Creating an Album in Photoshop Elements 10

Synopsis: In this article we look at how to create a Photo Album in Photoshop Elements 10. We also see how to add and remove photos.

Although your photos are stored in digital form when you’re working in PSE 10, and you may use the facilities of the Organizer to make selections from them, you may well still want to create albums to email to your family and friends, to publish on the Internet, or to print out for viewing offline.

Let’s see how to create an album.

In the Organizer, select the dropdown next to the “+” sign below Albums.

Click New Album. The Album Details dialog appears in the Organizer Panel on the right.

Notice that any images that were selected are automatically added to the album when it is created. In this case, a stack has been added. I’ll remove it later.

If you have album categories setup, you can choose one now. Select the dropdown next to Album Category.

This time I’m going to select Water as the category. Now enter a name for the album. I’m going to call it “They’re Not All Fish”.

Now it’s time to add photos to the album. Here I’ve identified one of the photos to include. It’s selected and you can see the light gray selection frame around it.

To add it to the album, just drag it into the Content Panel.

You don’t have to drag to add photos to the album. If you select one or more images then right click, a shortcut menu appears. One of the options on the menu is Add Selected Items. You can click that and all of the selected photos will be added to the album.

Another option on the shortcut menu is Add All. Clicking this causes all currently displayed photos in the Organizer to be added.

I’ve added a few more photos to the album, and the content now looks like this.

To remove one or more photos from the album, select them and then press the “-“ sign at the bottom right of the Content Panel. Here I’m removing that first photo as I don’t need it in the album.

When you have finished adding photos to an album, click Done near the bottom of the panel. The album now appears in the list in the Albums Panel on the right.

You don’t need to open an album to add another photo to it. You can either select the photo in the Media Browser and drag it into the album in the Albums Panel, or drag the album from the Albums Panel onto the photo in the Media Browser. Either approach works.

To see all of the photos that are included in an album in the Media Browser, right click on the album name as shown here.

Select the last item on the shortcut menu “Find items in They’re Not All Fish” album and the images will be displayed in the Media Browser. (You can also do this by just clicking on the album name.)

Note that the photos are all numbered in the top left hand corner. The numbers correspond to the order of the photos in the album. You can change the order by dragging a photo to a new position. Here I’m going to drag photo numbered 5 to a new position between 1 and 2. This is the new sequence.

To rename an album, select it in the Albums Panel, right click and select Edit and the album name. You can then change the album name in the Content Panel by editing the contents of the field Album Name.

And finally, to delete an album, right click its name in the Album Panel and choose the Delete option.

Simon Calder

Chris “Simon” Calder was working as a Project Manager in IT for one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious cultural institutions, LACMA. He taught himself to use Microsoft Project from a giant textbook and hated every moment of it. Online learning was in its infancy then, but he spotted an opportunity and made an online MS Project course - the rest, as they say, is history!