# Find photos by using keyword tags

Keyword tags let you quickly find photos and other files. When you use keyword tags to find photos and media files, the Find bar expands to display the keyword tags you’ve selected. Searches begin as soon as you select the tags in the Keyword Tags palette.

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Search for photos with specific keyword tags by clicking the box next to the tag’s name.

- In the Keyword Tags palette, click the square next to the tag’s name, or drag the tag icon to the Find bar. You can include multiple keyword tags in a search.

  Photoshop Elements finds photos that have the keyword tags attached. If no photo matches all the tags in your search criteria, the Photo Browser displays closely matching photos containing a subset of the keyword tags.

- To define a range of time for the search, specify a Date option in the Photo Browser Arrangement menu, and then drag the Timeline end-point markers to the beginning and end of the range you want.
- To remove a tag from the search, double-click the tag in the Find bar. (Or click the Back button in the shortcuts bar to remove the last tag you added.)
- To exclude photos with certain keyword tags from the search, right-click those tags in the Keyword Tags palette and choose Exclude Photos With [tag, category, or subcategory name] From Search Results.
  Note: Using the Exclude Photos command, you can search for photos that have, for example, only you in them. You do this by searching for your tag, and then excluding the entire People tag category. The results are photos that have only you in them and no other people.

Related Information

- Search using the find bar
- About keyword tags
- Find photos by details (metadata)

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