Operation Manual

Workspace and workflows

Last updated 9/13/2015

At the bottom of the Photoshop Elements, the taskbar displays buttons for the most frequently used panels and

operations performed while editing and modifying images. You can use the Photo Bin and Tool Options buttons to

toggle between displaying thumbnails and tool options. You can quickly undo and redo operations, or rotate images

using the options available taskbar, or Organizer to start Photoshop Elements Organizer. In the Expert mode, click the

arrow beside the More button, to see the option to toggle between Basic and Custom workspaces.

Use the Photo Bin

Located toward the bottom of the Photoshop Elements window, above the taskbar, the Photo Bin displays thumbnails

of open photos. It’s useful for switching between multiple open photos in your workspace. The Photo Bin has controls

that let you open or close images, hide images, navigate through open images, make a specific image the frontmost

image, duplicate an image, rotate an image, or view file information. You can easily bring open images into Quick mode

for editing. Multipage projects created using the Create tab open in the Create panel.

❖ Do any of the following:

• (Windows only) To open an image, drag a file from any location on your computer (including the Photo Browser)

or from any storage device connected to your computer into the Photo Bin.

• To bring an opened image forward as the frontmost image, double-click a thumbnail.

• To rearrange photos, drag thumbnails in the Photo Bin. The order here does not impact the photo’s order in the

Elements Organizer.

• To close an image, right-click a thumbnail in the Photo Bin and choose Close.

• To hide an image that is in a floating window, right-click the thumbnail and choose Minimize from the context

menu.

Note: To show an image after hiding it, double-click its thumbnail in the Photo Bin, or right-click the thumbnail and

choose Restore from the context menu.

• To view a photo’s file information, right-click a thumbnail and choose File Info from the context menu.

• To duplicate an image, right-click a thumbnail, choose Duplicate from the context menu, and name the file.

• To rotate an image, right-click a thumbnail and choose Rotate 90° Left or Rotate 90° Right from the context

menu.

• To show filenames, right-click in the Photo Bin and choose Show Filenames from the context menu.

• To manually show or hide the bin, click the Photo Bin taskbar icon.

• The flyout menu of the Photo Bin contains additional options to work with the images that are available in the

Photo Bin:

• Print Bin Files. Opens the Photoshop Elements Print dialog box, with options to print the photos currently

selected in the Photo Bin.