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Part I: Getting Started
Using Quick Fix mode
The Quick Fix mode is designed to provide you with just those tools that are
needed to prepare a picture for its intended destination, whether it be print-
ing, on-screen viewing, or one of the other organizing items. Use this mode to
make your pictures look good. You won’t find tools for adding text, painting
with brushes, or applying gradients in Quick Fix mode. Rather, what you find
is a completely different set of palettes for balancing contrast and brightness,
lighting, sharpening, and so on. This mode is like having a digital darkroom
on your desktop, where you take care of perfecting an image like you would
in analog photography darkrooms.
To enter the Quick Fix mode while you are in Standard Edit mode, click the
Quick Fix button adjacent to the Shortcuts bar; the view changes, as shown
in Figure 1-10.
If you want to start up Elements in Quick Fix mode, click the Quick Fix button
in the Welcome screen when you first launch the program.
There are several differences between Standard Edit mode and Quick
Fix mode:
 Completely different sets of palettes are docked in the Palette Bin.
All the palettes in Quick Fix mode are related to adjusting brightness
controls and are designed to improve the overall appearance of your
pictures. In addition, all the Window menu commands for accessing
palettes are grayed out. While you work in Quick Fix mode, Elements is
insistent on limiting your use of palettes to just those palettes docked in
the Palette Bin. Moreover, you cannot undock palettes from the Palette
Bin by dragging them out, as you can in other modes.
 The Tools palette disappears. Quick Fix mode offers you only the Zoom
tool, Hand tool, Genie Brush tool, Crop tool, and Red Eye Removal tool
in the Tools palette. None of the other Elements tools are accessible
while you work in this mode.
 Multiple viewing options are available. Notice in Figure 1-10 that there
are two views of the same image. One view displays the raw, unedited
image. The After view shows you the results of changes you make with
palette options and menu commands.
If you want to return to the Standard Edit mode, click the Standard Edit
button.
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