On this page
- About the Media view
- Set viewing preferences for Media view
- Media view icons
- Sort files in Media view
- Hide and show media files in the Media view
- View and manage files by folders
- Resize, refresh, or hide media thumbnails using Zoom bar
- Select files in the Media view
- Display and edit media file details
- Common questions
There are five views in Elements Organizer. The Views tab helps you organize and view your media based on the people present in the photos, places they were taken, and the events that are associated with the photos.
Initially, when you import media, the files are displayed in the Media view. You can then mark faces in the photos, identify places the photograph was taken at, and create event stacks in the following views:
eLive
The eLive view displays articles, videos, tutorials, and more, categorized into channels such as Learn, Inspire, and News, right within Elements Organizer.
Media
The various media files are displayed in this view. You can view the files in this view, fix photos using Instant fix option, view information about specific files using Tags/info option, and perform other operations. See the rest of this page for more information on Media view.
People
The people appearing on your photos can be marked. People’s view helps you arrange stacks based on the people identified in the photos. For more information, see Marking faces in photos and organizing People view.
Places
Photographs have special association with the places they are taken at. You can tag locations to your photos in the Places view. For more information, see Adding and managing place (location) data.
Events
You can create stacks of events containing pictures of that event. For example, you can create an event Dan’s birthday and tag photos of that event. For more information, see Adding and managing event data.
When you open Elements Organizer, by default, all the media open in the Media view.
The Media view shows thumbnails of the media files in the central area (grid) of the Elements Organizer. You can view media (thumbnails of photos, video files, and audio files) present in your albums, folders, and catalogs. You can select items in the Media view to attach tags to them, add them to projects, or edit them.
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Date (Newest First)
To order pictures within a day such that the newest pictures appear first, choose Show Newest First Within Each Day. To view older pictures first, choose Show Oldest First within Each Day.
Date Format
Select the date format that you want displayed for the timestamp for photos. This option is not available for some languages.
Allow Photos to Resize
To rescale photos more than 100% of actual size and up to the maximum size of the space available, select Allow Photos To Resize. Deselect this option to display small images in their actual size even when more space is available for display.
Use System Font
(Windows only) To display the text in the Elements Organizer user interface using fonts from your computer’s operating system, select Use System Font.
Adjust Date and Time By Clicking On Thumbnail Dates
To edit the date and time details, click to select the photograph, select Adjust Date And Time By Clicking On Thumbnail Dates.
Reset All Warning Dialogs
To re-enable dialog boxes that you had chosen not to display again, click Reset All Warning Dialogs.
Use Graphics Processor for Video Playback
To use Windows Intel graphics processor for video playback and slideshow.
Some of the following icons appear only when you select the Details option, and others appear at all times. Click View > Details to view the file details.
Stack icon 
Indicates that the thumbnail represents a stack of photos.
Version Set icon 
Indicates that the thumbnail represents a stack of edited versions of a photo.
Video Scene Group icon
Indicates that the thumbnail represents a video scene of a video scene group.
Video icon 
Indicates that the thumbnail represents a video clip.
Audio icon 
Indicates that the thumbnail includes an audio caption.
Multiple Keyword Tag icon 
Indicates that more than five keyword tags are attached to the media file. Place the pointer over the tag icon to see the keyword tags attached.
Keyword Tag icons
Indicate the specific keyword tags that are attached to the media file.
Album icon 
Indicates this is an album.
Hidden Photo icon
Indicates that the thumbnail is a hidden file.
Project icon 
Indicates that the thumbnail is used in a project.
Photo Project icon
Indicates that the photo is part of a multiple page project.
Rating stars 
Shows the rating of the photo, on a scale of five stars.
People tag
Shows that the people tag has been added to the photo.
Smart tag 
(Only in Elements 12 and earlier versions)
Shows that a smart tag is applied to the media file.
Newest
Displays the most recently taken or imported media files first. (Within a given day, the media files are shown in the order they were taken, oldest first, unless otherwise specified in the Preferences dialog box.) Newest-first order is convenient when you attach tags to the media files that you imported.
Oldest
Displays media files in the order of the date stamp, the oldest imported files based on date are displayed first.
Import Batch
Displays media files in the batches in which they were imported and shows how the media files were imported.
You can mark media files to hide them from view in the Media view without deleting them from your hard disk. Alternatively, you can make hidden files reappear temporarily, or unmark them so that the files always remain visible.
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You can also right-click (Windows) /Control+click (Mac OS) on the thumbnails and select the Visibility command from the context menu.
The My Folders panel displays folders from which media can be organized further into Albums. My Folders panel appears in the left pane below Albums. From this panel, you can manage folders, add files to your catalog, and add or remove folders from Watch Folders status.
There are two views in which the folder structure is displayed.
Tree view
In the Folders panel, switch between the Tree and List views. The Tree view helps determine the physical location of the media present in that folder. Sub-folders of a folder are not displayed by deafult in tree view. Select a folder, right-click (Windows)/Control+click (Mac OS) and select Show All SubFolders to view the Sub-folders of a folder.
List view
This view is displayed by default in the Folders panel. This view is a basic folder structure and you can click on any of the folder to view the media available in that folder.
By default, the folder panel displays all of the folders on your hard disk from which media has been imported into Elements Organizer.
Folders containing managed files have a Managed folder icon 
. Managed files are files that are imported into a catalog, either manually or automatically. Watched folders have a Watched folder icon 
Note:
The Watched Folder option is disabled for network drives.
Elements Organizer automatically imports compatible files saved in watched folders. Folders that are both managed and watched have a Watched And Managed folder icon.
You can view files in a folder and perform different operations using the options available in the My Folders panel.
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Select the folder from which you want to move a file to a different folder.
To move the file to a different folder, drag the file’s thumbnail in the Media view to the destination folder in the folder panel.
To view the folder in Explorer, right-click/control-click in the folder hierarchy panel and choose Reveal In Explorer (Windows)/Reveal in Finder (Mac OS).
To add or remove the folder from watched-folder status, right-click in the left panel, and choose Add To Watched Folders or Remove From Watched Folders.
To rename the folder, right-click (Windows)/Control+click (Mac OS) the folder and choose Rename Folder. Then type a new name.
To delete the folder, right-click (Windows)/Control+click (Mac OS) in the folder hierarchy panel and choose Delete Folder.
You can create instant albums from the folder panel. All the images in the selected folder are added to the instant album. To instantly create an album by the folder name, select the folder, right-click (Windows)/Control+click (Mac OS), and select Create Instant Album.
You can change the size of thumbnails of media files, or refresh them after editing the media files in another application. In addition, you can quickly rotate the thumbnails so they appear correctly in the window.
- To incrementally change the size of the thumbnail, drag the thumbnail slider in the Zoom bar.
- To display the smallest thumbnails possible, move the zoom bar to extreme left(start) of the slider.
- To display a single media file, move the zoom bar to the right of extreme right (end) of the slider.
- To refresh the thumbnail view, choose View > Refresh.
- To rotate an image counterclockwise, click Rotate Left from the task pane; to rotate an image clockwise, click Rotate Right
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Select a media file in the Media view to work with it. A selected thumbnail is highlighted with a dark blue outline.
To select a single item, click its thumbnail.
To select multiple adjacent items, hold down Shift and click the first and last items you want to select.
To select multiple nonadjacent items, hold down Ctrl+click (Windows)/Command+click (Mac OS) the items you want.
To select or deselect all items in the Media view, choose Edit > Select All, or Edit > Deselect.
You can choose to display details for each thumbnail, and also how certain details are displayed in the Media view. Also, you can add and edit captions including audio captions, and add and edit date and time information.
You can edit information related to a media file. For example, you can edit date, attached tags, filename, caption, and audio caption.
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To edit or add a text caption, select View > Details, right-click (Windows)/Control+click (Mac OS), and select Add Caption.
To add, listen to, or edit an audio caption, select View > Details, and double-click the photo. Click the Record Audio Caption button
.To change the date assigned to a media file, select the thumbnail, choose Edit > Adjust Date and Time. Specify the options from the dialog boxes that appear.
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You can change dates by a single click. To enable this feature, select Edit> Preferences> General (Windows), or Adobe Elements Organizer > Preferences > General (Mac OS). In the Preferences dialog, select. Click the date and make the required changes.
You can import RAW, DCIM, or NEF format files saved on your computer (Import > From Files and Folders), or directly from your camera (Import > From Camera or Card Reader).
Once imported, these files can be seen in your Elements Organizer view.
Click View > File Names to view the file name extensions of all your files.
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If a particular RAW file does not import, then check whether your version of Adobe Camera Raw is up-to-date. If not, download and install the latest version of Camera Raw, and check whether you are able to import your RAW file.
In Elements Organizer, you can find photos and media files by: date, visual similarity, star rating, album, folder location, filename, media type, keyword tag, text, or other criteria. You can also sort files in any grouping in chronological, reverse-chronological, or album order.
For more information on searching for specific media, see Searching for media files.
Click Find > By Visual Searches > Duplicate Photos.
Elements Organizer quickly scans through your photos, and displays photos that are identical, or very similar. You can then select unwanted photos and remove them from the catalog.
How do I stack or unstack photos? How do I view individual photos in a stack? How do I remove a specific photo from a stack of photos?
Stack photos
To stack photos, select a set of photos, right-click (Windows)/Control+click (Mac OS) choose Stack > Stack Selected Photos. You can also right-click (Windows)/Control+click (Mac OS) a set of photos and let Elements Organizer automatically stack similar looking photos, by clicking Stack > Automatically Suggest Photo Stacks.
Unstack photos
To unstack photos, right-click (Windows)/Control+click (Mac OS) a stack of photos and click Stack > Unstack Photos.
View stacked photos
To view photos in a stack without actually unstacking the set, right-click (Windows)/Control+click (Mac OS) the photo stack, click Stack > Expand Photos in Stack. All the photos in the stack are visible in the Media view.
To collapse expanded photos back into the stack, right-click the original photo in the stack (the one with the Stack icon), and click Stack > Collapse Photos in Stack.
Remove a photo from a stack
To remove a photo from an expanded stack of photos, right-click (Windows)/Control+click (Mac OS) the photo in stack, and click Stack > Remove Photo from Stack.
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