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Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Work Area
2. Move around your hard drive by using methods you know to open
folders and then select a picture.
If you haven’t yet downloaded digital camera images or acquired
scanned photos and want an image to experiment with, you can use an
image found in your Pictures folder that was installed with your operat-
ing system.
Elements installs some nice sample images with the application instal-
lation. Look in the Photoshop Elements 9\Tutorials folder to find some
photos to play with.
3. After selecting a picture, click Open.
The photo opens in a new image window in Elements.
You can open as many image windows in Elements as your computer
memory can handle. When each new file is opened, a thumbnail image is
added to the Project Bin at the bottom of the screen. (Refer to Figure 1-3.)
Notice in Figure 1-3 that filenames appear as tabs above the image window.
To bring a photo forward, click the filename. To close a photo, click the X
adjacent to the filename.
Here’s a quick look at
important items in the
image window, as shown
in Figure 1-4:
✓ Filename: Appears
above the image
window for each file
open in the Editor.
✓ Close button: Click
the X to the right
of the filename to
close the file. (On the
Macintosh, click the
far-left button.)
✓ Scroll bars: Become
active when you
zoom in on an image.
You can click the
scroll arrows, move
the scroll bar, or
grab the Hand tool in
the Tools panel and
drag within the window to move the image.
Filename
Close box
Magnification
Information box Scroll bars Size box
Figure 1-4: The image window displays an open file within
the Elements workspace.
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