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Scrapbooking Inspiration Podcast: Photoshop Elements Organizer

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Scrapbooking Inspiration PodcastToday I'm going to talk to you all about Photoshop Elements Organizer! If you've been around here awhile you know how much I love Photoshop Elements Organizer. I have a brand new class that takes you through the most basic steps of how to use Photoshop Elements Organizer from the very beginning. Listen in to learn more about Organizing for Absolute Beginners!

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Show Notes

  • Organizing for Absolute Beginners has 8 modules and it takes you through everything from understanding how Organizer works, to getting your photos printed or doing a slide show.
  • The class has high quality videos that show you exactly what to do.
  • If you've always put of organizing your photos you are actually in luck! It will be easier to start now that technology has finally count up.
  • You are able to customize how your photos are stored on your hard drive. Create folders that make sense to you and how you organize.
  • In this class we'll cover automated organizing. Organizer monitors the new files that you have imported. You can automate the downloads with Photo Downloader or you can have it watch the folders for new photos.
  • Are you familiar with Face Recognition? It is awesome! PSE is one of the first products that implemented Face Recognition. You can use it along with your contacts and FB friends list. It makes it so easy to tag people.
  • Photoshop Elements Organizer now has Smart Tags. It can look at your photos and see that it has a rose, or a kangaroo, or you're playing golf. It adds those tags automatically to your photo.
  • You can also get an interactive map of where you've taken your photos.
  • You can still organize your photos by the date they were taken, which many people still love to do.
  • PSE Organizer has visual similarity searches. Find one photo and then do a search to find all the photos in your library that are similar.
  • Now Organizer can find your best photos with the Curate feature. If you have a folder of photos Organizer can suggest which photos are the best.

Organizing for Absolute Beginners

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About Melissa Shanhun

Melissa Shanhun is a Aussie mum of four and avid digital scrapbooker. She loves to show others how fun and easy it can be to record your precious memories with tech tools like Photoshop Elements.

Comments

  1. Kym Graham says

    Melissa, Thanks for your recent emails. I will definitely need to be filling in the gaps of the courses i did with you. I think the organizing ones will be very helpful for starters, and perhaps the storybook ones; I’d also like to learn to add text to my photos. Its a tricky time so perhaps in the new year.

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  2. Sonja Gortzak-Hughes says

    Hi Melissa, just listened to your two podcasts on Photoshop Elements. Thanks for sharing all the news on the organizer. I am a paper scrapbooker and have Photoshop Elements 12 for photo-editing and typing up journalling and have recently started converting my scrapbooking to Stacy Julian’s Library of Memories. Stacy talks about tagging photos and uses a 1-3 star photo system and then only initially printing the 3* photos. I used to tag photos a long time ago but stopped, my system was far too indepth:-) but I want to start again. However, I regularly move my pictures to an external harddrive to free up space on my laptop. I am wondering if the tags I add to my images in PSE Organizer will “stick” when I move them to the ExHD. If I am to search through the images on my HD will I be able to use the tags in Organizer do you think/know?

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    • Melissa Shanhun says

      Thanks for listening and taking the time to comment Sonja 😀

      If you move photos to an EHD, that’s totally fine. With Organizer, you can actually plug in the EHD and have Organizer see those files.

      If you add tags you can use the Write Metadata to File command so the tags will stick and can be seen by other programs too.

      However, if you use Organizer to move the tagged files to your EHD from within Organizer (http://www.digitalscrapbookinghq.com/move-folders-organizer/) the tags will stay with the image even if you haven’t written the metadata to files.

      Does this explanation make sense? Basically you can use both an EHD and your laptop hard drives and move files between them with no issue using PSE 😀

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