The Organizer

One drawback of digital photography is that we accumulate masses of images and other assets like audio files and video clips. Keeping track of everything can be a nightmare, especially if you plan on upgrading your skill set from keen amateur status to something approaching a professional occupation.

Sorting everything into meaningful collections, therefore, is the main function of the Organizer. Once installed, note that it runs as a separate application, albeit one with almost inseparable ties to the photo-editing part of Elements, and, indeed, with its video-editing partner, Adobe Premiere Elements (often sold with Elements as a bundle).

Photos and other digital assets are imported into the Organizer and sorted into meaningful groups using a range of clever tools such as albums, keywords, labels, place and people tags, star ratings, and metadata. All these attributes can be applied to your files which means its organizational and file search capabilities are...