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Get Organized by Tagging Your Photos
Lesson 105 in the "Digital Photo Fun with Photoshop Elements 3" free online class. Get started creating a tag hierarchy and tagging your own photo collection.

Getting Started with Photoshop Elements Photo Organizer
Lesson 103 in the "Digital Photo Fun with Photoshop Elements 3" free online class. Learn how to populate your catalog with all your photos.

Rating Photos and Searching with Tags in Photoshop Elements Organizer
As you've been working on tagging your photos, you may have come across some photos you haven't seen in a while--some favorites you'd like to share with others, and perhaps some that you'd rather not let anyone else see! No worries... Photoshop Elements can help you address both of these situations.

The Hidden Tag and Photo Stacks in Photoshop Elements Organizer
We've already talked about deleting files in the photo browser, but what about images you want to keep in the catalog, but don't want cluttering up your photo browser all the time? There are two ways to deal with these photos--the Hidden tag and Photo Stacks.

Emailing Photos from Adobe Photoshop Elements 3
When you want to send digital photos by email, it's considered good 'netiquette' to reduce their size so they don't take a long time to download and can be viewed more easily on the recipient's screen. Photoshop Elements' E-mail command makes it easy to send one or many photos by email, and it does all the resizing work for you.

Photo Review and Photo Compare in Photoshop Elements Organizer
Photo Review and Photo Compare offer a nice way to get a full screen view of your photos and compare photos side-by-side.

Getting New Photos into Photoshop Elements Organizer
Now that you've learned the basics of organizing your existing photos, you're going to want to add to your collection over time. You can add new photos to Photoshop Elements Organizer using the Adobe Photo Downloader, watched folders, the Get Photos command, or by using drag & drop.

Backing Up Your Photos with Photoshop Elements Organizer
You've put a lot of hard work into organizing your photo collection in Photoshop Elements. Keep everything safe by making regular backups. Elements can create a full backup containing everything in your catalog, or it can create archive disks contain only selected items that you want to give to friends or family. Also, to save time, Elements can do incremental backups where it only backs up the items that have been added or changed since your last backup.

Organize your Photo Collection in Elements Photo Organizer
As you work through organizing your photo collection, you may come across photos that you'd like to rename or move. You may find photos with incorrect dates, either because they were scanned into the computer, received from someone else, or you had the date set incorrectly on your digital camera. All of these things are very easy to do right in the Photoshop Elements 3 Organizer.