Grouping photos in version sets, About version sets – Adobe Elements Organizer 9 User Manual
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Grouping photos in version sets
About version sets
A version set
is a type of stack that contains one original photo and its edited versions. Version sets make it easy to
find both the edited versions of an image and the original, because they are visually stacked together instead of
scattered throughout the Media Browser.
Sample version set.
When you edit a photo with Auto Smart Fix, the Elements
Organizer automatically puts the photo and its edited copy
together in a version set. When you edit a photo in Edit Full or Edit Quick, and choose File
> Save As, you can select
the Save In Version Set With Original option to put the photo and its edited copy together in a version set.
If you edit a photo that’s already in a stack, the photo and its edited copy are put in a version set that is nested in the
original stack. If you edit a photo that’s already in a version set, the edited copy is placed at the top of the existing
version set. Elements
Organizer does not nest version sets within version sets—a version set can contain only one
original and its edited versions.
Collapsed version set inside a stack (top), and expanded version set that is part of the stack (bottom).
Note: In general, only photos can be stacked in version sets.
Tips for working with version sets
Keep the following in mind when working with version sets:
•
Edit your image in Elements
Organizer. Using an external editor (not opened from Elements
Organizer) breaks the
database link, so Elements
Organizer can’t track the edit history of the image files and update the version set. You
can’t manually add a file to a version set, but you can use the Stack command to stack these types of versions.
•
If you apply a keyword tag to a collapsed version set, the tag is applied to all items in the set. If you apply it to a single
photo in an expanded set, the tag is applied only to that photo. When you search for a tag, each photo in a version
set containing that tag will be displayed as an individual photo in the search results.