The key to handling your vacation photos for the Windows version of Elements 3 or 4 is the new Elements Organizer. This powerful program has so many features and capabilities that it’s hard to decide which step to do first. But once you understand how Organizer works, you can adopt and regularly follow a logical workflow system and be able to accomplish so much with only minimum time and effort. There’s a lot to cover for a program with as many features as Organizer, so I’ve split up my roadmap of the Organizer steps to take for your vacation photos into two portions. This Part Two of the Quick Guide to Vacation Photos provides some crucial fundamental understandings of how Organizer works and how you should begin to work with it.

1. What is the Organizer?
If you’re used to working with Photoshop Elements 2 (or perhaps a prior version of the full Photoshop program) you may remember trying to work with the File Browser function. The Elements or Photoshop File Browser widows displayed thumbnails of graphics image files in a window that permitted moving through the folder structure and scrolling through the thumbnails for each folder to visually identify the image file you wanted to open. The File Browser closely resembled the familiar My Computer Explorer widow, but it was automatically restricted to image file formats that were readable in Photoshop, including the Photoshop PSD format.

My personal experience with both the Elements and the full Photoshop browser windows was that opening them up took forever, as they had to identify and create thumbnails for all the image files for each folder. And that great delay was on a lucky day. Many times attempting to use the File Browser would just lock up the program or my entire computer, forcing a reboot.

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