ORGANISING PHOTOS
W
hen you click on the Organizer’s Media panel it
displays your most recently shot photos at the top
of the workspace, so you need to scroll down to
find older photos. You can click the Sort By
drop-down menu and get the oldest shots to appear at the
top if you prefer. You can tag shots according to the place that
they were captured or the people that they feature, but most
of us are still likely to browse through our pictures according
to when they were shot. To help us do this more effectively,
the Organizer provides us with a time-based Events tab.
Elements knows when a shot has been snapped by reading
that information in its metadata. This metadata can provide
various ways to speed up your photo-organising workflow.
The Events tab can also use image metadata to create
Suggested Events, so that you can view photos captured on
a particular day over over a particular time period without
having to manually sort them. We’ll show you how this
time-saving feature works in our walkthrough. But this may
not group photos in quite the way you want, so for this the
Elements Organizer offer Named Events. This breaks out
particular groups of photos in a way that helps you keep
them separated and organised in a more logical way.Create a
new Event
Elements 14 introduces a whole
new way to browse and organise
your images using Events.
Here’s how it works
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Select photos for a Named Event
One of our events contains some portrait shots that
really need to be pulled out as a separate, or ‘Named’
Event. Here, we’ve selected some portrait shots taken
during a single sitting – to select a photo just click it, and
to select more, command/ctrl-click to add them.1
Explore Suggested Events
Suggested Events are grouped by date, with your
most recent photo shoots at the top. Each event takes
up a maximum of two rows, but those with lots of photos
have a button to show more. You can change the Number
of Groups (more or fewer) using the slider at the top.GET THE START FILES HERE: http://bit.ly/type-files