2. Importing and Sorting Photos

1. If Photoshop Elements is still running from the previous exercise, switch to the Organizer now—if not, start Photoshop Elements, and then click the Organizer button to launch the Elements Organizer module.

2. Check the name of the current catalog, which is displayed in the lower-right corner of the Organizer workspace. On Windows, you can also see the catalog name displayed in a tool tip that appears when you hold the pointer over the Elements Organizer icon at the upper left of the Organizer window.

3. If the CIB Catalog that you created in Lesson 1 is not currently loaded, choose File > Manage Catalogs. Select the CIB Catalog from the list in the Catalog Manager dialog, and then click Open.

4. If you don’t see the CIB Catalog listed in the Catalog Manager, refer to “Creating a catalog for working with this book” in Lesson 1.

In the following exercises, you’ll import the images for this lesson into your new catalog using a variety of different methods.

Perhaps the most direct and intuitive way to bring media files into the Organizer and add them to your catalog is to use the familiar drag-and-drop technique.

2. Open the My Computer window in Windows Explorer: either double-click the shortcut icon on your desktop, or choose My Computer from the Start menu.

3. Locate and open the PSE13CIB/Lessons folder on your hard disk, and then open the downloaded subfolder named Lesson 2-3.

4. Inside the Lesson 2-3 folder you’ll find three subfolders: Drag the subfolder Import 3 out of the Windows Explorer window, and hold it over the Elements Organizer application button on the Windows taskbar.

5. Wait until the Organizer becomes the foreground application; then, drag the Import 3 folder onto the Media Browser pane in the Organizer, and release the mouse button. Skip to “Importing attached keyword tags” on the next page.

2. In the Finder, press Command+N to open a new Finder window. Navigate to and open the PSE13CIB/Lessons folder on your hard disk, and then open the downloaded subfolder named Lesson 2-3.

3. Inside the Lesson 2-3 folder are three subfolders: Import 3, Import 4, and Zoo. If necessary, move the Finder window enough to see the Elements Organizer workspace behind it; then, drag the Import 3 subfolder onto the Media Browser pane, and release the mouse button.

4. Photoshop Elements briefly displays a dialog while searching inside the Import 3 folder for files to import; then, the Import Attached Keyword Tags dialog opens. Click the Organizer workspace to bring it to the front.

1. In the Import Attached Keyword Tags dialog, click Select All; then, click OK.

The Getting Media dialog displays a progress bar as the Organizer imports the keywords. The Media Browser now shows only the newly imported images.

2. Make sure that the Details option is enabled in the View menu. Note that each thumbnail in the Media Browser is marked with a blue tag badge, indicating that it has keywords attached.

3. If necessary, click the Tags/Info button at the right of the Taskbar below the Media Browser to open the Tags, Image Tags, and Information panels. In the Tags panel, click the triangle beside the Imported Keyword Tags category to expand it and see the newly imported Lesson 02-03 tag nested inside, together with the keyword that you imported in the previous lesson.

4. Click the Back button at the upper left of the Media Browser, or the Clear button at the right, to display all the media in your catalog in the Media Browser.

You’ll import the photo for this exercise with the From Files and Folders menu command, as you did for the images in Lesson 1.

1. Click the Import button in the upper left of the Organizer workspace, and choose From Files and Folders from the menu. Alternatively, choose File > Get Photos and Videos > From Files and Folders.

2. In the Get Photos and Videos from Files and Folders dialog, navigate to and open the PSE13CIB/Lessons/Lesson 2-3 folder. Open the subfolder Import 4; then, click once to select the file Red_Eyes.jpg.

3. Click the checkbox to activate the Automatically Fix Red Eyes option. Make sure that the Automatically Suggest Photo Stacks option is disabled; then, click Get Media.

4. In the Import Attached Keyword Tags dialog, click Select All; then, click OK.

5. The newly imported image appears in the Media Browser. If you don’t see the name of the image file below the thumbnail, choose View > File Names.

The corrected photo has been stacked on top of the original in a version set. You can identify a version set by the badge in the upper-right corner of the thumbnail, and also by the filename extension, which shows that the image has been edited. You’ll learn more about working with version sets in Lesson 3.

6. Click the arrow at the right of the thumbnail once to expand the version set, and then again to collapse it.

1. In the Organizer, choose File > Get Photos and Videos > By Searching. Under Search Options in the Get Photos and Videos By Searching dialog, choose Browse from the Look In menu.

2. In the Browse for Folder/Select Folder for Search dialog, locate and select your Lessons folder, and then click OK.

3. Under Search Options in the Get Photos and Videos By Searching dialog, make sure the Automatically Fix Red Eyes option is disabled; then, click the Search button located at the upper right of the dialog.

4. The Search Results box lists all folders inside the Lessons folder. Select the folder Lessons/Lesson 2-3/Import 4. The preview pane at the right shows thumbnails of the contents of the selected folder. Click Import Folders.

5. In the Import Attached Keyword Tags dialog, select the option to confirm the Lesson 02-03 tag for import, and then click OK.

6. When the import process is complete, the Getting Media dialog displays a message to let you know that two of the files in the Import 4 folder (the red eyes photo and its edited copy) were already in the catalog, and were therefore not imported. Each file that was not imported is listed, together with the reason it was excluded. Click OK.

1. Connect your digital camera or card reader to your computer, following the manufacturer’s instructions. If you’re working on Mac OS, skip to step 3.

2. On Windows, the AutoPlay dialog may appear. You could choose the option Organize and Edit Using Adobe Elements Organizer 13 (and even specify this as the default action when you connect a camera), but for the purposes of this lesson, simply click the Close button to dismiss the dialog. If the Photo Downloader dialog appears automatically, you can skip to step 4; otherwise, continue to step 3.

3. Click the Import button in the upper left of the Organizer workspace, and choose From Camera or Card Reader.

4. In the Photo Downloader dialog, choose the name of your connected camera or card reader from the Get Photos From menu.

5. Accept the default target folder listed beside Location, or click Browse/Choose to designate a different destination for the imported files.

6. From the Create Subfolder(s) menu, choose Today’s Date (yyyy mm dd) as the folder name format; the Location path reflects your choice.

7. Make sure that the Rename Files menu is set to Do Not Rename Files, and the Delete Options menu is set to After Copying, Do Not Delete Originals. If you’re working on Windows, deselect the Automatic Download option.

8. Click Get Media.

That’s all there is to it!

With these settings, the photos will be copied from the camera to a folder named with today’s date, inside your default Pictures folder. Your photos will retain their camera-generated filenames.

If you have a digital camera or memory card at hand with your own photos on it, you can step through this first exercise using those images; otherwise, simply read through the process and refer to the illustrations in the book, and then return to this exercise when you are prepared.

1. Repeat steps 1–5 from “Importing from a digital camera” on the previous page to open the Photo Downloader, specify your camera as the import source, and accept the default destination for the downloaded files.

2. Without making any other changes to the settings, click the Advanced Dialog button in the lower-left corner of the dialog.

In advanced mode, the Photo Downloader dialog displays thumbnail previews of all the photos on your camera’s memory card, and also offers options for processing, tagging, and grouping your images during the import process.

You can exclude a photo from the selection to be imported from your camera by deselecting the checkbox below its thumbnail.

In the next steps, you’ll set up the automatic creation of subfolders for the files copied from your camera and apply keyword tags to the images as they are imported.

3. Under Save Options, choose Custom Groups (Advanced) from the Create Subfolder(s) menu. Your selection is reflected in the Location pathname.

The images have been automatically divided into groups, based on capture time and date. A slider below the Create Subfolder(s) menu enables you to adjust the subdivision, and the box to the right of the slider shows the resulting number of groups. In our example, the automatic capture time grouping has produced six groups.

4. Experiment by moving the slider to the left to generate fewer groups (sub-folders) or to the right to generate more. Scroll down the list of thumbnails to review the effect of the slider on the grouping of your photos. Note that the number of groups created is displayed in the box to the right of the slider.

5. Specify custom names for the subfolders that will be automatically created to separate your grouped photos: From the Group Name menu, choose Shot Date (yyyy mm dd) + Custom Name.

6. Click the Custom Name field at the right of the separator bar above each group in turn, and type a descriptive name in the text box. In our example, we used the animal names Giraffe, Elephant, Monkey, and so on.

7. Under Advanced Options, select the Import Into Album option, and then click the adjacent Settings button. In the Select An Album dialog, click the green plus sign icon, and then type a name for the new album. For now, you can click Cancel; you’ll learn about creating and working with albums in Lesson 3.

8. Click Get Media. The photos are copied to your hard disk, organized in subfolders named for your custom import groups. If the Files Successfully Copied dialog appears, click Yes.

The Getting Media dialog appears briefly while the photos are being imported into your catalog. The imported images appear in the Media Browser, and the Folders panel now lists the new source subfolders, named according to the custom groups that you set up in the Photo Downloader dialog.

On Windows, you can simplify and automate the process of keeping your catalog up to date by using watched folders. Designate any folder on your hard disk as a watched folder, and Photoshop Elements will automatically be alerted when a new file is placed in—or saved to—that folder. By default, the My Pictures folder is watched, but you can set up any number of additional watched folders.

You can either choose to have any new files that are detected in a watched folder added to your catalog automatically, or have Photoshop Elements ask you what to do before importing the new media. If you choose the latter option, the message “New files have been found in Watched Folders” will appear whenever new items are detected. Click Yes to add the new files to your catalog, or click No to skip them.

In this exercise, you’ll add a folder to the watched folders list.

1. Choose File > Watch Folders.

2. In the Watch Folders dialog, select the “Watch Folders and Their Sub-Folders for New Files” option. Under Folders To Watch, click Add; then, navigate to and select your Lesson 2-3 folder, and click OK.

The Lesson 2-3 folder now appears in the Folders To Watch list. To stop a folder from being watched, select it in the list, and then click Remove.

3. Ensure that the Notify Me option is selected, and then click OK to dismiss the Watch Folders dialog.

Whenever a media file is placed in, or saved to, your Lesson 2-3 folder or any of its subfolders, the Watched Folder notification will appear, giving you the opportunity to import the file or exclude it. If you add a file to a watched folder when the Organizer is not running, the notification will appear the next time you launch the Organizer.

1. Choose Edit > Deselect (Ctrl+Shift+A/Command+Shift+A) to ensure there are no images selected; then, click the Editor button () in the Taskbar. Click Expert in the mode picker at the top of the Editor workspace; then, click the Photo Bin button () in the Taskbar, if necessary, to show the Photo Bin.

2. In Expert mode in the Editor, choose File > Open. In the Open dialog, navigate to your Lesson 2-3 folder, select the file ZOO.pdf, and then click Open. With the Pages option selected in the Select pane, choose Fit Page from the Thumbnail Size menu below the preview. Activate the Images option to set the Import PDF dialog to import images. Select Large from the Thumbnail Size menu.

3. Ctrl-click/Command-click to select the images you wish to import. Click OK.

Each image imported from the PDF file opens in its own document window in the Editor. Thumbnails for the open files appear in the Photo Bin below the Edit pane.

If you choose to import entire pages from a PDF file with more than one page, you can use the same method to multiple-select the pages. The pages extracted from the PDF file are rasterized (converted to bitmapped graphics) at your choice of image size, resolution, and color mode.

4. Choose File > Close All. Select the Apply To All option, and then click No/Don’t Save.

5. Choose File > Exit or Photoshop Elements Editor > Quit Photoshop Elements to close the Editor and return to the Organizer.

Up to this point, your time in the Organizer has been spent in the Media view, where you can review all the images in your catalog, or see the contents of a single album or folder. You’ll learn more about working in the Media view in Lesson 3; for now, we’ll continue our exploration of the Organizer with a look at the People view and a test-drive of the powerful face-recognition tools of Photoshop Elements.

Once you begin using the People Recognition feature, Photoshop Elements learns to recognize the people you’ve already named and will automatically tag their faces whenever they appear in new photos.

1. In the Organizer, choose Edit > Preferences > Media-Analysis (Windows)/Elements Organizer > Preferences (Mac OS).

2. In the Media-Analysis pane of the Preferences dialog, make sure that the options Analyze Photos for People Automatically and Analyze Media for Visual Search Automatically are both selected. Click OK to save your settings and close the Preferences dialog.

3. In the View menu, make sure the People Recognition option is selected.

4. For the purposes of the following exercises, make sure that the Sort By menu at the left of the bar above the Media Browser is set to Oldest.

People Recognition displays these hints to help you identify and tag all the people in your photos. You can ignore or disable the hints if you wish, but remember that the more people you identify, the smarter People Recognition gets at tagging the faces of your friends and family automatically.

1. In the Folders panel at the left of the Organizer workspace, click the Import 4 folder. The Media Browser is filtered to display only the contents of that folder.

2. Scroll down in the Media Browser—or reduce the size of the thumbnails using the Zoom slider in the Taskbar—to locate the image People_16.jpg; then, double-click the thumbnail to see the photo enlarged in the single-image view.

3. Move the pointer over the image; white boxes appear around any faces detected in the photo. People Recognition has found four of the five faces in this picture. Move the pointer over any of the boxes; the “Who is this?” prompt appears.

If you don’t see the face-tagging boxes when you move the pointer over the photo in single-image view, it may be that Photoshop Elements has not yet analyzed your recently imported photos, or maybe you’ve turned off the Analyze Photos for People Automatically option in the Organizer preferences. By default, the auto-analysis process is triggered for new images when you click the Add People button to begin batch-tagging the faces in your photos, but for this exercise, you can kick-start it from the single-image view.

If you already see the face-tagging boxes, just read through the next three steps, in case you encounter this situation in the future; you’ll rejoin the action in step 7.

4. To initiate the People Recognition analysis, click the Mark Face button in the Taskbar at the bottom of the workspace.

5. An alert message appears to let you know that the photo has not yet been analyzed. Click Yes to start the auto-analysis process.

6. A People Recognition dialog opens, asking you to name or confirm faces; you’ll see this again later when you switch to People view. For now, click Cancel.

7. Click the “Who is this?” text below the face-tagging box for the girl on the left. Type Emma, and then press Enter/Return to commit the tag.

When you press Enter/Return, a blue People tag badge appears briefly in the lower-left corner of the enlarged photo, confirming that Photoshop Elements has created a new tag for Emma.

8. Type Kat to tag the mother, Sophie for the daughter beside her, and Lilly for the one shading her eyes. Be sure to press Enter/Return to commit each tag.

9. Click the Tags/Info button at the far right of the Taskbar to open the right panel group. Note that the Image Tags panel shows that this photo now has five tags: Lesson 02-03, and the four new People tags you created in this exercise.

As you can see, People tags display a different badge to make the photos that are already tagged for people easy to spot in the thumbnail grid.

10. Keep the photo open in single-image view for the next exercise.

1. Click the Mark Face button in the Taskbar below the enlarged image.

2. Drag the new tagging box onto the face that was not detected, and then use the handles on the box to resize it so that it frames the face neatly. Type Pauline in the “Who is this?” text box; then, click the green checkmark to confirm the tag.

3. Press the right arrow key on your keyboard twice to navigate to the black-and-white photo of a girl seated on a stone lion.

4. Move the pointer over the image and click the “Who is this?” prompt; then, type the letter L. A drop-down menu appears, offering the Lilly tag—the only People tag in your catalog that begins with an “L.” Click the Lilly tag to accept it.

5. Double-click the image, or click the Grid button () in the bar above the single-image view, to return the Media Browser to the thumbnail view, which is still filtered to display only the 40 photos in the Import 4 folder.

People Recognition will sometimes incorrectly identify a chance arrangement of light and shadow as a face. When that happens, click the X button on the extraneous tagging box to dismiss it; otherwise People Recognition will continue to register this pattern as a person not yet named.

1. Click the All Media button () in the bar above the Media Browser.

The Import 4 folder is no longer selected in the Folders panel. The Media Browser now displays all of the photographs in your catalog; the file count in the lower-left corner of the workspace shows the total number of images in your CIB Catalog.

The filenames of the photos you’ll use in this exercise all include the word “people.” You can start by using a text search to isolate these images in the media Browser.

2. Click in the text search box at the right end of the menu bar (Windows)/application window header (Mac OS), and type people. The search results bar immediately above the Media Browser shows that your catalog has been filtered so that the Media Browser displays only items matching your search.

3. Click the Add People button () in the Taskbar below the Media Browser. The first of a sequence of People Recognition dialogs opens.

Note: If the first People Recognition screen that you see is the Confirm Groups of People dialog, skip ahead to step 7, and then return to step 4 when you encounter the Label People dialog.

4. Click the “Who is this?” prompt under any of the faces. People Recognition makes tagging suggestions, drawing from names already tagged in your catalog. If you see the name you want, simply click to apply it.

5. If you don’t see the right name, start typing in the text box to see existing tags that match the letters you type. Name all of the faces in the first batch; then, click Save at the lower right of the dialog. If the Label People dialog presents a new batch of faces, repeat the process. If the Confirm Groups Of People dialog opens, read through the next step before taking action.

6. If you’re asked to identify a face you don’t know, you can ignore it and try again next time it’s presented, or dismiss it so that People Recognition no longer asks for a name. To exclude a stranger’s face, move the pointer over the thumbnail and click the X button that appears in the upper-right corner, or click the lower-right corner of the image and choose from the menu. Use the same menu to reinstate a face excluded by mistake. When you’re done, click Save; then, continue the process. Be patient—People Recognition is getting smarter with every click!

Despite very few photos having been tagged, People Recognition is already learning to recognize the faces in the lesson images; at some point it will switch to Confirm Groups Of People mode, collating groups of faces that match known people, and then offering you the option to exclude faces that don’t belong in those groups.

7. To exclude a face that doesn’t belong in a proposed group (or multiple selected faces), click the lower-right corner of the thumbnail and choose from the menu. Click Save. After two or three cycles, the Label People dialog will reappear.

8. In the People Recognition - Label People dialog, tag as many of the faces as you can. If you need to type a name, be sure to press Enter/Return.

People Recognition alternates between its Confirm Groups and Label People modes until you’re presented with a set of dimmed images like those in the illustration below. These may be faces obscured by shadows, hands, or sunglasses—or chance arrangements of light and shadow that have triggered the face-detection algorithms. This time you’re being asked which images to include as faces, rather than exclude.

9. To include one of these images as a face, either click the thumbnail itself or move the pointer over it, click the arrow button, and choose Is A Person from the menu. Use the same menu to exclude a face included mistakenly. Click Save.

10. Photoshop Elements notifies you when the tagging session is completed. Click OK to dismiss the completion message and return to the Media Browser; then, click Clear at the right of the search results bar to clear the “people” text search and see the unfiltered contents of your catalog in the Media Browser.

1. Click the word People in the view picker at the top of the Organizer workspace.

With no folder selected, the People view filters your entire catalog and displays a stack of photos for each person you’ve tagged. By default, the first image tagged with a newly created People tag becomes that person’s profile picture—the photo that appears on top of their stack in People view and also on their People tag icon.

2. Move the pointer slowly across each stack thumbnail in turn to quickly browse through all the images tagged with the same name. For each of the People stacks, stop the pointer when you see your favorite photo of that person, right-click/Control-click the thumbnail, and choose Assign as Profile Picture.

1. Double-click the Sophie stack in the People view. The stack expands so that the People view displays all of the images tagged with Sophie.

2. Click the Find More button () in the Taskbar. The People Recognition dialog opens in “Confirming Sophie” mode. Use the techniques you practiced earlier to either confirm faces for tagging or exclude them. Click Save to add your choices to the Sophie stack in the People view.

3. Work your way through any further groups of candidates presented; People Recognition will inform you when all the photos that include Sophie have been tagged. Click OK to exit tagging mode.

4. If the expanded People stack shows only thumbnails of Sophie’s face, click the switch at the left of the actions bar above the thumbnails to change the view mode from Faces to Photos; the view displays the full photos featuring Sophie.

5. Double-click any of the images featuring Sophie to see it enlarged in the single-image view. Use the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate through the photos in the stack. When you’re done, click the Grid button () in the bar above the image to see all of the Sophie photos once again. Click the Back button () to see all the People stacks.

1. Click the switch at the left of the actions bar to change the viewing mode from People to Group. A header bar above the People stacks indicates that all six people are ungrouped. If you don’t see the Groups panel at the right of the workspace, click the Groups button () in the Taskbar.

2. Ctrl-click/Command-click to select all six People stacks, and then drag them to the Family group in the Groups panel. The header bar above the People stacks shows that all six people in your catalog are now listed in that group.

3. Click the green Create New People Groups button ()—not the arrow beside it—in the header of the Groups panel. In the Add Group dialog, type Kids to name the group, and choose Family from the Group menu. Click OK.

4. Select the stacks for the four sisters, and drag them to the new Kids group. The stacks in the People view are now divided under two group headers.

5. Right-click/Control-click the Kids group in the Groups list, and choose Add Group from the menu. Name the new group Twins. “Kids” is already selected as the group inside which the new group will be listed. Click OK.

6. Select the Pauline and Sophie stacks. Drag the Twins tag from the Groups panel onto either of the selected stacks. The People view now shows three groups.

7. Click the word Media in the view picker at the top of the workspace to return to the Media Browser. You’ll learn more about the People view in Lesson 3.

1. In the Media Browser, isolate the images for this lesson by typing the word run in the text search box at the top of the workspace. The search results bar above the thumbnails shows that your catalog has been filtered so that the Media Browser is displaying only those photos that match your search. Shift-click, or drag a selection marquee, to select the first ten photos in the Media Browser.

2. Click the Add Places button () in the Taskbar below the Media Browser.

3. In the Add Places dialog, type Manhattan in the Search box above the map pane. If the location suggestions menu does not appear quickly, click Search. Choose the suggestion with the most detailed location information so that Photoshop Elements can reference it for tagging: Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.

4. The map zooms in and centers on Manhattan. Click the green checkmark on the message above the search result pin to add all ten photos to the new location.

5. An image count appears on the new pin, indicating that the operation was successful. Click Done to close the Add Places dialog.

In the Media Browser, the selected photos are now marked with map-pin Places badges. Click the Tags/Info button at the far right of the Taskbar to open the right panel group, if necessary. In the Tags panel, Expand the Places Tags category to see the listings for your new Places tags.

1. In the Media Browser, select the nine photos that have yet to be placed.

2. Drag the United States tag from the Places Tags list in the Tags panel to any of the selected photos. Alternatively, you could drag the photos onto the tag.

3. Hold the mouse over the Places tag badge on any of the selected photos; a tool tip lists the United States tag. To remove the tag from all the selected photos, right-click/Control-click the Places tag badge and choose Remove from “United States” Place.

4. With the nine un-placed photos still selected, drag the Manhattan tag from the Places Tags list to any of the selected photos. Hold the mouse over the Places tag badge; the tool tip shows that applying the Manhattan tag has automatically added all three tags in the hierarchy.

5. Click the Back button () in the bar above the thumbnails to show all of the photos in your catalog in the Media Browser.

1. Click the word Places in the view picker at the top of the workspace.

The arrangement of the Places view workspace depends on the way it was left the last time you visited. Follow the directions in the next three steps to set up the workspace to match what’s described and illustrated in this exercise.

2. If the right panel is not open in the Places view, click the Map button () at the right of the Taskbar below the thumbnail grid.

3. If the Map panel is significantly narrower in relation to the rest of the workspace than it is in the illustration below, move the pointer over the left edge of the panel; then, when the pointer changes to a double-arrow cursor, click carefully on the edge of the map and drag to the left to make it wider.

4. If you don’t see two pins on the map, drag the map’s zoom slider to the minimum setting or drag the map itself to reposition it. Use the Zoom slider in the Taskbar to reduce the size of the thumbnails to see as many images as possible.

The image counts on the map pins show that there are 19 photos placed at New York and another 36 images attached to a pin located in Scotland.

5. Click the pin positioned on Scotland to select all the attached photos in the thumbnail grid. Click the Show Media prompt above the selected pin to filter the Places view so that it displays only the photos attached to that pin.

6. Click the All Places button at the left of the actions bar above the thumbnails to see every image in your catalog that is attached to a pin anywhere on the map.

7. Drag the map to the left so that the USA is moved completely outside the frame; then click any of the unselected New York marathon photos. The map pans so that the view is centered on the Place that you created earlier in the lesson.

1. Click the Scotland pin to select all the associated images, and then click the Edit Places button () in the Taskbar.

2. In the Edit Places dialog, drag the map to center the selected pin. Use the zoom button (+) to zoom in two or three clicks, until the marker splits to show two separate location pins and you can see the names of major cities. Click away from the pins to deselect them both, together with all of the associated images in the Photo Bin.

3. Click the southern pin to select the 18 photos attached to that location; then, type Edinburgh in the Search box above the map pane, and click Search. Click the location suggestion Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, UK; then, click the green checkmark to confirm the placement of 18 photos at that location.

4. Click any of the unselected images in the Photo Bin at the top of the Edit Places window to focus the map on the other location to the north. Click the pin to select all 18 attached photos; then, zoom in by two or three clicks. Drag the location pin north and west to position it slightly closer to the coastline.

5. Click the green checkmark to confirm the operation; then click Done to close the Edit Places dialog. In preparation for the next exercise in the Places view, zoom the map out as far as it will go, and then drag it to the right so that the United Kingdom is no longer visible. Click the word Media in the view picker to return to the Media Browser; then, choose Edit > Deselect.

In the Tags panel, the new tags are listed under Places Tags. Each level is listed alphabetically; United Kingdom appears above United States and Highland above Scotland.

6. Right-click/Control-click the tag B8021 (the name of the closest road), and choose Rename. In the New Name box, type Rua Reidh.

1. Check the actions bar above the Media Browser to make sure that the Sort By order is set to Oldest. Type festival in the text search box at the top of the workspace. The Media Browser shows fifteen photos captured on the same date. Select the first five photos in the series, and click the Add Event button () in the Taskbar below the Media Browser.

2. In the Add New Event panel at the right, type Medieval Fair to name the new Event. You won’t need to alter the date settings; Photoshop Elements has automatically set both the start and end dates to the capture date of the selected photos. When you click the Add Event button without first selecting a group of photos, you can set the start and end dates manually by clicking the calendar buttons at the right. Click Done at the right of the Taskbar to confirm the new Event.

3. In the Tags panel, expand the Events Tags category to see the new event.

4. Select the next nine photos in the Media Browser, leaving the last image in the series, Festival_15.jpg, deselected. To add the selected photos to the newly created event, either drag the Medieval Fair tag from the Tags panel to any of the selected images or drag the selection from the thumbnail grid onto the tag.

1. Click Events in the view picker at the top of the Organizer workspace to switch to the Events view. The default view mode is unpopulated until you’ve saved at least one event—currently, its only occupant is the new Medieval Fair stack.

Right now, you’re probably thinking “Where’s the promised sports and scenic views? Bring on the bride!” Patience, please—we’re not yet done with the parade.

2. Move the pointer slowly across the Medieval Fair stack to see all the images in this Event. Stop the pointer when you see your favorite photo from the set. To make this photo the top image in the stack, right-click/Control-click it and choose Set As Cover.

2. Under Basic at the left of the Add Media dialog, make sure that All Media is set as the image source. The source images in the Add Media dialog are ordered from newest to oldest, so you’ll need to scroll down to find the festival photos. Click to select the image Festival_15.jpg, a rear view of a parade musician in an orange jacket and plumed hat. Click Add Selected Media at the bottom of the dialog; then, click Done.

3. Check the image count in the lower-left corner of the workspace; there are now 15 images in this Event. Collapse the event by clicking the Back button ().

1. Select the Import 3 folder in the Folders panel; then, click the switch in the actions bar to switch from the default Events view to Smart Events mode.

In Smart Events mode, Photoshop Elements suggests likely Event stacks among the photos in your catalog—or in a selected folder—on the basis of capture dates. Smart Events has separated the New York marathon photos into two stacks.

2. Right-click/Control-click each of these stacks in turn, and choose Name Event(s) from the context menu. Check the dates on the two stacks, and name the new Events NY Marathon 2010 and NY Marathon 2011.

3. The other suggested stack has 19 photos shot at a wedding. Select this stack; then, click the Name Events button () in the Taskbar, and name the new Event Annie’s Wedding. Click OK.

4. Click the Import 4 folder in the left panel. The third smart event stack contains four photos dated 6/26/2010 that belong in the Annie’s Wedding event. Double-click the stack to expand it; then, select all four images, and click the word Media in the view picker at the top of the workspace to switch to the Media view.

5. Drag the selected photos to the Annie’s Wedding tag in the Tags panel; then, click the All Media button () above the Media Browser, and click Events in the view picker to return to the Events view in Smart Events mode.

1. Scroll down, if necessary, to find the five adjacent Smart Event stacks dated 5/21/2013 through 5/26/2013. Shift-click to select all five stacks.

2. Click the Name Events button () in the Taskbar. In the Name Event dialog, type Scottish Road Trip to name the new Event. Photoshop Elements has already set the start and end dates for the combined Smart Events to the capture dates of the oldest and most recent photos in the selection. Type you take the high road in the Description box; then, click OK to create the Event.

3. Click the switch to move from Smart Events mode to the regular Events view.

4. Move the pointer slowly across each stack to review the contents, and then right-click/Control-click each Event to set a new cover photo. Click the Info button () on the Spring Vacation stack to see the description you entered.

5. Click the word Media in the view picker to switch back to the Media Browser.

Congratulations! In this lesson, you’ve learned a variety of ways to import media files into your Photoshop Elements catalog, and then used the People, Places, and Events views to sort and tag your images so that finding a photo will be as easy as asking “Who, where, and when?” In the next lesson, you’ll look at ways to add even deeper levels of organization to your catalog and discover how to locate exactly the file you want—the payoff for all this organizing! Before you move on, take a minute or two to read through the review questions and answers on the facing page.

2. What is a “watched folder”? (Windows users only.)

3. Is there a way to generate searchable Places tags for photos imported with GPS data?

4. How can you add photos to an existing Person, Place or Event?

• Drag and drop photographs from a Windows Explorer/Finder window into the Media Browser pane in the Organizer window.

• In the Organizer, choose File > Get Photos and Videos > From Files and Folders, or choose the same command from the menu on the Import button at the upper left of the workspace.

• Choose By Searching, from either of the menus mentioned above, and then select the folder on the hard disk that you wish Photoshop Elements to search.

2. If you designate a folder on your computer as watched, Photoshop Elements is automatically alerted when new photos are saved or added to that folder. By default, the My Pictures folder is watched.

3. Although Photoshop Elements will pin photos imported with embedded GPS data on the Places view map, it doesn’t automatically generate corresponding Places tags as it does for photos that you place manually. To generate searchable tags for these photos, you need to relocate them on the map. Select the photos in the Places view; then, click the Edit Places button in the Taskbar. In the Edit Places dialog, either move the associated location pin slightly or use the search box to apply a known place name.

4. To add photos to an existing Person, Place, or Event from the Organizer, select the photos you wish to include, and then either drag the selection from the Media Browser to the desired tag in the Tags panel, or drag the tag itself to any of the selected images. To add photos to an established Event from the Events view, double-click the Event stack to expand it; then, click the Add Media button in the Taskbar at the bottom of the workspace, and browse for the photos you wish to add. In the People view, double-click to expand a person’s stack, and then click the Find More button in the Taskbar.