Photoshop Elements Organizer Tips and Tutorials

You probably know that when you show your photos sorted by date in the Elements Organizer photo well, you can hold your mouse over a bar in the timeline to see which month it represents and click on the bar to jump to that month. But did you know that the timeline works similarly when you are viewing by folder location or by import batch?

When you double click a photo in the Photoshop Elements Photo Organizer, it takes you to single photo view. From here, if you want to get back to thumbnail view, you may think that the only way is by using the thumbnail slider at the bottom of the screen, but there are other ways.

There are several ways to think about the differences between tags and collections in Photoshop Elements Oganizer. Here are some guidelines for deciding which feature to use when cataloging your pictures.

You may think you know all the ways you can select multiple photos in Photoshop Elements Photo Organizer, but here are some tricks that you may not know.

When you're in the calendar-based Date View of Photoshop Elements Organizer, you can quickly navigate to other dates with these shortcuts.

If you're just getting started with Photoshop Elements Organizer and you already have your photos fairly well organized into folders, you're in luck! The instant tag feature will make your life so much easier. Here's how you can quickly generate tags from folder names.

If you take a lot of digital pictures, then you probably don't print them all at once. Be safe, not sorry, and back up your photos using these simple methods.

Want to make sorting through your photos a little bit easier? Learn how to search using tags in Photoshop Elements.

Learn how to batch resize multiple images using the Organizer in Photoshop Elements.

Learn how to get started in Photoshop Elements by importing digital photo files from your files and folders or off of CDs.

Do you have hundreds of digital pictures but no way to organize them? Whip your photo collection into shape with tags and collections from Photoshop Elements.

If you're like me, you don't want to include the baked-in subject line and advertising footer that goes into the messages when you send photos by email through Photoshop Elements 3. Sure you can customize them each time you send an email, but wouldn't it be nice if you could permanently remove them or replace them with your own custom text? You can, and here's how.

Sign up to receive daily lessons by e-mail on the Photo Organizer component of Photoshop Elements 3. In just two weeks of daily lessons, you will learn how to utilize all the features of Photoshop Elements 3's Photo Organizer to get your photo collection organized and begin enjoying your photos more.

A new feature in Photoshop Elements 3 is the ability to add a frame to your pictures when you choose Picture Package or Labels in the Print dialog. You can use any transparent image as a frame and add it to the collection of frames Elements uses for this feature. Follow along to learn how.

If you're just getting started with Photoshop Elements Organizer and you already have your photos fairly well organized into folders, you're in luck! The instant tag feature will make your life so much easier. Here's how you can quickly generate tags from folder names.

Do you dislike seeing the filmstrip and toolbar when you are in the Photo Review or Photo Compare view of Photoshop Elements Organizer? There is an undocumented feature that can remove this screen clutter.

When you import photos from CD or DVD into the Photoshop Elements Organizer, it gives you an option to leave the photos offline and only copy a low-resolution proxy image onto the hard drive. Later, you might decide it would be more convenient to have the original photos on the hard drive so you don't have to insert a disc when you want to edit or print the pictures. Here's how you can do it.

Here's a tip for photos you want to make "super secret" in Photoshop Elements Organizer, without removing them from your catalog entirely.

How to move your catalog from Photoshop Album to the photo organizer Photoshop Elements 3.

When you're in the calendar-based Date View of Photoshop Elements Organizer, you can quickly navigate to other dates with these shortcuts.

Organize Your Photos with Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 by Michael Slater is an excellent book for folks who are overwhelmed at the prospect of organizing their digital photo collections. Photoshop Elements 3 is the ideal software to do it with, and Michael Slater explains how with clear, easy-to-follow instruction.

You may have some photos that aren't that great and you have decided you don't want them cluttering the Photo Organizer in Elements but you're not yet ready to delete them forever. There are everal ways to handle this situation.

You may think you know all the ways you can select multiple photos in Photoshop Elements Photo Organizer, but here are some tricks that you may not know.

When you double click a photo in the Photoshop Elements Photo Organizer, it takes you to single photo view. From here, if you want to get back to thumbnail view, you may think that the only way is by using the thumbnail slider at the bottom of the screen, but there are other ways.

You probably know that when you show your photos sorted by date in the Elements Organizer photo well, you can hold your mouse over a bar in the timeline to see which month it represents and click on the bar to jump to that month. But did you know that the timeline works similarly when you are viewing by folder location or by import batch?

There are several ways to think about the differences between tags and collections in Photoshop Elements Oganizer. Here are some guidelines for deciding which feature to use when cataloging your pictures.

"The beauty of creating a digital slide show with Photoshop Elements is the option to choose how you want to output your finished slideshow. There are several that can be used for a variety of different situations. In this technique, we'll create a slideshow with some images, and then we'll explore some of the slideshow output options in Photoshop Elements 3.0."