Operation Manual

100 LESSON 4 Image Editing Basics
Getting started
You’ll start by importing the sample images for this lesson to your CIB Catalog.
1 Start Photoshop Elements and click Organizer in the Welcome Screen. Check
the lower right corner of the Organizer workspace to make sure the CIB Catalog
is loaded—if not, choose File > Manage Catalogs and select it from the list.
2 Click the Import button at the upper left of the Organizer workspace and
choose From Files And Folders from the drop-down menu. In the Get Photos
And Videos From Files And Folders dialog box, locate and select your Lesson 4
folder. Disable the automatic processing options; then, click Get Media.
3 In the Import Attached Keyword Tags dialog box, click Select All; then, click OK.
Editing photos in the Organizer
You can fix a range of common image problems without even leaving the Organizer.
1 In the Media Browser, select the image DSCN0532.jpg. Click the Instant Fix
button ( ) at the right of the Task bar to open the Photo Fix Options panel;
then, click the Contrast button ( ). e edited file is grouped with the original
in a Version Set. In the Media Browser, the edited version appears as the top
image in the collapsed (or closed) Version Set. Click the arrow at the right of the
image frame to expand the Version Set.
2 In the expanded Version Set, select the un-edited original, DSCN0532.jpg.
Click the Color button ( ). Making sure that you select the original image
each time, repeat the process for Levels ( ), and then for Smart Fix ( ).
3 Double-click the original image to see it in the single image view. Use the left
arrow key on your keyboard to compare the un-edited photo with the results of
your single-click adjustments. Double-click the enlarged image to return to the
thumbnail view. Select all four edited versions; then, right-click / Control-click
any of the selected thumbnails and choose Delete Selected Items From Catalog.
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Note: Before you
start this lesson, make
sure that you’ve set up
a folder for your lesson
files and downloaded
the Lesson 4 folder from
your Account page at
www.peachpit.com,
as detailed in “Accessing
the Classroom in a Book
files” in the chapter
“Getting Started” at the
beginning of this book.
You should also have
created a new work
catalog (see “Creating a
catalog for working with
this book” in Lesson 1).
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Note: The most
recent version always
appears at the left in an
expanded version set,
and becomes the image
displayed on top of the
collapsed version set.
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Tip: Each of the
Instant Fix adjustments
can be used in com-
bination with others.
Some combinations
will produce different
results when the order
of the automatic adjust-
ments is varied.