Teach_Yourself_Photoshop_Elements_2

GET STARTED FAST IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS

T

he Organizer enables you to

perform common photo fixes with

a couple of clicks, but these tools

won’t always get your shots

looking their best. Automatic fixing tools

such as Levels can end up changing an

image’s colour in unwanted ways, for

instance. The Auto Sharpen command

doesn’t let you control the amount of

contrast change around the edges of objects

in the shot, so they may not look sharp

enough. At some stage you’ll need to take an

ailing shot into the Expert mode to access its

more sophisticated (and creative) image-

editing tools. We’ll take a look at the Expert

editing mode to help you find your way

around it and make it work for your specific

image-editing needs.

Kick off by holding down Shift and

clicking a couple of shots in the Organizer

(such as our ty_elements02.jpg and ty_

elements12.jpg landscapes). Go to the main

menu and choose Edit>Edit with Photoshop

Elements Editor. Alternatively, click the

Editor button at the bottom of the Organizer

workspace. This will display your shots in

the Expert editing mode workspace. As its

name suggests, the Expert mode workspace

gives you access to the biggest collection of

photo-fixing tools.

Each editing mode – Expert, Guided and

Quick – has its own unique workspace, as

you’ll discover while working through this

book. Here we’ll focus on the Expert editing

mode because this contains all the main tools

and commands. You can also customise the

Expert editing mode so that it suits your

needs, such as placing popular panels like the

Layers panel closer to hand, for example.

Set up your workspace

in Expert mode

Customise the Elements Expert editing mode workspace

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