2. Organizing Your Photo Collection

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to organize your photos into stacks and albums and apply star ratings and keyword tags to images so that you can locate them easily later on.

Photoshop Elements makes it easy to keep your photos organized, with no clutter and very little effort. The point of organizing your photos is to be able to find what you want when you want it. Through the Organizer, Photoshop Elements offers several ways you can classify and group images so that you’ll be able to find them later on (see Figure 2.1).

Figure 2.1. You can tell at a glance which organizing methods you’ve applied to a photo.

• Albums are for grouping related photos together—for example, all the pictures from your family ...

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