Using the Find menu
The Find menu is perhaps the most useful tool in the arsenal of search functions found in Elements. With this drop-down menu, you can search through the following categories:
- Metadata (including camera and shooting details)
- Media Type (such as photos, video, audio, projects, items with audio captions, and so on)
- History (including Imported on, Emailed to, Printed on, Exported on, Shared Online, Used in Projects, and so on)
- Caption
- Filename, including the following:
- Version Set
- Stack
- Untagged items
- Visual Search (including visually similar photos and videos, Objects appearing in photo, or duplicate photos)
- Saved Searches
You can even search for an image using terms such as Items with Unknown Date or Time, Untagged Items, or even Items not in any Album:
In the preceding screenshot, I searched for images that were visually similar to the one I originally picked. The result was immediate, finding and ranking the other three files that were near-identical in a few seconds. Although the...
