Teach_Yourself_Photoshop_Elements_2

ORGANISING PHOTOS

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fter travelling abroad it used to be

traditional practice to print your

holiday snaps and store them in an

album. Indeed, you can create holiday

albums in the Elements Organizer with ease,

and browse through them at your leisure. The

Organizer’s Places panel provides you with a fun

alternative way to see your pictures according to

where they were shot.

When you shoot a snap on your smart phone,

the software records the location of the shot

using GPS (the satellite-based global positioning

system). Then, when you import them into the

Elements 14 Organizer, it can show you their

location in the Places panel. You can see a map

and flagged locations, and you can click to see any

photos shot there. This is a useful new function

in Photoshop Elements, especially if many of your

shots are captured via a phone.

If your camera doesn’t automatically geo-tag

your shots you can still enjoy using the map-based

Places panel to organise them. We’ll demonstrate

how you can manually add location data to a photo

by dragging them to the appropriate location.

For the time being this is the only reasonably

straightforward way to add location data to regular

Geo-tag your photographs ........................................................

Discover how to organise your photos in

Elements 14 by where they were captured so

you can explore your holiday snaps on a map

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Zoom in for details

If you zoom in on the map using the buttons in the

bottom right corner, your photos are split up into more

and more detailed locations. If you move the mouse pointer

over a location thumbnail it’s enlarged and you can scroll

through the pictures – or double-click to view them properly.

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Import phone shots

Go to File>Get Photos>From Files and Folders. Browse to

our mobile images collection. Click Get Media. The files

will appear in the Organizer. Click the Places panel, then click

the Pinned button at the top. You should see see a collection

of little red flags clustered around the town of St. Albans.

GET THE START FILES HERE: http://bit.ly/type-files