Importing media by searching

Do one of the following:

• Click Import. Select By Searching.
• Select File > Get Photos And Videos > By Searching.

Select a search option from the Look In menu.

Select options to limit your search:

Excludes folders from the search that are unlikely to contain your media files.

Includes files large enough to be full-resolution photos. Enter a minimum file size, in kilobytes, in the KB textbox.

Note: By default, removable media (such as CDs and DVDs) and network drives are not searched.

Click Search. The search may take a while. Click Stop Search if you want to stop the search.

The search returns all folders that contain photos and video files.

From the search results, click a folder to select it. To select more than one folder, press Ctrl(Win)/Cmnd(Mac OS) and click another folder name. You can preview the items in a folder by clicking the folder name in the list.

(Optional) Select Automatically Fix Red Eyes to fix photos with red eye problems as they are imported into Elements Organizer.

Click Import Folders. The photos appear in the Media view.

Choose File > Watch Folders.

Click Add, and then browse to the folder.

Select the folder, and then click OK. The folder name appears in the Folders To Watch list.

Choose File > Watch Folders.

Choose one of the following options:

• Watch Folders and their Sub-Folders for New Files: This checkbox has to be selected to activate the watching folders feature.

• Notify Me: to choose whether files are added to your catalog.

• Automatically Add Files To Elements Organizer: to have the media files added to your catalog as soon as they are detected.

In the Elements Organizer, choose File > Get Photos And Videos > From Files And Folders from the menu.

In the dialog box, navigate to the folder that contains the files you want to bring into the Elements Organizer. Use the Look In menu and the other navigation controls along the top and left.

Hold the pointer over a file to display information about the photo, or select it to display a preview. On Mac OS, the Finder is used to display a preview of the photo.

Do one of the following to select photos:

• To get a single media file, select it.

• To get multiple media files, Ctrl-click/Cmd-click to select the files you want. Or, click the first file, and then Shift-click the last file in the list that you want.

• To get all the media files in a folder, navigate up one level from your current level in the Get Photos And Videos From Files And Folders dialog box and select the desired folder. To get photos from subfolders within the folder, select Get Photos From Subfolders.

Set file-specific import options:

Fixes red eye problems as the files are downloaded.

Suggests photo stacks for you according to date and visual similarity.

Click Get Media. The media files appear in the Elements Organizer.

In the Elements Organizer, from the Import > My Folders menu, select the folder location.

The folder hierarchy panel opens on the left side of the Media view.

In the folder hierarchy panel, browse to the folder containing the files you want to import.

Right-click/Control-click the folder, and select Import media.

The Getting media dialog box will report whether files were imported.

Click OK.

In Elements Organizer (Windows), select Edit > Preferences > Files. In Mac OS, select Adobe Elements Organizer 11 > Preferences > Files.

Under Offline Volumes, choose the pixel dimensions for the preview files. A 640 x 480 size is good in most cases. Use a smaller size if you want to conserve space on your computer, or a larger size for better display quality.

In the Elements Organizer, select File > Get Photos And Videos > From Files And Folders.

Navigate to your CD or DVD drive, and select the photos you want to copy.

(Optional) Select either of the following:

Makes a full-resolution copy of the file on your hard disk.

Makes a low-resolution copy of the file on your hard disk, saving disk space.

(Optional) If you’re keeping a master photo offline, type in a volume name for the CD or DVD on which it resides, and write this name on the disc itself. This will make it easy for you to find and download the master when prompted.

(Optional) Select Automatically Fix Red Eyes if you would like Elements Organizer 11 to repair red eyes as soon as the photos are brought into the Elements Organizer 11.

(Optional) Select Automatically Suggest Photo Stacks if you would like Elements Organizer to group visually similar photos, letting you decide whether to place any such groups into stacks.

Click Get Media to bring your photos into the Elements Organizer.

If the photos contain keyword metadata, the Import Attached Tags dialog box appears.

In the Editor, choose File > Import > Frame From Video.

In the Frame From Video dialog box, click Browse to navigate to the video from which you want to acquire still frames, and then click Open.

To start the video, click Play .

To get a frame of the video as a still image, click Grab Frame or press the spacebar when the frame is visible on the screen. You can move forward and backward in the video to capture additional frames.

When you have all the frames you want, click Done.

Select File > Save to save each still file to a folder on your computer.