Teach_Yourself_Photoshop_Elements_2

ORGANISING PHOTOS

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n the first two chapters we showed

how to import photos from hard drive

folders and memory cards into the

Photoshop Elements Organizer. We

touched on ways to start organising your images,

such as placing them into themed albums.

An even quicker way to sort out the gems from

the duds is to assign star ratings to your photos as

soon as you’ve imported them. You can then use

the Ratings filter to make the Elements Organizer

display high-rated shots, or shots that fall between

a certain range. Here, we’ll show you how to rate

your favourite shots quickly, and demonstrate how

the Ratings filter separates the wheat from the

chaff. If you haven’t already done so, you can copy

our supplied project files into a folder on your

computer’s hard drive. Open the Organizer and

choose File>Get Folders and Videos>From Files

and Folders. You can then import our project files

into the Organizer and follow our step-by-step

organising and editing walkthroughs using the

images featured in this book.

After showing you how to rate your shots,

we’ll move on to demonstrate how to tag shots

according to who’s in them or where they were

shot, so you can find specific pictures easily.

Sort your images by rating them

Find your favourite photos quickly by

assigning star ratings in the Organizer

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Take a closer look

For a closer look at an image, double click it. The image

will fill the Organizer workspace. You can then click

the stars at the bottom left of the shot to rate it. You can also

assign a rating to the selected image by tapping any of the

number keys between one and five.

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Assign star ratings

Choose View>Details. It can be a challenge to assess

the merit of images from thumbnails, so drag the Zoom

slider to the right to enlarge them. You can then move the

cursor over the grey stars below each thumbnail and click to

assign a rating of between one and five stars.

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