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Sort and filter your files to get exactly what you need to see.

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To open the filters panel in the menu bar, choose window filter.

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The key to understanding the filter panel is to understand that the filter

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categories that you see in the panel are the ones that are currently available

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based on the metadata of the files and folders in the current tap of the content panel.

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Keeping an eye on the filter panel, notice

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that when I change the contents panel, the categories in the filter panel

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change. Let's take a look at that one more time. I'm just going to go ahead and click to open one of these

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kits. And you can see that the categories in the filter panel have changed once again.

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Again, these categories are based on the files and folders that are currently showing

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in the content panel. Another thing that you should know about the filter panel is that filters

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are not sticky. For example, in this kit here, let's

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say I wanted to filter by just JPEG images. So that's basically going

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to give me cards and papers. And then if I decide to go back and choose

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a different kit to look at, notice that the filter panel has been

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reset. It doesn't remember the filter that I had applied to the other contents.

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So in short, filters are not globally sticky by default.

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Now, of course, there are some exceptions. So let's say in this kit by Carol W.

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I decide again to filter by the JPEG files. So I'm only seeing

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her papers. And then I decide to go over here and look at my photos.

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And in this content tab, I am going to filter by just the

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camera raw images. Now, just two images are

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showing. If I go back to that content tab that had the kit, that filter is still applied.

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So all that to say that a filter will stick in a tab until

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you change the contents of that tab. Now, if you want your filter to stick while

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you're browsing in a content tab. For example, I want to look at just

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the JPEG files that are in several kits that I want to look at. And so, I want

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that filter to be sticky. Then in the filter panel, click

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on the keep filter when browsing icon. That's this little thumbtack.

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Okay, so with this thumbtack active in the filter panel, I have that filter of

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just showing me JPEG files, which is generally going to give me papers and maybe

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some cards and definitely previews. Now, in my kits tab,

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I can go back to the kit and notice in this folder, it's not showing me any items, and that's

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because in my kits folder, there are no JPEG files, but I can click on this drop-down

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menu next to kits, and that's going to show me all the kits I have available in that file. So, I'm

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going to go down here and choose one from little butterfly wings, and now that's going to show me

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all the JPEGs, I didn't have to change the filter panel. Okay, next let's take a look

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at how to actually use the filter panel. I'm going to close all

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of those categories and uncheck the browsing pin. So

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you may have already gleaned that to add a filter. You simply need to click

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on an arrow of one of the categories to expand it and then click on one

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of the filter options. Each additional checkmark that you make in the filter

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panel will narrow down the filtered content. To clear one

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of the filters, uncheck it in the filter panel. To clear

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all the filters that you've added, at the bottom of the filter panel, click on the clear

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filter icon. If you want certain categories to stop appearing in

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the filter panel. For example, if I were looking through kits, it's

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not really going to help me to know what date each of these things were created. Designers

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have all different dates. For example, in this kit, look at all these different dates that she has applied

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in the metadata of her images. So if I didn't want this to show up anymore,

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I could go up into the panel menu and uncheck any of the options that I didn't

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want to show up. So if I uncheck date created, then date created

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is going to disappear from the list of possible categories. Now date created

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is one of the categories that we'll use a lot in the photo modules. So I am going to go ahead

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and turn that back on. Also in this panel, like other panels,

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you can click on the panel menu and down at the bottom out of the viewing

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area, You can see that you have the option to expand all the categories or collapse

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all the categories. So I just collapsed all the categories that are shown here. And

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as a side note, there is a filter icon up here in the path bar.

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This filter icon has many options, but all of these options are also available

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in the filter panel if there's content that contains those categories.

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So I think this filter panel is pretty self-explanatory. We will be using this panel in future

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modules so you're going to see it again with many more examples. But for now I'm going to

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go ahead and close it by clicking on the panel menu and choose close panel. So that's how

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to use the filter panel. This has been Jen White.