Operation Manual

116 LESSON 4 Image Editing Basics
Adjusting images in Guided Edit mode
If you’re a newcomer to digital image editing, the Guided Edit mode is a great place
to start. By letting Photoshop Elements step you through the process of improving
your photos you’ll not only achieve impressive results quickly, but also learn a lot
about image problems and solutions as you work. Even experienced users will enjoy
the ease of working in Guided Edit mode—and may just pick up some new tricks.
For this exercise, you’ll work once again with the image of the old perfume bottles,
which has an obvious color cast as a result of inadequate artificial lighting.
1 Switch to the Organizer by clicking the Organizer button ( ) in the Task bar.
If necessary, click the arrow to the right of the Lesson 04 tag in the Keyword
Tags panel to isolate the Lesson 4 images in the Media Browser.
2 Locate the photo of the perfume bottles, DSC_2474.jpg, making sure not to
confuse the original with the edited copies. Right-click / Control-click the image
and choose Edit With Photoshop Elements Editor from the context menu.
3 In the Editor, click Guided in the mode picker at the top of the Editor work-
space to switch to Guided edit mode. Choose the Before & After - Horizontal
view from the View menu at the left of the bar above the Edit pane. If the
Photo Bin is open below the Edit pane, click the Photo Bin button ( ) at the
far left of the Task bar to hide it.
In the Guided edit mode, the Zoom and Hand tools are the only items in the tool-
bar; everything you’ll need for a long list of image editing tasks—including the long
list itself—can be found in the Guided Edits panel at the right.
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Note: As you try
more advanced tasks in
Photoshop Elements,
you may find that you
need more information
to solve any problems
you encounter.
For help with some
common problems
you might have while
working through the
lessons in this book, see
the section “Why won’t
Photoshop Elements do
what I tell it to do?” in
Lesson 5.