Finding Photos

Aside from actually doing things to fix your photos, finding them will be the most common task you do in Elements. If you’ve tagged them, then it’s easy to find groups of photos. But finding just one photo can be a little harder (not really too hard, though). You first have to narrow the number of photos to a small group. Then you’ll look through that group until you find the one you want. I know, it sounds complicated but it’s really not. Here are the most popular searching methods:

From the Timeline:

We saw this one earlier. The Timeline (from the Window menu, choose Time-line to see it), which is a horizontal bar across the top of the Media Browser, shows you all the photos in your catalog. Months and years are represented along the Timeline. The years are visible below the Timeline; the small light blue bars above the Timeline are individual months. If there is no bar visible, there are no photos stored in that month. A short blue bar means just a few photos were taken that month; a tall bar means lots of photos. If you hover your cursor over a blue bar, the month it represents will appear. To see the photos taken in that month, click on the bar and only those photos will be displayed in the Media Browser. Once you’ve clicked on a month, you can click-and-drag the locator bar to the right or left to display d....