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Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Work Area

✓ Edit: If you need to edit a photo, click the Edit button to access options

for using either the Quick Fix mode to do some quick editing tasks or

Edit Full mode, in which you can do the extraordinary editing jobs.

✓ Learn More (Windows): Click the Learn More button to get help infor-

mation from Adobe’s Web site.

If you know what you want to do in Elements, go ahead and click the appro-

priate button. But if you enter one mode and then decide you want to do

something in another mode, Elements provides you the freedom to easily

change modes from within the different workspaces.

You can always return to the

Welcome screen after you enter

any editing mode. At the top of the

Elements window in all modes, a

house icon appears, as shown in

Figure 1-2. Click this icon to open the

Welcome screen again.

Getting Around in Edit Full Mode

Edit Full mode offers bundles of tools that you can use to edit your images,

from correction tools for fixing color and clarity to filters, layers, and more

for changing existing photos or creating entirely original images from

scratch. But all these tools also make Edit Full mode complex.

Figure 1-3 shows Elements in Edit Full mode, highlighting all the tools and

features we discuss in the following sections.

Jumping to Edit Full mode

You can move into Edit Full mode in a couple of ways:

✓ From the initial Welcome screen: Click Edit and open a photo. Your

Elements window appears in Edit Full mode, as shown in Figure 1-3.

✓ From the Organizer: Click a photo and choose Edit Photos from the Fix

drop-down menu. The selected file opens in Edit Full mode.

You can also open a contextual menu on a photo in the Organizer (right-click

to make this menu appear) and choose Edit with Photoshop Elements from

the menu.

Figure 1-2: Click the house icon on the

menu bar in any editing mode to reopen the

Welcome screen.

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