Now I feel a need for Catalog for Catalogs

Its been more than 5 years now that I have been using various versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements and all my photographs used to be in one catalog. Over the time, I found it difficult to organize thousands of photographs in one catalog as  number of Albums and Tags was increasing every week.. Huge size of catalog with Thousnads of photographs and hundreds of albums/tags... For last one year, I have been organizing each shoot in separate catalog which means 250-2000 photographs per shoot ! Now I have lot many catalogs but it becomes difficult when I need some specific kinds of photographs irrespective of the event or photo-shoot.
So, here is my wishlist as a continuous user of Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer !!!

Wish-list :

- There should be a catalog for catalogs
- In that master catalog, it should be very convenient to see low-res thumbs of photographs in various catalogs spread over various drives/folders on the hard-drive.
- It should be easy to merge two catalogs with all the existing Albums, Tags, Star Rating etc.
- It should easy to access photographs for other catalog on the basis of various metadata things like star rating, Albums and Tags etc..

How to play a set of photographs in particular order where Photoshop Elements in not installed

Recently I checked a user problem, who had shot some photographs for his client. He edited all photographs, added to an album, exported and started playing those files on clients machine where Adobe Photoshop elements was not installed. We we started showing the files, order was not the same as he had arranged in his Organizer.

Is there any solution to this problem?

Actually order of sepcific files is dependent on the application where we play the files. So in this case we need to play the files in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. This application show files as per the order they are shown in folder (Windows files system). Since there is no direct way of reordering files in windows explorer, we need to do something here... Lets see how this can be achieved through a workaround with Adobe Photoshop Elements - Organizer.

Follow below mentioned steps to achieve this:

1. Add all files to an Album
2. Select this album and reorder its files as per your choice
3. When files are in proper order, select all
4. File Menu > Rename
5. Give some relevant name
6. export these files to a folder
7. Copy this folder to the machine where you want to play the files one by one
8. Right click inside that folder and sort by name
9. Double click to play inside Windows Picture and Fax Player.

All the files will play in the order you had arranged inside Organizer Album.

People Recognition in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0

Today only I received a mail from Adobe with following image about people recognition.. Its a cool feature which is more helpful when you have lot of family/friends photographs in your catalog.. I will be writing about this feature on this blog soon....

JUST TRY IT OUT...

What all you loose if want to move out of Organizer?

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Today I was reading a discussion about Adobe Photoshop Elements, where a user wanted to move to Mac from win. Since Organizer is not there on Mac as of now, s/he needs to use other organizing application.

On Adobe Forums, there is a user "JOHN R ELLIS" who has amazing knowledge about different imaging products. On this thread he has shared detailed information about migration from ORGANIZER to other applications like:

- BRIDGE
- iPHOTO
- LIGHTROOM
- APERTURE
- PSE7 inside Virtual Machine

Check out this thread for more details:Ado

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2803183#2803183

How can we sort our Photographs in Organizer?

Different Types of sorting in Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer: 

Here are few parameters used for sorting your files in Photoshop Elements Organizer:

1. Oldest First

2. Newest First

3. File-Names

4. Custom Order

Now you might have doubt that I have not seen options for sorting in Custom Order or File-name. But Yes, you can sort your files according to File-Names as well as in custom order you want.

How can we sort files according to File-Names?

1. Launch Organizer
2. Go to Folder View from Display options in top bar of Organizer. (PSE8)
3. Select a particular folder where your files are are.
4. You will see all files sorted according to file-names. (This is applicable for one folder only)

How can we sort files in Custom Order?

For sorting some files in custom order , we need to create an Album. As we click on that album to see its content, sorting dropdown will be Album-Order selected by default. In this state, you drag and drop album files anywhere. Try and comment back in case it doesn't work for you...

How files are sorted which are shot on single day and sorting order selected in 'Newest First' ???

There is a preference in Organizer where we can specify sorting of such files in Imagewell:

1. Go to Edit>Preferences>General
2. Opt appropriate option for Display Options > Date(Newest First) 

        - Show oldest First in each day
        - Show Newest First in each day
 

 Write back in case you know any other good way of sorting files within Organizer...