Creating folders / deleting photos elements 15

many thanks

mike3763  wrote Hi All I have several questions mainly on deleting photos. I take a lot of photos on airdays and subsequently have a lot of inferior ones. 1. How do I create a folder say "Airday" and  transfer the photos? 2. Once created and transferred how do protect the folder an delete other one.? 3. If I rate photos can I delete non rated ones ? Thanks in advance Mike

Elements uses its 'organizer'. It's a an asset management tool based on catalogs and sqlite databases just like Lightroom.

You can see it as a tool to issue commands to your Explorer or finder (and replacing them), for instance you create folders, move files or folders, delete or rename them... but the originality is that the organizer does not contain any file, it stores the useful information about your media files in a powerful database.

- the pointers to the location of the media files on your drive(s)

- the important information supplied by your camera exif

- your tags, categories, captions, albums and much more you create yourself.

The advantages are huge:

- extreme speed to retrieve multicriteria searches.

- ability to create your own virtual keyword hierarchies for keywords or albums. No need to work on the folders and subfolders hierarchies, even if you can also manage them.

So, photographers with your requirements do use the same processes as with Lightroom.

Some prefer to use external tools to appraise the quality of their images and do the culling before 'importing' (indexing) in the database. Then they only import the selected files they have moved to a new folder. That can be made from the Explorer or other free external tools like Faststone.

Others, like me, always use only the organizer. It can do everything from downloading to managing, culling and deleting.

They import everything from your cards or cameras. That means updloading in a chosen folder (you assign a default one or choose at download time). The process indexes all the files in the database, retrieves all exif info and creates thumbnails for fast visual searches.

- You can select files by 'import batches'

- You can rate them, assign keywords

- You can delete them, rename them, move them to other folders.

Just a note about deleting files from the organizer:

It takes time, especially with very big batches. It's better to assign a keyword like 'to be deleted' to your rejected files and to batch delete them as a night job.

My advice: download the pdf manual and ask here for more details.

https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/elements-organizer_reference.pdf

Hi Mike.  You have actually posted in the wrong forum, this being the Photoshop CC forum, but we can move the thread to the Elements forum.   With Photoshop we'd use Bridge, and run through the images using something Ctrl 1 to give a shite picture one star.  Then use the filter to display only the 1 star images, and delete them.  I believe Elements has something similar called Organiser, and I strongly suspect that will have similar functions.   I have heard that in some ways, Elements is actually better than the full Photoshop.  I am sure that the guys over there will have all the answers

Good luck.