | I think that the photo that's on the
top of this stack is a little dark. I
| | 03:03 | actually like this version better, so
I'd like this version to be on the top of
| | 03:07 | the stack so that it's the one that
we see when the stack is collapsed.
| | 03:11 | I can right-click on any photo in this
stack and come down to see the Stack menu.
| | 03:16 | And from here, I can choose to set
this selected photo as the top photo.
| | 03:21 | So I'll do that, and that
becomes the top photo in the stack.
| | 03:25 | So now, when I come over here and
collapse the stack, that's the photo that we see.
| | 03:31 | I'll expand the stack one more
time to show you a couple of the other
| | 03:35 | commands in that Stack menu.
| | 03:37 | If I right-click any of the photos in
the stack and come down to stack, I have
| | 03:42 | an option here to unstack these photos.
| | 03:44 | And that will do away with the stack altogether.
| | 03:47 | I'll go ahead and choose that, Unstack Photos.
| | 03:50 | And now in my Media View, I still
have those three photos but they're no
| | 03:55 | longer stacked together.
| | 03:56 | They're just separate photos in Media View.
| | 03:58 | There' s one more command there and
that's a command to watch out for.
| | 04:02 | It's Flatten Stack.
| | 04:04 | I'm going to right-click on the top
photo on this stack and go to Stack.
| | 04:08 | And you can see I do have an
option to Flatten Stack here.
| | 04:11 | Watch what happens if I choose that.
| | 04:14 | I'll select Flatten Stack and that
brings up this warning telling me that all
| | 04:18 | photos in this stack are going to be deleted.
| | 04:21 | Well, what does that mean? Deleted from what?
| | 04:23 | It means, deleted from my Organizer.
| | 04:26 | It does not mean deleted from my
hard disk, but I do have the option to
| | 04:30 | delete all of the photos except the
top one from my hard disk; and that's
| | 04:34 | really dangerous because then I won't
be able to get those photos back into
| | 04:39 | my Organizer at all.
| | 04:40 | So I'll be careful to leave that unchecked.
| | 04:42 | And I'm going to go ahead and click
okay so you can see what happens here.
| | 04:46 | Now I only have one of these three
bracketed photos here in my Organizer.
| | 04:50 | The other two photos are still on my
hard drive, and I could re-import them
| | 04:54 | into the organizer.
| | 04:55 | But, they're not here and I
cannot work with them until I do that.
| | 04:58 | So, that's what stacks are and how you
can use them to reduce the clutter in
| | 05:03 | Media view. It's just one more
way to organize your photos.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Applying instant photo fixes| 00:00 | Most of the editing that you'll do to
photos in Elements will be in the Editor,
| | 00:04 | a separate part of the
program from the Organizer.
| | 00:06 | But the Organizer does offer some one-
click solutions for common photo problems.
| | 00:11 | They're called Instant Fix Photo Fix options.
| | 00:14 | You can access those here in
Media view by going to the taskbar and
| | 00:18 | clicking Instant Fix.
| | 00:20 | That opens the Photo Fix Options here.
| | 00:22 | Most of these buttons are one-click fixes.
| | 00:25 | So for example, here I have a photo
that looks a little dull; the color isn't
| | 00:29 | right and neither is the exposure.
| | 00:31 | I'll select this image and then I'll
come over to the Photo Fix Options, and I'll
| | 00:36 | just try different options.
| | 00:37 | Let's see what Contrast does to this photo.
| | 00:39 | And that, I think, looks a lot better.
| | 00:42 | Now actually, several things have happened here.
| | 00:44 | When you apply a Photo Fix Option
like this, Elements makes a copy of the
| | 00:48 | original photo and it fixes the copy;
then it automatically saves the fixed copy
| | 00:54 | back to the same location as the
original and it doesn't overwrite the original.
| | 00:59 | The original is still here and it's
together with the saved copy in what's
| | 01:03 | called a Version Set.
| | 01:04 | A Version Set is a kind of a stack.
| | 01:07 | So if I click this arrow, that
will expand the Version Set that was
| | 01:11 | automatically made for me when
I applied that Photo Fix Option.
| | 01:14 | Here is the original photo, it looks
kind of dull; and here is the photo with
| | 01:19 | the Contrast adjustment.
| | 01:21 | And I have access to both of
these photos here in my Organizer.
| | 01:24 | I'm going to undo that change by going
down to the taskbar and clicking the Undo
| | 01:29 | button because I want to try out some
of these other options on this image.
| | 01:33 | Let's see what the Color Photo Fix does.
| | 01:36 | Now it did changed the color of the image.
| | 01:39 | If I click this arrow to expand the
Version Set, you can see that the adjusted
| | 01:43 | image is slightly different in color
than the original, but I really don't
| | 01:46 | like what it's done.
| | 01:47 | It's just too green or cool.
| | 01:50 | So, again, I'll Undo, and I'll try Levels.
| | 01:54 | Now Levels will try to improve the entire
Tonal Range, the Exposure, as well as the Contrast.
| | 02:00 | I'll expand this Version Set and you
can see that the copy over here with the
| | 02:05 | levels adjustment does
look better than the original.
| | 02:08 | Sometimes, Levels will introduce a
little bit of a color cast and when you have
| | 02:12 | that problem, then you're better off
with Contrast, which also effects the Tonal
| | 02:16 | Levels but tries to do
that without changing color.
| | 02:20 | In this case, I think Levels does a
good job, but I'm going to Undo one more
| | 02:24 | time to try another option here, Smart Fix.
| | 02:27 | Now, Smart Fix tries to fix everything
at once: Color Balance, Color Saturation,
| | 02:33 | Exposure, and Contrast.
| | 02:35 | Let's give a try on this image.
| | 02:38 | I'll expand this Version Set to
compare the adjusted Smart Fix version over
| | 02:42 | here with original.
| | 02:44 | It's better, but I don't think
it's as good as the Levels choice.
| | 02:48 | So one more time, I'll click Undo and
I'll come in, and I'll again apply Levels.
| | 02:55 | I'll expand the Version Set, and here is
the adjusted copy; here is the original.
| | 02:59 | So, I'm happy with the adjusted copy.
| | 03:02 | Now, there are a couple other things
that I could do to the adjusted copy.
| | 03:05 | I'll select it and I could apply a Crop.
| | 03:08 | Now, this is the one Photo Fix
Option that is not a one-click option.
| | 03:12 | If I click Crop, that opens the photo
here in the Crop window, and I can set my
| | 03:18 | bounding box to surround the area that
I want to remain in the photo after the
| | 03:23 | cropping takes place.
| | 03:25 | So, maybe I'll set it like that.
| | 03:27 | Now, if I need a specific aspect ratio
of width to height with that crop, I can
| | 03:31 | come to this menu and
make a choice from the menu.
| | 03:34 | I'll just leave it at No Restriction.
| | 03:37 | Now, before I commit this crop, if I
want to see what it looks like, I can click
| | 03:41 | this Preview button.
| | 03:42 | I think that result is okay.
| | 03:44 | If I didn't like it, I would click Reset
and then I would adjust my Crop boundary.
| | 03:49 | Again, Preview; and if I like
the result, I'll click Done.
| | 03:52 | So, there is a cropped version of the photo.
| | 03:55 | There's one more thing that I usually
do to a photo before I'm finished with it
| | 03:59 | and that is to sharpen it.
| | 04:00 | Even if a photo doesn't look like it
needs sharpening, it probably will improve
| | 04:04 | with some sharpening.
| | 04:06 | I'm going to double-click the photo
to enlarge it to Single Photo view, and
| | 04:11 | then I'll click Sharpen.
| | 04:12 | I can sharpen more than once if
I think it needs more sharpening.
| | 04:15 | So those are the kinds of changes that
you can quickly make using the Photo Fix
| | 04:20 | Options here in the Organizer, all
accessible by clicking Instant Fix in the
| | 04:25 | taskbar at the bottom of Media view.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
3. Reviewing Photos in Full Screen ViewViewing a simple slideshow| 00:00 | Full Screen view is a great
environment in which to view your photos because
| | 00:03 | it's large and it doesn't
contain the interface, it's just clean.
| | 00:08 | In Full Screen view, you can view
photos one at a time or you can enjoy a
| | 00:12 | slideshow, complete with music and transitions.
| | 00:15 | This kind of simple Full Screen
slideshow can only be viewed on your computer
| | 00:20 | and from inside the Organizer.
| | 00:21 | So, it's most useful for reviewing and
evaluating your own photos after a shoot,
| | 00:26 | not for sharing with others.
| | 00:27 | I'm starting here in Media view of the
Organizer, choosing the photos that I'll
| | 00:31 | include in my Full Screen slideshow.
| | 00:33 | I could select specific photos from my
Catalog; or if I click on the folder here
| | 00:39 | in the Folders panel, all of its
contents will be included in this slideshow.
| | 00:43 | And they'll appear in the slideshow
in the sort order in which they appear
| | 00:46 | here in this folder.
| | 00:48 | If you wanted to make a custom
arrangement of the order in which photos appear
| | 00:52 | in a Full Screen slide show, you have
to first make an album and rearrange
| | 00:56 | photos inside the album, as I'll
show you how to do later in the course.
| | 01:00 | But generally, I use a Full Screen
slideshow to review a folder of photos that
| | 01:04 | I've just uploaded from my camera.
| | 01:06 | So with this folder selected, I'll
play it in its default order by coming down
| | 01:11 | to the taskbar at the bottom of Media
view and clicking on the Slideshow button.
| | 01:15 | As you saw, that started a slideshow
playing immediately in Full Screen view.
| | 01:32 | And when I moved my mouse,
that brought up this Control bar.
| | 01:36 | And I clicked the Stop button to stop
the slideshow because I wanted to show you
| | 01:41 | how you can customize your slideshow.
| | 01:43 | I see a few things I want to
change about this slideshow already.
| | 01:46 | For one thing, I see that the photos
look kind of blurry and that's because
| | 01:49 | they're resizing to fill the screen,
and these particular photos just aren't as
| | 01:54 | big in pixel values as my screen.
| | 01:57 | So, that's one thing I'm going to change.
| | 01:58 | I also want to change the music to
something more appropriate to these photos
| | 02:02 | that we took in France.
| | 02:04 | And I'd like to add some transitions between
photos, so let's see how we can do all that.
| | 02:08 | I'll click the Settings icon here
in the Control bar to open the Full
| | 02:12 | Screen view options.
| | 02:13 | From the Background Music menu, I
can choose from some music clips that
| | 02:17 | come with Elements and that were imported
into this Catalog when I created the Catalog.
| | 02:21 | I'll go with A Taste of Sicily, since
these are photos that we shot in Europe.
| | 02:26 | In the Page Duration menu, I can choose
a different number of seconds for each
| | 02:30 | photo to stay on the screen.
| | 02:32 | I'll change this to two seconds.
| | 02:33 | If you like, you can just highlight
that number and type in whatever number
| | 02:37 | of seconds you want.
| | 02:39 | If I had created captions for any of the
photos in this slideshow, I could check
| | 02:43 | this box to include the photo
captions on top of the photos.
| | 02:47 | I don't happen to have any
captions, so I'll leave that unchecked.
| | 02:51 | I am going to uncheck Allow
Photos to Resize and I'll click okay.
| | 02:56 | And you can see that the
photo immediately got smaller.
| | 02:59 | Now, each photo will be displayed
in this slideshow at its actual size.
| | 03:03 | It won't be upsized to fill my entire screen.
| | 03:06 | Moving my mouse again to bring that Control
bar up, I'm going to click on the Theme icon.
| | 03:11 | Here, I can choose the
transition between slides.
| | 03:14 | By default, this is set to Classic and
if I move my mouse over that photo, you
| | 03:18 | get a little preview of what
the Classic transition looks like.
| | 03:22 | This is the Fade In/Out Preview,
Pan and Zoom, and 3D pixelate.
| | 03:29 | The last two options take a lot of
power from your graphic card, so I usually
| | 03:33 | stick with either Classic or Fade In/Out.
| | 03:36 | I'll switch to Fade In/Out for
this slideshow, and I'll click okay.
| | 03:40 | With those changes made, I want to
start playing the slideshow from the
| | 03:43 | beginning so I'll click this Back
button several times, until I see the first
| | 03:47 | photo highlighted down here in the filmstrip.
| | 03:49 | I'll move my mouse to bring the Control
bar back, and I'll click the Play button.
| | 03:54 | I'll move my mouse when the slideshow
is done, and I'll click the Exit button on
| | 04:27 | the Control bar to go back to Media view.
| | 04:30 | So that's how simple it is to enjoy your
photos in a slideshow format in Full Screen view.
| | 04:35 | Do remember that this kind of
slideshow is designed for viewing only on your
| | 04:39 | computer inside the Organizer.
| | 04:41 | You can't e-mail this slideshow, or
burn it to a DVD, or put it online.
| | 04:45 | But it is a delightful way to review
your photos, or to share them with guests
| | 04:49 | in front of your computer screen.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Comparing photos side by side| 00:00 | After I've reviewed all of my photos
from a shoot and I've chosen those that I
| | 00:04 | like the best, sometimes I have to
choose the very best for a particular project
| | 00:09 | or to show a client.
| | 00:10 | It can be difficult to do that when you
have a number of photos that you like.
| | 00:14 | And that's when I like to use the
Compare feature in Full Screen view, which
| | 00:17 | shows me just two photos at a
time, making my choice easier.
| | 00:21 | So here I have six photos
that I like in this folder.
| | 00:24 | To go into Full Screen view, I'll go to
the View menu, and I'll choose Full Screen.
| | 00:29 | Here in Full Screen view, you can see
those two panels on the left, which are
| | 00:32 | going to collapse on their own in just a moment.
| | 00:35 | We'll look at those shortly.
| | 00:36 | For now, I want to get to the Compare feature.
| | 00:38 | So I'm going to move my cursor,
and that brings up this Control bar.
| | 00:43 | If you happen to leave your cursor
where it is for just a moment, the
| | 00:46 | Control bar will disappear.
| | 00:47 | If that happens to you, just move your
cursor a little bit and the Control bar
| | 00:51 | will come back into view.
| | 00:53 | So down here I can see a filmstrip
of thumbnails of the six photos in the
| | 00:58 | folder that I started with.
| | 01:00 | I'd like to compare them two
at a time, one to the other.
| | 01:03 | So I'll move my cursor to bring that
Control bar back and I'll click on the View icon.
| | 01:08 | From here, I can choose to view two
photos at a time, either one on top of each
| | 01:12 | other or next to one another.
| | 01:15 | I'll go with the next to one
another view by clicking this icon.
| | 01:17 | So now I see just two of the photos
in the filmstrip next to one another.
| | 01:23 | And there's a blue box
around the photo on the left.
| | 01:26 | I think of that blue box as the Replacement box.
| | 01:29 | You'll see why in just a moment.
| | 01:31 | Take a look at the filmstrip and you'll see
there are two thumbnails highlighted there.
| | 01:35 | Those are the two photos that I'm comparing
at the moment in this nice, large, clean view.
| | 01:41 | Of these two photos, I
prefer the one on the right.
| | 01:43 | So, here's what I'm going to do.
| | 01:44 | I'm going to leave the blue box, the
Replacement box, around the photo on
| | 01:48 | the left; and I'm going to switch
that photo on the left out for the next
| | 01:52 | photo in the folder.
| | 01:54 | The way that I'll do that is to click
the right-facing arrow in the Control bar.
| | 01:58 | Now, you can see which two photos
are being compared if you look at the
| | 02:02 | thumbnails that are
highlighted in the filmstrip.
| | 02:04 | Of these two photos, I still like
that photo on the right the best, so I'll
| | 02:08 | leave the blue box where it is; and
I'll replace the photo on the left with
| | 02:12 | another photo by again clicking
the right arrow in the Control bar.
| | 02:17 | Of these two photos, I actually like
the photo on the left the best, so I don't
| | 02:22 | want to replace that one.
| | 02:23 | I want to leave that one up on screen. I
want to replace the photo on the right.
| | 02:28 | So I need to take that Replacement box
and move it over the photo on the right.
| | 02:32 | To do that, I'll click once
on the photo on the right.
| | 02:36 | So now, it is this photo on the right
that's going to be replaced when I come
| | 02:40 | down and click the right-
facing arrow in the Control bar.
| | 02:45 | So that replaces the photo on the right
with the next photo down here in the filmstrip.
| | 02:50 | Of these two, I still like
that photo on the left the best.
| | 02:54 | So I'll leave the Replacement box
over on the right, and I'll click the
| | 02:58 | right-facing arrow again to add yet
a new photo to the box on the right.
| | 03:03 | Now of these two photos, I really
like the photo on the right the best.
| | 03:07 | So I need to move the replacement box
back over to the left. I'll do that by
| | 03:11 | clicking on the photo on the left; and
I'm going to click the right-facing arrow
| | 03:16 | to replace the photo on the left
with the last photo in my filmstrip.
| | 03:22 | And now I have my last comparison,
comparing the photo that's the winner so
| | 03:27 | far, the one on the right,
with the new photo on the left.
| | 03:31 | I think the photo on the right is a
better choice because it shows more
| | 03:34 | features of this house.
| | 03:35 | So, the photo on the right is the winner.
| | 03:38 | I'll click once on the photo on the right.
| | 03:40 | And now, to indicate that that is the
winner, I'm going to move my cursor over
| | 03:45 | that panel at the top-left of the screen.
| | 03:48 | At the top of that panel,
you can see a line of stars.
| | 03:51 | I'm going to give the winner--the photo
on the right--five stars, by clicking on
| | 03:55 | the fifth star here.
| | 03:56 | And then I'll move off that
panel and it will collapse.
| | 03:59 | Now you don't see the stars here, but
when I go back to Media view, those stars
| | 04:04 | will indicate which of the six
photos in the folder is my favorite.
| | 04:08 | To exit out of Full Screen view and go
back to Media view, I'll click the Exit
| | 04:13 | button here in the Control bar.
| | 04:15 | And back in Media view, I'm going to
scroll down; and you can see the five stars
| | 04:22 | under the photo that I selected by
comparing all these photos to one another,
| | 04:27 | two at a time, which made my job a lot easier.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Applying Quick Edit options| 00:00 | Another thing you can do in Full Screen
view is review photos one by one, and as
| | 00:05 | you're doing that, you can apply
some instant photo fixes to your photos.
| | 00:10 | I've selected a folder of
photos here in Media view.
| | 00:13 | I'll take those in Full Screen view by
going to the View menu and choosing Full Screen.
| | 00:18 | Here in Full Screen view, you see a
couple of panels at the left, which will
| | 00:21 | automatically collapse in a moment.
| | 00:23 | Down at the bottom of the screen is a
Filmstrip that shows Thumbnail versions of
| | 00:28 | all the photos that are
now open in Full Screen view.
| | 00:30 | And if I move my mouse in Full Screen
view, this Control bar comes up, offering
| | 00:35 | some options that I can use here.
| | 00:37 | When I stop moving my mouse, the
Control bar disappears, so you'll see it coming
| | 00:41 | back on and off the screen during this movie.
| | 00:44 | To move between images in Full Screen
view, I'll use the Filmstrip, clicking on
| | 00:49 | a different thumbnail there
to view it in Full Screen view.
| | 00:52 | So I can use this view to evaluate
my photos and really get a good, clean,
| | 00:57 | large view of each photo.
| | 00:58 | As I'm doing that, sometimes I
just can't resist making an edit.
| | 01:03 | I usually do most of my edits in
Elements Editor rather than in the Organizer.
| | 01:07 | But if I need to, there are some common photo
fixes available right here in full Screen view.
| | 01:12 | There are a couple ways to access those.
| | 01:14 | If I move my mouse to bring up the
Control bar, I can click this Fix icon.
| | 01:19 | And that will expand the Edit panel
up here at the top-left of the screen.
| | 01:23 | Another way to access the Edit panel is to
move my cursor over that panel, and it expands.
| | 01:29 | But if I were to move off of
it, it would collapse again.
| | 01:32 | So to keep it on screen, I'll come
up here and I'll click this pin icon.
| | 01:36 | We already saw in the last movie that
you can apply star ratings to a photo
| | 01:40 | from here in the Edit panel.
| | 01:41 | So if I wanted to give this photo five stars,
I could just click on the fifth star here.
| | 01:46 | You can't see the stars here in Full
Screen view, but let me go back to Media
| | 01:51 | view, you'll see this
photo marked with five stars.
| | 01:54 | In the Edit section of this panel,
you'll see the same instant photo fixes that
| | 01:59 | I covered in an earlier movie about
using the Instant Fixes in Media view.
| | 02:03 | And when I move my mouse over each of
these icons, you'll see the name of that
| | 02:08 | Photo Fix as well as a tool
tip that describes what it does.
| | 02:11 | So here for example, is Contrast,
which improves contrast in a photo
| | 02:16 | without affecting colors.
| | 02:17 | Here, you can make a Levels
adjustment to improve the tonal range.
| | 02:21 | Sometimes, Levels does
affect the color in an image.
| | 02:25 | And here, if you need to improve the
Color Balance and the Contrast, you can try
| | 02:29 | the Color Adjustment.
| | 02:31 | Smart Fix tries to improve everything at once:
| | 02:34 | colors and the exposure and amount
of detail in Shadows and Highlights.
| | 02:38 | In the next row, there's a Sharpen option.
| | 02:41 | Here's an option for correcting
Red Eyes in a photograph of a person.
| | 02:45 | And from here, you can take the
photo into either Elements Editor or into
| | 02:51 | another program, Premiere Elements,
which is used for video editing.
| | 02:54 | So for example, let's say that I want
to improve the tonal value in this image.
| | 03:00 | I'll try applying a Levels
adjustment by clicking this icon and I can see
| | 03:04 | the Progress bar as Elements applies an
Auto Levels Adjustment and there's the result.
| | 03:09 | If I don't like that result, I can undo
it by coming down to the action section
| | 03:14 | and clicking this Undo button.
| | 03:15 | If I want to apply a different
adjustment instead, maybe Auto-contrast, I'll
| | 03:21 | click this Contrast icon.
| | 03:24 | There are a couple of other options here.
| | 03:26 | If I click the Print option, I'll mark
this image for printing and I'll get a
| | 03:30 | message that it is a photo that I want
to print when I go back to Media view.
| | 03:34 | And here, if I want to delete the photo
altogether from the Organizer, I can do that.
| | 03:39 | But I'm usually careful
about not doing that here.
| | 03:41 | I'll do it back in Media view, where
I have more control over the process.
| | 03:45 | If I'm done with these Edit options
and I want to see the photo unobstructed,
| | 03:48 | I'll come back to the Edit panel and
I'll click the pin icon to disable it.
| | 03:52 | And then I'll move off of the Edit
panel and in just a moment, it will collapse.
| | 03:57 | When I'm all done working in Full
Screen view, I can go back into Media view by
| | 04:01 | moving my cursor so the Control bar
comes back into view and then I'll click the
| | 04:05 | Exit button here on the
right side of the Control bar.
| | 04:08 | I'll click that Exit button and
that takes me back to Media view.
| | 04:11 | Notice that there are five stars under
this image and we can see the adjusted
| | 04:16 | version of that image here
in the Grid in Media view.
| | 04:20 | This arrow and this symbol on the
thumbnail indicates that there is a Version Set.
| | 04:25 | I covered Version Sets in the
earlier movie on applying an Instant Photo
| | 04:29 | Fix here in Media view.
| | 04:31 | When you make a Photo Fix in Full
Screen view, it also automatically makes a
| | 04:35 | Version Set for you.
| | 04:37 | In other words, when I made that fix in
Full Screen view, Elements made a copy
| | 04:41 | of the original photo for me and added
the adjustment to the copy, and it kept
| | 04:46 | not only the adjusted version, but also
the original and grouped them together
| | 04:50 | into this Version Set,
which is a kind of a stack.
| | 04:53 | And if I want to see both this adjusted
version and the original, I can expand
| | 04:57 | this Version Set by clicking
this arrow to the right of the set.
| | 05:01 | So here's the original and here's the
adjusted version, automatically saved for
| | 05:05 | me with the suffix edited-1.
| | 05:08 | I can leave the Version Set expanded
like that so that I can see both versions
| | 05:11 | in my Organizer or to
save space in the Organizer.
| | 05:15 | I can always collapse the Version Set
by clicking this arrow but both versions
| | 05:19 | of this photo are now included in my
Organizer, and I didn't have to manually
| | 05:24 | save anything when I made
that edit in Full Screen view.
| | 05:27 | So do take advantage of Full Screen
view to review your photos and to apply
| | 05:31 | some instant photo fixes to
cure some common photo problems.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Applying Quick Organize options| 00:00 | When you're using Virtual Albums and
Keyword Tags to organize photos in Elements
| | 00:04 | Organizer, you'll do most of your work
here in Media view, where you have access
| | 00:09 | to all the keywording and album features.
| | 00:11 | But sometimes, when you're reviewing
photos in Full Screen view where you have
| | 00:16 | a nice clean view of each photo, you
may want to quickly add a photo to an
| | 00:20 | existing album or apply a keyword or
two on the spot, without having to come
| | 00:24 | back here to Media ciew.
| | 00:25 | Let's see how we can do
that in Full Screen view.
| | 00:28 | I'll open these photos into Full
Screen view by going to the View menu and
| | 00:31 | choosing Full Screen.
| | 00:34 | These panels on the left will
collapse in just a moment and as I've already
| | 00:37 | explained, whenever I move my cursor,
this Control bar appears in View; and when
| | 00:42 | I move my cursor still,
the Control bar disappears.
| | 00:44 | Down at the bottom of the screen, you
can see the thumbnails that I can use to
| | 00:49 | navigate among the open images by
clicking on one of the thumbnails.
| | 00:53 | If you prefer to view photos in Full
Screen view without any distractions
| | 00:57 | including these thumbnails, you can
turn them off by moving your mouse so that
| | 01:01 | the Control bar appears,
| | 01:02 | snd then clicking this Film Strip
button to toggle off the Thumbnails.
| | 01:07 | And then, you can use an alternative
way to cycle through the open photos by
| | 01:10 | pressing the arrow keys on your keyboard
and that gives you the cleanest view of
| | 01:15 | your photos here in Full Screen view.
| | 01:17 | As you're reviewing photos here, if you
see a photo that you want to quickly add
| | 01:21 | to an album or tag with a keyword, then
you want to open the Organize panel on
| | 01:25 | the left side of your screen.
| | 01:27 | Right now, it's collapsed.
| | 01:28 | There are two ways I can open it.
| | 01:30 | Either by moving my cursor to bring up
the Control bar and clicking the Organize
| | 01:34 | button in the Control bar, or coming
over to the left side of the screen and
| | 01:39 | hovering over the Organize
panel so that it expands.
| | 01:43 | And then to keep it in view, I'll go
up to this pin at the top right of the
| | 01:46 | Organize panel and click.
| | 01:49 | The top section of the Organize panel is
for adding a photo to an existing album.
| | 01:54 | As you'll learn later in the course,
albums come in handy to view a collection
| | 01:58 | of photos together, even if they're
physically located in different places in
| | 02:01 | your file structure.
| | 02:02 | So I like to use albums when I'm
gathering photos from various locations for a
| | 02:07 | project, like a flower
calendar that I'm planning to make.
| | 02:11 | Notice that the top section is labeled
Add to Albums, that means that you can
| | 02:16 | add a photo to an existing album here,
but you can't create a new album here.
| | 02:20 | To do that, you have to be out in Media
view, and I'll show you how to make an
| | 02:25 | album in Media view in an upcoming chapter.
| | 02:27 | I happened to have already
made an album in Media view.
| | 02:30 | The Flower Calendar album that you see here.
| | 02:33 | So now as I am running through My
Photos in Full Screen view, if I decide I
| | 02:37 | want this particular photo in this album,
all I have to do is click the Album in
| | 02:42 | the Organize panel. And that adds this
photo to that album as we'll see when we
| | 02:47 | get back to Media view.
| | 02:48 | The second part of the
Organize panel is for keyword tagging.
| | 02:52 | Here in the Keyword tags area, I
can see all the existing keyword tags.
| | 02:57 | These happen to be the default tags
that come with Elements Organizer.
| | 03:01 | To add one or more of these existing
tags to these photo, all I have to do is
| | 03:05 | click that tag here in the Organize panel.
| | 03:07 | So, if I want to tag this photo with
the tag Nature, I'll click Nature here.
| | 03:12 | I also have the option of creating a
brand new tag and applying it to this
| | 03:17 | photo at the same time.
| | 03:18 | To do that, I'll go down to this field,
the Add Custom Keywords field, I'll
| | 03:22 | click there and I'll type the keyword.
| | 03:25 | I'll make a new keyword Flowers and
then I'll click this little Add button.
| | 03:29 | And that creates the new Flowers
keyword and applies it to this photo.
| | 03:33 | When I'm done working in the
Organize panel, I can collapse it so I get a
| | 03:37 | nice big view of my photos again, by
unpinning it, clicking the Pin icon
| | 03:41 | again, and then moving off it.
| | 03:43 | And when I'm ready to Exit Full
Screen view and go back to Media view, I'll
| | 03:47 | move my cursor to bring up the Control bar and
I'll click the Exit button on the Control bar.
| | 03:52 | That takes me back to Media view,
where I can see the results of the keyword
| | 03:56 | tagging and the album inclusion
I just did in Full Screen view.
| | 04:00 | Here, under the photo of the roses,
you can see three small icons.
| | 04:05 | The first of those is an Album icon,
and if I hover over that Album icon, you
| | 04:09 | can see that this photo is in the album,
Flower Calender, where I put it when I
| | 04:13 | was back in Full Screen view.
| | 04:15 | These other two tags represent keywords.
| | 04:17 | If I hover over this tag, it tells me
that the keyword tag Nature has been
| | 04:22 | applied to this photo.
| | 04:23 | And hovering over this symbol tells
me that the keyword tag Flowers has also
| | 04:28 | been applied to this photo.
| | 04:30 | And I could search on either keyword tag
from anywhere in my Catalog to find this photo.
| | 04:35 | Although most work with keywords and
albums is done here in Media view, I think
| | 04:39 | it really is convenient to have some
basic keywording and album features
| | 04:43 | available in Full Screen view, too.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
4. Working with Files and FoldersUsing the Folders panel| 00:00 | The Organizer offers a number of
intelligent ways to keep track of photos,
| | 00:04 | like the People, Places, and Events
views, Albums and Keywords, all of which
| | 00:08 | I'll cover in this course.
| | 00:10 | But even with all of those
intelligent options, when we're looking for a
| | 00:14 | particular photo, lots of us tend to think
about just which folder it's in in our hard drive.
| | 00:18 | So, in Elements 11, Adobe has
made it easier to see and work with the
| | 00:22 | folders on your hard drive
from inside the Organizer.
| | 00:25 | And that's done in the Folders panel,
or the My Folders panel here in the Organizer.
| | 00:31 | Before we look at this panel, I'd like
to take you out to my hard drive to see
| | 00:35 | how I've arranged some actual folders there.
| | 00:37 | And then we'll come back into the
Organizer to see how that arrangement looks
| | 00:41 | in the Folders panel here in the Organizer.
| | 00:43 | By the way, for this movie, I've switch
from the Exercise Files catalog over to
| | 00:47 | my catalog so you can see what the
Folders panel might look like if you've taken
| | 00:51 | the time to get your actual photos
well organized on your hard drive before
| | 00:55 | importing the photos into
Elements, as I recommend you do.
| | 00:59 | So now we're out on my hard drive,
looking at my file structure in my Windows
| | 01:03 | operating system, not in Elements.
| | 01:05 | I keep my photos in my My Pictures
folder and if I click the arrow to the
| | 01:10 | left of My Pictures, you can see I
have another folder that I made there
| | 01:13 | called My Elements Photos.
| | 01:15 | I do that just to keep my Elements
photos separate from whatever else is in
| | 01:19 | My Pictures folder.
| | 01:20 | And if I click the arrow to the left
of that, you can see that I've gotten so
| | 01:24 | well organized that I have
folders year by year here.
| | 01:27 | If I click the arrow to the left of a
year, I can see all of the shoots from
| | 01:31 | that year, which I'll label by date
and with a word or two about the subject
| | 01:35 | matter of the shoot: 2011 and 2012.
| | 01:40 | For purposes of this example, I've
brought into my catalog in the Organizer
| | 01:44 | all of the photos in these subfolders except for
those in the 2012-10 crested butte subfolder.
| | 01:50 | I'll show you why in a moment, when I go
back to my Organizer, as I'm going to do now.
| | 01:56 | Here in the Organizer, you can see, in
the column on the left, the My Folders panel.
| | 02:01 | If you don't see this, then go down
to the taskbar and click Show Panel and
| | 02:06 | click the arrow to the left of My
Folders, and you'll be able to see whatever
| | 02:10 | photos you happen to have in your
My Folders panel in your own catalog.
| | 02:15 | My Folders panel is set to its default
view, which is called the folder list view.
| | 02:20 | Notice that this show the hierarchy of
folders that we know are in my file structure.
| | 02:25 | All it does show is an alphanumeric
list of each subfolder that contains at
| | 02:30 | least one file that I've
imported to this catalog.
| | 02:33 | These subfolders all contain photos
that I imported from a drive or from
| | 02:37 | my camera memory card.
| | 02:39 | If you are wondering about the
music subfolder, that contains the audio
| | 02:42 | clips that come with the Organizer, and
that were imported when I created this catalog.
| | 02:47 | Each of these folders has a
little scene symbol on it.
| | 02:50 | That scene symbol means that there
is at least one item in that subfolder
| | 02:54 | that's been imported into this catalog;
subfolders with that symbol are called managed folders.
| | 03:00 | So this is a really streamlined
view of my actual folder hierarchy,
| | 03:05 | and that's useful because it makes it
simple to find photos according to their
| | 03:10 | folders here in the Organizer.
| | 03:12 | But it also limits the number of things
that I can do with my files and folders
| | 03:16 | from here in the Organizer.
| | 03:17 | Now, there are some
things I can do in this view.
| | 03:20 | I can move files between these managed
folders by clicking on a file, like this
| | 03:25 | one, and dragging it to
another folder, like this.
| | 03:29 | And that's the best way to move files.
| | 03:32 | Now, there are things
that I can do in this view.
| | 03:34 | For example, if I click on the
Sunflowers folder and I want to move one of
| | 03:39 | these photos to a different folder, I
can do that by clicking on the photo and
| | 03:43 | dragging it to another managed folder.
| | 03:46 | And then if I click on that
other folder, there's the photo.
| | 03:49 | Now, that is the best way to move files,
as I'll explain later in this chapter.
| | 03:53 | But what if I wanted to move a photo
to a folder that doesn't appear here,
| | 03:58 | a folder that's in my folder hierarchy but
that isn't yet part of this Organizer catalog?
| | 04:03 | I can't do that here.
| | 04:05 | And there are a number of other things
like that that I can't do without having
| | 04:08 | access to my non-managed folders.
| | 04:10 | So, fortunately, there is another
view of folders here in the Organizer, and
| | 04:16 | that's called the hierarchical folder view.
| | 04:18 | To access that view, I'm going to
click this little icon to the right of the
| | 04:22 | My Folders label on the My Folders panel,
and that takes me to the hierarchical view.
| | 04:27 | Here, I can see a path down through
all of my folders and subfolders to my 2011-01 Santa Fe
| | 04:35 | subfolder, the one that is managed.
| | 04:38 | And this hierarchical view even shows me
non-managed folders in that path, which
| | 04:45 | are all of these folders that do not
have that little scene icon on them.
| | 04:49 | So here I can do things that I
can't do back in the folder list view.
| | 04:53 | For one thing, I can make a new
subfolder and move files into that
| | 04:56 | non-managed new subfolder.
| | 04:59 | So if I right-click in the 2011
folder, for example, and I choose New
| | 05:03 | Folder--I'll make a new folder called
2011-08 Sunflowers--and I'll go back to
| | 05:11 | my Santa Fe, I'll get that
Sunflowers folder, and I'll drag it into this
| | 05:16 | non-managed folder.
| | 05:18 | That not only moves the sunflower photo,
it also turns that new folder into a
| | 05:24 | managed folder because it now contains a
photo that has been imported into this catalog.
| | 05:28 | Another thing I can do is burrow down
to see if there are any shoot subfolders
| | 05:33 | that I'd forgotten to import into the catalog.
| | 05:36 | So, I'm going to burrow down to the 2012
folder by clicking the Plus symbol to the left of it.
| | 05:41 | And there I see two subfolders. These are
managed subfolders from these two shoots.
| | 05:47 | If I right-click on the 2012 folder,
I can ask Elements to show me all the
| | 05:52 | subfolders there, even those that
are not managed. And it does so.
| | 05:57 | And I can see that there is a
non-managed subfolder from my Crested Butte shoot,
| | 06:02 | and I can even import that photo
directly, without having to go up to the
| | 06:06 | Import button and choosing From
Files and Folders and navigating back to that
| | 06:11 | crested butte folder.
| | 06:12 | All I have to do is right-click on the
crested butte folder and choose Import
| | 06:17 | Media, and that will import
just the files in that subfolder.
| | 06:21 | That changes the view here in the
grid to just the photos I've just
| | 06:25 | imported from Crested Butte.
| | 06:26 | And if I click the Back button, I'll go
back to see all the photos in this catalog.
| | 06:31 | And if I come back down here and click
the Plus symbol next to the 2012 folder, I
| | 06:36 | now have a managed crested butte folder.
| | 06:38 | So there is a lot more that you can
do in the hierarchical folders view, but
| | 06:43 | its also more complicated.
| | 06:44 | So if I want to go back to the
streamlined view, I'll just go up to the icon
| | 06:48 | to the right on the Folders label and I'll
click there to display the folders list view.
| | 06:54 | And this is where I do most of my
work when I am in the Organizer.
| | 06:58 | So, as you can see, you do have
direct access to your folders here in the
| | 07:03 | Elements Organizer, and both of
the folder views serve a purpose.
| | 07:07 | This folder list view, the default
view, is streamlined and simple to use.
| | 07:11 | And the hierarchical folder view gives
you even more options for working with
| | 07:15 | your folders and files
from inside the Organizer.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Moving and renaming files| 00:00 | When you import photos into Elements
Organizer, the Catalog takes note of the
| | 00:05 | name of the file and it
keeps track of its location.
| | 00:08 | So, if you're going to move or rename
a file, then you should do that from
| | 00:13 | inside the Organizer so that your
Catalog can keep track of that file.
| | 00:16 | In this movie, I'll show you how to
move and rename files the correct way from
| | 00:20 | inside the Organizer.
| | 00:22 | In the next movie, I'll show you what
happens if you happen to do that the wrong way.
| | 00:26 | For example, if you move a file from
outside of the Organizer, as we've all
| | 00:30 | done from time to time.
| | 00:31 | So here are the best practices
for moving and renaming files.
| | 00:35 | Here, I'm looking at the 04_02_flowers
folder and it contains not only a couple
| | 00:39 | photos of flowers, but a
couple photos of horses as well.
| | 00:43 | I'd like to move the photos of horses
from the Flowers folder into the Horses
| | 00:48 | folder, which is here, which
currently has just this one photo in it.
| | 00:52 | So I'll select the Flowers folder in
the My Folders panel, and you can do this
| | 00:57 | by the way from this default Folder List
view, or from the Folder Hierarchy view.
| | 01:02 | And then I'll go into the Grid and
I'll select the photos I want to move.
| | 01:06 | I'll click on this photo of horses.
| | 01:08 | I'll hold the Ctrl key, the Cmd key on the
Mac and click on this photo of horses, too.
| | 01:13 | And then, I'll click on either of the
selected photos in the Grid and drag from
| | 01:17 | there into the My Folders panel on the left.
| | 01:20 | I'll move my cursor over the 04_02_
horses folder and when that folder turns
| | 01:25 | Bold, I'll release my mouse.
| | 01:27 | Now we're looking at the contents of
the Flowers folder and the horses are gone.
| | 01:31 | If I click on the Horses folder instead,
there are those two photos that I just
| | 01:36 | moved from the Flowers folder into the
Horses folder and Elements was able to
| | 01:40 | keep track of those photos.
| | 01:42 | So, for example, if I try to open
one of these into Single Image view by
| | 01:46 | double-clicking it, that's fine.
| | 01:48 | And if I try to bring the photo into
the Editor to work on it there by clicking
| | 01:52 | the Editor button in the
taskbar, that's fine too.
| | 01:55 | I'll click this X to close the photo
from the Editor, and I'll click the Grid
| | 02:00 | button at the top of the
Organizer to go back to the Grid view.
| | 02:03 | So that's the best way to move files.
| | 02:06 | What's the best way to rename files?
| | 02:08 | The answer is to rename
files from inside the Organizer.
| | 02:12 | Don't do it out in your
Operating System or in another program.
| | 02:15 | And you can rename files here
one at a time or multiple files.
| | 02:19 | So to rename this file, I'll select
it and then I'll go up to the File menu
| | 02:23 | and I'll choose Rename.
| | 02:25 | That opens a box where I can
type a new name for the file.
| | 02:28 | I'll type over the default name, I'll
call this old_gray_mare, and click okay.
| | 02:35 | And as you can see, the prefix
of the file has been changed.
| | 02:39 | By the way, if you don't see the
file names under your Thumbnails in the
| | 02:42 | Organizer as I covered in an earlier
movie, go up to the View menu and enable
| | 02:46 | both Details and Filenames.
| | 02:49 | Now let's rename these other two
photos, but let's do it together.
| | 02:52 | I'll click on this photo, I'll hold the
Ctrl key on the PC, the Cmd key on the
| | 02:57 | Mac, and click on this photo too.
| | 02:59 | And again, I'll go to the
File menu and choose Rename.
| | 03:02 | Now here, I can choose one base name
that will be applied to both photos.
| | 03:06 | And then, each will get a unique suffix as well.
| | 03:09 | So, let's make the base name
my_horses and click okay.
| | 03:14 | So here, I have my_horses-1 and my_horses-2.
| | 03:17 | So, that's the best way to move and
rename photos from inside the Organizer so
| | 03:23 | that your Catalog can keep track of your photos.
| | 03:25 | If I haven't convinced you yet that
that's the best way to do it, in the next
| | 03:29 | movie, I'll show you what happens if
you do move a file from outside the
| | 03:33 | Organizer, and I'll show you the
solution for the consequence, too.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Reconnecting missing files| 00:00 | In the last movie, I showed you how
to move files and to rename files the
| | 00:04 | correct way so that your
Catalog can keep track of the files.
| | 00:08 | But it's almost inevitable that you
will move some files outside of the
| | 00:11 | Organizer, perhaps by
mistake or rename files that way.
| | 00:15 | So let's see what happens in that
event and what you can do to reconnect a
| | 00:20 | missing file to your Organizer catalog.
| | 00:22 | Here I have a photo of a
flower and it happens to be in the
| | 00:26 | 04_03_horses folder.
| | 00:29 | I'd like it to go in the four
_03_flowers folder instead.
| | 00:33 | As I showed you in the last movie, the
right way to do that would be to move
| | 00:37 | that photo into the Flowers folder from
here in the Organizer; but I'm going to
| | 00:41 | go out to my Operating System and do it there.
| | 00:44 | Here in my Operating System, on the
right, you can see the Horses folder and on
| | 00:48 | the left, the Flowers folder.
| | 00:50 | I'm not only going to move the Flowers
folder incorrectly, I'm also going to
| | 00:53 | rename it incorrectly, doing
both out here in my Organizer.
| | 00:57 | So I'll select the flower in the
Horses folder, I'll click on its name again,
| | 01:03 | and I'll change it to 04_04_flower, and
press enter or return on my keyboard.
| | 01:10 | And then I'll click on that flower
photo and I'll drag it over into the Flowers
| | 01:15 | folder out in my Operating System.
| | 01:17 | Now, I'm going to go back to the Organizer.
| | 01:19 | Back in the Organizer, at first it
looks like nothing has happened to this file.
| | 01:24 | It still bears the old name and we still see
a thumbnail of the file in the Horses folder.
| | 01:30 | Now at this point, you may or may not
see a little question mark on the file.
| | 01:36 | Even if you don't, if you try to work
with the file--for example, if you do
| | 01:39 | something as simple as double-click the
thumbnail of the flower to open it into
| | 01:43 | Single Image view--Elements realizes
that it can't find the original file.
| | 01:48 | The name is changed and it's
no longer in the Horses folder.
| | 01:51 | So Elements goes out and tries to find
that missing file, looking through my drives.
| | 01:57 | Sometimes, it can find and
reconnect to that file right away, in which
| | 02:01 | case, there's no problem.
| | 02:03 | But sometimes, as in this case, it takes
a long time to look through the many
| | 02:08 | files on my hard drives and in the end,
it may not locate that missing file.
| | 02:13 | So if that happens, it's not the end
of the world; you still have the ability
| | 02:17 | to locate the file yourself, as it says here.
| | 02:20 | I'll click the Browse button and that
opens the Reconnect Missing Files dialog box.
| | 02:25 | Now, when I use this feature, I have
to know where that missing file is.
| | 02:30 | If I don't, I'll close this dialog
box and use these search features in my
| | 02:35 | Operating System to try
to find the file by name.
| | 02:39 | But if I do know where it is, then I
can come over here to this drop-down menu
| | 02:43 | on the right, click the drop-down menu, and
navigate to the new location of that photo.
| | 02:48 | I know that its located inside of my
04_03 folder, and there, it's inside
| | 02:55 | the Flowers folder.
| | 02:56 | So, I'll double-click the Flowers
folder and there is the missing file.
| | 03:00 | I'll select its thumbnail
and then I'll come down here.
| | 03:02 | On the left, Elements is showing me the
original filename and the original location.
| | 03:07 | And on the right, it's showing me
the new filename in the new location.
| | 03:11 | So I'll click Reconnect to
reestablish the link between the Catalog and the
| | 03:16 | file with its new name and its new location.
| | 03:19 | And now, everything should be fine.
| | 03:21 | If I go to my 04_03_flowers folder
in the My folders panel, there is the
| | 03:26 | photo with its new name.
| | 03:28 | And if I double-click it to bring it
into Single Image view, everything is fine;
| | 03:32 | I can now work with the file.
| | 03:34 | It's been reconnected to my catalog.
| | 03:37 | I'll click Grid and that will
take me back into Grid view.
| | 03:40 | Now, if you are in Grid view and you
happen to see a small question mark at
| | 03:43 | the top left of any of your thumbnails, that
means that they have disconnected from the Catalog.
| | 03:48 | And at that point, in order to go
through the reconnect process I just showed
| | 03:53 | you, you could go up to the File menu
and down to the Reconnect command and
| | 03:56 | choose Missing file or All Missing
Files, and that will go through the same
| | 04:01 | process I just showed you.
| | 04:02 | So I hope that I've now convinced
you not to rename or move your files
| | 04:06 | outside of the Organizer.
| | 04:08 | But if you do, you now know how to fix
the problem, reconnecting your photos
| | 04:12 | to your catalog.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Moving and renaming folders| 00:00 | Working with folders is a
lot like working with files.
| | 00:03 | If you are going to Move or Rename A
Folder, you want to do it from inside of
| | 00:07 | your Elements Organizer so that your
Catalog can keep track of that folder.
| | 00:11 | I have three folders here, 04_04_
horses, 04_04_mare, and 04_04_sitting.
| | 00:17 | I'm going to start by renaming a folder.
| | 00:20 | I can rename a folder here in the Folders
List view or in the Folders Hierarchy view.
| | 00:26 | Here in Folders List view, I'll
select the 04_04_mare folder and I'll
| | 00:31 | right-click on that folder,
and choose Rename Folder.
| | 00:35 | That opens this Text box,
where I can type a different name.
| | 00:39 | I'll add the word Gray.
| | 00:43 | And then I'll press Enter
or Return on my keyboard.
| | 00:45 | So that quickly renames that folder.
| | 00:48 | Now, I'd like to try to move
that folder into the Horses folder.
| | 00:52 | I'll click on the gray_mare folder,
and I'll try to drag it into the Horses
| | 00:56 | folder, but nothing happens.
| | 00:57 | That's because, to move a folder, I
have to go to My Folder Hierarchy view.
| | 01:02 | So, I'll do that by going to this icon to
the right of my folders and I'll click there.
| | 01:07 | I'm going to move my cursor over the
border between the Folders panel and
| | 01:12 | the Grid on the right, and I'll drag to the
right so that we can see the Folder Names here.
| | 01:17 | And then I'll click on my ray_mare
folder and I'll click and drag it inside of
| | 01:21 | my 04_04_horses folder.
| | 01:24 | When that lights up with Bold
text, I'll release my mouse.
| | 01:27 | And you can see by the fact that the 04
_04_gray_mare folder is indented under
| | 01:32 | the 04_04_horses folder, that the gray_
mare folder is inside the Horses folder
| | 01:37 | now in my Folder structure.
| | 01:40 | And that's true if I were to go out
to my hard drive and look at the Folder
| | 01:43 | structure there, too; because moving a
folder like this inside the Organizer
| | 01:47 | also moves it on my drive.
| | 01:49 | Now, let's see what happens if I try to
rename and move a folder outside of the Organizer.
| | 01:54 | I'll go out to my Operating
System, and there I'm going to take the
| | 01:59 | 04_04_sitting folder and
drag it on to my Desktop.
| | 02:03 | I'm also going to rename it,
| | 02:07 | Clicking on its name and
changing it to 04_04_resting.
| | 02:12 | Now, let's go back into the Organizer
and see if it could keep track of those
| | 02:16 | changes made outside the Organizer.
| | 02:18 | At first, it looks like I haven't made
any changes to the folder 04_04_sitting.
| | 02:23 | It appears to still be where it was
originally, and its name hasn't changed.
| | 02:28 | If I select that folder and then I
try to do something to the photo inside
| | 02:32 | the folder like double-click it to
open it in Single Image view, Elements
| | 02:37 | realizes that it can't find
the contents of that folder.
| | 02:40 | So to point it to the correct folder with
the correct name, I'll click the Browse button.
| | 02:46 | I'll go to the Locate Missing Files
menu and I know that I've put the folder
| | 02:51 | with this file on my
Desktop, so I'll click Desktop.
| | 02:55 | I'll find the renamed 04_04_
resting folder and select that.
| | 03:00 | And down here, I can see that
that's enough to reconnect to the file.
| | 03:05 | I'll click Reconnect and I can see
in the Folders panel that that has
| | 03:09 | solved the problem.
| | 03:11 | Now on my Desktop, there is a
Managed Folder called 04_04_resting.
| | 03:16 | So the Organizer has
recognized that name change.
| | 03:19 | And if I click on that folder, I see
the file inside the folder; and I can
| | 03:24 | double-click that file, and it
opens just fine into Single Image view.
| | 03:27 | So, the upshot is that when you're
moving or renaming a folder, do it from
| | 03:32 | inside the Organizer, just as you
should when you're moving or renaming a file.
| | 03:37 | But if you do rename or move a folder
from outside the Organizer, you do have
| | 03:41 | the possibility of reconnecting your
files and folders back to your Organizer,
| | 03:46 | as I showed you in this movie.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Deleting files and folders| 00:00 | There's an important distinction
between deleting a file or folder from an
| | 00:03 | Organizer catalog and deleting a file
or folder from your drive altogether; and
| | 00:08 | you want to be careful not to delete
from the drive when all you mean to do is
| | 00:12 | remove a file or folder from your Catalog.
| | 00:14 | For example, let's say that I want to
remove this yellow flower photo from my Catalog.
| | 00:20 | But, I may want to bring it back in,
so I don't want to delete it from my
| | 00:24 | hard drive altogether.
| | 00:26 | I'll select the photo in Media view
and then I'll right-click it, and I'll
| | 00:30 | choose Delete From Catalog.
| | 00:31 | This warning tells me that if I just
click okay, the selected item will be
| | 00:35 | deleted from the Catalog, but it won't
be deleted from my hard drive altogether
| | 00:40 | unless I check this check box.
| | 00:42 | So I'll be careful not to check
that box now, and I'll click okay.
| | 00:46 | The photo dissappears from my Catalog
but it still is on my hard drive in the
| | 00:51 | same location that it always was.
| | 00:53 | So if I want to bring it back, I can
simply import it back into the Catalog.
| | 00:58 | There are a couple of ways to do that.
| | 01:00 | I could click the Import button
choose from Files > Folders, and then
| | 01:04 | navigate to that photo.
| | 01:06 | But since I already know that the
photo is physically located inside the 04_05
| | 01:12 | folder, I can use the Import Media
command to import that photo more directly.
| | 01:18 | To do that, I need to switch from the
Folder List view to the Folder Hierarchy view.
| | 01:22 | I'll go up to My Folders and I'll
click the Show Folder Hierarchy icon.
| | 01:27 | Here, I can see my 04_05
folder in the Folder Hierarchy.
| | 01:32 | I'll right-click that folder and I'll
choose Import Media, and that will import
| | 01:38 | that same photo back into the 04_05 folder.
| | 01:41 | Now right now, that's the
only photo that we can see.
| | 01:45 | I'll click the Back button, and then
I'll click the 04_05 folder in the Folders
| | 01:51 | panel; and as you can see, I
brought that photo back into the folder.
| | 01:55 | So the upshot is that when you just
delete from a Catalog, it's really not a
| | 02:00 | problem; your photo is still on your
hard drive and you can bring it back in.
| | 02:05 | Now let's see what happens if we
delete an entire folder of photos.
| | 02:08 | Whether I'm in the Folder Hierarchy view,
as I currently am, or the Folder List
| | 02:13 | view, I can right-click on a
Managed Folder and choose Delete Folder.
| | 02:17 | Again, I get a Confirmation dialog.
| | 02:20 | What this dialog means is that if I
click okay, I'll be deleting the folder
| | 02:24 | with all of its content, the two
flower photos that you see here, from my
| | 02:28 | Catalog; but I won't be deleting
that folder from my hard disk, unless I
| | 02:33 | click this check box.
| | 02:35 | So, again, if I click okay, I've lost
the photos and I've lost the 04_05 folder;
| | 02:41 | but I can bring them back.
| | 02:43 | Again, I could use the Import button
at the top of the screen and navigate
| | 02:46 | to the 04_05 folder.
| | 02:48 | Or because I know that it is inside
of my Chapter four folder, I can just
| | 02:53 | right-click the Chapter four folder
here in the Folder Hierarchy view and
| | 02:57 | choose Import Media.
| | 02:59 | That shows me the contents of the 04_05 folder.
| | 03:02 | I'll click the Back button to see
everything and then, in my Folders panel, I
| | 03:07 | can see my 04_05 folder
right where it should be.
| | 03:11 | I'll click on it and as you can see,
its contents are also back in the Catalog.
| | 03:15 | Now, if I really do want to delete a
file or an entire folder from my hard drive
| | 03:20 | altogether--in other words sending it to
the Recycle Bin on Windows or the Trash
| | 03:25 | on Mac--then I would right-click on
that item, choose Delete From Catalog, and I
| | 03:30 | would check this box.
| | 03:32 | And now if I click okay,
that yellow photo is gone.
| | 03:36 | So if I do try to import it back
into this folder by right-clicking and
| | 03:40 | choosing Import Media, nothing is imported.
| | 03:43 | There is no more photo of the yellow
flower and all I can do is click okay to
| | 03:47 | dismiss that warning.
| | 03:48 | So, do remember not to check the Delete
From Hard Drive box, unless you really
| | 03:53 | do intend to delete a file or a
folder from you hard drive altogether.
| | 03:58 | Otherwise, you're just deleting it
from the Catalog and you can always
| | 04:01 | re-import it.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Using a watch folder to import new files (Windows only)| 00:00 | Windows users, this is a lesson just for you.
| | 00:03 | If you are on Windows, you can designate
one or more folders on your hard drives
| | 00:07 | to be Watch folders.
| | 00:08 | When new photos or other media files are
brought into a Watch folder out on your
| | 00:12 | hard drive, then the Organizer will
notify you and ask if you want those files
| | 00:16 | automatically imported
to your Organizer catalog.
| | 00:19 | Or, depending on how you set up a
Watch folder, those files would be
| | 00:23 | automatically imported to your Catalog
without bothering you with any notification.
| | 00:27 | A Watch folder is identified in the
Folders panel with a tiny binoculars, like
| | 00:32 | the one that you see here to
the left of My Pictures folder.
| | 00:35 | The My Pictures folder is
a Watch folder by default.
| | 00:39 | If you've noticed that everytime you put
a photo into your My Pictures folder or
| | 00:43 | a subfolder there, you get a
notification in Elements Organizer. And if that's
| | 00:47 | bothering you, and you really
don't like that behavior,
| | 00:50 | you can remove your Pictures
folder from the Watch folders, by just
| | 00:54 | right-clicking it here in the Folders
panel and choosing Remove From Watch Folders.
| | 00:58 | So how do you designate a
folder as a Watch folder?
| | 01:02 | You can do that from either of the two
Folders views, this Hierarchy view, or
| | 01:06 | the Folders List view.
| | 01:07 | But in the Folders List view, you have
access only to Managed Folders--those
| | 01:12 | folders that have a little scene
icon on them, like this. If you want to
| | 01:17 | designate a Non-managed
folder as a Watch folder--
| | 01:20 | In other words, a folder that
contains none of the items that are in your
| | 01:23 | Catalog already--then you'll have to
switch over to this Folder Hierarchy view.
| | 01:27 | Where you can see, Non-
managed as well as Managed folders.
| | 01:31 | So, my Pictures folder is
currently a non-managed folder.
| | 01:35 | It doesn't have that little scene icon on it.
| | 01:38 | I want to designate this as a Watch
folder, and there are two ways to do that.
| | 01:42 | The quick way is to just right-click on
the folder and choose Add to Watch Folders.
| | 01:48 | But I'd like more options.
| | 01:49 | So instead of that, I'll go up to the
File menu and I'll choose Watch Folders.
| | 01:54 | That opens the Watch Folders dialog box.
| | 01:57 | I want to make sure that this check box
is checked to enable Watch folders, and
| | 02:01 | then I can add to a list of folders to watch.
| | 02:04 | I'll start by adding My Pictures folder,
clicking the Add button, and navigating
| | 02:11 | to My Pictures folder and clicking
okay. And that adds that to this list.
| | 02:15 | If I wanted to add more folders as Watch
folders, I would click the Add button again.
| | 02:21 | Down here, I can choose what will happen
when a new file is put into My Pictures
| | 02:25 | folder, or one of its
subfolders out on my hard drive.
| | 02:27 | Now let's say I have a moblie
device that always downloads photos to the
| | 02:31 | same location, then I might choose
to automatically add those files to my
| | 02:36 | Elements Organizer.
| | 02:37 | But usually, I like to be notified
before adding files to my Organizer so I'll
| | 02:41 | leave Notify Me selected
here and I'll click okay.
| | 02:45 | Now you can see the little binoculars
icon on the my pictures folder again,
| | 02:49 | indicating that it is a Watch folder.
| | 02:51 | So now, I'm going to go out to my hard
drive and put some new photos in that
| | 02:56 | Watch folder, so we can see what
happens inside of the Organizer.
| | 02:59 | Out in my Operating System I've
navigated to My Pictures folder, I have a couple
| | 03:04 | of subfolders there.
| | 03:05 | I'm going to take these two photos
that are my Desktop and drag them into
| | 03:09 | My Pictures folder; or I could put
them in one of those subfolders and the
| | 03:13 | same thing would happen.
| | 03:14 | I'll select these two and drag them
over and now, I'll go back to my Organizer.
| | 03:20 | And here is the notification that
you get when you have a Watch folder.
| | 03:24 | It tells me that new files have been
found in the Watch folder, and asks if I
| | 03:28 | want to add those new files to the
Media Browser, or to my Organizer.
| | 03:32 | I'll click Yes and then I get this
dialog box, where I can choose among those
| | 03:38 | files the ones that I want
to bring into my organizer.
| | 03:41 | If I want to bring them both,
I'll do nothing but click okay.
| | 03:44 | If I want just this one on the right,
I'll uncheck the one on the left, and
| | 03:48 | then I'll click okay.
| | 03:50 | And that imports that photo to my Organizer.
| | 03:53 | I'm going to click the Back button to go
back to see all the files in this Catalog.
| | 03:57 | And now, if I come up to My Pictures
folder, notice that it has not only the
| | 04:02 | Watch folder binoculars icon, but also
the scene icon that indicates that it now
| | 04:07 | contains at least one item
that's been imported to this Catalog.
| | 04:11 | And if I click on My Pictures folder, there
is that item here in my Organizer catalog.
| | 04:15 | Now if you think that Watch folders will save
you time in your workflow, do give them a try.
| | 04:20 | Or if you're bothered by the default
Watch folders notification from your
| | 04:25 | Pictures folder, now you
know how to turn that off.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
5. Organizing Photos in AlbumsCreating albums| 00:00 | One way to organize photos in
the Organizer is into Albums.
| | 00:04 | An Album is a virtual collection of
photos that may be located in different
| | 00:08 | folders or even on different hard drives.
| | 00:11 | When you put photos into an Album,
you're not moving them in your file
| | 00:14 | structure, you're just linking to them
wherever they're located so that you can
| | 00:18 | see and work with them altogether.
| | 00:19 | For example, if I'm working on a photo
project like a book or a calendar, I'll
| | 00:25 | make an Album of photos that may be
located in various places in my File system.
| | 00:30 | To create an Album, I'll make sure
that the panel on the left side of my
| | 00:34 | Organizer is showing and if it isn't, I'll
come down here and click the Show Panel button.
| | 00:38 | If I happen to be in the Folders
Hierarchy view like this, I'll click this icon
| | 00:42 | to go back to the Folders List view.
| | 00:44 | And in that view, above the My
Folders panel, I'll see the Albums panel.
| | 00:49 | Here, to make a New Album,
I'll click the green + symbol.
| | 00:53 | And from the drop down menu, I'll choose New Album.
| | 00:57 | That opens a column over on the
other side of the Organizer with a panel
| | 01:01 | labeled Add New Album.
| | 01:03 | Here, I'll give my album a name.
| | 01:04 | Let's say, I'm putting together a book
of photos about autumn, so I'll name this
| | 01:09 | album Autumn Book; and then as it tells
me to do here, I'll drag and drop items
| | 01:14 | into this area of the panel on the
right to add content to this album.
| | 01:18 | An important point about an Album is
that I can bring in content from any
| | 01:23 | folder, on any drive, as long as
that content is already in my Catalog.
| | 01:27 | So for example, here I have a folder, the 05
_01 folder, with the number of photos in it.
| | 01:33 | I'm going to select some of these
photos, I'll click on this one and hold the
| | 01:37 | Shift key and click on this one to get
those three, and then I'll drag from the
| | 01:41 | Grid into the Content Tab
in the Add New Album panel.
| | 01:46 | And when I release my mouse, you can see
thumbnails of those three photos in the Content Tab.
| | 01:51 | Now, I can add photos from another folder.
| | 01:54 | So I'll go over here to this 05_01_
taos folder and I'll select both of those
| | 01:58 | photos--clicking on one and control-
clicking or command-clicking on the Mac--
| | 02:03 | on the other, and I'll drag those over into the
Content Tab of the Add New Album panel as well.
| | 02:09 | So now I have five items
in my Album, I'll click okay.
| | 02:15 | Here, I'm looking at the contents of
the 05_01_taos folder and I can see
| | 02:20 | that both of these photos are in an
album, because each has a little green
| | 02:25 | icon at its bottom right.
| | 02:27 | And if I move my cursor over that icon,
it tells me the name of the album, the
| | 02:31 | Autumn Book album, for that
photo, and for that photo.
| | 02:35 | And if I go up to the top of this
column and I click on the Autumn Book album
| | 02:40 | that now appears in the Albums panel, I can
see all of photos that are linked to this album.
| | 02:45 | Again, I haven't moved
these photos on my hard drive.
| | 02:49 | Putting them in this album, just lets me
see them all together here in the album.
| | 02:53 | And one of the benefits of having photos
in album is that I can change their order.
| | 02:57 | So let's say that I want this to be
the first photo in the album, I'll just
| | 03:01 | click and drag it over to
the left to change its order.
| | 03:05 | And this is a good way to plan the
sequencing of photos in a project like a photobook.
| | 03:10 | What if I want to add more photos to an
album or maybe delete some photos from an album?
| | 03:15 | To edit an album, I'll right-click on
the Album Name here in the Albums panel
| | 03:19 | and I'll choose Edit.
| | 03:21 | And that opens the column on
the right to the Edit Album panel.
| | 03:25 | If I want to delete one or more of these
photos from the album, I'll just select
| | 03:29 | them here in the Content Tab and then
I'll click the trash icon at the bottom
| | 03:34 | of this panel. And then I'll click okay.
| | 03:39 | And that removed that photo from this album.
| | 03:41 | However, it did not remove
the photo from my Catalog.
| | 03:45 | That photo is still where it always was, down
here in the 05_01_taos folder on my computer.
| | 03:52 | And you can see that that photo no
longer has a green album symbol on it,
| | 03:56 | because it's not part of an album.
| | 03:58 | Similarly, to add a new photo to an
album, I'll right-click the name of the
| | 04:04 | album, I'll choose Edit.
| | 04:07 | And then I'll go to one of my folders,
I'll go to my 05_01 folder, and I'll
| | 04:12 | select this p hoto and drag it into the
Content Tab in the Edit Album panel and click okay.
| | 04:18 | And now, when I go back up to My Album,
you can see that photo is now part
| | 04:23 | of the album as well.
| | 04:24 | A photo can be in more than one album.
| | 04:26 | So, let's say that I'm making another
album for a slideshow about Colorado, and
| | 04:31 | I want to use some of these
same photos in that album.
| | 04:33 | Again, I'll go to the Albums
panel and click the green + symbol.
| | 04:38 | I'll select New Album.
| | 04:40 | And then over in the column on the right,
which has now changed to read Add New
| | 04:43 | Album, I'll give this New Album a name.
| | 04:46 | I'll call this one Colorado Slideshow,
and I'll drag a couple of photos in here.
| | 04:51 | Now, I can drag them in from the
existing album, or I could go back to My
| | 04:55 | Folders and drag them in from there.
| | 04:56 | So let's say I want this photo and
this photo in my Colorado Slideshow album.
| | 05:03 | They're still in my Autumn Book album,
but when I click okay, I'll have a second
| | 05:08 | album, the Colorado Slideshow album, and
those two photos will be there as well.
| | 05:12 | And those two photos are still located in
the original folder where they always were.
| | 05:16 | Now, I think some people use
Albums a little too enthusiastically.
| | 05:20 | They make too many albums and then
this list of albums gets so long that
| | 05:24 | it's almost useless.
| | 05:25 | Instead, I suggest that you use
Albums as a way to gather together photos
| | 05:29 | from different locations when you need those
photos to be together for a specific purpose.
| | 05:34 | What I would caution against is using
Albums as subject matter categories.
| | 05:38 | You don't need to do that because you
already have folders and keywords to help
| | 05:43 | you keep track of your photos by subject.
| | 05:45 | If your list of Albums does get long,
you can always tidy it up by making some
| | 05:50 | Album categories as I'll show
you how to do in the next movie.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Organizing albums| 00:00 | There's not an endless amount of
room in the Albums panel to keep growing
| | 00:04 | your list of albums.
| | 00:05 | So if you find that your list of
albums is getting too long, you may want to
| | 00:09 | make some categories to
tidy up your Albums panel.
| | 00:12 | To make an Album category, I'll click
the arrow to the right of the + symbol
| | 00:17 | in Albums panel in the column on the
left side of the Organizer, and I'll
| | 00:20 | choose New Album Category.
| | 00:23 | Here, I'll give the album category a name.
| | 00:25 | I'll call this Books, and I'll click okay.
| | 00:29 | And now I have a category Books, and I
can drag my Autumn book from where it is
| | 00:33 | in the Albums panel, down on top of
the Books category, and that indents the
| | 00:38 | Autumn book in that category.
| | 00:40 | Now if I make new albums for additional
books that I'm planning, I can put them
| | 00:45 | right into that category.
| | 00:47 | So I'll click the arrow to the right of
the + symbol and I'll choose to make a
| | 00:50 | new album for a book about winter.
| | 00:53 | Over in the column on the right, I'll
name this album Winter Book and from the
| | 00:59 | Category drop-down, I'll choose Books.
| | 01:02 | I could put content in this album now
or I can do that later by editing the
| | 01:06 | album, so I'll just click okay.
| | 01:08 | So now I've got two books
inside of my Books category.
| | 01:12 | I can even have subcategories.
| | 01:14 | So if I'm planning to make a couple of
books about seasons and then maybe books
| | 01:18 | about other subjects, I'll make a
subcategory for my Seasons books.
| | 01:22 | I'll click the arrow next to the + symbol
and I'll choose New Album category.
| | 01:27 | I'll call this one Seasons Books.
| | 01:31 | And from this drop-down, I'll make
sure it's in the Parent Album category
| | 01:35 | Books, and click okay.
| | 01:37 | And then I'll drag my Winter Book
and my Autumn Book on top of the Seasons
| | 01:42 | Books subcategory; and then I can
collapse either that Seasons Books subcategory
| | 01:48 | or the Books category, and
that tidies up my Albums panel.
| | 01:53 | I could do the same for the slide
shows that I'm planning as well.
| | 01:56 | Now when you're finished with an album,
you may want to delete it from the
| | 02:00 | Albums panel to make some room there.
| | 02:02 | For example, if I am done with the
Colorado slideshow and I no longer need that
| | 02:05 | album, I'll just select that album
by clicking on it in the Albums panel.
| | 02:09 | I'll right-click on that
album and I'll choose Delete.
| | 02:12 | And this message tells me that if I
delete this album, I don't have to worry
| | 02:16 | because the photos or the media that's
in this album will not be deleted from my
| | 02:20 | Catalog or from my hard drive.
| | 02:22 | I'll click okay and the album is gone,
but the photos that are in that album are
| | 02:28 | still there in this folder on my
hard drive where they always were.
| | 02:32 | So those are some ways that you can
organize your Albums panel to tidy it up,
| | 02:36 | and make it more useful.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Making instant albums from folders| 00:00 | Earlier in the course, we saw that
your options are limited when it comes to
| | 00:04 | sorting your photos to put
them into different order.
| | 00:07 | There is the Sort By Menu here that
gives you the options of sorting by Newest,
| | 00:12 | Oldest, or Import Batch.
| | 00:14 | But what if you're trying to
sequence the photos for use in a project?
| | 00:18 | You can't just grab a photo here in a
folder or in your entire catalog and move
| | 00:23 | it. But what you can do is make an
album from those photos and move the photos
| | 00:27 | around in the album.
| | 00:29 | And if all the photos are in the same
folder, it's quick and easy to make an
| | 00:33 | album by just right-clicking on the
folder and choosing Create An Instant Album.
| | 00:39 | And that will make an album with all of
the content from that particular folder.
| | 00:43 | If I now scroll up to My Albums panel,
you can see the New Album with the folder
| | 00:48 | name from which it was created.
| | 00:50 | I can change that name by right-
clicking on it and choosing Rename, so maybe
| | 00:55 | I'll call this 0503 Fall photos and click okay.
| | 01:00 | The beauty of having these photos
in the album is that now I can move
| | 01:04 | them around at will.
| | 01:05 | I'm still looking at the folder so
let me click on the album in the Albums
| | 01:09 | panel, and now, you can see that each
photo has a sequential number and I can
| | 01:14 | move them around at will.
| | 01:15 | So if I want this photo to be the
first photo in the sequence, I'll just click
| | 01:19 | on it and drag over here, and release
my mouse, and the numbering changes.
| | 01:24 | And maybe I want this one to be
the last so I'll take it over here.
| | 01:28 | Now that doesn't change the order of
the photos in the folder, but it does
| | 01:32 | give me a way to resequence the photos so that
I can see how they look in a different order.
| | 01:37 | But if I do go back to my folder,
you'll see that the photos are still in
| | 01:41 | their original order.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
6. Keyword TaggingCreating and organizing keyword tags| 00:00 | One of the most powerful ways to find
photos in an Organizer Catalog, even if you
| | 00:04 | have hundreds of photos in that
Catalog, is to be consistent about keyword
| | 00:08 | tagging your photos.
| | 00:10 | A Keyword Tag is a word or
two about subject matter.
| | 00:14 | In this movie, I'll show you
how to create Keyword Tags.
| | 00:16 | In the next movie, I'll show
you how to add them to photos.
| | 00:19 | And then, we'll talk about
searching on Keyword Tags.
| | 00:22 | To create a keyword tag, you need to be
in Media view of the Organizer, as I am
| | 00:26 | now, and have opened the
Tags panel over on the right.
| | 00:30 | To open the Tags panel, go down to the
Tags Info button in the task bar at the
| | 00:34 | bottom of the Media view and click there.
| | 00:37 | Here in the Tags panel, you can see
some tags that come with the organizer.
| | 00:41 | You're welcome to use
these or to create your own.
| | 00:45 | Before I create new Keyword Tags, I
take a look at the batch of photos that
| | 00:49 | I'm working on and I think about the words I
would use to describe and search for these photos.
| | 00:56 | Words that are most meaningful to
me may be different than those that
| | 00:59 | are meaningful to you.
| | 01:00 | But that's fine, as long as you come
up with words that are useful for you.
| | 01:04 | In this case, I might describe these
photos with words like Food, Fruit, Wine,
| | 01:10 | Vineyards, Mountains.
| | 01:11 | So those are the tags and categories I'll make.
| | 01:14 | To create a new keyword tag, I'll click
the arrow to the right of the + symbol
| | 01:18 | and I'll choose New Keyword Tag.
| | 01:20 | In the Create Keyword Tag box that opens,
you only really need to do two things.
| | 01:25 | And that is type out your
keyword tag in the Name field.
| | 01:28 | I'll start with the keyword tag
Mountains, and specify a category for that tag.
| | 01:34 | Of these, I think Nature makes the most
sense so I'll select the Nature category
| | 01:39 | and I'll click okay.
| | 01:40 | And now, I have a new keyword tag over in
my Tags panel indented under the Nature tag.
| | 01:46 | Nature has now become both a tag and a category.
| | 01:49 | I'm going to make a few
more keyword tags the same way.
| | 01:52 | I'll make another one, Vineyards, and I'll
leave that in the Nature category and click okay.
| | 01:59 | Again, I'll make another New Keyword Tag.
| | 02:03 | This one will be Wine.
| | 02:04 | I don't think that really fits in the
Nature category but I do have to choose
| | 02:08 | one category here, so I'll go with Other
and then in a minute, I'll create a new
| | 02:12 | category for that keyword tag. I'll click okay.
| | 02:16 | And let's make one more.
| | 02:18 | I'll make a tag for Fruit, I'll leave it
in the Other category, and you have the
| | 02:24 | option of typing a note to yourself here.
| | 02:26 | I usually don't use this field.
| | 02:27 | You also have the option to
edit the icon on the keyword tag.
| | 02:32 | That means that you can add a
representative photo to the Keyword Tag that will
| | 02:35 | appear over here in the Keyword Tags panel.
| | 02:38 | I usually don't do that because in
order to see that photo on the tag, I'll
| | 02:42 | have to make the icon bigger and that just
takes up too much room in my Keyword Tags panel.
| | 02:47 | But to show you how to do it, I'll
click on Edit icon and then I'll go to
| | 02:51 | Import, and then I'll navigate to a
photo that I want to use on that tag.
| | 02:56 | You're welcome to use any photo that you like;
and then click Get Media, and then okay.
| | 03:03 | I'll click okay one more time to
close the Create Keyword Tag dialog box.
| | 03:07 | Now, I don't see that icon
on my Fruit keyword tag yet.
| | 03:11 | In order to see it here, I have to go
to the area to the right of the + symbol
| | 03:15 | and choose Show Large Icon.
| | 03:17 | And now, that keyword tag has that
little photo on it, so it makes it a little
| | 03:21 | bit easier to distinguish
over here in the Tags panel.
| | 03:24 | But as you can see, all of my tags
have gotten bigger; so I prefer to disable
| | 03:30 | Show Large Icon and I don't
bother with those photo icons.
| | 03:33 | Now, to clean up my list of keywords a
little more, I can make my own categories
| | 03:38 | and subcategories for my keyword tags.
| | 03:41 | That's done from the arrow to
the right of the + symbol also.
| | 03:44 | From here, I can make a New
Category or a New Subcategory.
| | 03:48 | I'll go with New Category.
| | 03:50 | And in the Create Category window that
opens, I'll type a name for this category.
| | 03:55 | I'll type Food.
| | 03:57 | I also have the options to choose a
particular color for the tag that will
| | 04:01 | represent this category or I can go
with one of the icons from this list.
| | 04:06 | I'll go ahead and choose that first icon,
a purple tag with a little gear icon
| | 04:12 | on it, and click okay.
| | 04:14 | Now I have a New Category over here
in my Tags panel, and I can drag my Wine
| | 04:19 | and Fruit tags into this
category to organize them further.
| | 04:22 | I'll click on my Wine tag, I'll hold
the Ctrl key on a PC or the Cmd key on the
| | 04:27 | MAC, and click on my Fruit tag also.
| | 04:30 | And then I'll release my finger from
the Ctrl or Cmd key and drag both those
| | 04:34 | tags into the Food category.
| | 04:36 | I also have the option to
Edit Existing Categories.
| | 04:39 | So if I want to give the Nature
category different icons and colors, I can
| | 04:44 | right click on the Nature
category and choose Edit.
| | 04:47 | And here, I can choose a different
category icon or even a different category color.
| | 04:53 | I'll just stick with the
default and I'll click okay.
| | 04:55 | And that changes the
icon on the Nature category.
| | 04:59 | If there are categories I don't think
I'm going to use, for example, Photography
| | 05:03 | or Color, then I can delete those.
| | 05:05 | To delete a category, I'll right-
click on it, and I'll choose Delete.
| | 05:10 | And here I get a warning that if I've
created any subcategories inside this
| | 05:14 | category or any keyword tags inside
this category, that will be deleted also.
| | 05:19 | And if I've applied any of that to
photos in my Catalog, that will be
| | 05:24 | removed from those photos.
| | 05:26 | All that is fine, I'll click
okay and that deletes that category.
| | 05:30 | I'm also going to delete the
Photography category, since everything I take is a
| | 05:34 | photograph. I'll just click okay.
| | 05:36 | Notice that there is also a category
here called Smart Tags, that's one of the
| | 05:41 | pre-built categories.
| | 05:42 | Inside that category, there are a number of
different tags that come with the program.
| | 05:47 | These tags and the Smart Tags category
were designed primarily to be used with video.
| | 05:52 | If you choose to auto analyze the items
in your catalog, then Elements will try
| | 05:58 | to automatically apply those tags to the items.
| | 06:01 | I think they're really not that useful
for still photos so I usually collapse
| | 06:05 | the Smart Tags category and I don't use it.
| | 06:08 | You may see one more automatic category
here, and that is Imported Keyword Tags.
| | 06:13 | You'll only see that if you've
imported photos to your Catalog that already
| | 06:17 | contain some keyword tags.
| | 06:19 | Perhaps keyword tags from a stock
photo website or keyword tags that you
| | 06:24 | applied in another program, like
Adobe Bridge or Adobe Lightroom.
| | 06:28 | So, that's how to create and organize
keyword tags here in your Tags panel in Media view.
| | 06:33 | In the next movie, I'll show you
how to apply Keyword Tags to photos in
| | 06:37 | your Catalog.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Applying keyword tags| 00:00 | To put Keyword Tags to their best use, you
really need to apply them to all your photos.
| | 00:05 | So I make a habit of applying Keyword
Tags to my photos as soon as I import a
| | 00:09 | new batch into my Organizer catalog.
| | 00:11 | Keyword Tags are applied from the,
the Tags panel in Media view.
| | 00:15 | In the last movie, I showed you
how to open the Tags panel and how to
| | 00:19 | create Keyword Tags.
| | 00:20 | And here you can see what I have
after the last movie, these Keyword Tags in
| | 00:24 | these categories; and I've also deleted
some of the Keyword Tags that come with
| | 00:28 | the program that I didn't think I would use.
| | 00:31 | So now, let's apply a Keyword Tag to a photo.
| | 00:34 | Over on the far left, I
have a photo of strawberries.
| | 00:37 | I'd like to apply the Fruit keyword tag
to that one, so I'll click and hold the
| | 00:42 | Fruit keyword tag in the Tags panel
and drag on top of the photo of the
| | 00:46 | strawberries, and release my mouse.
| | 00:48 | That applies that tag and if you look
closely, you can see the little purple
| | 00:53 | icon at the bottom of that tag that
represents a tag that's in my Food category.
| | 00:57 | If I hover over that icon, I see that this
photo now does have the keyword tag Fruit.
| | 01:03 | When you're Keyword Tagging, you want
it to go as quickly as possible, so you
| | 01:07 | can apply the same
Keyword Tag to multiple photos.
| | 01:10 | So for example, I'll select this photo
by clicking on it, I'll hold the Shift
| | 01:15 | key and I'll click on this photo to
select all three; and then I can either
| | 01:19 | drag that Fruit keyword on top of any
one of those photos, or another way to
| | 01:24 | apply Keyword Tags is to click on any
selected photo and drag on top of the Keyword Tag.
| | 01:29 | So I'll drag on top of Fruit and
that applies the Fruit keyword tag to all
| | 01:33 | three photos, and you can see that small
Purple tag icon under each one of these photos.
| | 01:39 | And if I hover over it, I see each
photo now has the keyword tag Fruit.
| | 01:44 | The real beauty of Keyword Tagging
is that you can apply more than one
| | 01:48 | Keyword Tag to a photo.
| | 01:50 | And that increases your chances of
finding that photo later because all you have
| | 01:54 | to do is think of one word that
describes that photo and you'll be able to
| | 01:58 | search on that word and find
the photo you're looking for.
| | 02:01 | I'm going to click off of these
photos and, for example, I'm might add the
| | 02:05 | keyword tag Wine to this photo,
because it also contains bottles of wine.
| | 02:09 | So, I'll select the Wine keyword tag
and drop that on top of the same photo.
| | 02:14 | Now, when I hover over that purple icon,
I see that I have both the keyword tags
| | 02:19 | Fruit and Wine on this photo.
| | 02:21 | I'm going to select both of these photos,
holding the Shift key to select them both.
| | 02:26 | And then, I'll quickly apply
more then one tag to both photos.
| | 02:31 | I'll click on the Vineyards tag in the
Tags panel, and I'll hold the Shift key as
| | 02:35 | I click on the Mountains tag as well;
and I'll hold the Ctrl key, that's the Cmd
| | 02:40 | key on the Mac, as I click on the Wine tag.
| | 02:42 | And then, I'll click and drag from any
one of those three selected tags onto any
| | 02:46 | one of the selected photos and that
applies all three tags to both photos.
| | 02:52 | Now, under either of these photos,
you can see the purple icon for the Food
| | 02:56 | category, indicating that
photo has the keyword tag Wine.
| | 03:00 | And if I click on the Green tag,
which represents the Nature category, you
| | 03:04 | can see that this photo has the
keyword tags Mountains and Vineyards, as does
| | 03:10 | this photo over here.
| | 03:12 | And just to finish up, I'll click on this photo.
| | 03:16 | I want to add just the
keyword tag Wine to this photo.
| | 03:18 | So, in the Keyword Tags panel, I'll
click on the keyword Wine and that deselects
| | 03:23 | these other keywords.
| | 03:24 | And then, I'll drag the
keyword Wine onto that photo.
| | 03:28 | And I'll select this photo of the wine
glasses, I'll drag the keyword tag Wine
| | 03:32 | on that one, too; and I'm also going
to drag the keyword tag Fruit under that
| | 03:37 | photo because I want to show you how
you can delete a keyword tag from a photo.
| | 03:42 | So if I move my mouse over the purple
icon under the photo of the wine glasses,
| | 03:47 | I see it does have both tags.
| | 03:49 | I would like to remove the keyword
tag Fruit that's incorrect, so I'll
| | 03:53 | right-click on that Purple tag and here,
I get a list of both of the tags that
| | 03:58 | are already on this photo and I can
choose to Remove the Fruit Keyword Tag.
| | 04:02 | And finally, let 's see what
happens if I delete a keyword tag from the
| | 04:06 | Keyword Tags panel altogether, after I've
already applied that keyword tag to some photos.
| | 04:11 | So remember that I applied the
keyword tag Mountains to these two photos.
| | 04:16 | If I right click the Mountains keyword
tag and I choose Delete, I get a warning
| | 04:21 | that deleting this keyword tag from the
Keyword Tags panel will also remove it
| | 04:25 | from all items--in other
words, from these photos.
| | 04:27 | That's okay in this case.
| | 04:29 | I'll say, okay. And now, when I hover
over the Green tag underneath either of
| | 04:35 | these photos, you can see that it only
represents the keyword tag Vineyards, and
| | 04:39 | not the keyword tag Mountains.
| | 04:41 | So, those are some ways that you can
add Keyword Tags to photos, remove Keyword
| | 04:46 | Tags, and even remove Keywords Tags
from the Keyword Tags panel altogether.
| | 04:50 | Now that we've got these photos
Keyword Tag, let's see how we can put the
| | 04:54 | Keyword Tags to use to find
particular photos in the next movie.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Finding photos by keyword and Advanced Search| 00:00 | The whole purpose of adding keywords
to your photos is so that you can use
| | 00:04 | keywords to search and
find particular photos later.
| | 00:07 | You can use keywords to search within an
entire Catalog, or within an album or folder.
| | 00:13 | In this case, I've selected a folder.
| | 00:15 | There are a couple of ways to search by keyword.
| | 00:17 | One way is to do it from the Tags panel.
| | 00:20 | Here in my Tags panel, you can see the
keywords that I created and applied to
| | 00:24 | photos in the preceding two movies.
| | 00:26 | Now, if I want to search on one of
these keywords, I'll just hover over that
| | 00:30 | keyword, for example, the keyword Fruit.
| | 00:32 | That brings up an arrow to the right of
the keyword, and if I click that arrow,
| | 00:36 | I can see just the photos that
have the keyword Fruit on them.
| | 00:39 | Now this photo has more than the keyword Fruit.
| | 00:43 | It has both the keywords Fruit and Wine,
but it comes up in response to this search.
| | 00:47 | I'm going to click Clear to clear this
search and instead, I'll hover over the
| | 00:53 | keyword Wine and click the arrow to
the right of that, and that brings up all
| | 00:57 | the photos that you see here.
| | 00:58 | I'll Zoom Out a little so you can see
them all, including that photo that has
| | 01:02 | both the keyword Fruit and the keyword Wine.
| | 01:05 | So you can see the advantage of
adding multiple keywords to the same photo.
| | 01:09 | It gives you more of a chance
of finding that photo later.
| | 01:13 | Now, let's say that I want to
search a whole category of keywords.
| | 01:16 | I'll Clear this search and I'll come
back to my Tags panel, and this time I'll
| | 01:21 | hover over a Category, the category
Food. And I'll click the arrow to the right
| | 01:26 | of that, and that returns all of the
photos in this folder that have either the
| | 01:30 | keyword Fruit or Wine.
| | 01:33 | I'll Clear that search.
| | 01:34 | Now, you may have noticed that this
table dropped down at the top of my Grid.
| | 01:39 | This is the Advanced Search table.
| | 01:42 | This will appear whenever you search by
keyword the way I just showed you, or--
| | 01:45 | let me close this by clicking the X--
it will appear if you go up to the Find
| | 01:51 | menu and choose Using Advanced Search.
| | 01:53 | Advanced Search is a really
powerful way to search by keyword.
| | 01:57 | Because it allows you to cu
stomize a search with multiple keywords.
| | 02:00 | Here you see the Keywords column which
lists all of the keywords and categories
| | 02:05 | that I have in my Tags panel.
| | 02:06 | So that we can see more here, I'm
going to click the arrow to the left of the
| | 02:10 | Food category, and now you can
see the tags in that category.
| | 02:14 | From here, if I want to see all of the
photos with the keyword tag Wine, I'll
| | 02:19 | click the checkbox to the left of Wine.
| | 02:21 | If I want to see the photos that have
both the keyword Wine and the keyword
| | 02:25 | Fruit, I'll also check the
box to the left of Fruit.
| | 02:29 | If I want to see all the photos with
the keyword Fruit but not Wine, I'll
| | 02:33 | uncheck Wine and only Fruit is checked,
and here we have only the photos that
| | 02:37 | have the keyword Fruit.
| | 02:38 | Notice that there are other columns
here for People, Places, and Events.
| | 02:43 | You can use items in those three columns
to narrow your keyword search even more.
| | 02:48 | But first, you have to apply People,
Places, or Events items to the photos in a
| | 02:53 | Catalog, as I'll show you
how to do in the next chapters.
| | 02:56 | When I'm done with my keyword search,
I can clear the search by clicking this
| | 03:00 | button or by clicking the X on the
Advanced Search panel, like this; and that
| | 03:04 | takes me back to all the photos in
this folder or in my entire Catalog.
| | 03:08 | So I think now you can see
how useful keywords can be.
| | 03:12 | As long as you're consistent about
keyword tagging all your photos, you'll be
| | 03:16 | able to find just the
photo you're looking for later.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
7. Organizing Photos in People ViewIdentifying people automatically| 00:00 | Photos of the people in your life
are often those that we value most.
| | 00:04 | So it's great to have a People
Recognition System in the Organizer that can
| | 00:08 | recognize faces and identify
individuals by name in your photos, with a
| | 00:13 | little input from you.
| | 00:14 | In this movie, we will see how to use
People Recognition to quickly identify
| | 00:18 | faces in lots of people photos at once.
| | 00:20 | And then, in the next movie, we'll look at
how to identify faces manually in single images.
| | 00:26 | You can run People Recognition on your
whole catalog, or as I'm going to do for
| | 00:30 | this lesson, you can run it on just one
folder by selecting that folder in the
| | 00:35 | Folders Panel in Media view.
| | 00:36 | Now before you run People Recognition
on photos, you want to check that your
| | 00:41 | Media Analysis
Preferences are at their defaults.
| | 00:44 | Those are located on the PC under the
Edit menu, and on the Mac under the Adobe
| | 00:50 | Elements eleven Organizer menu.
| | 00:52 | I'll go down to Preferences and to my
Media Analysis Group of Preferences.
| | 00:57 | You want to be sure that Analyze Photos
For People Automatically is checked, and
| | 01:02 | Analyze Media For Visual
Search Automatically is checked.
| | 01:05 | You can leave Analyze Media For Smart Tags
Automatically unchecked, that's not relevant.
| | 01:10 | I'll Cancel out of here and there's one
more thing that you should check before
| | 01:13 | you run People Recognition, and that
is that under the View menu, People
| | 01:18 | Recognition is enabled.
| | 01:19 | To start, I'll go down to the task
bar at the bottom of Media view and
| | 01:25 | I'll click Add People.
| | 01:27 | This message asks if I want to run
the People Recognition System on the
| | 01:31 | currently displayed photos.
| | 01:33 | The answer is yes, so I'll click Yes.
| | 01:36 | At that point, you may see a small Analyzing
Media window analyzing your photos for faces.
| | 01:41 | When it's done, that window will disappear.
| | 01:44 | Next, you'll see a series of
windows, perhaps this window, requesting
| | 01:48 | information from you about
the people in your photos.
| | 01:52 | The order of the windows that you'll
see and the questions asked in those
| | 01:55 | windows will vary depending on how much
information your Organizer already has
| | 01:59 | about people that you frequently photograph.
| | 02:02 | The more times you run People
Recognition, the more information there will be
| | 02:06 | in your Organizer's database.
| | 02:07 | So the windows you see may not be
exactly the ones that I'll show you here.
| | 02:12 | You'll often see this window, the one
titled Label People, asking for the names
| | 02:16 | of the people in particular photos.
| | 02:18 | I'll move under the first thumbnail and
I'll click Who Is This?, that opens this
| | 02:22 | Text Editing field, where I
can type this person's name--
| | 02:26 | this is Darla--and press
Enter or Return on my keyboard.
| | 02:30 | I'll do this for each of
the photos in this window.
| | 02:32 | This is Lulu, Lulu, Darla, and this is Susan.
| | 02:42 | By answering these questions, I'm
helping the Organizer learn who the people are
| | 02:46 | who appear in my photos.
| | 02:48 | Notice that here, I can choose to
download my Facebook friend's list so that my
| | 02:53 | People Recognition System can use that
information from Facebook to try to help
| | 02:57 | identify people in my photos.
| | 03:00 | If you click that button, you get
an Authorization window like this.
| | 03:05 | You can Continue; I'm just
going to Cancel at this point.
| | 03:08 | Now, when I'm done labelling the
people in this window, I'll click Save. And
| | 03:13 | that brought up another window with the
same question about other photos in this group.
| | 03:17 | So I'll click in the Text
Editing field under the first thumbnail.
| | 03:21 | Now this time, the Organizer is
suggesting who this photo might be based on the
| | 03:26 | information that I just gave it.
| | 03:28 | It knows Darla, Lulu, and Susan, and
it's correct that this is Susan, so I'll
| | 03:33 | select Susan here and I
don't have to bother typing it.
| | 03:36 | And this time, from its suggestions, Lulu
is the correct answer, so I'll select Lulu.
| | 03:42 | Now, the suggestions that appear
under this photo aren't correct.
| | 03:45 | This is someone new. This is Mary.
| | 03:47 | So instead of selecting one of those
suggestions, I'll type Mary and I'll
| | 03:52 | press Enter or Return.
| | 03:54 | This is Susan so I'll
select her, and this is Darla.
| | 03:59 | And then, I'll click Save.
| | 04:01 | One more time, I need to label these people.
| | 04:03 | Now, these people we haven't seen before.
| | 04:05 | These are Dad and Mom.
| | 04:07 | So I'll click here and I'll type
Dad, Mom, and I'll click Save again.
| | 04:14 | The next windo w asks me, Which of
these people would you like to label?
| | 04:18 | This is what you see when elements see
something in a photo that it thinks might
| | 04:22 | be a face, but it's really not sure.
| | 04:25 | I can see that a couple of these
obviously aren't people, this one and this one,
| | 04:29 | so I'll just leave those.
| | 04:30 | Now, this one, I'm not sure what it is.
| | 04:32 | I can always double-click one of these
thumbnails and that will open it in this
| | 04:36 | Full Size view so I can see what it is.
| | 04:39 | And now, I see that Elements thought
that perhaps this part of the photo, the
| | 04:43 | coconut, was a face.
| | 04:44 | Probably because it's similar in shape
and color to a face. But it's obviously
| | 04:48 | not a face, so I'll just go
back and ignore that one.
| | 04:51 | Now this one is a face so I'll click
it to indicate that this is a person that
| | 04:56 | I do want to label, and I'll click Save.
| | 04:59 | And then, in the next screen, the Organizer
asks me who that person is. Well, that's Dad.
| | 05:04 | So, I'll click Who is this? and I'll type Dad.
| | 05:08 | And here is someone new.
| | 05:10 | Now, it's interesting that Elements is
able to identify this as a person because
| | 05:13 | this is a really blurry photo of a person.
| | 05:16 | This happens to be Jamie,
so I'll click Who is this?
| | 05:19 | and type Jamie. And I'll click Save again.
| | 05:23 | And now Elements tells me that
I've labeled everyone in my selection.
| | 05:27 | In other words everyone in the
selected folder, so I'll click okay and I'm done
| | 05:31 | identifying all those people, giving the
Organizer the information that it needs
| | 05:37 | to name the people in these photos.
| | 05:38 | Later in this chapter, we'll take a
look at the results of identifying people
| | 05:43 | with the People Recognition System, in
People View and in the Keyword Tags panel.
| | 05:48 | But first, let's see what to do if
the Automatic People Recognition System
| | 05:52 | misses some people in my photos.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Identifying people manually| 00:00 | Let's take a look at how to identify
people manually in single image view.
| | 00:04 | This is the procedure to follow if the
automatic people recognition system that
| | 00:08 | I covered in the last movie misses
some people in your photos, maybe because
| | 00:12 | the faces aren't clear.
| | 00:14 | It's also what you can do if you just
add a couple new photos of people in your
| | 00:19 | catalog, and you want to quickly
identify them without going through the whole
| | 00:22 | people recognition system.
| | 00:23 | Here in Media View, I'm
going to double click this photo.
| | 00:26 | And that opens it in single image view,
with a white box around the girl's face.
| | 00:32 | The white box means that the
Organizer recognizes this as a face.
| | 00:36 | If I move my cursor over that white box,
the organizer asks me, who is this?
| | 00:41 | I'll click the who is this? label.
| | 00:44 | And the Organizer gives me some
suggestions, based on the information it already
| | 00:48 | has about people that I frequently photograph.
| | 00:51 | None of these suggestions
is correct in this case.
| | 00:53 | This happens to be Steph, so I'll type her name.
| | 00:57 | And I'll press enter or return on
my keyboard to identify her in my
| | 01:00 | people recognition system.
| | 01:02 | To go back to Grid view, I can just
double-click that photo; and here I'm going
| | 01:06 | to do the same thing with this photo.
| | 01:08 | I'll double click this photo.
| | 01:09 | There's a white box, and this time,
instead of several suggestions, the
| | 01:14 | Organizer asks you point blank, is this Mary?
| | 01:17 | Because it recognizes this person from a
photo that I already fed into the database.
| | 01:22 | Yes, this happens to be Mary, so
I'll just click the green check mark.
| | 01:25 | If it weren't Mary, I would click the red
cancel symbol, and type in the correct name.
| | 01:30 | So that names this photo in
my people recognition system.
| | 01:34 | Again, I'll double click this photo to go back
to the grid and let's look at one more photo.
| | 01:39 | I'll double click this one And in this
case the system is recognizing just one
| | 01:44 | of these two girls as a face.
| | 01:46 | And it's asking is this Darla because
I identified Darla in this photo in the
| | 01:50 | last movie using automatic people recognition.
| | 01:53 | So again I'll click the green check mark here.
| | 01:55 | But it doesn't seem to recognize that
there is someone else here. That's okay.
| | 02:00 | If I have a photo that the system can't
recognize as a face, I'll just come down
| | 02:05 | to the task bar and click mark face,
and that gives me another white box.
| | 02:10 | I'll click inside that box and
I'll drag it around that girl's face.
| | 02:15 | I'll click, who's this, and I'll type Susan.
| | 02:18 | That's someone that the organizer already knows,
| | 02:21 | because I have other photos of
Susan that I have run through the
| | 02:24 | people recognition system.
| | 02:25 | So, as I type Susan, it tries to auto-
complete for me; I'll just click on Susan
| | 02:30 | there, and, I'll click the green check mark.
| | 02:33 | And now as I move over each of these
faces, you can see that it's recognized as
| | 02:37 | a face, and that it's now identified
with the name of the appropriate person.
| | 02:41 | There's one more thing that you
might sometimes see in single-image view.
| | 02:45 | When you're working in this view, you
might see a white box around something
| | 02:48 | that isn't a person's face.
| | 02:50 | In that case, you can dismiss the
white box by just clicking the x at the
| | 02:55 | top right of the box.
| | 02:56 | But I'm just going to leave the box
here in this case, because this is a
| | 03:00 | picture of a person.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Viewing people| 00:00 | Once you've identified the people
using the methods that I showed you in the
| | 00:03 | last two movies, you can take advantage
of that to see all the photos you have
| | 00:08 | of a particular person in People view.
| | 00:10 | To get to People view, I'll click the
People button at the top of the screen.
| | 00:14 | Now I happen to still be in the folder
that I was in from the last movie, and
| | 00:19 | so I'm just looking at people whose
pictures happen to be in that folder.
| | 00:22 | If I want to see all the people who I've
identified in this catalog, I can click
| | 00:26 | the All People button at the top of People view.
| | 00:29 | Here, I have a stack of photos for each
person that's been identified in this Catalog.
| | 00:34 | To see all the photos in a stack
without pressing down on my mouse, I'll
| | 00:38 | just move the mouse back and forth
across a stack like this, and I can see
| | 00:42 | all the photos in a stack.
| | 00:45 | If I want to drill down to see all the
photos in a stack next to one another,
| | 00:49 | I'll double-click the stack.
| | 00:51 | This is a Grid view similar to Media view.
| | 00:53 | Down here, I have a Zoom slider that I
could use to Zoom Out or Zoom In; or I
| | 00:58 | could double-click any photo here to
go into Single Image view like this, and
| | 01:03 | double-click on the photo again to go back
to the Grid or click the Grid button up here.
| | 01:07 | Notice that at the top of the screen,
there's a switch that's set to Photos.
| | 01:12 | If I click on that switch and drag it
to the left, the Organizer Zooms In to
| | 01:16 | show me just the faces in these
photos, rather than the entire photos.
| | 01:20 | And if I want to see the entire photos
again, I'll click and drag that switch
| | 01:23 | back to Photos; and if I want to go
back to see all of the stacks, I'll click
| | 01:28 | the Back button at the top of People view.
| | 01:30 | I can access more options
by right-clicking on a stack.
| | 01:34 | From this menu, I can rename the stack,
so I'll choose Rename, and I'll type Sue
| | 01:38 | instead of Susan and click okay. And
that changes the name on each of these
| | 01:42 | photos and in the Keyword Tag panel.
| | 01:45 | And I can also change the photo that's
on the top of the stack. So I know that
| | 01:49 | Mom won't be happy with this photo., I'll
move my cursor over this stack and drag
| | 01:54 | back and forth until I
see a photo I like better.
| | 01:57 | I'll go with that one, and then I'll
right-click and I'll chose Assign As
| | 02:01 | Profile Picture, and that picture
will now be on the top of the stack.
| | 02:04 | Now let's see what happens if I
move over this stack, right-click, and
| | 02:08 | choose Remove This Person.
| | 02:10 | That brings up this kind of scary
warning that this is going to remove selected
| | 02:14 | people from your catalog.
| | 02:15 | Well, this doesn't mean that all of this
person's photos will be deleted from my
| | 02:19 | Catalog, it just means that the
person will no longer have a stack here in
| | 02:23 | People View, nor a Keyword Tag in the Tags panel.
| | 02:26 | So I'll click Yes and that removes your stack.
| | 02:30 | But I could always bring her back into
People view by finding her photos and
| | 02:33 | identifying them, using either of
the methods in the last two movies.
| | 02:38 | Let's go back to Media view for a moment.
| | 02:40 | I'll go up to the top of the
Organizer and I'll click Media, because I want
| | 02:43 | to show you that people assignments
are recognized in Media view, too, as
| | 02:47 | well as in People view.
| | 02:48 | So, if I double-click this first photo
and open it in single image view, you
| | 02:53 | can see that both of the people in
the photo are labeled and I can see the
| | 02:57 | labels in Media view.
| | 02:58 | There's Mom and there's Dad.
| | 03:01 | If I right-click either of the names
here in Media view, that takes me back to
| | 03:05 | People view, Zoomed in to the faces in
all three of the photos in the Dad stack.
| | 03:11 | And I'll click the Back button to go
back see all the stacks in People view.
| | 03:15 | So that's how to view and
manage photos here in People view.
| | 03:19 | If you're wondering why this is so
great, just imagine that you'd been taking
| | 03:22 | pictures of your daughter over the
years, and those photos are all located in
| | 03:27 | different folders and
perhaps on different drives.
| | 03:30 | Making use of the People Recognition
System and People view is a great way to
| | 03:34 | get to see all of those photos in one
place without having to move them from
| | 03:38 | the actual folders in which they're located or
go to the trouble of manually keywording them.
| | 03:43 | They'll all be here in stacks
in People view for you to enjoy.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Grouping people| 00:00 | As the number of People stacks in your
People view increases, you may want to
| | 00:05 | further refine your organization here.
| | 00:07 | And you can do that by
putting people into groups.
| | 00:10 | To access Groups in People view, I'll go
up to the top of the view and I'll drag
| | 00:15 | this switch there from People to Group.
| | 00:18 | That opens the Groups panel
in the column on the right.
| | 00:21 | The panel comes with three pre-made
groups, Colleagues, Family, and Friends.
| | 00:26 | You can use these or create your own groups or
make subgroups, as I'll show you in this movie.
| | 00:31 | To add people to groups, just
click on a stack and drag the stack to
| | 00:35 | the appropriate Group.
| | 00:36 | So, I'm dragging the Mom stack to the
Family group; and when Family lights up in
| | 00:41 | Bold text in the Groups
panel, I'll release my mouse.
| | 00:45 | Now if I scroll down, you can see
Mom stack here in the Family group.
| | 00:49 | I can add Dad to the
Family group, too, the same way.
| | 00:52 | I'll click on his stack and I'll
release on top of the Family group in the
| | 00:56 | Groups panel. And there's the result.
| | 00:59 | To make a New Group, I'll click the
arrow to the right of the + symbol in the
| | 01:03 | Groups panel and I'll choose Add Group.
| | 01:05 | I'll give the group a name, maybe I
want a group of my college friends, and
| | 01:10 | I can use this as a top level group, or I can
put this as a subgroup inside of another group.
| | 01:16 | So I'll click the Group menu here
and I'll choose to put my College group
| | 01:20 | inside of my Friends group, and I'll click okay.
| | 01:22 | And now, in the Groups panel,
you can see that subgroup.
| | 01:27 | You can add more than one
person to a Group at a time.
| | 01:30 | So, if I click on Darla's stack and then
I hold the Ctrl key, that's the Cmd key
| | 01:35 | on the Mac, and click on Sue's stack and
Jamie's stack too, I can drag all three
| | 01:40 | of those people into my College
Friends subgroup, releasing my mouse when that
| | 01:45 | Subgroup lights up with Bold text.
| | 01:47 | And now, if I scroll down, I can see
a separate category in the Grid for my
| | 01:52 | College subgroup inside the Friends group.
| | 01:55 | What if you want to remove someone from a Group?
| | 01:58 | I'll right-click the Jamie stack in the
College subgroup, and I'll choose Move To Ungrouped.
| | 02:05 | And that takes her out of that College
subgroup and puts her up here at the top,
| | 02:09 | in the group of people who are ungrouped.
| | 02:11 | In other words, those that haven't
yet been added to a specific group.
| | 02:15 | I can also Rename a Group.
| | 02:17 | So let's say, I want to change the
name of this group, the Colleagues group.
| | 02:20 | I'll select that group, and then I'll
click the arrow to the right of the +
| | 02:24 | symbol, I'll choose Rename and
I'll call this Work, and press okay.
| | 02:29 | And, I can delete a Group all together.
| | 02:31 | Let's say I want to delete my College
subgroup, I'll click the arrow to the left
| | 02:35 | of my Friends group to access that
subgroup, I'll select the College subgroup,
| | 02:39 | and from the arrow to the right of
the + symbol, I'll choose Delete.
| | 02:43 | If there were further subgroups inside
the College group, that would delete them
| | 02:47 | as well, which is what this message
says. I'll just click okay and my College
| | 02:51 | subgroup is now gone; but the
people in that group aren't gone.
| | 02:54 | They've actually been moved up to
my Friends group as you can see here.
| | 02:58 | So, as you can see grouping people can
help keep your People view organized and
| | 03:03 | it also groups your People Tags together
out in the Tags panel, which we'll take
| | 03:07 | a look at in the next movie.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Working with people tags| 00:00 | One of my favorite parts of the People
Recognition System is that it works in
| | 00:04 | conjunction with Keyword Tagging.
| | 00:06 | So when I identify a new person using
People Recognition, that automatically
| | 00:10 | creates a tag for that person in my
Tags panel back in Media View, and
| | 00:15 | applies that tag to all of the
photos of that person that have been
| | 00:18 | identified through People Recognition.
| | 00:20 | Let me show you how People
Recognition and Keyword Tagging work together.
| | 00:25 | Here in People View, you can see the
stacks of all the people that I identified
| | 00:29 | earlier in this chapter
using People Recognition.
| | 00:32 | If I want to see the Keyword Tags that
were made automatically for me, I need to
| | 00:36 | go back to Media View.
| | 00:37 | I'll do that by clicking the Media
button here at the top of the Organizer, and
| | 00:41 | then I'll open the Tags panel by
going to the task bar at the bottom of the
| | 00:45 | Media View, and clicking the Tags Info button.
| | 00:49 | Now here in the Tags panel, you
don't see any keyword tags for my People
| | 00:54 | Photos to start with.
| | 00:55 | If you want to see those, you have to
go up to the View Menu and choose Show
| | 01:00 | People in Tag Panel.
| | 01:02 | I think this is something
that might trick people up.
| | 01:04 | So, I want you to pay
particular attention to this command.
| | 01:08 | As soon as I do that, I can
see a list of People Tags.
| | 01:12 | These are the people tags that were
created automatically for me, using the
| | 01:16 | People Recognition system--either the
automatic or the manual process that I
| | 01:20 | explained earlier in this chapter.
| | 01:22 | And People Tags work a lot
like regular keyword tags.
| | 01:26 | They give you just one more way to
find particular photos in your Organizer.
| | 01:30 | Here in the grid, you'll notice that
there's a little blue icon underneath many
| | 01:34 | of the photos of people.
| | 01:36 | If I hover over that icon, you
can see the People Tag that was
| | 01:39 | automatically applied to that
particular photo when I identified that photo
| | 01:43 | using People Recognition.
| | 01:45 | So, there's a photo with the people
tagged Dad, and here's a photo that People
| | 01:50 | Recognition identified with
two people, both Darla and Sue.
| | 01:54 | I can add and remove people tags from photos in
Media View, much as I can other Keyword Tags.
| | 02:00 | So for example, if I want to untag
this photo of Mom, I'll right-click on her
| | 02:05 | tag here in Media View, and
I'll choose Remove From Mom Person.
| | 02:09 | And now, if I go back to People View,
and I double-click on the stack of Mom,
| | 02:13 | you can see that it doesn't
contain that particular photo of Mom.
| | 02:16 | I'll switch from faces back
to photos to confirm that.
| | 02:20 | I'll click back here to see my other people
stacks and I click on Media View again
| | 02:25 | so that I can show you that you can
add people tags to photos here in Media
| | 02:30 | View, and that will have an
impact on your stacks as well.
| | 02:33 | To isolate a couple of new photos,
photos that I haven't run through the People
| | 02:37 | Recognition system yet, I'm going to
select this folder. Here are a couple of
| | 02:41 | new pictures of Darla.
| | 02:43 | I already tagged some photos of Darla
using the People Recognition system, so
| | 02:48 | I do have the People Tag
Darla here in my Tags panel.
| | 02:51 | I can apply this tag to these particular
photos by selecting these photos in the grid.
| | 02:56 | I'll hold the Shift key to select them
both and then I'll click on the Darla
| | 02:59 | tag in the People Tags area of the Tags panel,
and drag it on top of either of those photos.
| | 03:05 | And now you can see the little icon
under each of those that indicates that it
| | 03:09 | contains the People Tag Darla.
| | 03:11 | I'll click All Media again.
| | 03:13 | Now take a look at what happens when I
go back to People View by clicking the
| | 03:17 | People button on the top of the screen
and I double-click on the Darla stack.
| | 03:21 | Here, you can see that those two new
vertical photos have been added to the
| | 03:25 | stack of Darla People here in People View.
| | 03:27 | Now, sometimes I have noticed that when
you add people the way I've just showed
| | 03:31 | you in Media View, back in People View
you don't actually see the actual photos
| | 03:35 | of the people, you just get a generic gray icon.
| | 03:39 | So don't be surprised if you see that.
| | 03:41 | I'm going to go back to my Media View to
show you the real beauty of People Tags,
| | 03:46 | and that is that they give you another
way to find the people in your Catalog or
| | 03:51 | in a selected folder.
| | 03:52 | So right now, I'm working with all of
my photos; and if I want to see just
| | 03:56 | photos of Dad in my Catalog, I come
down and hover over the Dad People Tag,
| | 04:02 | which brings up this arrow.
| | 04:04 | I'll click the arrow to the right of
the Dad People Tag, and that will show me
| | 04:08 | just photos that contain Dad.
| | 04:10 | Here's a photo of Dad solo, and
here's a photo of Dad and Mom together.
| | 04:15 | I can drag the Zoom slider over to the
right, so you can see those photos better.
| | 04:19 | As I showed you earlier in the
course with regular Keyword Tags, when you
| | 04:22 | search by a People Tag by clicking its arrow,
that opens the Advanced Search panel here.
| | 04:28 | And you can use Advanced Search
to narrow your search further.
| | 04:31 | For example, lets say I want to see
only pictures of Dad and Mom. Then here
| | 04:38 | in the People column, I'll leave the
check mark next to Dad and I'll add a
| | 04:42 | check mark next to Mom.
| | 04:44 | There's just one photo that has both
tags, and that's the photo that's returned
| | 04:48 | in response to this search.
| | 04:50 | If I want to see the photos of just Mom,
I'll uncheck Dad and leave Mom checked.
| | 04:55 | And I can use my People Tags in
conjunction with regular keywords and
| | 05:00 | with places and events.
| | 05:02 | So let's add another keyword to
this Mom photo by dragging the Vineyards
| | 05:06 | keyword onto the Mom photo. And now you
can see that this photo has both the Mom
| | 05:11 | tag and the Vineyard tag.
| | 05:12 | So I can use Advance Search to see
just photos of Mom that also have the
| | 05:18 | keyword tag Vineyards.
| | 05:20 | I'll leave Mom checked here and I'll
click the Vineyards keywords tag in
| | 05:24 | the Keywords column.
| | 05:25 | And by the way, this is a keyword
that I made earlier in the course.
| | 05:29 | And now down here in response to that
search, we just see this single photo
| | 05:34 | of Mom, the only photo that has both the
keyword tag Vineyards and the People tag Mom.
| | 05:40 | I can clear that search by clicking the
Clear button here at the top of this grid.
| | 05:44 | And I'll close the Advance Search table by
clicking the X at the top rght of the Search table.
| | 05:50 | Now you may have noticed that in my
People Tags panel, I have not only People
| | 05:55 | tags but I also have groups.
| | 05:57 | These are the groups that I created
and populated earlier in this chapter in
| | 06:03 | People View. And I can change my
groups from here in the People Tags panel.
| | 06:07 | So if I select a group like My Work
Group, and I come up to the arrow to the
| | 06:11 | right of the + symbol in the People
Tags panel, from this menu I can either
| | 06:15 | create a New Person--in other words a
New People tag--a New Group, or I can Edit
| | 06:21 | or even Delete the selected group.
| | 06:24 | So let's say I choose Edit here, and in the
Edit box, I can change the name of this group.
| | 06:29 | I'll change it to My Job Group, and click okay.
| | 06:32 | And that will change the name of the
group, both here and back in People View.
| | 06:36 | So if I drag the Switch from People to
Group, you can see My Job Group, here in
| | 06:43 | the Groups panel in People View.
| | 06:44 | And I can add someone to that group here,
like Mary, by dragging her on top of
| | 06:49 | the Jobs group. And when I go back to
Media View, I have my Mary People tag
| | 06:54 | inside the Job Group in the People Tags panel.
| | 06:57 | So as you can see, People Tags and
People View work together here in the
| | 07:02 | Organizer in Elements eleven to give
you even more ways to organize and find
| | 07:07 | some of your most precious
photos, your photos of people.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
8. Organizing Photos in Events ViewCreating events manually| 00:00 | Another way that we tend to think of
our photos is by the events that they
| | 00:04 | depict, and so Adobe has given us one more way
to organize our photos, and that is by Events.
| | 00:09 | You can create Events either
manually, as I'll show in the movie, or
| | 00:13 | automatically, as I'll show you in
the next movie about Smart Events.
| | 00:17 | To create a new event manually, you can
be either in the Events View--Which you
| | 00:21 | can access by clicking here--or in Media View.
| | 00:24 | I usually do this for Media View
because that way I could make events from all
| | 00:29 | the photos in my catalog or the
photos in a selected folder or album.
| | 00:34 | I've selected this folder of photos,
which contains photos from more than one
| | 00:38 | event, this summer during a trip to France.
| | 00:40 | I'd like to organize these into events
without moving them out of this folder.
| | 00:45 | To create a new event for some of these
photos, I'll go down to the Taskbar at
| | 00:49 | the bottom of Media View
and I'll click Add Event.
| | 00:53 | That opens the Add New Event
panel in the column on the right.
| | 00:56 | I'll type a name for this
event, I'll call it Train Ride.
| | 00:59 | And because events are related to the
dates on which the photos are taken, I'll
| | 01:04 | enter a start and end date for this event.
| | 01:06 | Of course, some events may take place
over more than one day; these photos were
| | 01:10 | all taken on the same day so the
start and end dates will be the same.
| | 01:14 | I'll click the calendar to the right of
start date, and I can use the Month and
| | 01:18 | Year drop-down menus to set the start date.
| | 01:22 | And then to set the day, I'll
click on the day in calendar.
| | 01:26 | And I'll do the same for the end date.
| | 01:30 | By the way, if you don't remember the
dates on which you took photos, just look
| | 01:33 | at the date under the thumbnails in Media View.
| | 01:36 | And if that isn't showing, as I
said before, you can go up to View menu
| | 01:40 | and enable Details.
| | 01:41 | In the Add New Event panel, in the description
area, I can type some notes about this event.
| | 01:49 | I took a lot of train rides in France and
I'd like to remember which one this was.
| | 01:53 | So, I'll type Lyons to Paris. And then down
here, I'll populate this event with photos.
| | 01:59 | I can drag in one photo at a time by
clicking on it in Media View and then
| | 02:04 | dragging into this area of the Add New
Event panel; that is called the Media Bin.
| | 02:08 | Or I can select multiple photos, which
makes more sense if you are including
| | 02:12 | lots of photos from a folder or
from your catalog in an event.
| | 02:17 | I'll select one of these and I'll hold
the Shift key and select the other, and
| | 02:20 | then I'll click on either and
drag them both into the Media Bin.
| | 02:25 | Now I am done creating the
event so I click the Done button.
| | 02:29 | Then I'll click off of
those photos to deselect them.
| | 02:32 | Here in Media View, I can see whether a
particular photo is already in an event
| | 02:37 | because it will have this little icon
at the bottom right of its thumbnail.
| | 02:40 | And if I hover over that icon,
I can see the name of the event.
| | 02:44 | Before I jump over to Events View,
I'm going to make one more event.
| | 02:48 | This time, instead of dragging photos
into the event, I'm going to select the
| | 02:52 | photos that I want in the event first.
| | 02:54 | I'll click on this photo and I'll hold
the Shift key and click on this photo.
| | 02:58 | Those are all photos of a
bike ride that we took in France.
| | 03:01 | To put all of those photos into the
same event, I'll click the Add Event button
| | 03:06 | in the Taskbar in Media View with all
of the five photos selected, and that
| | 03:10 | automatically adds them to the Media
Bin in the Add New Event panel in the
| | 03:14 | column on the right. And it
automatically set the start date and the end date.
| | 03:19 | The Organizer is smart enough to
find that information in the photos.
| | 03:23 | So all I have to do is add a name for
the event and a description if I want.
| | 03:27 | I'll name this event Bike Ride,
and for the description, I'll put
| | 03:33 | Burgundy Vineyards.
| | 03:36 | And then I'll click Done.
| | 03:39 | And now when I hover over the icons
under any of these photos, I get a little
| | 03:43 | label that tells me the name of
the event that that photo is in.
| | 03:46 | And by the way, a photo can
be in more than one event.
| | 03:50 | When I'm done creating events, I'll jump
over to Events View to see the results.
| | 03:55 | And here in Events View, I have a
separate stack of photos for each of the
| | 04:00 | event that I've made.
| | 04:01 | To see the contents of a stack in Events View,
just like for the stacks in
| | 04:04 | People View, I'll move my mouse
back and forth over that stack.
| | 04:10 | And if I want to see the photos next to
one another, I'll double-click on the stack.
| | 04:14 | And then to see the stacks
again, I'll click the Back button.
| | 04:18 | Notice that each stack
includes the event name and dates.
| | 04:22 | And, there's a little i icon,
which stands for information.
| | 04:25 | If I click that icon, I can see the
description that I added to the event when I created it.
| | 04:30 | Now imagine that you'd
already created lots of events.
| | 04:34 | To quickly get to events from
particular dates, you can use the calendar on the
| | 04:38 | right side of Events View.
| | 04:39 | I'll change the calender from all years
to 2012 and I'll be able to see all of
| | 04:45 | the years in this list for
events that I've created.
| | 04:49 | In the 2012 calender, I'll see all of
the months highlighted that contain
| | 04:53 | photos that are in events.
| | 04:55 | All the photos in my events were taken in
May, so May is the only month highlighted.
| | 04:59 | If I click May, then that opens the
calendar for that month, with all of the
| | 05:04 | days on which photos in my events were
taken, highlighted with a blue border.
| | 05:09 | If I want to see the events from May
fourteen, I would select May fourteen.
| | 05:14 | To see the events from May
fifteenth, I'll select that date.
| | 05:17 | So you can see that this is a
useful way to zero in on events taken in a
| | 05:21 | particular year, a particular
month, or on a particular day.
| | 05:25 | To go back to see all of my events, I'll
click the Clear button at the top of the calendar.
| | 05:30 | I have a few more options if I right-click
a stack here in Events View.
| | 05:36 | Here, I have the option to edit an event,
which allows me to change its name, or
| | 05:41 | its dates, or its description.
| | 05:43 | I'll just leave these as
is and I'll click Cancel.
| | 05:45 | Or, if I no longer want an event, I can
remove it completely from my Events View;
| | 05:51 | and I have the option here to view all
the photos in an event as a slide show.
| | 05:55 | I'll select Slide Show.
| | 06:08 | When I move my cursor, that brings up
the Control bar in Full Screen View, which I
| | 06:12 | showed you in earlier movies. And I can
click the x to exit Full Screen View and
| | 06:16 | go back to the Events.
| | 06:17 | So that's a really delightful way
to see all the photos from one event.
| | 06:21 | And finally, if I'd like a different
photo to be on the top of an Event Stack,
| | 06:25 | just like in People View, I can do that
by moving my cursor over the event until
| | 06:30 | I see the photo that I want and then
right-clicking and choosing set as cover.
| | 06:35 | So that's how to create events manually
and work with events here in Events View.
| | 06:41 | There's another way to create events,
and that's automatically, using Smart
| | 06:44 | Events, as I'll show you
how to do in the next movie.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Creating Smart Events| 00:00 | Another way to create Events is to ask the
Organizer to do that for you automatically.
| | 00:05 | This really comes in handy if you have
lots of photos that you're working with
| | 00:09 | all in one folder, like the folder that
I've selected here in Media view, or in
| | 00:13 | your entire Catalog.
| | 00:14 | To create automatic Smart Svents, I'll
jump over to Events view by clicking the
| | 00:19 | Events button at the top of the Organizer.
| | 00:20 | Here in the Events view, I'll move the
Event switch from Events over to Smart Events.
| | 00:27 | By default, that divides the
photos in the source container by date.
| | 00:31 | So now, I have two
automatically-made stacks of photos.
| | 00:36 | The first are photos that were
taken on the fifteenth of May.
| | 00:39 | I can move my cursor across that
stack to see what's in that stack.
| | 00:43 | And here, I have five photos taken
on the fourteen of May; I can move my
| | 00:47 | cursor across that stack.
| | 00:48 | Particularly when I am
traveling, I'll often shoot all day.
| | 00:52 | So I really will be capturing different
events even though they are on the same date.
| | 00:57 | In that case, you can refine your
stacks by time, by clicking this button, and
| | 01:02 | then dragging the Time slider over to the right.
| | 01:04 | And doing that has divided this first
group of photos into two stacks according
| | 01:09 | to time periods, which you can see
here at the bottom of each stack.
| | 01:12 | If I drag that slider over further,
that's divided my second stack into
| | 01:16 | two stacks as well.
| | 01:18 | This one with three items and
this one with just two items.
| | 01:22 | There are a few other options for
working with Smart Event stacks.
| | 01:26 | If I right-click a stack, I see that I
have the option to view the stack as a
| | 01:30 | slideshow in Full Screen view, which
is similar to the Full Screen slideshow
| | 01:34 | that I showed you earlier and it's a
really nice way to view your photos.
| | 01:38 | I can also name an event here.
| | 01:39 | So if I choose Name Event,
I can type Train to Paris.
| | 01:44 | I could add a description if I want;
I'll just leave that blank, and click okay.
| | 01:48 | And now, if I go back to Media View by
clicking on the Media button at the top
| | 01:51 | of the Organizer, you can see that
those two photos have an icon under them
| | 01:56 | representing the train to Paris event.
| | 01:58 | I'm going to go back to Events view.
| | 02:01 | To remind you that in Events view,
whether you're dealing with Events or Smart
| | 02:05 | Events, you have a calendar over here.
| | 02:07 | And you can use that calendar to
narrow down the number of stacks that you
| | 02:11 | see to just a particular year, or a
particular month, or a particular day within a month.
| | 02:16 | So those are some ways to use Smart
Events to quickly organize your photos by
| | 02:20 | their content so that you can find
just the photos you're looking for later.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
9. Organizing Photos in Places ViewViewing mapped photos by location| 00:00 | Another great way to keep track of
your photos is by the places at which they
| | 00:04 | were shot, and that's what Places view is for.
| | 00:07 | You can view your photos and
your video clips there by location.
| | 00:11 | You can do that for all the photos in
your catalog or for a selected folder,
| | 00:15 | like the folder I've
selected here in Media view.
| | 00:18 | Before I jump over to places, I want
to tell you that all of the horizontal
| | 00:23 | photos that you see here were
shot with a GPS-enabled camera.
| | 00:26 | In other words, a camera that embeds in the
photos the GPS locations where they were shot.
| | 00:32 | This vertical photo was shot
with a non-GPS enabled camera.
| | 00:36 | When you're working with photos like
the horizontal ones that have their GPS
| | 00:40 | coordinates embedded in their metadata,
they will automatically appear on a
| | 00:43 | map in Places view.
| | 00:45 | So, let's jump over to Places view to see that.
| | 00:47 | I'll click the Places button
at the top of the Organizer.
| | 00:50 | Here in Places view, I have a map, I
can see thumbnails of all of the photos in
| | 00:55 | the selected folder, and over
here, I have my Folders panel.
| | 00:59 | The first thing I usually do in Places
view is rearrange things so that I have
| | 01:03 | more space for the map.
| | 01:05 | To do that, I'm going to hide the
Folders panel by clicking the Hide Panel
| | 01:09 | button in the taskbar at
the bottom of Places view.
| | 01:11 | And then I can move my cursor over
the border between the map and the photos
| | 01:15 | and drag to the left to
allocate more space to the map.
| | 01:19 | Here in the photo area are thumbnails
of all the photos in the selected folder.
| | 01:24 | If I want to see more of those
thumbnails, I can zoom out by using the zoom
| | 01:28 | slider in the taskbar at
the bottom of Places view.
| | 01:31 | There are a number of ways
to navigate around the map.
| | 01:34 | I can click and drag in the map; I can
use the zoom slider here to zoom in on
| | 01:40 | the map, and this zoom slider is pretty
sensitive so I usually use it in small
| | 01:45 | increments like this.
| | 01:46 | And I can navigate around
the map using this control.
| | 01:50 | Now, you do have to be online to use
this map because as you can see down here,
| | 01:56 | it's a Google-powered map.
| | 01:58 | There are also different views of the map.
| | 02:00 | If I click this menu, I can choose Map view,
or a Hybrid view, or a Light or Dark view.
| | 02:06 | I'm going to go back to Map view.
| | 02:09 | The red pins on the map indicate where
the photos in the selected folder were shot.
| | 02:13 | So, this pin is telling me that two
of these photos were shot down here
| | 02:18 | somewhere in the south of France, and
this pin tells me that four of these
| | 02:21 | photos were short north of Lyon,
France, in the Burgundy area.
| | 02:25 | One of the ways I like to use the map is to
see which photos I've shot in which location.
| | 02:30 | So, if I want to see which photos were
shop up here at the location of this pin,
| | 02:35 | I'll click on the pin changing the pin
to blue, and that adds a blue boarder
| | 02:40 | around all four of the
photos shot in that location.
| | 02:43 | If I want to see just those four photos,
I'll click the Show Media label that appears.
| | 02:48 | And then, I can use the zoom slider
to zoom in on those photos, or I can
| | 02:53 | double-click any one of the
photos to see it in Single Image view.
| | 02:57 | And then I can use the scroll bar to
scroll up and down to see the other three
| | 03:02 | photos in Single Image view as well.
| | 03:05 | Double-clicking any of those
photos takes me back to see all four.
| | 03:09 | Now let's see which photos were shot here.
| | 03:11 | I'll click this pin to highlight the
two photos shot in the south of France.
| | 03:16 | I'm going to zoom in on that location, and
then I'll click and drag, and zoom in a bit more.
| | 03:28 | And the closer I get, the more specifically I
can see exactly where these photos were shot.
| | 03:33 | So you can see that these photos were shot
in this cape to the east of the city of Nice.
| | 03:40 | Another way to move around the map
is to use the Search Field up here.
| | 03:44 | I know that some of the photos in the
selected photos were shot in Colorado, so
| | 03:48 | I'm going to click in that Search
Field and I'll type Colorado, and then I'll
| | 03:52 | press Enter or Return.
| | 03:53 | And from the drop-down list, I'll click
on Colorado, U.S.A., and that jumps the
| | 03:58 | map right over to Colorado.
| | 04:01 | To see the photos that I shot in
Colorado, I'll click on the pin that's there,
| | 04:06 | and these are the two photos.
| | 04:07 | I'm going to zoom in a
little closer on that pin.
| | 04:13 | And when I do, that single pin is now
two separate pins because these two photos
| | 04:18 | were actually shot in
different areas in Boulder.
| | 04:21 | I'll click off the pins to
deselect them, and then I'll click on the
| | 04:25 | northernmost pin and that tells me which
of the photos was shot in North Boulder.
| | 04:29 | I'll click on this pin, and that shows
me which photo was shot in South Boulder.
| | 04:34 | Now, sometimes I'll have a photo
that I can't pinpoint in my mind.
| | 04:38 | I don't know where I shot this photo.
| | 04:40 | I can get some help from the map by
double-clicking that photo; that will take
| | 04:45 | me right to the location of the photo
on the map, so I can see that this photo
| | 04:48 | was shot at Newark Airport.
| | 04:50 | I'm going to click the Grid button at
the top of the photo display, and that
| | 04:54 | takes me back to see all the photos.
| | 04:56 | And I'll click All Places and the map
redraws again to displays pins for all the
| | 05:03 | photos over here in the photo display area.
| | 05:06 | And finally, if I navigate to a
particular area on the map, I have the option to
| | 05:12 | show in the photo display only the
photos that were taken in the area that's
| | 05:17 | visible on the map right now.
| | 05:19 | So if I click this checkbox, I'm
limited to seeing just the photos that I took
| | 05:23 | in France and not the photos
that I took in the United States.
| | 05:26 | So those are some ways that you can
make use of Places view to keep track of
| | 05:30 | your photos by location.
| | 05:32 | This is a great way to see all the
photos that you've shot in one place and to
| | 05:36 | locate those photos whose
location you're just not sure of.
| | 05:40 | In the next movie, I'm going to show you
how you can add photos to this map that
| | 05:44 | are not GPS-enabled.
| | 05:45 | So stay tuned for that.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Adding location data to photos| 00:00 | In the last movie, I showed you that
if you're working with photos that were
| | 00:04 | taken with a GPS enabled camera, they will
automatically appear on the map in Places View.
| | 00:09 | But what if you have photos that
were taken with a non GPS enabled camera?
| | 00:13 | Like these two photos that I
know I took in San Francisco.
| | 00:17 | With these two photos displayed in
Media View, if I click on Places View in the
| | 00:21 | Organizer, Places View tells me that
it does not recognize those two photos
| | 00:26 | because they don't have GPS coordinates.
| | 00:29 | But it does advice me to click Add Places.
| | 00:32 | And that's the way you can add photos
like this to the map in Places View.
| | 00:36 | I'll go down to the task bar at the
bottom of Places View and I'll click on
| | 00:40 | the Add Places button.
| | 00:41 | That opens the Add Places window.
| | 00:44 | With the two photos in the selected
folder up here in the film strip and the
| | 00:48 | Google map down here, I know that these
two photos were taken in San Francisco.
| | 00:52 | Up here, it tells me I can drag
and drop these photos onto the map to
| | 00:57 | assign them a location.
| | 00:58 | I know that these photos were taken in
San Francisco, and that area of the map
| | 01:02 | is invisible right now.
| | 01:04 | So I could navigate manually by
clicking and dragging the map; or a faster way
| | 01:09 | to get to San Francisco on
the map is to search the map.
| | 01:12 | So I'll click in the Search
Field and I'll type San Francisco.
| | 01:15 | And if I know a specific location
in San Francisco, that's even better.
| | 01:20 | So, I'm going to type San
Francisco, Ferry Building.
| | 01:27 | And I'll click Search.
| | 01:29 | The drop-down menu suggests a couple
of possible locations. I think either
| | 01:33 | will work in this case.
| | 01:34 | I'll just click the first one. And the map goes
right to the Ferry Building in San Francisco.
| | 01:40 | It asks if I want to place all media,
in other words both of the photos, right
| | 01:45 | there on top of the Ferry Building.
| | 01:47 | Well, I could do that, but I know that
I took these two photos in different
| | 01:51 | locations around the Ferry Building.
| | 01:53 | One was taken out in water, and one was
taken from the sidewalk in front of the building.
| | 01:57 | So rather than place them both here,
I'm going to select the photo that was
| | 02:01 | taken from the sidewalk, and I'll click
the green check mark to place just that
| | 02:06 | one photo on the map.
| | 02:08 | I could leave it here, but I know
that I was actually not inside the Ferry
| | 02:12 | Building but on the sidewalk
in front of the Ferry Building.
| | 02:14 | So I'm going to click on that red pin, and
drag it right in front of the Ferry Building.
| | 02:20 | And then I'll click the green
check mark, and that assigns that exact
| | 02:24 | location to that photo.
| | 02:26 | Before I assign the other photo, I'm
going to actually change the view of the
| | 02:29 | map from map to hybrid.
| | 02:31 | So now you can really see that this is
the water, and I was out on one of these
| | 02:36 | ferries when I took that photo.
| | 02:37 | So I'm going to click and drag in the
map, and I'm just guessing but I wasn't
| | 02:42 | very far away from the dock,
maybe somewhere around here.
| | 02:45 | So I'll click on the horizontal photo
and I'll drag it on to the map, out in to
| | 02:51 | the water, and drop it around there.
| | 02:53 | And I'll click the green check mark to
assign that location to this photo, and
| | 02:59 | then I'll click Done.
| | 03:01 | That takes me back out to the regular
Places View, and here you can see the two
| | 03:05 | pins that I just added to the map.
| | 03:08 | And underneath each of the two
photos, there's a little icon indicating
| | 03:12 | that it's been assigned a place on the map
in San Francisco, California, United States.
| | 03:17 | There's one more view to look
at here and that is List View.
| | 03:21 | If I click on List, I'll see a list of
all of the locations that I've added to
| | 03:26 | the map in this way.
| | 03:27 | Right now, I just tabbed the San
Francisco, Ferry Building on Pier fourteen, the
| | 03:32 | address on the Embarcadero in San
Francisco, California, United States.
| | 03:37 | So the list could get really
specific about these locations.
| | 03:40 | By the way, the only locations you'll
see in this list are for photos that you
| | 03:44 | placed manually on the map, as I
showed you how to do in this movie.
| | 03:48 | This list won't include the locations of GPS
enabled photos, which I covered in the last movie.
| | 03:54 | And I'll finish up by
clicking back on the map view.
| | 03:56 | So if your camera or camera phone is in
GPS enabled, that's how you can include
| | 04:01 | your photos here on the map in Places View.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
10. Finding PhotosUsing the Find menu| 00:00 | One of the main reasons to organize your
photos using any of the features that I
| | 00:04 | have shown you in this course is so
that you can put your finger on the photos
| | 00:08 | you are looking for later.
| | 00:09 | And the Organizer offers lots of search
options that you can use for that purpose.
| | 00:13 | I want to make sure that you know all of
the various search options available, and then
| | 00:17 | we'll look at some of those in more
depth in other movies in this chapter.
| | 00:21 | As you go through this chapter, you
may find that the results you are getting
| | 00:25 | for your searches are slightly
different than mine, depending on which movies
| | 00:28 | you've worked through in this course.
| | 00:29 | But that's okay because the
principles will be the same.
| | 00:32 | So let's start by looking the Find
menu here at the top of the Organizer.
| | 00:37 | The Find menu gathers together all the
different search features so that you can
| | 00:41 | access them from here.
| | 00:42 | Now some of these, like Advanced Search,
you can access from other places, too.
| | 00:46 | We took a look at Advanced Search
earlier in the movies on Keyword Tagging
| | 00:50 | and People Tagging.
| | 00:52 | One of the most powerful options in the
Find menu, is the ability to Search By
| | 00:55 | Details or Metadata associated with
photos. And we'll be looking at that in more
| | 01:00 | detail in this chapter.
| | 01:02 | From this menu, you can
choose to search by Media Type.
| | 01:05 | So if I had video clips or audio
clips in this catalog, I could choose to
| | 01:10 | search just for those from here.
| | 01:11 | You can search the history of items in
a catalog; so if you wanted to see just
| | 01:15 | items that you imported to a catalog
on a particular day, you could use the
| | 01:19 | Imported On option here.
| | 01:21 | Or you could find photos that you've
printed on a particular day, or photos
| | 01:25 | you've used in particular projects.
| | 01:28 | If you've added captions or notes to
photos or other items in your catalog, you
| | 01:32 | can search by those from the
By Caption or Note command.
| | 01:35 | You can search specifically by Filename.
| | 01:38 | Earlier in the course, I showed
you how to reconnect missing files.
| | 01:41 | If you wanted to just see all your
missing files, you can choose All Missing
| | 01:45 | Files from this menu.
| | 01:47 | If you've combined photos into vers
ion sets, as I showed you earlier in the
| | 01:51 | course when we were talking about
making quick edits from Full Screen View, you
| | 01:56 | can access all your version sets here.
| | 01:58 | Or if you've stacked related photos
together, also as I showed you earlier in
| | 02:02 | the course, you can access all your stacks here.
| | 02:05 | Visual searches are a
powerful way to find similar photos.
| | 02:09 | We'll be looking at visual
searches in more depth in this chapter.
| | 02:12 | Here, if you have some items with
unknown dates or time, you can isolate those.
| | 02:17 | If you're in the process of keyword
tagging your files, and you have some that
| | 02:21 | you haven't tagged yet, you can see just
the untagged items here; which can come
| | 02:25 | in really handy, because you'll
know what you have left to tag.
| | 02:27 | And here, you can look for items that
the organizer hasn't yet analyzed for
| | 02:31 | features like people recognition.
| | 02:33 | And down here, if you're in the
process of making albums and you want to
| | 02:36 | see just the photos that aren't yet in an album,
you can access those items from this command.
| | 02:41 | So there's a lot of power in the Find menu.
| | 02:44 | Now let's take a look over here at
the Search box, which is also a powerful
| | 02:48 | general search feature.
| | 02:50 | If I start typing text in this box, the
organizer will immediately suggest files
| | 02:55 | that match that text.
| | 02:56 | Whether the matching text is in
Filenames, in Metadata, in Captions, in Notes,
| | 03:02 | pretty much any place that text
appears here in the Organizer.
| | 03:05 | So for example, if I start typing,
train, even before I finished typing the
| | 03:10 | word, the organizer is suggesting an
event that I created earlier in the course,
| | 03:15 | of photos from a train ride.
| | 03:17 | And it returns those in
response to even this partial word.
| | 03:21 | If I want to cancel that search and go
back and see all my photos, I'll click
| | 03:24 | the Back button here.
| | 03:25 | So that's a quick overview of the
various search features that you'll find
| | 03:30 | here in the organizer.
| | 03:31 | Now let's take a closer look at some
of the most powerful of those features.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Finding photos by metadata| 00:00 | One of the most powerful ways to find
particular photos is using the By Details
| | 00:05 | Metadata command here in the Find menu.
| | 00:07 | And I really urge you to explore this command.
| | 00:10 | It's one of my favorites because it
offers so many options for searching and for
| | 00:13 | fine-tuning a search.
| | 00:14 | I'm going to choose Find By Details
from this menu, and that opens the Find By
| | 00:19 | Details Metadata window.
| | 00:21 | Now don't be intimidated by all the text here.
| | 00:23 | I think this feature really is intuitive to use.
| | 00:27 | What you'll do is come down here and
formulate a search query that's basically a
| | 00:31 | sentence with three parts.
| | 00:33 | The first part of the sentence, you'll
choose from the first drop-down menu.
| | 00:37 | Here, you'll find a long list of criteria on
which you can search for particular photos.
| | 00:42 | Everything from Filename, to Keyword
Tags, to the Rating you've given a photo,
| | 00:47 | to the Camera Make and Model
with which you've shot a photo.
| | 00:51 | Or if I scroll down, by File Size,
by the Author or Creator of the photo.
| | 00:57 | Even by the Shutter Speed, the F-Stop,
the ISO, the Focal Length, and whether
| | 01:04 | the flash went off when the photo was taken.
| | 01:06 | I also like to search by File Type so I can
quickly find just my JPEGs or just my Raw files.
| | 01:12 | I also find it useful to search by
Camera Make or Camera Model so that I can
| | 01:18 | find just the photos that I've taken,
say, with my SLR, as opposed to those I
| | 01:22 | took with my iPhone.
| | 01:23 | So to show you that, I'm going to come
up here and choose as the first part of
| | 01:28 | the search query that I'm
formulating, Camera Model.
| | 01:31 | The second part of the
sentence or search query is the verb.
| | 01:35 | You'll have different choices for the
verb depending on what you chose from the
| | 01:39 | first drop-down menu.
| | 01:41 | So because I chose Camera Model, my only
choice is here are Contains or Doesn't Contain.
| | 01:46 | I'll go with Contains.
| | 01:47 | And because I chose Camera Model, I get a text
box in which I can type any name that I want.
| | 01:53 | I know that I shot some
photos here with my Nikon D90.
| | 01:56 | So I'll type D90 and then I'll perform
the search by clicking the Search button.
| | 02:02 | And in just a second, I can see just
the photos in this catalog that were taken
| | 02:07 | with a camera model that contains the words D90.
| | 02:10 | But that's not all.
| | 02:11 | I can narrow this search down even
further by going back to that same window.
| | 02:16 | Now, I can do that either by going back to
the Find menu and choosing By Details Metadata.
| | 02:20 | Or I can go over to the Options drop-
down menu on the right side of the search
| | 02:25 | results and choose Modify Search Criteria.
| | 02:28 | Either way opens the Find By Details
Metadata box again with the last search that I did.
| | 02:34 | And if I want to narrow this down,
I'll click the + button to the right of
| | 02:38 | that search and that opens up another set of
fields that I can use to narrow down this search.
| | 02:44 | So this time I want to see just the
photos taken with my D90 that are in
| | 02:49 | portrait orientation.
| | 02:50 | In other words, that are
taller than they are wide.
| | 02:53 | So I'll go to the first menu in
this row and from that menu, I'm going
| | 02:57 | to choose Orientation.
| | 02:59 | I'll scroll down to find
Orientation. I'll select it.
| | 03:04 | And now this search query has changed.
| | 03:06 | This time, I don't have a
choice of verb; it's just set to Is.
| | 03:10 | And the third part of this query is a
drop-down menu rather than a text field.
| | 03:15 | Because I only have one of two
choices here; the orientation can either be
| | 03:18 | Portrait or a Landscape.
| | 03:20 | I'll leave this set to Portrait--and this
is very important and its something you
| | 03:23 | might miss--I need to come up and
examine these two radio buttons.
| | 03:28 | If I leave this button set, which
is the default, I won't be performing
| | 03:32 | the search that I want.
| | 03:33 | This is basically an OR search.
| | 03:36 | And knowing what you're going to get
from this search is really a matter of just
| | 03:41 | saying all of this out loud.
| | 03:42 | So, with OR selected here, I'll be
searching for photos taken with the camera
| | 03:46 | model whose name contains D90 or
photos whose orientation is Portrait.
| | 03:53 | So that could include some photos taken
with another camera, and that isn't what I want.
| | 03:57 | I want an AND search, so I'm
going to change this to AND.
| | 04:01 | And now I'll be looking for photos
whose camera model contains the word D90 and
| | 04:07 | whose orientation is Portrait.
| | 04:08 | I'll come down here and I'll click Search,
and there are the results of this search.
| | 04:14 | Applying multiple filters, I now can
see just the photos taken with my D90 that
| | 04:19 | are in Portrait orientation.
| | 04:21 | I'll click the Back button this time to go
back and see all the photos in the catalog.
| | 04:25 | Now you may be wondering why I didn't
just use the Advanced Search, rather than
| | 04:30 | By Details Metadata.
| | 04:32 | And the reason is that the
Advanced Search offers less options.
| | 04:35 | We looked at Advanced Search earlier
in the course when we were talking about
| | 04:38 | searching by keyword tags and people
tags, and that's when Advanced Search
| | 04:42 | comes in most handy.
| | 04:43 | Let me remind you, by choosing Find
Using Advanced Search, and that opens this
| | 04:48 | advance search table.
| | 04:49 | Now you may have other entries in each of
these columns; don't worry about that for now.
| | 04:53 | What I want to point out here is that
when you use Advanced Search, you can also
| | 04:58 | search by combinations of criteria, but
only four kinds of criteria: keywords,
| | 05:03 | people, places and events.
| | 05:06 | And as I just showed you, using the
Defined By Details Metadata option, you have
| | 05:11 | many more options of the kind of
criteria that you use and the combinations.
| | 05:16 | So, when you want to search by
keywords and then narrow that down to just
| | 05:19 | particular people, places, or
events, do use the Advanced Search.
| | 05:23 | But when you want even more options,
check out Find By Details Metadata and
| | 05:28 | formulate your search there.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Saving smart searches| 00:00 | After you formulate a search, using
either the Advanced Search or the Find By
| | 00:05 | Details (Metadata)--both of which I've
covered in earlier movies--it's a good
| | 00:09 | idea to save your search criteria.
| | 00:12 | There are two reasons for that.
| | 00:13 | First, it will save you the time and
trouble of reformulating the same search if
| | 00:17 | you want to use the same search again later.
| | 00:19 | But even more importantly, a
Saved Search is a Smart Search.
| | 00:23 | In other words, it will automatically
update with any new photos that meet its
| | 00:28 | criteria in the future.
| | 00:30 | To show you what I mean, I'm going to
set things up by exiting from this menu;
| | 00:34 | and I want to create a Smart Search to
show me all the photos that I take with
| | 00:38 | my Nikon D90 that I mark with
five stars now or in the future.
| | 00:43 | And that will let me see the
photos that I consider my very best.
| | 00:47 | So here's a folder of
photos I did take with my D90.
| | 00:50 | I'm going to mark some of these with
five stars quickly by clicking the fifth
| | 00:54 | star underneath these particular photos.
| | 00:58 | Now, I'm going to go back, by
clicking the Back button, to my entire catalog.
| | 01:03 | I'll set up a search by going to the
Find menu and down to By Details; or I could
| | 01:07 | use Advance Search for this.
But I'll go with By Details.
| | 01:11 | This is the search that I
set up in the last movie.
| | 01:13 | I'm going to modify this slightly.
| | 01:16 | This is a search for all photos
taken with the D90 that are in
| | 01:20 | Portrait orientation.
| | 01:21 | I'm going to delete that second line,
Orientation is Portrait, by clicking the
| | 01:25 | minus symbol next to it.
| | 01:26 | And then I'm going to click the +
button and I'm going to type a new set of
| | 01:31 | criteria in this row, going to the
first menu and choosing Rating, leaving the
| | 01:37 | second drop-down menu set to Is, and
going to the third drop-down menu and
| | 01:42 | choosing five. And the last part of
that sentence is stars. And I'll make sure
| | 01:46 | that AND is selected up here.
| | 01:49 | So these criteria should return all
photos from my camera model D90 whose
| | 01:55 | rating is five stars.
| | 01:57 | Now this time, before I leave this
Dialog box, I'm going to check Save this
| | 02:02 | Search Criteria as Saved
Search and I'll give it a name.
| | 02:06 | These are going to be my favorite
photos from the D90, so we'll call it D90
| | 02:10 | picks, and click Search.
| | 02:13 | And here are the four photos in this
catalog that meet those two criteria; they
| | 02:17 | have five stars and they're shot with my D90.
| | 02:19 | Now I'm going to come back and click
on that same folder to see all of the
| | 02:24 | photos in the folder.
| | 02:26 | And let's say that I've shot some new
photos and put them in this folder, or
| | 02:30 | I've just re-evaluated these photos
and I've found some more that I think
| | 02:34 | deserved five stars.
| | 02:35 | I'm going to give five stars to this
photo of the boat, and this photo of the
| | 02:39 | church; and I'll go back to my entire catalog.
| | 02:42 | Now let's say that I want to see all
the photos that have five stars and that I
| | 02:47 | shot with my D90. I can go up to the
Search menu at the top of the organizer and
| | 02:52 | from there, choose Saved Searches; and
that opens the Saved Searches window with
| | 02:57 | a list of all the searches that I've saved.
| | 02:59 | I've saved this Last six Months search
before, including by D90 picks search.
| | 03:06 | And here, you can see the
criteria for that search.
| | 03:09 | I'll click on the D90 Picks search and
then I'll click Open to run that search
| | 03:14 | on the entire catalog.
| | 03:15 | And not only does it return the
original four photos that we saw the first time
| | 03:19 | we ran the search, the search results
have been automatically updated with the
| | 03:23 | two new photos to which I gave five stars.
| | 03:26 | By the way, if you've used older
version of Elements, you may be used to using
| | 03:30 | Smart Albums, which work
in somewhat the same way.
| | 03:32 | You won't find Smart Albums in
Elements eleven, but you do have these Smart
| | 03:36 | Searches, which are really powerful.
| | 03:38 | Now let's say I want to modify a
Smart Search, how do I do that?.
| | 03:42 | To do that, after running a search in the
Search Results, I'll go to the Options menu.
| | 03:47 | And from there, I'll chose Modify
Search Criteria. And that opens the Find by
| | 03:52 | Details box again, where I
can modify the search further.
| | 03:55 | So let's say I want to modify this to
limited, to only photos taken with the
| | 04:00 | D90 with a rating of five stars that
are also in Portrait orientation. I'll
| | 04:05 | click the + symbol. That
adds a new row of criteria.
| | 04:09 | From the first menu I'll choose Orientation,
and I'll leave the third menu set to Portrait.
| | 04:16 | And then I'll save this
criteria as a Saved Search, too.
| | 04:19 | I'll call this one D90 Picks
Portrait, and I'll click Search.
| | 04:27 | And from among all the photos in my
catalog, that returns just these four photos
| | 04:31 | that meet all three of those criteria.
| | 04:34 | And if I go to look at my Saved
Searches again, you can see that I now an
| | 04:38 | additional Saved Search.
| | 04:40 | If there's a search that I don't want
to keep here, I can always delete it by
| | 04:44 | selecting it and clicking the trash
can here in the Saved Searches dialog and
| | 04:48 | clicking okay. And then,
I'll close this Dialog box.
| | 04:51 | So I think you can see how powerful
Saved Searches are. They'll not only save
| | 04:55 | you the time and effort of redoing
searches, but they also automatically update
| | 05:00 | as you add new photos with matching criteria.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Finding photos by visual similarity| 00:00 | When you're looking for visually similar
photos in your catalog, there are three
| | 00:04 | commands that you can use.
| | 00:05 | Those are located under the Find
menu in the By Visual Searches category.
| | 00:10 | So you can search for visually
similar photos on the basis of colors and
| | 00:14 | shapes in the photos.
| | 00:16 | You can search for particular objects in
photos, and for sets of duplicate photos.
| | 00:20 | I'm going to click off this
menu to show you how these work.
| | 00:25 | Here in Media View, I'm looking at my
entire catalog and I see a photo near the
| | 00:29 | top of a woman with a pumpkin.
| | 00:32 | I know that I have other
Halloween-like photos in this catalog.
| | 00:36 | To try to find those photos, I'm
going to use a visual similarity search.
| | 00:40 | I can do that from the Find menus I
just showed you, or I can go up to the
| | 00:44 | Search Box and click the arrow to the
right of the magnifying glass and choose
| | 00:48 | Visual Similarity Search.
| | 00:49 | The first time you do this, you may see a
warning asking if you want to index your photos.
| | 00:54 | It's okay to click okay there and wait
while the organizer analyzes your photos.
| | 00:58 | In this case, I think the Visual
Similarity Search did a pretty good job of
| | 01:02 | finding similar photos to
the one that I'd selected.
| | 01:06 | Here you can see an actual duplicate
of that photo, and here's a very similar
| | 01:10 | photo but in landscape view
rather than portrait view.
| | 01:13 | And here's a duplicate of that one.
| | 01:14 | So what this search does is display
the photos that it thinks are the closest
| | 01:19 | match to my selected photo,
up here at the top of the grid.
| | 01:22 | And it adds a little label at the
bottom of the photos. That's a numerical
| | 01:26 | measure of the image similarity.
| | 01:28 | There are couple of ways that I can
fine-tune this search to see if I can get
| | 01:32 | even better results.
| | 01:33 | For one thing, I can go over to the
slider on the right of the search results
| | 01:37 | that's labeled Color and Shapes. Dragging
this slider back and forth between Color
| | 01:41 | and Shape will change my search results.
| | 01:44 | Now in this case, I think I have got
more relevant photos and I can just do
| | 01:47 | this to taste, emphasizing shape or
emphasizing color in the search results.
| | 01:53 | Another way to fine-tune is to add
more photos to the search query by dragging
| | 01:58 | more photos from the grid up to the
find bar at the top of the search results.
| | 02:02 | So here's a photo of a little fella with
pumpkins; I can click on that thumbnail
| | 02:07 | and drag it up to the Find bar
and drop it on top of that box.
| | 02:11 | And that changes my search results again.
| | 02:13 | And I think I got better
search results this way.
| | 02:16 | Now, I have this photo of the jack-o
-lantern, which I haven't even seen
| | 02:19 | before; and I recognize all these photos as
my most Halloween-like photos in this catalog.
| | 02:25 | I'm going to cancel these search
results by clicking the X at the top right of
| | 02:29 | the search results, and that
takes me back to my catalog.
| | 02:33 | Now let's see how we can search for
particular objects in photos in the catalog.
| | 02:36 | Again, I'll select that photo
of a woman holding a pumpkin.
| | 02:40 | I'll go up to the Search Box and
click the arrow there, and this time I'll
| | 02:44 | choose Object Search.
| | 02:45 | That opens that photo as a single image
with a white box that I'm going to use
| | 02:51 | to surround the pumpkin.
| | 02:52 | I'll click inside the box and
drag it just over the pumpkin.
| | 02:56 | And then to fine-tune, I'll move my
cursor over the corners and drag in so that
| | 03:01 | I don't have too much of the
background inside that white box.
| | 03:04 | I just want the pumpkin, and
then I'll click Search Object.
| | 03:09 | And that returns photos that the
Organizer thinks contain similar objects.
| | 03:14 | You can see it did an okay
job, but not a perfect job.
| | 03:17 | These trees don't contain any pumpkins,
and down here is a photo of an orange--
| | 03:22 | which does look a lot like a
pumpkin, but is an orange.
| | 03:25 | I can try to fine-tune the
results the same way that I did with the
| | 03:28 | Visual Similarity Search.
| | 03:30 | Over here, I can use the color and shape slider.
| | 03:33 | And in this case, dragging towards
shape doesn't get me better results.
| | 03:37 | It actually gets me worse results
because now I'm seeing photos of apples up
| | 03:41 | here, rather than photos of pumpkins.
| | 03:43 | So I'm going to drag that back toward
Color, and I'll try another way of fine
| | 03:48 | tuning, which is to add
more photos to the find bar.
| | 03:50 | So down here I have another photo of
pumpkins. I'm going to drag that photo up
| | 03:55 | to the Find bar and drop it on the box.
| | 03:58 | And that brings a couple more photos of
pumpkins to the top of the match results.
| | 04:02 | Let's take a look at the last kind of
Visual Similarity Search, Duplicate Search.
| | 04:06 | I'll cancel these results by clicking
the X on the right side of the screen, and
| | 04:11 | I'm back to my catalog.
| | 04:12 | Now this is the not the search to
use if you want to find an absolute
| | 04:16 | duplicate of a particular photo.
| | 04:18 | In that case, select the photo
in your catalog and then use the
| | 04:22 | visual similarity search.
| | 04:24 | But if you want to find sets of
photos that are similar, then go to
| | 04:27 | Duplicate Photo Search.
| | 04:29 | I'll show you what I mean by running Duplicate
Photo Search on all the photos in this catalog.
| | 04:35 | The results are reported here in a
separate window, the Visual Similarity
| | 04:38 | Photo Search window.
| | 04:39 | What you see here are suggested
groups of photos, photos that the Organizer
| | 04:44 | thinks are similar in some way--
either in terms of color, or shape.
| | 04:47 | If I don't like any of these
suggestion, I can just click the Done button.
| | 04:51 | But I do see that down here, the Organizer
found a couple of photos that are duplicates.
| | 04:56 | So I might like to stack these
together so they're in one place in my catalog,
| | 05:00 | and I can easily access both of them.
| | 05:02 | If I want to stack a suggested group of
photos, I'll click its Stack button; and
| | 05:07 | that creates a stack, and then I'll click Done.
| | 05:10 | And now out of my catalog, you can
see those two photos stacked together.
| | 05:15 | I covered stacks in an earlier movie
in this course, and you can go there to
| | 05:19 | learn all the details about stacking.
| | 05:21 | But basically, the idea is that this is
an organizational tool to group photos
| | 05:25 | together so that they're not both
showing on the surface of the catalog.
| | 05:29 | If I want to see the photos in this
stack, I'll click the arrow to the right of
| | 05:33 | the stack, and that expands the
stack so I can see its contents.
| | 05:36 | And if I want to collapse the stack
again to make more room in the catalog, I'll
| | 05:41 | click the arrow on the right of
this group and that collapses my stack.
| | 05:45 | So that's a look at the three kinds
of visual similarity searches that you'll
| | 05:49 | find here in the Organizer.
| | 05:51 | Visual Similarity Search, Object
Search, and Duplicate Photo Search.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Finding photos in the Timeline| 00:00 | Another way that lots of us think of our
photos is by the dates on which they were taken.
| | 00:05 | If you have a general idea of when you
took particular photos and you want to
| | 00:09 | find those from all the photos in
your catalog, you can quickly get to a
| | 00:12 | particular time period during which
you took photos using the Timeline.
| | 00:16 | I'll open the Timeline here in Media View by
clicking the View menu and choosing Timeline.
| | 00:22 | The Timeline is the bar
across the top of Media View.
| | 00:24 | The dates that you see under the
Timeline are the years in which photos were
| | 00:29 | taken that are in this catalog.
| | 00:31 | And the bars represent
months within those years.
| | 00:34 | So, this bar represents May of 2012.
| | 00:37 | The height of a particular bar
indicates the relative number of photos that
| | 00:41 | were taken that month.
| | 00:43 | And if you want to quickly get to that
month to see the photos taken then, just
| | 00:47 | click one of those bars.
| | 00:49 | So when I click May of 2012, that moves
the grid to the first photo in the sort
| | 00:54 | order taken that month.
| | 00:55 | For just a second, there is a green
border around that photo and the date under
| | 00:59 | the thumbnail will blink.
| | 01:00 | And then that would all disappear and
there would just be a blue border around
| | 01:04 | that thumbnail. And you will find the
other photos taken that month next to this
| | 01:08 | one here in the grid.
| | 01:09 | The other thing you can do with the
Timeline is narrow the date range of photos
| | 01:14 | that are displayed in the grid.
| | 01:15 | So if am looking for photos that I
think I took some time in late 2010 or early
| | 01:21 | 2011, I'll use these brackets
on the side of the Timeline.
| | 01:25 | I'll go to the bracket on the left and
I'll drag it over to somewhere in late
| | 01:31 | 2010, and then I'll get the bracket
on the right and drag that over to a
| | 01:36 | month in early 2011.
| | 01:38 | And that narrows down the photos that I
can see here in the grid, and that will
| | 01:43 | help me to find just the
photo I was looking for.
| | 01:46 | So the Timeline comes in really handy
when you have a general idea of when you
| | 01:49 | took the particular
photos that you're searching for
| | 01:52 | and you just want to narrow things
down so you can find those photos.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
ConclusionDon't forget to back up| 00:00 | There's nothing worse than losing
your precious photos or all the work that
| | 00:04 | you've put into organizing them here
in the Organizer, so I can't urge you
| | 00:07 | strongly enough to remember to backup regularly.
| | 00:10 | And you can do that using the Backup Catalog
command here in the File menu in the Organizer.
| | 00:15 | This will back up both
your catalog and your photos.
| | 00:20 | Before you use this command, you may
want to come down here to the Reconnect
| | 00:24 | command and set it to
Reconnect All Missing Files,
| | 00:27 | just in case the links between your
catalog and some of those files have been
| | 00:31 | broken as we're working on the files.
| | 00:33 | I covered reconnecting files in
a movie earlier in the course.
| | 00:36 | When you're done with that, you may
also want to select all the photos in your
| | 00:40 | Catalog and choose Save Metadata To
Files; and that will embed in your actual
| | 00:45 | photo files the metadata that
you've added in the Organizer.
| | 00:49 | Then when you're ready, attach a large
external hard drive to your computer--
| | 00:53 | which is preferable to using multiple
CDs or DVDs to back up your catalog in the
| | 00:58 | photos--and go to the file
Backup Catalog command here.
| | 01:02 | If you've run the Reconnect command,
as I just recommended, you won't see
| | 01:05 | a warning like this.
| | 01:07 | If you do see this warning, then
it's best to click Reconnect and try to
| | 01:11 | reconnect all your files to the catalog.
| | 01:13 | I'm just going to click Continue for now, so
I can show you the next step in backing up.
| | 01:17 | Here in the Backup window, you have two choices.
| | 01:20 | The first time that you're backing
up from the Organizer, it's important
| | 01:23 | to choose Full Backup.
| | 01:24 | And that will back up your
entire catalog and all your photos.
| | 01:28 | Then in the future, after you've
done one Full Backup, you can choose
| | 01:32 | Incremental Backup, and that will back
up just any modifications that you've
| | 01:36 | made since the last backup,
and it ought to go a lot faster.
| | 01:39 | So I'm going to stick with
Full Backup here and click Next.
| | 01:43 | In this Window, you'll click on the
drive to which you want to backup and if you
| | 01:47 | want to set a Backup path to a
particular directory or folder, you can do that.
| | 01:51 | I'm just going to leave this as is, and
the next step is to click Save Backup.
| | 01:56 | At that point, you should see an
estimate of the time it will take to take the
| | 02:00 | Backup, along with the Progress
Bar as your Backup progresses.
| | 02:02 | And when the Backup is all done, you
should see an alert that the Backup has
| | 02:06 | been completed successfully.
| | 02:07 | So, please don't forget to Backup
your catalog and your files this way on a
| | 02:11 | regular basis to save all your
hard work and your important photos.
| | Collapse this transcript |
| Next steps| 00:00 | Thanks for joining me for this
deep dive into the Organizer in
| | 00:03 | Photoshop Elements eleven.
| | 00:04 | I've shown you a lot of options for
importing your photos, reviewing and
| | 00:09 | evaluating photos, organizing photos,
and finding photos in the Organizer.
| | 00:13 | Now, you don't have to
use all of these features.
| | 00:15 | But now you have the information you
need to intelligently pick and choose
| | 00:19 | among the features that the Organizer
offers so you can find the ones that make
| | 00:23 | the most sense for you and your photos.
| | 00:25 | Keep in mind that the Organizer is
only part of Photoshop Elements eleven.
| | 00:29 | There's also an Editor that has lots
of features that you can use to make
| | 00:33 | your photos look better.
| | 00:35 | For more information about the Editor,
I'd invite you to take a look at a couple
| | 00:39 | other of my Lynda.com courses.
| | 00:41 | Up and Running with Photoshop Elements
eleven is a well-rounded introduction to
| | 00:45 | the major features in Photoshop Elements.
| | 00:47 | And, Photoshop Elements Essentials:
| | 00:51 | Editing and Retouching will give you a
close look at working with your photos in
| | 00:55 | expert edit view in the Editor and in camera raw.
| | 00:59 | So I hope you enjoy this course,
as well as the other Elements eleven
| | 01:02 | courses here at Lynda.com.
| | Collapse this transcript |
|
|
