JerrysPhotos Loc: Arkansas

I have three different catalogs. Is there a way to tranfer categories and key words from one catalog to another one so that when I have the same photos in different catalogs, I do not have to retype the categories and key words again?

Thanks,

Jerry

saichiez Loc: Beautiful Central Oregon

With every new version of PSE, I immediately disable the Organizer. The Organizer is easily damaged (broken links) and the biggest waste of time. I simply imagine how many more images I could go out and capture while I WAS (at one time) trying to make the Organizer work. It Over Organizes and is frail. The tags, version sets, and stacks are of no value, when you may make a folder change in Windows and scramble the links in the Organizer and make it useless. I don't know how many times I have helped a friend who continuously has to delete his catalogs and scan for new ones.

The reason for his problems is that he partially uses the Organizer, but at times is inclined to wade into his My Pictures folder and move or rename, or restructure some of his folders in My Pictures. You cannot do that, once you have scanned and created catalogs in PSE. It "breaks" the links formed in the PSE Catalog. I can imaging that your query may create some of those very same broken links, but I am not an expert on the PSE Catalogs because I DO NOT use the Organizer.

You should ask your question on the very good Elements Forum, known as www.elementsvillage.com, If you persist in using the Organizer. Many there complain about it.

I finally got him to switch and do what I do. I manage all my image files in Windows using the folder structure in the Operating System.

I learned how to disable the Organizer easily by going to the forum www.elementsvillage.com and seeing how many people dislike and do not use the Organizer.

Managing my images in the Windows Pictures folder removes the onus and time requirements of PSE Organizer,,, the worst organization system I have ever encountered.

Oh yes, and by the way, I am a 20 year Community College Community Ed instructor and one of my courses is entitled "Managing Your Digital Photos."

I endorse no organizers that are linked to, or part of, Image Editing programs. Learn to do it in Windows and you are never hamstrung by any constraints fabricated by programmers often paid too much to create and add features to already complex software. In the software market, it's the addition of features that sell software, not the usefulness or efficiency of the features, And the word for it is "Software Bloat".

As hardware development gives us more and more speed, the Software publishers attack every new advance in speed with "Software Bloat" to make their software look like it offers more. Often all it really does is slow your computer down, or create problems so you won't notice the impact on speed, but rather think YOU are doing something wrong. You are probably just fine, but your software makes you feel inferior.

Go take more pictures. Save the really good ones. Don't try to salvage images that are not truly great from the camera. Just Shoot.... Shoot.... and Shoot.

Digital cameras are like Assault Rifles. I bagged a lot more deer and elk when I bought my first AK47... The downside was that the multitude of bullets in the meat made much of my bagged meat inedible.

Same with the switch to Digital from film. The Post Processing however... Lame and another story altogether. It's surprising how much of the meat cannot be saved in Post Processing. Too many shots.

I shoot digital, but I really don't shoot many more images than I did with film. I carry a number of small memory cards and I limit each card to 24 or 35 exposures per card. That'll improve your keeper rate. Also, I don't chimp and I don't discard/delete images in the field. That will make an honest photographer out of you.

I do begrudge some of the advances in image editing software, except it gives me more classes to teach, ie more money. I like the money part.

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JerrysPhotos Loc: Arkansas

Thanks for you reply, it certainly gives me something to think about............

Dback4430 Loc: Lockport Il

Any kind words for mac users like myself ?

FilmFanatic Loc: Waikato, New Zealand

If you want to use PSE to edit your images an excellent catalog tool is Phase One's Media One (I think that is what it is called). Used to be iView Mediapro and I used that for many years with great success

JerrysPhotos Loc: Arkansas

Thanks Film, I will look for it.....