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Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Work Area
Rather than accumulate a library of Elements books, all you need to do is
look within Elements to find valuable help information quickly and easily. If
you’re stuck on understanding a feature, ample help documents are only a
mouse click away and can help you overcome some frustrating moments.
Using Help
Your first stop in exploring the helpful information Elements provides is on
the Help menu. On this menu, you can find several menu commands that
offer information:
✓ Photoshop Elements Help: Choose Help➪Photoshop Elements Help or
press the F1 key (Windows) to open the Elements Help file. You can type
a search topic and press Enter to open a list of items that provide help-
ful information about the searched words.
For quick access to the Help document, type the text you want to search
into the text box on the right side of the menu bar in Edit Full or Edit
Quick mode.
✓ Key Concepts: While you read this book, if we use a term that you don’t
completely understand, open the Photoshop Elements Key Concepts. A
Web page opens in your default Web browser and provides many Web
pages with definitions of terms and concepts.
✓ Support: This menu command launches your default Web browser and
takes you to the Adobe Web site, where you can find information about
Elements, problems reported by users, and some work-around meth-
ods for getting a job done. Additional Web-assisted help information is
available by clicking Photoshop Elements Online and Online Learning
Resources. The vast collection of Web pages on Adobe’s Web site offers
you assistance, tips and techniques, and solutions to many problems
that come with editing images. Be sure to spend some time browsing
these Web pages.
✓ Video Tutorials: Choose Help➪Video Tutorials to open a Web page
where videos for common tasks are hosted on Adobe’s Web site.
✓ Forum: Choose Help➪Forum to explore user comments and questions
with answers to many common problems.
Using ToolTips
While you move your cursor around tools and panels, pause a moment
before clicking the mouse. A slight delay in your actions produces a ToolTip.
Elements provides this sort of dynamic help when you pause the cursor
before moving to another location.
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