Adobe Elements Organizer 12 - Manual (Page 121)

Grouping photos in version sets
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About version sets
Manually save a version set
View all photos in a version set
Specify the top photo in a version set
Revert to the original version of a photo
Remove or delete photos from a version set
Edit photos in a version set
About version sets
A version set is a type of stack that contains one original photo and its edited versions. Version sets make it easy to find both the edited
versions of an image and the original, because they are visually stacked together.
When you edit a photo with Instant Fix, organizer automatically puts the photo and its edited copy together in a version set. When you edit a photo
in Editor, choose File > Save As, you can select the Save In Version Set With Original option to put the photo and its edited copy together in a
version set.
If you edit a photo that’s already in a stack, the photo and its edited copy are put in a version set that is nested in the original stack. If you edit a
photo that’s already in a version set, the edited copy is placed at the top of the existing version set. Elements Organizer does not nest version sets
within version sets—a version set can contain only one original and its edited versions.
In general, only photos can be stacked in version sets.
Tips for working with version sets
Keep the following in mind when working with version sets:
Edit your image in Elements Organizer. Using an external editor (not opened from Elements Organizer) breaks the database link, so
Elements Organizer can’t track the edit history of the image files and update the version set. You can’t manually add a file to a version set,
but you can use the Stack command to stack these types of versions.
If you apply a keyword tag to a collapsed version set, the tag is applied to all items in the set. If you apply it to a single photo in an expanded
set, the tag is applied only to that photo. When you search for a tag, each photo in a version set containing that tag will be displayed as an
individual photo in the search results.
It’s possible to stack version sets. The stacked version sets appear as a single stack with the newest photo placed on top. Although regular
stacks are merged when stacked together, version sets are preserved when stacked together.
If the version set contains only the original and the edited version and you delete one of the two, the remaining photo appears unstacked
(not part of a version set) in the Media view. If the version set was nested in a stack, the photo appears without the version set icon when
you expand the stack.
To find all version sets, choose Find > All Version Sets.
You can remove or delete individual photos from a version set, and you can convert the version set to individual photos so that each photo in
the set appears separately in your catalog.
You can access most version set commands by right-clicking or by using the Edit menu.
You can see the edit history of photos in a version set in the History tab of the Properties panel.
Manually save a version set
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