Display views of keyword tag search results, Find untagged media files, Clear a keyword tag search – Adobe Elements Organizer 9 User Manual
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Finding media files in Elements Organizer
Last updated 9/12/2011
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To exclude media files with certain keyword tags from the search, right-click/control-click those tags in the
Keyword Tags panel and choose Exclude Photos With [tag, category, or subcategory name] From Search Results.
Note: Using the Exclude Photos command, you can search for media files that have, for example, only you in them. You
do this by searching for your tag, and then excluding the entire People tag category. The results are media files that have
only you in them and no other people.
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Find media files by details (metadata)
Display views of keyword tag search results
When you search using keyword tags, Elements
Organizer groups the results of the search in views of best matches,
close matches, and groups that do not match. By default, the Media Browser displays the view of best matches. You
can select other views.
1 Click Options next to the Show All button to open the search criteria pop-up menu.
2 Select either Hide Best Match Results, or Show Results That Do Not Match. Results are grouped as follows:
Best matches
These media files are tagged with all the search criteria keyword tags. As you add more keyword tags to
refine your search, fewer best matches appear.
Close matches
Media files tagged with one or more (but not all) of the search criteria keyword tags are called close
matches. Closely matching media files have a blue circle with a white check mark in their thumbnails
. For example,
if you search using more than one Place category tag, photos with just one of the Place category keyword tags show up
as best matches. Select this group to view media files containing any of the keyword tags you searched for.
To automatically display close matches after a search, choose Edit > Preferences > General, or Adobe Elements 9
Organizer > Preferences > General, and select Show Closely Matching Sets For Searches, and then click OK.
Not matching
These media files don’t have any of the search criteria keyword tags attached to them. They have a Not
icon in their thumbnails
.
Find untagged media files
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In the Media Browser, choose Find
> Untagged Items.
All the media files in your catalog that don’t have keyword tags assigned to them appear in the Media Browser.
Clear a keyword tag search
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To return to all the media files in your catalog, click Show All.
Search based on a selected keyword tag
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Right-click/control-click a tag and then choose New Search Using [tag, category, or subcategory name].