Creating albums and album categories

Albums in Elements Organizer are like physical photo albums, where you can store and organize photos in groups of your choice. For example, you can create an album called “Ten Best Vacation Photos” and add ten of your favorite images.

You can drag the photos within an album to arrange them in any order you want. You can add a photo to more than one album.

You can organize albums in groups. You can also create multiple levels of album categories. For example, you can have an album category titled “My Asia Trip,” containing the album “Ten Best Japan Photos,” along with another album called “Ten Best China Photos,” and so on, for each country in Asia you visited.

Instead of manually selecting photos for including in an album, you can create Saved Searches with criteria for selecting photos. Each Saved Search is an album that dynamically collects photos that match the criteria specified for the Saved Search. For example, if the criterion for a Saved Search is to collect photos with the keyword tag ‘Chiara”, you can open the Saved Search to view all photos with the keyword tag ‘Chiara”.

Creating albums and album categories

You can create, edit, and manage albums in the Albums panel in the left panel of Elements Organizer.

• Create, edit, rename, and delete albums.

• View albums and album categories. Scroll up and down the list of albums, as needed. Click the triangle  beside an album category to expand or collapse the albums under it.

• Organize albums within album categories.

• Display photos of an album.

Create an album or an album category

You can create an album consisting of your media or a group of new albums. For example, you can create an album category called “Vacations” and create separate albums within it, one album for each set of vacation photographs.

Create an album

Create an album category

Create sub-albums within parent albums

You can nest albums within the parent album category by selecting New Album Category by selecting the drop-down or the + button next to My Albums in the Albums panel at the top-left. Type the Album Category Name > select Parent Album Category, you want the sub-album to be created within the desired parent album.

Create instant albums using folder names

You can automatically create an instant album with the same name as a folder on your hard disk. Creating instant albums this way is useful when you’ve used descriptive folder names to organize the media files on your hard disk. It also helps to quickly add your managed media files with those same folder names.

Add photos to an album

Add photos to multiple albums

Display photos in an album

As the same photo can be in multiple albums, you can view only one album at a time.

Sort photos in an album

You can sort the photos within an album in chronological, reverse-chronological, or album order.

Customize the order of photos in an album

Apart from the default sort order (Newest/Oldest/Import batch) provided by Elements Organizer, you can also customize the order of your photos.

Designate an album during photo download

You can designate an album to which the media is downloaded to while using the Photo downloader or select Import > From Camera or Card Reader. Click here to read about the procedure to reach the Photo download option.

Export or import an album structure

Album structures contain the album names and album categories created by you. You can save your current set of albums and album category names, including their organization in the Albums panel and their icons. This structure can be shared with other users.

You can share album structures with others by exporting or importing them. For example, you have a set of albums representing different museums you’ve visited with friends. By saving and exporting your album set, your friends, who have also visited those museums, can import that album structure (not the photos in it) and use it for their photos. Alternately, you can import the album structure of one of your friends and apply it to your photos.

Export an album structure

You can share album structures with others by exporting yours.

Import an album structure

You can import an existing hierarchy of album categories into the Albums panel, where you can use it for your own photos.