Jay_Arraich@adobeforums.com
10-14-2004, 06:39 AM
Hi Nick,
Organizer has a File > Write Tag Info to Files command that will write the
tag names of currently selected files to the Keyword section of File Info.
Note that once written, that data cannot be removed within Elements 3, even
by removing the tags from the files and repeating the command. In Elements
3, keywords are not editable within the File Info dialog. You can remove
keywords if you own Photoshop, by opening File Info and deleting the
keywords.
If you also use the Save Tags to File feature in the Tags pane menu to save
your "tag tree" (categories, subcategories and tags), then load that tag
tree into a new catalog, then import the files with tag info written to
keywords (via Write Tag Info to File), you will have the option, as you
already have in Album 2, to allow (or not) the imported files to come in
with their tags. They will sort to the tag or category within the imported
tag tree that has that name.
If your tag tree has subcategories of the same name, or if you have imported
more than one tag tree and there are categories or subcategories with
identical names, the incoming files with that tag name will all go into the
category or subcategory that is highest in the tag tree; they don't
"remember" from which exact category (path) they originated.
The above is more relevant in Organizer than it was in Album 2 since
Organizer allows as many levels of subcategory as anybody could want.
Therefore, you might easily drill down to subcategories with your friends',
parents', spouse's, or children's names within several different parent
categories.
To answer question 2, yes you can use Photoshop CS in conjunction with
Organizer. If you have Photoshop installed, it shows up in your Edit menu as
Edit > Edit with Photoshop...
And there is an option in Edit > Preferences > Editing for "Enable an
additional application for editing photos to appear under the Edit menu."
Followed by a checkbox for "Use a Supplementary Editing Application"
followed by a browse button which you would use to point to the .exe file
for that application.
While using Photoshop or a supplementary image editing application,
Organizer will give you a message that you will not be allowed to make any
changes to the file in Organizer until you have finished editing in the
outside application.
-Jay Arraich
Organizer has a File > Write Tag Info to Files command that will write the
tag names of currently selected files to the Keyword section of File Info.
Note that once written, that data cannot be removed within Elements 3, even
by removing the tags from the files and repeating the command. In Elements
3, keywords are not editable within the File Info dialog. You can remove
keywords if you own Photoshop, by opening File Info and deleting the
keywords.
If you also use the Save Tags to File feature in the Tags pane menu to save
your "tag tree" (categories, subcategories and tags), then load that tag
tree into a new catalog, then import the files with tag info written to
keywords (via Write Tag Info to File), you will have the option, as you
already have in Album 2, to allow (or not) the imported files to come in
with their tags. They will sort to the tag or category within the imported
tag tree that has that name.
If your tag tree has subcategories of the same name, or if you have imported
more than one tag tree and there are categories or subcategories with
identical names, the incoming files with that tag name will all go into the
category or subcategory that is highest in the tag tree; they don't
"remember" from which exact category (path) they originated.
The above is more relevant in Organizer than it was in Album 2 since
Organizer allows as many levels of subcategory as anybody could want.
Therefore, you might easily drill down to subcategories with your friends',
parents', spouse's, or children's names within several different parent
categories.
To answer question 2, yes you can use Photoshop CS in conjunction with
Organizer. If you have Photoshop installed, it shows up in your Edit menu as
Edit > Edit with Photoshop...
And there is an option in Edit > Preferences > Editing for "Enable an
additional application for editing photos to appear under the Edit menu."
Followed by a checkbox for "Use a Supplementary Editing Application"
followed by a browse button which you would use to point to the .exe file
for that application.
While using Photoshop or a supplementary image editing application,
Organizer will give you a message that you will not be allowed to make any
changes to the file in Organizer until you have finished editing in the
outside application.
-Jay Arraich