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 tooltip 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 box, and then click Open.

4. If you don’t see the CIB Catalog listed in the Catalog Manager, refer to the section “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 PSE14CIB 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 sub-folders: 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 PSE14CIB / 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 box while searching inside the Import 3 folder for files to import; then, the Import Attached Keyword Tags dialog box opens. Click the Organizer workspace to bring it back to the front.

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

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

3. Make sure that the Details option is checked as activated in the View menu. Each thumbnail in the Media Browser is marked with a blue tag badge indicating that it has keywords attached.

4. If necessary, click the Keyword/Info button at the right of the Taskbar below the Media Browser to open the Tags, Information, and Image Tags 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.

5. 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 at 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 box, navigate to and open the PSE14CIB / Lessons / Lesson 2-3 folder. Open the subfolder Import 4; then, click once to select the file Red_Eyes.jpg.

3. Click the check box 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 box, 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 extension to the file name, 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. Click the Import button at the upper left and choose In Bulk from the menu. Alternatively, choose Get Photos And Videos > In Bulk from the File menu.

The Import Media dialog opens, with your My Pictures / Pictures folder selected by default; the preview pane shows thumbnails of the images in your Pictures folder as well as those stored in the subfolders nested inside it—all selected for import.

2. Click Add Folder at the lower left of the dialog box. Navigate to and select your Lesson 2-3 folder; then click OK. Scroll the import preview pane to see the images in the subfolders nested that are inside the Lesson 2-3 folder.

3. Click the last image in the Import 4 folder’s preview selection (marked 31>) to see the rest of the images inside that folder; then, collapse the expanded subfolder by clicking Back at the upper left of the preview pane.

4. In the import preview pane, deselect the Import 3 subfolder; this folder is already managed by your catalog. Leave the ZOO collage and the Import 4 folder selected, but deselect the Aquarium, Birds, Bison, Elephant, Giraffe, Monkey, and Siamang folders to exclude them from this import.

5. In the folders list pane at the left of the dialog, deselect your Pictures folder to exclude its contents from this import; then, click Import at the lower right. In the Import Attached Keyword Tags dialog box, activate the check box to confirm the Lesson 02-03 tag for import, and then click OK.

6. When the import process is complete, the Getting Media dialog box 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 Auto Play dialog box may appear. You could choose the option Organize And Edit Using Adobe Elements Organizer 14 (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 box. If the Photo Downloader dialog box appears automatically, you can skip to step 4; otherwise, continue to step 3.

3. Click the Import button at the upper left of the Organizer workspace and choose From Camera Or Card Reader.

4. In the Photo Downloader dialog box, 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, deactivate the Automatic Download option.

8. Click Get Media.

That’s all there is to it!

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

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 through 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 box.

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 clicking the check box below its thumbnail to remove the check mark.

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. Next you’ll specify custom names for the subfolders that will be automatically created to separate your grouped photos. From the options in 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, activate the option Import Into Album by clicking the check box, and then click the adjacent Settings button. In the Select An Album dialog box, 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 box appears, click Yes.

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

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 box, click the check box to activate Watch Folders And Their Sub-Folders For New Files. 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 activated, and then click OK to dismiss the Watch Folders dialog box.

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 box, navigate to your Lesson 2-3 folder, select the file ZOO.pdf, and then click Open. With Pages activated 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 box 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 bit-mapped graphics) at your choice of image size, resolution, and color mode.

4. Choose File > Close All. Click the check box to activate the Apply To All option, and then click No / Don’t Save.

5. Choose File > Exit / Adobe 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 Photoshop Elements’ powerful face recognition tools.

People Recognition automatically finds the people in your photos and makes it simple for you to tag them. 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 box, make sure that the options Run Face Recognition Automatically and Analyze Media For Visual Search Automatically are both activated. Click OK to save your settings and close the Preferences dialog box.

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

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 list 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 slowly over each of the faces in the image; white circles with the Add Name prompt appear around four of the five faces in this picture. People Recognition has failed to detect the face partially obscured by a hand.

If you don’t see the face tagging prompts when you move the pointer over the photo in single image view, it may be that Photoshop Elements has not yet finished analyzing your recently imported photos.

4. Click the Add Name text below the tagging circle for the girl on the left. Type the name 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 in the single image view, confirming that a new tag has been created for Emma.

5. Type Kat to tag the mother, Sophie for the daughter beside her, and Pauline for the girl at the right. Be sure to press Enter / return to commit each tag.

6. If necessary, click the Tags/Info button at the far right of the Taskbar to open the right panel group. On the Tags tab, expand the Imported Keyword Tags category, if necessary, and then expand the People Tags panel.

The Image Tags panel at the bottom of the right panel group shows that this photo now has five tags: the imported keyword tag Lesson 02-03, and the four new People tags that you created in this exercise.

These five tags are also listed at the lower right of the single image view.

As you can see, the People tags display a different badge from the standard keyword tag icon. This makes the photos that are already tagged for people easy to spot in the thumbnail grid.

7. 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. Use the handles on the box to resize it so that it frames the face neatly, and then click the green check mark to confirm the placement. Click the Add Name text and type Lilly in the text box; then, press Enter / return to confirm the new People tag.

In the right panel, the Lilly tag has been added to the People Tags list, and is now listed in the Image Tags panel as one of six tags attached to this image.

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 girl’s face and click the Add Name prompt; then, type the letter L. A menu appears, suggesting the Lilly tag—the only People tag in your catalog that begins with an “L.” Click the Lilly tag to accept it; then, press Enter / return.

5. Press the left arrow key on your keyboard three times to navigate to the image People_15.jpg, a photo of three girls leaning on an ornate railing. Move the pointer over each girl’s face in turn to see the tagging prompts.

Although you’ve done very little tagging at this point, People Recognition is already learning, correctly identifying two of the three faces.

6. Click the check marks to confirm that the girl on the left is Sophie and the girl at the right is Emma. Click the X to dismiss the suggestion for the girl in the middle; then, click the Add Name prompt and type the letter L. Click the Lilly tag to accept it; then, press Enter / return.

7. Double-click the image, or click Grid 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 the Import 4 folder.

In the People view, you can let People Recognition help you bulk-process your files, rather than working through your catalog one image at a time as we did in the single image view. To keep this exercise manageable, you’ll make a start by tagging the people in just a subset of the photos in your catalog; that way we can avoid dealing with the faces of hundreds of marathon runners and wedding guests.

1. Click All Media at the left of the bar above the thumbnail grid to display all of the files in your catalog.

The Import 4 folder is no longer selected in the Folders list. 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 file names 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, and then group them as an Album that you can designate as an image source while you’re working in the People view.

2. Click in the text search box at the upper right of the Organizer workspace and type people; then, press Enter / return. The search results bar immediately above the Media Browser shows that your catalog has been filtered so that the Media Browser displays only those items that match your search.

3. Choose Edit > Select All to select all the images returned by the text search; then, select the Albums tab at the top of the left panel. Click the Create New Album or Album Category button () beside the My Albums header. Make sure you click the green plus sign, not the small arrow beside it.

4. In the New Album panel at the right, type Familiar Faces as the name for the new album; then, click OK in the Taskbar below the panel.

The People view displays a stack of photos for each person you’ve tagged. By default, the first image tagged with a new People tag becomes that person’s profile picture—the photo that appears on top of their stack in the People view.

2. Move the pointer slowly across each stack thumbnail in turn to quickly browse through all the images tagged with the same name.

3. Click the thumbnail for the Emma stack to expand the stack so you can see the faces that are already marked with Emma’s People tag, as well as People Recognition’s suggestions for inclusion in the stack. Leave the groups as they are, for the moment. Click the Emma stack again to collapse it.

4. Click Unnamed in the bar below the mode picker to switch to the Unnamed people tab.

With such a small selection of photos to analyze, People Recognition shows only two or three unnamed stacks (if any at all). By default, Photoshop Elements displays only the larger groups of faces stacked by People Recognition, in order to keep the Unnamed people view uncluttered.

5. Un-check the Hide Small Stacks option in the bar above the stack thumbnails.

1. Click Named in the bar below the mode picker to switch back to the Named people view. Click the Emma stack to expand it again.

2. In this case, neither of the suggestion faces belongs to Emma. To dismiss a face that doesn’t belong, either select it and click the Not This Person button in the Taskbar, or hover the pointer over it to see a preview of the photo it was found in (below, right), and then click the cancel icon on the tagging thumbnail.

3. Click the Kat stack. Shift-click the first and last thumbnails to select all the faces under Is This ‘Kat’?; then, click the Confirm button in the Taskbar. Click the profile picture thumbnail once more to collapse the stack.

4. Repeat the process for the Lilly, Pauline, and Sophie stacks; confirming or dismissing the suggested additions to stacks. The Pauline and Sophie stacks originally showed notification badges indicating that similar images had been identified, you may now find only confirmed photos; People Recognition has been learning from your actions and reanalyzing accordingly.

5. Switch back to the Unnamed people view. Click the first stack to expand it. In our example, all of the faces in the stack belong together; click the Add Name text and type Tom; then, press Enter / return.

Once a stack is named, it disappears from the Unnamed people view and is added to the Named people stacks. If there is already a named stack for the same person, the two stacks are merged.

6. When you see multiple unnamed stacks for the same person, Control-click / Command-click to select the matching stacks, and then click the Merge People button in the Taskbar. Type the person’s name (in our example it’s Sophie) in the Add A Name dialog; then, click OK.

7. Continue merging and naming small stacks in the Unnamed people view until you’re left with only the two faces shown in the illustration at the right, which don’t belong in our six-member family group.

8. Select both of the remaining one-photo stacks and click the Don’t Show Again button in the Taskbar. Click OK to confirm the removal of these faces.

9. Switch back to the Named view and click each stack to check for faces that don’t match. If you dismiss any faces, you’ll need to revisit the Unnamed view to name them. We ended up with the image counts shown below; compare your own results to see how well you learned to recognize this family of strangers.

10. Click one of the larger stacks in the Named view to expand it. Click Photos below the stack thumbnail to see the full photos rather than just the faces.

1. If you don’t see the Groups panel at the right of the workspace, click the Groups button () in the Taskbar. Click the Ungrouped listing in the Groups panel. The header above the People stacks indicates that all six people are ungrouped.

2. Ctrl-click / Command-click to select all six stacks, and then drag them to the Family group in the Groups panel. Click the Family listing; the header above the People stacks shows that all six people 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. Choose Family from the Group menu; then, click OK.

4. Select the stacks for the four sisters, and drag them to the new Kids group. In the Groups panel, click between the listings for the Kids and Family groups.

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. Click between the Family, Kids, and Twins listings; the People view is filtered to show the members of each group.

7. Click the word Media in the view picker at the top of the workspace to return to the Media Browser; then, click All Media at the upper left of the thumbnail grid. 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 upper right of the workspace. The search results bar above the thumbnails shows that your catalog has been filtered so that the Media Browser displays only those photos that match your search. Make sure the Sort By menu above the thumbnail grid is set to Oldest.

2. Shift-click, or drag a selection marquee, to select the first six photos in the Media Browser; then, click the Add Location button () in the Taskbar below the Media Browser.

3. In the Add A Location dialog, type Manhattan in the text box. If the location suggestions menu does not appear quickly, press Enter / return. Choose the suggestion with the most detailed location information so that Photoshop Elements can reference it for tagging: Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. Click Apply to create the new saved location.

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

1. In the Media Browser, select the next five photos from the “run” search.

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. Hover over the Places tag badge on any of the selected photos; a tooltip lists the United States tag; to remove it from all the selected photos, right-click / Control-click the Places badge and choose Remove From United States Place.

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

5. Click Back at the left of the bar above the thumbnails to show all of the photos in your catalog in the Media Browser.

Now that you’ve added some Places tags, you can begin to explore the Places view without finding either tab unpopulated.

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 following steps to set up the workspace to match what’s described and illustrated in this exercise.

2. In the Places view, click UnPinned in the bar below the view picker. Disable the Group By Time option at the left of the bar above the photo thumbnails. Use the Zoom slider in the Taskbar to reduce the size of the thumbnails so that you can see as many images as possible.

3. If the Map panel appears 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, drag the edge of the map to the left to make it wider.

4. If you don’t see two pins on the map, drag the map’s zoom slider down to the minimum setting or drag the map to pan your view. If you still don’t see the pins, activate the Show Existing Pins On The Map option at the lower left of the map.

The image counts on the map pins show that there are 11 photos placed at New York and another 36 images attached to a pin located in Scotland.

5. Move the pointer over the Scottish pin, and then click the arrows at either side of the thumbnail image to see previews of all the photos pinned at that location.

6. Click the image count at the lower right of the preview to close the map temporarily and show the thumbnail grid, with all the images attached to the pin. Click Back at the upper left above the thumbnail grid to return to the split screen Places view.

1. Activate the Group By Time option at the left of the bar above the thumbnail grid. Drag the Number Of Groups slider to the maximum setting.

2. Scroll down in the preview pane until you find the November 6, 2011 group. These are the un-pinned remainder of the images from our “run” text search.

3. Click the checkmark at the left of the group name to select all eight photos. You could click the Add Location button and do a text search for Manhattan, as you did in the Media view, but as you already have a pin in the right place, you can simply drag the selected images to the New York pin.

The image count on the Manhattan pin increases from 11 to 19 indicating that the placement of the last of our New York marathon photos was a success. As the November 6, 2011 images are now pinned, they have been removed from the UnPinned Places view preview pane.

4. Click Pinned in the bar below the view picker. Move the pointer over the Manhattan pin to enlarge it; then click the image count to see the 19 New York marathon photos in the thumbnail grid. (Alternatively, you can simply double-click the pin before it has time to enlarge.)

In this view, you can edit location information for a photo, or a selection of photos, by right-clicking / Control-clicking an image and choosing Edit Places from the top of the context menu. All the usual context menu commands are available, should you wish to stack the image, remove it from the catalog, or open it in the Editor.

5. Click Back at the upper left of the grid to return to the map view, then switch back to the UnPinned view in readiness for the next exercise.

1. Use the map’s zoom button (+) to zoom in on the Scotland location until you can see the names of the major cities, and the marker splits to show two separate pins. Click the southern pin to select the 18 photos attached to that location on the map; then, click the Edit button at the lower left of the enlarged pin preview.

2. In the Edit Location dialog, type Edinburgh in the Search box above the map pane and click Search. Click the location suggestion Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; then, click the green check icon to confirm the placement of 18 photos at that location. Click Done to close the Edit Location dialog.

3. If necessary, zoom out far enough to see the other pinned location to the north.

4. Click the northern pin to select all 18 attached photos; then, zoom in by five or six clicks on the map zoom control (+). Drag the location pin north and west to position it slightly closer to the coastline.

5. Click the green check icon to confirm the operation. Zoom out enough to see both pins; then, leave the map as it is, in preparation for the next exercise that will bring you to the Places view, in Lesson 3. Click 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; so that 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. Type Rua Reidh as the new name for this Places tag.

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 9 photos in the Media Browser, leaving the last image in the series, Festival_15.jpg, un-selected. 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. If necessary, click Named in the bar below the view picker to switch to the default Named Events view. This view mode remains unpopulated until you’ve saved at least one event—currently, its only occupant is your 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 from this Event. Stop the pointer when you see your favorite image in the set. To make this photo the top image in the stack—the cover photo—right-click / Control-click it and choose Set As Cover.

2. Under Basic at the left of the Add Media dialog box, make sure that All Media is set as the image source. The source images in the Add Media dialog box are ordered from newest to oldest so you’ll need to scroll down in the preview pane to find the festival photos.

3. 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 box; then, click Done.

4. Check the image count in the lower left corner of the workspace; there are now fifteen images in this Event. Collapse the event and return to the Named events view by clicking Back at the upper left.

1. Select the Import 3 folder from the My Folders list in the left panel; then, click Suggested in the actions bar below the view picker to switch from the default Named events view to Suggested events mode.

2. Drag the Number Of Groups slider to the maximum setting.

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

3. Click Add Event at the right of the header of each of these stacks in turn and type a name in the Name Event dialog box. Check the dates on the two stacks and name the new Events NY Marathon 2010 and NY Marathon 2011. Click OK to create the new event stack.

4. The other suggested stack has 19 photos shot at a wedding. Make sure no other stack is sekected; then, select this stack and click the Add Event button () in the Taskbar. Name the new Event Annie’s Wedding. Click OK.

5. Click the Import 4 folder in the left panel and reset the Number Of Groups slider to the maximum setting. The fourth event group contains 4 photos dated June 26, 2010 that belong in the Annie’s Wedding event. Select all four images and click Media in the view picker at the top of the workspace to switch to the Media view.

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

1. If necessary, reset the Number Of Groups slider to the maximum setting; then, scroll down to find the Suggested Event group dated May 26-21, 2013.

2. Select the group, and then click Add Event to the right of the header. In the Name Event dialog box, type Scottish Road Trip to name the new Event. Photoshop Elements has already set the start and end dates for the Suggested Event 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. Switch from Suggested Events mode to the Named 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 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 In Bulk, from either of the menus mentioned above, and then select the folders and subfolders on the hard disk that you wish to import.

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 Edit in the enlarged pin preview. In the Edit Location 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.