Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual

Organizing Your Photos

The Organizer is where your photos come into Elements and go out again (when it's time to print or email them). The Organizer stores and catalogs your photos, and you automatically come back to it for any activities that involve sharing your photos, like printing a photo package or making a slideshow. The Organizer's main window (Figure 1-2) is sometimes called the Photo Browser. It lets you view your photos, sort them into albums, and assign keyword labels to them.

The Organizer has lots of really cool features you'll learn about throughout this book when they're relevant to the task at hand. The next chapter shows you how to use the Organizer to import and organize your photos, and Appendix A covers all the Organizer's different menu options.

Figure 1-2. The Photo Browser is your main Organizer workspace. Click the Create tab and you can choose to start all kinds of new projects with your photos, or the Share tab for ways to let other people view your images. Click the Editor button (circled) for a menu that gives you a choice of going to Quick Fix, Guided Edit, or Full Edit. The Fix tab gives you access to some quick fixes right in the Organizer. The Organizer also gives you another way to look at your photos, Date View, which is explained in Chapter 2.

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