THE ORGANIZER
In past reviews of Photoshop Elements, I complained that you had to go
through Organizer to get to the actual photo editor. Since then, you’ve been able
to bypass it—but with the 2019 version, there’s another starting point before
you get to the editor. The new Start screen is not only your portal to both
Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, though: It also presents some
very useful features. You’ll see tips for how to use new editing tools, links to
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the program automatically generates from your content.
The Organizer application, as its name makes clear, is where you import, group,
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capabilities that would otherwise clutter the main editing application. Its
powerful search, auto curation, and sharing tools can be very useful additions to
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and ACDSee dispense with the extra application and do everything in one
interface.) Five main mode choices appear at the top of the Organizer’s window:
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media type, date, and folder. You can combine search criteria to narrow down
the results, too. Smart Tags automatically identify what’s in the photo—an
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Photos, and OneDrive. This cutting-edge technology saves you from having to
explicitly apply tags to photos, though you can still do this if you want the
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