Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Digital photography can be a bit of a double-

edged sword. Ironically, its greatest advantage

to the amateur photographer—the ability to

quickly and easily capture a large number of

images, and then instantly download them

to a computer—can also be its greatest source

of frustration. Once hundreds of images have

been downloaded, photographers find them-

selves faced with the daunting task of sorting

through myriad files with incomprehensible

filenames, to find those dozen or so “keep-

ers” to assemble into an album or post to the

Web for friends.

Photoshop Elements’ Organizer workspace

comes to the rescue, with a relatively simple

and wonderfully visual set of tools and func-

tions to help you locate, identify, and organ-

ize your photos. And since the Organizer is

designed to work hand-in-hand with the

Creations workspace, categories and collec-

tions of images that you assemble in the

Organizer can be imported directly into

Creations projects like slide shows, calen-

dars, and Web photo galleries.

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The Windows

Photo Organizer

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The Windows Photo Organizer