2. Organizing Photos

Digital photography can be a bit of a doubleedged 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 themselves faced with the daunting task of sorting through myriad files, with incomprehensible filenames, to find those dozen or so “keepers” to assemble into a collection or post to the Web for friends.

Photoshop Elements includes Adobe Bridge CS4, a separate application that comes to the rescue with a relatively simple and wonderfully visual set of tools and functions to help you ...

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