Get organized.

It's almost march break. Hope everyone is excited, because I know I sure am! But before we can get excited over march break, we need to finish the remaining two days of school, and that means learning!
So today, we started looking at how to organize pictures on Photoshop 5. You can simply put thousands of pictures into your computer, you need to keep organized, using Photoshop.
Photo downloader creates a sub folder for the pictures you are uploading. And each time you upload pictures onto your computer, it will create a new sub folder. The disadvantage of this feature is that every time you upload a set of pictures, it automatically fixes the pictures for you, whether you want it or not. For example it gets rid of red eyes etc. So in order to prevent it from doing that, you can turn it off. Go to Edit,Preferences and it will give you the option of turning it off or on.
Tagging a picture is a very effective way to organize your pictures. There are many ways in which you can organize your pictures. It will automatically organize your pictures by date, by name, by how recently you have taken your picture etc.
Under create you can create photo book pictures. This feature will let you create a page for your book. Lets say you want to make a bunch of pictures and turn it into a collage looking image. For example, you can choose in what position your pictures are in, in a line, in different positions on your page, you can choose which pictures to put on the page book and which ones to put on the second, third, or any other page that you want. It is kind of like a cover page for a book!
You can make as many collections of pictures you want, on photoshop, but it will not affect the pictures on your computer. But when you are trying to organize pictures on your own, you are most likely to end up with duplicates of a picture. But with photoshop, you can change anything, and it will not change the location, or the amount of pictures on your hard drive. Now backing up is different from having duplicates of a picture. Backing up is when you have a copy of your picture stored so that if you have messed up a picture, you have the original copy. But having duplicates is when you are trying to sort pictures but you accidentally end up with more than one of the same picture.
XF file is a picture that has information attached to it, but you can't see it, even if you print it.
For example, someone send yous a picture that has information attached to it, and say a teacher comes by and asks you what you are doing, you will say that you are simply, and innocently, looking at a picture, when you are really reading, or listening to the message it holds. The good thing is that the teacher will not find out, and if you print the picture, you will not see the message.
Here's something cool. If you don't have a printer at home and can't print pictures, and your too lazy to go to the store and let them print it for you, you can drag your picture(s) onto the Order Prints toolbar, fill out a form, and they will mail the pictures to you!!
So why not get photoshop to help you get organized in a blink of an eye!!

That's all for now,
Bye.

- Peggy .