Editing albums and album categories

Select an album from the Albums panel of the Organize workspace.

Press Command+click and choose Edit.

In the Edit Album panel, you can edit the following:

• Name: Edit the name of the album.
• Category: Select the category from the drop-down list. Delete media by selecting a photo or video and drag to the trash bin. You can select multiple media and drop to the trash bin too.

Control+click an album and choose Rename.

Enter the new name in the Rename dialog box and click OK.

In the Media view, select the photos you want to remove from an album.

A photo can be present in more than one album. Select the album from where you want to delete the photo.

Control+click a photo, and choose Remove from Album > Album name.

Removing photos from an album does not remove them from Element Organizer catalog.  

Control-click a photo, and choose Delete from Catalog, to delete a photo from the catalog,

You can select the checkbox of the confirmation message to delete the photo from the hard disk.

In the Albums panel, select the albums you want to merge.

Do any of the following:

• Click the album name to select an album.
• Shift-click to select contiguous albums.
• Command+click to select noncontiguous albums.

Press Control+click and select Merge Albums.

From the list, choose the album into which you want to merge the selected albums, and click OK.

In the Albums panel, click the album name to select an album or album category.

Shift-click to select multiple contiguous albums or Command+click to select multiple noncontiguous albums.

Press Control+click, select Delete, and click OK.

Choose Elements Organizer > Preferences > Keyword Tags And albums .

Under Enable Manual Sorting Option, select Manual for Album Categories and Albums, and then click OK.

When you move an album category, the items it contains move with it.

Click Tags/Info button in the Task pane.

Do any of the following:

• Select Edit > Select All to select all the items in the Media view.
• Click and select particular media item.
• Command+click to select multiple media items.

Select and attach the keyword tags to the photos. From the Keyword Tags pane, right-click and select Apply to selected Media. You can also drag and drop a keyword on a media item to apply that keyword tag to that media.

In the Keyword Tags tab, click the triangle  next to Keyword Tags to expand the panel.

Select a check box  to show the associated photos with the keyword tag. The Media view shows all the photos with that tag attached.

On the Albums panel, click the triangle  next to Albums to expand the panel. 

• To edit existing albums, drag the photos into one or more albums in the Album panel.

• To create an album with the photos, create an album and drag the photos into it. For details on creating album, see Creating albums and album category.