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What you see in the right part of the window changes occasionally, so it may not exactly match this image. The bottom of the screen has links for signing into your Photoshop. If you do that, this screen goes away—but so does Elements. Fortunately, the box on page 18 tells you how to permanently say goodbye to this screen.

The Welcome screen is a launchpad that lets you choose which part of Elements you want to use:. Organize button. This starts the Organizer, which lets you store and organize your image files.

Edit button. Click this for the Editor, which lets you modify your images. But in some ways, they function as two separate programs. Whichever method you use, your photo s appear in the Editor so you can work on them. One helpful thing to keep in mind is that Adobe built Elements around the assumption that most people work on their photos in the following way: First, you bring photos into the Organizer to sort and keep track of them.

The Welcome screen can also serve as your connecting point for signing onto Photoshop. The box below explains how to get rid of the Welcome Screen. This displays a pop-up window where you can choose to have the Editor or the Organizer start from now on instead of the Welcome Screen.

Just choose the program you want from the list that appears. If you change your mind later on about how you want Elements to open, at the top right of either the Editor or the Organizer, just click the little house icon to bring back the Welcome Screen, then head back to the Settings menu described above and make your change. The Organizer catalogs and keeps track of your photos, and you automatically come back to it for many activities that involve sharing photos, like emailing them Emailing Photos or creating an online gallery of them Online Albums.

In some previous versions of Elements it was called the Photo Browser , so you may hear that term, too. The Media Browser is your main Organizer workspace. Click the Create tab in the upper right and you can start all kinds of new projects with your photos, or click the Share tab for ways to let other people view your images. Click the arrow to the right of the Fix tab circled for a menu that gives you a choice of going to Full Edit, Quick Fix, or Guided Edit.

The Fix tab gives you access to some quick fixes right in the Organizer. The Organizer also gives you another way to look at your photos, Date view, which is explained in Chapter 2.

Its job is to pull photos from your camera or other storage device into the Organizer. After the Downloader does its thing, you end up in the Organizer. In Windows, the Downloader appears as one of your options in the Windows dialog box that you see when you connect a device. If you want to use the Downloader, then just choose it from the list.

You can read more about the Downloader in Chapter 2. If you plan to use the Organizer to catalog photos and assign keywords to them, then reading the section on the Downloader The Photo Downloader can help you avoid hair-pulling moments. Windows automatically creates a shortcut to Elements on your desktop when you install the program.

If you need help installing Elements, turn to Appendix A. You can also go to the Start menu, and then click the Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 icon. Adobe also gives you easy access to its Photoshop. With a Photoshop. Create your own website. You can make beautiful online albums that display your photos in elaborate slideshows—all accessible via your own personal Photoshop. They can even download your photos or order prints, if you choose to let them see Sharing a New Album.

Automatically back up and sync your photos. You can set Elements to sync the photos from your computer to storage space on Photoshop. See Online Syncing and Backups for more about how to use this feature.

Access your photos from other computers. Download extra goodies. The Content panel Photo Stamps displays thumbnails for additional backgrounds, frames, graphics, and so on, that you can download from Photoshop.

Get lots of great free advice. Call up the Photoshop Inspiration Browser The Inspiration Browser , and you can choose from a whole range of helpful tutorials for all sorts of Elements tasks and projects.

These Photoshop. See Installing Elements on a Mac for more about the regional differences. You automatically get your Photoshop. In the window that opens, fill in your information to create your Adobe ID. When you click Create Account, you get a message if the web address you chose is already in use.

Finally, for security purposes, you need to enter the text you see in a box on the sign-up screen. Click the Create Account button. Adobe tells you if it finds any errors in what you submitted and gives you a chance to go back and fix them. You need to click the link within 24 hours of creating your account, or you may have to start the whole process again. Once you have an account, you can get to it by clicking Sign In at the top of the Editor or Organizer. You can also look at the bottom of the Welcome screen to see how much free space you have left, as shown in Figure Once you sign into your Photoshop.

You also see a link to your personalized web address. If you already have an Adobe ID maybe you created one for another Adobe program or you have a Mac and you created one while installing Elements , you claim your Photoshop. A free Photoshop. You can also upgrade to a paid account called Plus , which gives you a bit more of everything: more template designs for Online Albums, more downloads from the Content panel, more tutorials, and more storage space 20— GB depending on what level membership you choose.

Once you sign into your account, Elements logs you in automatically every time you launch the program. You may also need to turn off syncing in the Organizer in the Windows Notification area at the bottom right of your screen or in the OS X menubar at the upper right of your screen to stay logged out.

The Editor Figure is the other main component of Elements. This is the fun part of the program, where you get to adjust, transform, and generally glamorize your photos, and where you can create original artwork from scratch with drawing tools and shapes. You can operate the Editor in three different modes:. Full Edit.

Most of the Quick Fix commands are also available via menus in the Full Edit window. The main Elements editing window, which Adobe calls Full Edit. This is where you have access to all the Elements editing features. Quick Fix. For many Elements beginners, Quick Fix Figure ends up being their main workspace. Chapter 4 gives you all the details on using Quick Fix.

Guided Edit. It provides step-by-step walkthroughs of popular projects such as cropping photos and removing blemishes from them. It also hosts some fun special effects and workflows for more advanced users see Special Effects in Guided Edit.

Use the Full, Quick, and Guided tabs near the top right of the Elements window to switch modes. To get rid of the lock and free up your image for Organizer projects, go back to the Editor and close the photo there. The Quick Fix window. When you first open the Editor, you may be dismayed at how cluttered it looks.

You can leave everything the way it is if you like a cozy area with everything at hand. Or, if you want a Zen-like empty workspace with nothing visible but your photo, you can move, hide, and turn off almost everything. Figure shows two different views of the same workspace.

To do that, just press the Tab key; to bring everything back into view, press Tab again. Two different ways of working with the same images, panels, and tools. You can use any arrangement that suits you. Top: The panels in the standard Elements arrangement, with the images in the regular tabbed view page Bottom: This image shows how you can customize your panels.

Here, the Project bin has been combined with other floating panels and the whole group is collapsed to icons. The images here are in floating windows page If you have a small monitor, you may find it wastes too much desktop acreage, and in Elements you need all the working room you can get.

The downside of this technique is that you lose the ability to switch from Full to Quick to Guided Edit if you do this. To get those navigation buttons back, you have to go back to the Window menu and turn the Panel bin on again.

You can also combine panels, as shown in Figure ; this works with both panels in the bin and freestanding panels. Top: A full-sized panel. Bottom left: A panel collapsed by double-clicking where the cursor is. Bottom right: The same panel collapsed to an icon by double-clicking the very top of it where the cursor is here. Double-click the top bar again to expand it. Top: Here, the Histogram panel is being pulled into, and combined with, the Layers panel.

You can also make a vertical panel group—where one panel appears above another—by letting go when you see a blue line at the bottom of the of the host panel, instead of an outline all the way around it as shown here. To remove a panel from a group, simply drag it out of the group. If you want to return everything to how it looked when you first launched Elements, click Reset Panels not visible here at the top of your screen.

When you launch Elements for the first time, the Panel bin contains three panels: Layers, Content, and Effects. In addition to combining panels as shown in Figure , you can also collapse any group of panels into icons as shown in Figure To use an iconized panel, click its icon and it jumps out to the side of the group, full size.

To shrink it back to an icon, click its icon again. You can combine panels in the bin by dragging their icons onto each other. Then those panels open as a combined group, like the panels in Figure Clicking one of the icons in the group collapses the opened, grouped panels back to icons. You can also separate combined panels in icon view by dragging the icons away from each other. In the Editor, the long narrow photo tray at the bottom of your screen is called the Project bin Figure It shows you what photos you have open, but it also does a lot more than that.

The bin has two drop-down menus:. Here you see the bin three ways: as it normally appears top , as a floating panel bottom left , and collapsed to an icon bottom right. Show Open Files. If you send a bunch of photos over from the Organizer at once, you may think something went awry because no photo appears on your desktop or in the Project bin. If you regularly keep lots of photos open and you have an iPad, check out the Adobe Nav app, which lets you sort through open photos in Elements, see info about your photos, and switch tools without using your mouse.

You can read more about Nav at www. Bin Actions. You can also use this menu to reset the style source images you use in the Style Match feature, explained on Merging Styles. The Project bin is useful, but if you have a small monitor, you may prefer to use the space it takes up for your editing work. The Project bin behaves just like any of the other panels, so you can drag it loose from the bottom of the screen and combine it with the other panels.

You can even collapse it to an icon or drag it into the Panel bin. That way you can make more edits to your photos. Another option: You may prefer the results you get using the Smart Brush in Full Edit, if your sky has any clouds in it. Presto, your clouds really stand out! Never, ever work on your original photo. If you use the Organizer, good news: Elements already has your back. It creates version sets, which save different states of your image as you edit.

You can create as many different versions of a photo as you like and go back to any one of them at any time. This way you can always start over again if you get a better idea later on. Sharing photos with the Organizer. There are all kinds of fun, creative ways to share photos in Elements 7, and the Organizer makes it super easy to explore them all.

Try a slideshow with music and commentary, or upload your photos to EasyShare or one of the other online services to create mugs, bags, and other cool gift items with your photos on them.

Don’t scorn the auto buttons. Each version of Elements gets a little smarter and you may find that you like the results you get from one of these easy-to-use fixes. Panoramas for everyone. You don’t need to feel wistful anymore about the fact that your point and shoot camera’s lens doesn’t have a true wide-angle setting. Take a series of photos with, ideally, about a 30 percent overlap and Elements’ Photomerge will automatically stitch them together into a panorama wider than you could have captured with the widest lens.

Barbara Brundage is an Adobe Community Professional and a member of Adobe’s prerelease groups for Photoshop Elements versions 3 through She’s been teaching people how to use Elements since it first came out in Barbara first started using Elements to create graphics for use in her day job as a harpist, music publisher, and arranger.

Along the way, she joined the large group of people finding a renewed interest in photography thanks to digital cameras. If she can learn to use Elements, you can, too!

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It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. Enhance your purchase. Photoshop Elements 7 includes lots of new tools for sprucing up your photos, like the Scene Cleaner that lets you get rid of unwanted elements and the Smart Brush that makes touch-ups a breeze. But the one thing you won’t find in Elements is reader-friendly guidance on how to get the most out of this powerful program.

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There’s so much to Elements 7 that knowing what to do — and when to do it — is tricky. That’s why this book carefully explains all the tools and options by putting each one into a clear, easy-to-understand context. Learn to import, organize, and fix photos quickly and easily Repair and restore old and damaged photos , and retouch any image Jazz up your pictures with dozens of filters, frames, and special effects Learn which tools the pros use — you’ll finally understand how layers work!

Create collages and photo layout pages for scrapbooks and other projects Fix your photos online and synch the changes to your own photo library As always, author Barbara Brundage lets you know which features work well, which don’t, and why — all with a bit of wit and good humor.

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