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[Learn. The How To series from Adobe] [video2brain World-Class Training] [This video is part of Adobe Photoshop Elements 9: Learn by Video.] [Available on learnbyvideo.com and video2brain.com] [Narrator] One of the best ways to get familiar and comfortable working with Organizer is to gain an understanding of the Organizer interface. In this lesson, I'll give you a guided tour that will make it easier for you to get around within Organizer and therefore help improve your efficiency working with this powerful tool. Organizer is first and foremost about managing your photographic images, so let's start with the photos. It should come as no surprise that the majority of the space available within Organizer is dedicated to your photos. This maximizes your ability to sort through and find exactly the image you need when you need it. Below the display of images you'll find the status bar; this gives you an indication of which catalog you're currently working with, how many images are currently selected, and how many total images are included in this catalog. There's also options related to the backup and synchronization feature which you can click on in order to adjust the settings or actually initiate a backup, and there's also a shortcut for the image analyzer. To the right of the images, you'll find tabs that allow you to perform a variety of tasks. The first tab is organize. Obviously organizing your images is one of the primary tasks of the Organizer, so this is one of the tabs you'll likely spend a significant amount of time working with. It's divided into two sections: Albums and key-word tags. You can adjust the size of each of these by dragging up and down on this horizontal bar that separates the two sections. We can also adjust the space occupied by these tabs by dragging the vertical bar left or right. To allow even more space for a particular section, you can also collapse the section by clicking the triangle associated with the heading for that section. Clicking again will expand that section once again. There's also tabs for fix, create and share. As their names imply, these allow you to apply adjustments to your images, to create output in a variety of formats from your images, and to share your images through a variety of online services and other options. To the left of these tabs, you'll find options related to the display of your images. You can find adjust the sort order, switch to full screen mode, adjust the size of the thumbnails and rotate your images. You can also sort and filter your images. At the far left here, you'll see a search box that you can type a value into in order to search for a specific image, but you can also drag tags to this area in order to filter and search images. In addition, over on the right, you can see that we can filter images based on their star rating. For example, I can designate that I want to see images of a three star or higher rating. At the top right of the Organizer interface, you'll find some additional controls. These include a button that will bring up the welcome screen, a popup menu that provides quick access to a variety of display options and buttons to undo or redo a particular task. You might think of the undo command as an option you would only need when working on optimizing your images, but in fact you can undo any task within the Organizer. For example if you've assigned a star rating to an image by accident, you can undo that assignment. If you change your mind and decide you actually do want that star rating, you can choose redo in order to undo the undo. If you've created an Adobe ID, you'll also see a link that allows you to manage your account, and finally, all of the various controls you see throughout the Organizer, can generally be accessed through the menu, and in fact there are many tasks that you'll find on the menu and nowhere else. When in doubt if you're trying to perform a task in the Organizer, you can find that task somewhere on the menu bar. I suppose it should come as no surprise that the interface of an application called Organizer would be organized in a logical way. Now that you have an understanding of the overall layout of the various controls, I'm sure you'll be able to use Organizer like a pro.
