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Reviewing and comparing
Photoshop Elements provides several options to quickly and easily review and compare your images.
Viewing photos at full screen or side-by-side
The Full Screen View and Side by Side View let you review your images without the distraction of other interface items such as windows, menus and palettes.
About keyword tags
Keyword tags are personalized labels, such as “Vacation” or “Beach,” that you attach to photos, video clips, audio clips and other creations in the Photo Browser to make it easier to organize and find them.
When you use keyword tags, there’s no need to manually organize your photos in subject-specific folders or rename files with content-specific names.
In fact, both of the latter solutions confine a given photo to a single group. By contrast, you can assign multiple keyword tags to a photo, allowing it to be included in several different groupings. You can then easily retrieve the selection of images you want by clicking the appropriate keyword tags in the Keyword Tags palette.
For example, you could create a keyword tag called “Beach - Croatia” and attach it to every photo you took at that location. You can then instantly find all the photos with the Beach - Croatia keyword tag by clicking the Find box next to that tag in the Keyword Tags palette, even if the photos are stored in different folders on your hard disk.
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You can create keyword tags to group your images any way you want. For example, you could create keyword tags for individual people, places and events in your life.
You can attach multiple keyword tags to your photos and easily run a search based on a combination of keyword tags to find a particular person at a particular place or event.
For example, you can search for all “Christine” keyword tags and all “John” keyword tags to find all pictures of Christine with her husband, John.
Or search for all “Christine” keyword tags and all “Beach - Croatia” keyword tags to find all the pictures of Christine vacationing at the beach in Croatia.
Use keyword tags to organize and find photos by their content or any other association. See Lessons 2 and 3 for more information on keyword tags.
- Click the Display button (
) near the upper right corner of the Organizer window, and then choose View Photos In Full Screen from the menu.
In the Full Screen View Options dialog box, you can customize the slide show—for example, you can play an audio file as you view the images. You can also choose to display thumbnails of the selected files in a filmstrip along the right side of the screen, or add a fade between pictures.
- Disable the Include Captions option and activate the Start Playing Automatically option; then click OK to start the slide show.
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Your photos are displayed as a full-screen slide show—an enjoyable and efficient way to view a set of photos.
The control bar, which contains buttons for playing, rotating, and zooming disappears from view when you don’t move the mouse for a couple of seconds.
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- To make the control bar reappear, move the mouse.
- Press the Esc key on your keyboard to return to the Organizer.
- Click the Display button (), and then choose Compare Photos Side By Side to display two photos simultaneously. Side by Side View is useful when you
need to focus on details and differences between photos. You can select two or more photos to compare. When you click the
Next Photo button (
) in the control bar, the selected image changes to the next image in your selection. By default, image # 1 (on the left or
top) is selected. To select image #2 instead, click it.
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You can switch between views by clicking the Full Screen View button () or the Side by Side View button (
) in the control bar. While in either view, you can right-click an image and access further options from the context menu.
For example, you can mark an image for printing, fix red eye, add a photo to an album, and delete or apply keyword tags.
- Press the Esc key on your keyboard to return to the Organizer.