ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9
Working in Photoshop Elements
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• Hold down Shift and click multiple images to import them at the same time.
• Click Select All to import all available images.
8 Click Get Picture to import the image.
File information
About file information (metadata)
When you take a photo with your digital camera, each image file includes information such as the date and time the
photo was taken, the shutter speed and aperture, the specific camera model, and so on. All of this information is called
metadata, and you can view it and add to it in the Properties panel of the Elements Organizer and the File Info dialog
box in the Edit workspace.
You can add file information, such as a title, keyword tags, and descriptions, to help identify your images as you
manage and organize your collection. As you edit your images, Photoshop Elements automatically keeps track of the
file’s edit history and adds this information to the file’s metadata.
In addition, opened images are automatically scanned for Digimarc watermarks. If a watermark is detected,
Photoshop Elements displays a copyright symbol in the image window’s title bar and includes the information in the
Copyright Status, Copyright Notice, and Copyright Info URL sections of the File Info dialog box.
You can add visual watermarks to images to indicate them as your own work. Visual watermarks are not tracked in
file information. For information about how to create visual watermarks, see the following articles:
• Adding permanent watermarks to a batch of photos
• Create a watermark using text layering
• Create a watermark brush
For a video about creating a watermark, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid927_pse_en.
View or add file information in the Edit workspace
In the Edit workspace, the File Info dialog box displays camera data, caption, and copyright and authorship
information that has been added to the file. Using this dialog box, you can modify or add information to files saved in
Photoshop Elements. The information you add is embedded in the file using XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform).
XMP provides Adobe applications and workflow partners with a common XML framework that standardizes the
creation, processing, and interchange of document metadata across publishing workflows. If you have metadata that
you repeatedly enter for different files, you can create metadata templates to expedite the adding of information to files.
You cannot edit the information displayed for the Camera Data metadata category.
Important: Tags added to a file in the Photo Browser appear as keywords in the File Info dialog box. Some file formats,
such as PDF and BMP, do not support tags as keywords.
1 With an image open, choose File > File Info. (You can also right-click a thumbnail in the Project Bin and choose
File Info.)
2 Click the Description attribute on the left of the dialog box to display specific information. In Description, you can
add or modify the document title, author information, keywords, and copyright information. Type in the
appropriate text boxes and click OK to embed the information. For copyright status, choose from the Copyright
Status drop-down list.
Last updated 1/27/2011