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Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Work Area
✓ Edit (Windows): 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.
✓ Start from Scratch (Macintosh): Click this button to open Elements in
Edit Full mode on the Macintosh.
✓ Import from Camera (Macintosh): Click this button to import photos
from a camera or card reader on the Macintosh. In Windows, you use a
command in the Organizer to import photos, as we explain in Chapter 4.
✓ Import from Scanner (Macintosh): Use this command to scan images
and open them in Edit Full mode on the Macintosh. In Windows, you use
a command in the Organizer to scan images as we explain in Chapter 4.
✓ Learn More (Windows): Click the Learn More button to get help infor-
mation from Adobe’s Web site.
✓ See What You Can Do (Windows): Click the icon below the text to see a
demonstration of an editing task. You can change task topics by clicking
the left and right arrows in the lower-right corner of the screen.
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 on Windows. At the
top of the Elements window in all
modes, a house icon appears, as
shown in Figure 1-3. Click this icon
to open the Welcome screen again.
On the Macintosh, an icon appears for Launch Bridge instead of an icon for
the Organizer.
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 1-4 shows Elements in Edit Full mode, highlighting all the tools and fea-
tures we discuss in the following sections.
Figure 1-3: Click the house icon on the menu
bar in any editing mode (Windows) to reopen
the Welcome screen.
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