Operation Manual

110 LESSON 4 Image Editing Basics

Making easy color and lighting adjustments

In this section, we’ll begin our exploration of the Editor, taking a closer look at

the tools and techniques that will enable you to get the best from your photos.

Now that you’ve soaked up a little theory, you’ll ﬁnd it easier to understand the

processes, whether you’re using one-click ﬁxes, or making detailed selective edits.

Whether the problem is inadequate exposure, a lack of contrast, or an unsightly

color cast, you can make fast ﬁxes using the simple controls in Quick Edit mode,

let the Guided Edit mode step you through a wide range of editing tasks, make

detailed adjustments in Full Edit mode—or even arrange for Photoshop Elements

to batch-process your photos, applying your choice of automatic corrections.

Fixing photos automatically in batches

In this exercise, you’ll batch process all of the image ﬁles used in this lesson,

saving the auto-adjusted photos as copies so that you can compare the results

of the automatic processing to the edits you make using other techniques.

1 If the Editor is not still in Expert mode, click Expert in the mode picker.

Choose File > Process Multiple Files. In the Quick Fix options, at the upper

right of the Process Multiple Files dialog box, click the check boxes to activate

all four auto-ﬁx options: Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Color, and Sharpen.

2 At the upper left of the dialog box, choose Folder from the Process Files From

menu. Under Source, click the Browse button. Locate and select the Lesson 4

folder as the source folder for the images to be processed. Click OK / Choose.

Under Destination, click Browse to set the My CIB Work folder as the destina-

tion for the processed copies.

3 Under File Naming, activate the Rename Files option. Choose Document Name

from the menu on the left, and then type _AutoFix in the second ﬁeld. is will

add the appendix “_AutoFix” to the existing document names as the processed

copies are saved.

4 Review the settings in the dialog box. Make sure that the resizing and ﬁle con-

version options under Image Size and File Type are disabled, and then click OK.

Photoshop Elements opens, processes, and closes the images. e newly created

copies are automatically tagged with the same keywords as the source ﬁles.

Adding the auto-corrected ﬁles to your catalog

When you modify an image in the Editor, the Include In Organizer option in the

Save and Save As dialog boxes is activated by default. However, when you batch-

edit ﬁles with the Process Multiple Files command, this option isn’t part of the

process—you must add the automatically edited copies to the Organizer manually.

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Note: For Windows

users: ignore any alert

warning that ﬁles could

not be processed. This

is caused by a hidden

system ﬁle and will

have no impact on the

success of your project.