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Part I: Getting Started
To temporarily hide the Photo Bin, do one of the following:
Place the cursor over the separator bar between the Image window
and the Photo Bin. When the cursor changes to two horizontal lines
with vertical opposing arrowheads, drag down to collapse the Photo Bin.
When the bin is collapsed, drag the separator bar up to open the bin.
To auto-hide the Photo Bin, open a context menu (right-click inside the
Photo Bin) and select Auto-hide from the menu choices. (Alternately,
you can just click the separator bar where you see the tiny arrowhead
to show/hide the bin.) When you use Auto-hide, the Photo Bin automati-
cally hides when the cursor appears in the image window. The Photo Bin
automatically opens when you move the cursor below the separator bar.
Retracing Your Steps
Ever since Apple Macintosh brought a windows interface to the masses, the
Undo command has been one of the most frequently used menu commands
in every program developed. You make a change to your document, and if you
don’t like it, you simply choose Edit➪Undo or press the keyboard shortcut,
Ctrl+Z.
In Elements, your options to undo your work have expanded, as we explain in
the following sections.
Using the Undo History palette
Elements takes the Undo command to new levels by offering you a palette in
which all your changes (well, almost
all) in an editing session are recorded
and available for undoing at any step
in an editing sequence.
Each edit you make is recorded in
the Undo History palette. To open
the palette, choose Window➪Undo
History. Make changes to your docu-
ment, and each step is recorded in
the palette, as you see in Figure 1-13.
If Elements slows down, and you’re
moving along at a snail’s pace, open
the More drop-down menu in the
History palette and select Clear
Undo History. Elements flushes all
the recorded history and frees up
some precious memory that often
enables you to work faster.
Figure 1-13: The History palette records steps
in an editing session.
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