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[excerpt from Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows: Essential Training with Jan Kabili]
One of the first things you're going to want to do when you use the organizer
is to instruct elements to index your photos in a catalog.
In this movie, I'm going to show you how to do that
when you're working with files that are on your hard drive
or that are on an external hard drive.
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I'm also going to show you how to index the Exercise Files for this course
in the new catalog that we created in the last movie, which we called
the PSE7 Exercise Files catalog as you see down here on the bottom left of your screen.
Before we get started, make sure that your Exercise Files are on your desktop
as I suggested in an earlier movie.
I'm going to go to the top of the screen to the File menu
and from there, I'm going to choose Get Photos and Videos
and I'm going to move over to the right to the next menu
and chose From Files and Folders.
From there, I'm going to move to the left-hand column
in the Get Photos From Files and Folders dialog box
and I'm going to click on Desktop
because that's where my Exercise Files folder is located.
I'll move to the central area of this dialog box
and click on Exercise Files.
I'm going to make sure that Get Photos from Subfolders is checked
in order to ensure that all the Exercise Files are indexed in this catalog
and I'll leave the other boxes there unchecked and click Get Photos.
I can see Elements bringing in all the photos from my Exercise Files folder.
It's important to understand that Elements is not actually moving those files
from their current location.
Instead, it's just keeping track of those files, taking note of where they're located,
making a small thumbnail copy of each image,
and keeping track of other information about the files.
When Elements is done, it shows me this message that says
that the only items I'm currently looking at are those that I just imported.
That just means that if there were other files that I had imported earlier into this catalog,
I wouldn't be seeing them here in front of me now.
But there aren't any such files, so I'm just going to click OK
and I now can see thumbnails of each file in my Exercise Files folder.
If I go to the scroll bar on the right and drag,
I see that there are lots and lots of files here.
We'll be using these files throughout this course.
By default, the photo browser area of the organizer, which is this area right here,
displays the thumbnails of my Exercise Files
with no information other than the date on which these photos were taken.
I'm going to scroll back up to the top
so you can see that these files are arranged in date order
from newest file at the top, and as you move down, to older files.
This is a useful way to look at your personal files,
but for purposes of this course, it would be hard to find individual photos
if we had to scroll up and down every time we were looking
for a particular Exercise File, so what we're going to do instead
is to switch to a different view.
To do that, I'm going to the Display menu at the top of the screen,
clicking and choosing the Folder Location View
instead of the default Thumbnail View.
Now in the photo browser, we see Exercise Files divided into sections
by their movie name and their chapter name.
So if I go, for example, to this bar at the top of the very first section,
I can see the path to the Chapter 2 Exercise Files folder
and then to the 0202 viewing subfolder
which contains these 4 Exercise Files for that particular movie I'm viewing.
Also, if you look over at the left, you'll see that there is a new column there
that we didn't see when we were looking at the photo thumbnail view.
I can't read what's here, so I'm going to expand this column to the right
by moving my mouse over the border between the column and the photo browser,
clicking and holding, and dragging.
It doesn't matter exactly how far you drag.
And now I can see that this column represents the hierarchy of folders of my hard drive.
Yours will look slightly different because, of course, your username isn't Jan Kabili,
but whatever your username is,
go ahead and click on the symbol just to the left of your username
and then go down and click on the symbol to the left of Desktop
because that's where the Exercise Files folder is located.
Then click on the symbol to the left of the Exercise Files folder
and you will see all of the chapters that contain Exercise Files.
When you're looking for a particular file in a particular chapter
as you work through this course,
what you'll do is go to the symbol to the left of that chapter name.
So for example, if I'm looking for an Exercise File in chapter 2,
I'll go to this symbol right here and click.
Let me expand this column a little more so you can read the names of these subfolders.
Let's say I wanted to use an Exercise File about renaming files.
I would go to this subfolder, 02_05 Renaming, click on that title,
and that would change the Exercise File thumbnails
that appear in the photo browser on the right.
We'll learn more about how to open individual exercise files in a later movie.
So that's how we're going to access Exercise Files throughout this course,
but I don't want to give you the impression that I'm suggesting
that you use the folder location view for your own personal files outside of this course.
This simply makes it easier to locate the files which are already in a folder-based system.
The beauty of using a catalog system for your own files
is that Elements can keep track of every single one of your photos
regardless of what folder you may have put it in.
Now that you know how to get photos that are located in folders on your hard drive
or on an external hard drive and tell the organizer to keep track of those photos,
you're ready to learn another way to bring in photos from a camera or a card reader
and that's going to be the subject of the next movie.
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