Thinking about buying Elements

PSE's Organizer can be equated wth an old library card catalogue:  It is a snapshot of an image (A thumbnail) with some information (meta data) about the and where the image is-  Organizer does nothing to your original image.

You can tell organzier exactely where to look for images.   I actaull have images on 4 hard drives, but only have organizer montior things on one drive.

When I first used organzier I told it to find all images all all hard drives-BIG MISTAKE. It will find every single icon a prgram uses and every single image a program uses for whatever reason.

You can have Organzier actually delete your original images if you want- I don't talk about it much so people generally wont do it.   

You can make backups of just the catalogue (All those cards in the catalogue- 1 card perd image) or the catalogue and the image.   Many of us have over 100,000 images (I have about 225,000 last time I checked) on multiple hard drives.

If you move your images, manually move the folders from one drive to another the Organzier  will "lose them"---- any moving of folders / albums (collection of images) will have to been done using organizer for organzier to keep track of things.

It's easy to say "to heck with it" delete all the catalogues and start over- if you manully change the location of images.

A PROBLEM USERS ENCOUNTER:   Manually moving images (outside of organizer) and losing tags they have added to images.   Databases (a catalogue) can become corrupted.    With organzier many users do not create backups from within organizer, they use "Sam's backup software" to make backups--- backups for organizer need to be made using organizer. 

Here's a link to the trial version- it's good for 30 days, and is 100% fully functional.

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements/free-trial.html