The basics

PHOTO ORGANIZATION
AND MANAGEMENT
86 ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
several images taken at the same time to ensure that the best one is used for printing or passed
on to the Editor for enhancement. To select the images to display click onto one of the compare
workspaces (left or right in the example on page 85) and then click on a thumbnail. Now select
the other workspace and click the comparison image thumbnail. Pressing the X key switches the
photos in the display so that you can always keep the best images on the left of the screen as you
fl ip through other photos on the right. All the same Full Screen adjustment and organizational
controls are available in the Compare Photos feature, including the Zoom Control which
provides the ability to examine candidate fi les more closely.
Find options >> The Find menu in the
Photo Browser workspace lists the many
different ways to locate images within
Elements.
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Locate by fi lename >> When choosing the Date Range,
Caption or Note, Filename (see above), History, and Details fi nd
options Elements displays a new dialog into which your search
criteria can be entered.
4.09 Locating fi les
Suitable for Elements – 5.0, 4.0, 3.0 | Diffi culty level – Basic | Related techniques – 4.08
One of the great benefi ts of organizing your pictures in the Photo Browser workspace is the huge
range of search options that then become available to you. In fact there are so many search options
that Adobe created a new menu heading ‘Find’ specifi cally to hold all the choices. Here you
will be able to search for your photos based on a selected date range, fi lename, caption, media
type (video, photo, audio or creation), history (when an item was emailed, printed, received,
imported, used in a creation project or even shared on-line) and even by the predominant color
in the photo (see above). After selecting one of the Find menu options Elements either displays
fi les that meet the search criteria in a new window (Find by Version Sets, Media Type, Untagged
Items, Items not in a Collection) or opens a new dialog where the user must enter specifi c details
(dates, fi lenames, details, captions) which will be used to base the search.
Locate tagged photos >>
To display all images tagged
with a specifi c entry, doubleclick
the Tag name in the
Tags pane. Return the view
to the whole collection by
clicking the Back to All
Photos button (1).