| PaintShop Photo Pro X3 for Photographers in one place and all that other stuff ­ folders containing applications, text documents, spreadsheets, stuff downloaded from websites, your personal finances ­ all just gets in the way. The Collections tab lets you concentrate only on the folders containing your photos and videos. The other really useful thing the Collections tab can do is group together photos on the basis of their content, rather than where they happen to be on your hard drive. Using the Collections Tab Click the Collections tab at the top of the Tree panel and you'll see a list that contains five items, each of which can be expanded by clicking the plus icon next to it. For now, click the plus icon to expand the folders list. If this is the first time you've used the Organizer, you'll see two folders in here ­ My Corel Shows and Public Pictures. Within the Public Pictures folder you'll find another folder containing some sample photos. There's one other item in the list that looks like a folder, but isn't. Click the Browse More Folders button and a dialog box opens that you can use to search for folders on your hard disk and add them to the Folders list. If you select a folder containing subfolders, all the subfolders are added too. So, if you keep all of your photos in a folder on your hard drive called `Pictures', which contains subfolders called things like `summer holiday 2010' and `Joe and Anna's wedding', just select the Pictures folder and everything else will be added automatically, neatly arranged in subfolders just like on your hard drive. We'll come back to the Collections tab of the Tree panel after we've taken a look at some other aspects of the Organizer, including how to add captions, keywords, and other metadata to your photos. FIG 2.4 The Collections tab provides a much less cluttered way to view and organize your photos because it shows only those folders you choose, in other words only those containing photos and video. Using the General Info Panel The General Info panel displays metadata ­ information about your photos ­ which you can edit and add to. Adding metadata like caption information and keywords tells you and others more about your images than the picture data alone can and it also helps when it comes to finding particular photos, computers being much more adept at recog- nizing words than pictures. Adding a Rating FIG 2.5 In Thumbnails mode the General Info panel sits underneath the Preview panel. Below the image preview and in the General Info panel you'll see a Rating section with five stars. If you haven't rated any of your images the stars will appear white. Hover over them with your mouse and they turn gold; click on one of the stars to apply that rating to the selected image. That's all there is to 40