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Photoshop Elements Tutorial. Learn Adobe Photoshop Elements in a Day. 3. You can access Photoshop Element’s tools and features in any combination of …

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Photoshop Elements Tutorial
Learn Adobe Photoshop Elements in a Day 3
You can access Photoshop Element’s tools and features in any combination of
three ways: choose commands from the pull-down menus, click on icons in palettes
(windows with tools), or use keyboard shortcuts (pressing one or two keys on the
keyboard).
Q-Tip - Recipes and Hints for Success
Unlike Photoshop, Photoshop
Elements features some built in
“training wheels”. One of the most
user-friendly is “Recipes.” These are
step-by-step instructions for doing
specific tasks such as removing redeye.
They even have “do it for me”
buttons to automate some of the
processes. We’ll work with some recipes in just a bit. Elements
also includes a Hints box that pops up to offer contextual help when you use a tool.
Pausing the mouse over a tool causes a description of the tool to pop up onscreen.
Floating
palettes
Palette well
Pull-down
options
Standard
commands
Tools
palette
Menus
Options bar
Image
window
Close box
Hints
palette
Image information Helpful tipsPhotoshop Elements Tutorial
4 Learn Adobe Photoshop Elements in a Day
Exploring Menus
1. Pull down and examine most of the commands in the various menus (but
don’t actually select any of the commands). Can you guess what most of them
do? Commands are grayed out (dimmed) when not currently available.
2. Click the Maximize button in the upper right-hand corner of the window to
make Elements appear full screen. Notice the tabs in the upper right of the
screen; this is the palette well.
3. The tools palette floats, usually on the left side of the screen. This contains
your basic painting and editing tools. If you pause the mouse on a tool, its
name appears.
Tools palette
4. Notice how the settings in the upper left change as you click on different
tools. This is called the Options bar….