Are Instant Tags Available in Photoshop Elements 12 Organizer?

Question

This was a handy feature in previous versions, but I cannot find it in the '12' version. Am I missing something? Is there an alternative way to generate a tag from a folder name? Thanks

Answer 1

teddypierce a écrit:
Thanks for your response. Instant album is not quite the same thing as the instant tag previously available. Has the latter functionality actually been taken away?
I agree, it's slightly different. I think it has been  superseded by the 'instant albums' for good reasons. After all, while people think that albums and tags are very different (location of panels...), there are really two differences :
- albums have a sort order
- albums are stored only in the database, while tags can also be written to the files metadata.
The first reason is in favour of instant albums
The second one can be a real problem for instant tags when you write metadata to files : the instant tags are rarely meaningful and can be very long.
So it depends on your particular workflow. With the available search options in the organizer : by text search, by details, by import batch, it does not really matter if you create instant albums or tags. It's so quick to select what you want and assign either a new meaniningful tag or create a new album (generally temporary).