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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements Excel in digital photography and image editing for print and web using Photoshop Elements 2019

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789808155
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
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Preface 1. Photoshop Elements Features Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch 3. The Basics of Image Editing 4. Image Makeover 5. Easy Creative Projects 6. Advanced Editing Techniques 7. Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques 8. Exporting the Finished Work 9. Best Practices A. Common Feature Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Managing Catalogs

The Catalog Manager (Organizer | File | Manage Catalogs) is used for several tasks. These include the following:

  • Create new catalogs.
  • Rename existing catalogs.
  • Convert a previous, older version of Elements catalogs to the new version of the software.
  • Optimize a catalog—this helps reduce its size, making it more efficient.

It's quite important to ensure that your backed up catalog is saved to a location that is different to where the default catalog is stored. For most, this means saving it to an entirely different drive – in the following illustration, there are five different drives available for backup:

Managing Catalogs

While a software-driven data backup is a good procedure to set up for all users, it might not back up your Photoshop Elements catalog. And even if it did, it wouldn't be in a format that Elements can recognize, should you need to restore it after a software mishap.

The catalog is where all your hard work is stored: tags, keywords, albums, captions, places...

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