PSE 12 -- Question on searching organizer

Question

Hi -  I recently upgraded to PSE 12 from pse 9. 
I spent a lot of time tagging my photos -- primarily people and location -- and am trying to search on location and time/date to select photos. 
Here' the scenario.  Each year we go to the outer banks, so my outer banks pictures are tagged with a place called outerbanks.  I would like to pull up photos from my 2011 trip to the Outerbanks without pulling up phtos from other years.  What I want to do is select all photos with an outerbanks place tag and all photos with metadata date created of August 2011. 
I cannot find a way to combine metadata and tag searches.
Note -  I realize that I could create an event called outer banks 2011 and assign all outerbanks 2011 pictures, same for outerbanks 2012, etc... My preference would be to use the data we already have ( place and metadata tag <date created>) to select. 
Any help would be appreciated. 
Thanks,
Matt

Answer 1

Hi,
Metadata is not the same as tags although metadata may include the tags.
When you first import an image into elements, the metadata (camera info etc.) is read and stored in the catalog. Whenever you create and apply tags, they are stored in the catalog. The tags may get written to the metadata area of an image at a later stage.
To find the images that mattman99 wanted, you need to go to Find -> Find by Details (Metadata) and fill the form in similar to this.
If Outerbanks is a Keyword tag :-
or, if Outerbanks is a Place tag
Note that you need the All option. The search can be saved for later use.
There are other ways, using timelines and things.
Hope that helps
Brian