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[Photoshop Elements 9: Scanning and Restoring Photos with Janine Smith]
[Female] Once you have your photo collection scanned onto your hard drive,
you'll need to organize them, because there's nothing harder
than trying to find one specific photo, especially if you have a lot of them.
Photoshop Elements 9 has a built-in feature that can be your best friend
when it comes to photo organization called "Organizer."
In the Edit workspace, which we're in right now,
the Organizer icon is located top right of the screen next to this icon
that looks like a little six-pane window.
Click on it, and we'll enter the Organizer workspace.
You can either add your photos individually or by folder
by going up to your File menu, Get Photos and Videos,
and From Files and Folders.
It also gives you the option of getting them directly from your scanner,
which can be a big help if you're scanning in your photos.
Select right now from files and folders.
We'll be working in Exercise Files Chapter 2 right now.
Again, you can either bring them in individually or by folder.
Right now, we'll take all the contents from this folder
by selecting the top one, the Shift key, the bottom one, and opening them all.
You may see this pop up that just tells you that the only items
are the ones you just imported.
It's no biggie. Just hit "Okay."
Once your photos are in the Organizer, you'll want to separate them
into albums to make it even easier to find them later.
To do that, you go up to your green plus sign right here,
click the down arrow, and select "New Album."
You'll want to name your album something that you can find later easily
when you're looking for those specific photos.
If you have a lot of photos of your mother,
name the photo album "Mom."
If your grandmother is the subject, name it "Grandma."
We'll name this one "Family Photos."
And when you're done naming it, go down to the bottom and click "Done."
Now you need to get these photos into your album that you just named.
I'll start by selecting one image and dragging and dropping it into the Family Photo album.
You can also select multiple photos, again, clicking one, holding down your Shift key,
going to the end of the ones you want and dragging and dropping them,
again, into your Family Photo album.
You'll notice after you've dropped them into the album
that there's a little green icon, a little folder.
All that's doing is telling you that they're in an album.
That will come in very handy when you're trying to find these.
Now that they're in the photo album, you can customize your views.
You can make them bigger and smaller however it makes it easier for you.
And you can also at any time go back and edit the album you just made
by clicking on that album and going up here to this box with the pencil
and renaming it, whatever you want to do with it.
You can rate your photos by importance or that are more important
for you to fix at any time by giving them a star rating.
Let's give this one a star rating of 4.
You can give this one 2. It doesn't need much fixing.
And that will always be there, so you'll know if you have a higher rating,
that's one that's more important for you to fix sooner.
We can all use a little help when organizing our family photo collection.
It just makes things easier when you're looking for that one specific photo
or trying to decide where to start with your restoration projects.
The Photoshop Elements Organizer makes the organization process easier.
