Finding media files by keyword tags

Click Options on the Find bar to open the search criteria pop‑up menu.

Select either Hide Best Match Results, Show/Hide Close Match Results, or Show/Hide Results That Do Not Match. Results are grouped as follows:

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.

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 white check mark on their thumbnails. For example, if you search using more than one keyword tag, photos with just one of the keyword tags show up as close matches. Select this group to view media files containing any of the keyword tags you searched for.

Tip: To automatically display close matches after a search, choose Edit > Preferences > General, or Adobe Elements Organizer 11 > Preferences > General, and select Show Closely Matching Sets For Searches, and then click OK.

These media files don’t have any of the search criteria keyword tags attached to them. They have a Non match icon in their thumbnails.

Make sure that the Keyword Tags panel is open.

Drag keyword tags onto the Find bar to refine your search. You can drag more than one tag to the Find bar at a time. Shift-click to select adjacent keyword tags or Control-click to select nonadjacent tags.

In the Find bar, right-click/control-click a tag, category, or subcategory, and choose one of the following:

• Remove [keyword tag, category, or subcategory name] from Search Results
• Exclude photos with [keyword tag, category, or subcategory name]

To clear the search and to close the Find bar click Clear.

In the Elements Organizer, choose Find > Untagged Items.

All the media files in your catalog that don’t have any keyword tags, smart tags, people, places, or events assigned are displayed.

To return to all the media files in your catalog, click All Media.

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• Rating is less than or equal to
• Rating is equal to

Select one of the stars in the star ratings filter.

Do one of the following:

• In the Advanced Search bar, right-click/control-click the tag of the media files you want to exclude from a search, and choose Exclude.

• Right-click/control-click one or more keyword tags in the find bar and choose Exclude Photos With [keyword tag, category, or subcategory name]. Or, double-click the tag to remove it from the find bar.