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[Male] Before you delve into Photoshop Elements in order to manage, optimize,
and share your digital photos, it can be helpful to take a step back
and consider what Elements actually is.
In many ways, you can think of Photoshop Elements as a bundle
of 2 key applications: the Organizer and the Editor.
I think of the Organizer as command central for your images.
This is where you're able to import images from any folder
or even directly from your digital camera, and then view and sort through
those images to find just the one you want to work on for a particular project.
Within the Organizer, naturally, you can organize your images.
That includes the ability to create custom albums containing specific images,
as well as assigning keyword tags to images
in order to help you filter through the images you're looking for.
There are also a variety of methods you can use for viewing your images.
For example, you can obviously view images in a thumbnail form,
and then double-click to see a full-screen view of a particular image.
Double-click again, and we're back to our thumbnail display.
But of course, those are just basic methods for viewing your images.
There are also a variety of other options, including the Date view.
With Date view, we can navigate among images using a calendar.
This provides a familiar and convenient way to find the images you're looking for.
For example, if I remember that an image was captured on a particular date,
I can navigate among the images photographed on that date in order to find
whatever it is I'm looking for.
Once I've found that image, I can go browse it in the media browser.
But the Organizer is about more than just organizing images.
You can also apply basic corrections to your images directly within the Organizer.
In addition, you can create unique output, including photo books,
calendars, collages, slideshows, and a variety of other options.
It's also possible to share your images
through a variety of online services and other outlets.
As you can see, the Organizer is incredibly powerful,
but we also have the Editor.
When you find a particular image you'd like to spend a little bit more time optimizing,
you can open that image in the Editor in order to exercise a maximum control.
I'll go ahead and switch to the Editor in full-photo edit mode
so we can see what it has to offer.
Here, the focus is purely about optimizing your images.
We're done organizing, and now we can focus our attention on a single image,
and there's no shortage of tools available to us
in order to optimize our photographic images.
This includes quick adjustments, as well as more advanced controls
that allow you to optimize the appearance of any image.
When you're finished optimizing a particular image,
you can save it as an additional copy, or simply save the existing image.
When you do so, it will be automatically updated within the Organizer.
Because Photoshop Elements provides you with so much functionality,
for many photographers, it truly provides all the necessary tools
for managing, optimizing, and sharing your photographic images.
More importantly, it can help make working with your photographic images fun.
