Step By step Elements Organizer’s new features

Get to grips with smart tags for instant image sorting, and discover how to make quick edits

01 Search for Smart tags Go to the Elements 15 Organizer. Click the Media tab and use the Import button at top left to import new images. To access the new Smart Tags feature, click Search at top right. Then go to the icons that appear along the left edge and click Smart Tags. 03 correct mismatches

Elements thinks this yak is a goat, understandably. If an image is tagged incorrectly, click Grid to go back to that view, then right-click on the image and choose Remove Smart Tag. You can remove tags from several images at once by Ctrl-clicking to select them all.

05 choose an effect

Click the FX icon on the right to access quick, oneclick image effects – we’ve used Coral here. Next try clicking Smart Fix. This auto-corrects tones (if it looks wrong, click Undo). The next three icons – Light, Color and Clarity – let you manually alter those.

02 choose a Set

Your images appear in common categories. Browse through the list and select a group. You can also search for more than one smart tag. When two or more tags appear in the search bar, use the icon between them to choose And, Or or Exclude.

04 open instant fix

Rather than opening an image in the main Elements editor, sometimes it can be quicker to edit it directly within the Organizer with another new feature, Instant Fix. Highlight an image and click Instant Fix. First, grab the Crop tool at top right and crop in tighter.

06 Save the fix

Click Save at bottom right, then click Back. Notice that the edited image thumbnail has a ‘Version Set’ icon in its top right corner. This means that we can still access the original image. Go to View>details then click the black arrow beside the image to see it.