Organizing your work: Keyword Tagging

One of the best features in Elements is its ability to sort out hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of images using the tested method of keyword tags.

While viewing a newly imported batch of pictures, select a file by clicking it once and, in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, type in a keyword.

Keyword tagging: You can see that, in the red arrowed field, I have added the words 'Surfing' and 'Australia'. If I import and add keywords to hundreds of surfing images in the Organizer, all I need to do is click on the Surfing/Australia tags (both highlighted in blue here) to find those images—they can then be placed in an album called 'Surfing'.

I think keywording is one of the most important setup features in this program. Get into the habit of adding a keyword, or keywords, to everything you import into the Organizer and you will be able to search, and find, almost...