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Part I: Getting Started
Elements also includes the Organizer, a powerful tool for acquiring your images
and keeping them organized. The Organizer includes features that help you
view and search for images, too. We introduce the Organizer in Part II.
Getting Around in Standard Edit Mode
Standard Edit mode offers bundles of tools for editing your images, from cor-
rection tools for fixing color and clarity to filters, layers, and more for creating
entirely original images either from existing photos or from scratch. But all
these tools also make Standard Edit mode complex.
Figure 1-1 shows Elements in Standard Edit mode, highlighting all the tools
and features we discuss in the sections that follow.
Jumping to Standard Edit mode
You can move into Standard Edit mode in a couple of ways:
 From the initial Welcome screen, click Edit and Enhance Photos and
open a photo. Your Elements window appears in Standard Edit mode,
as shown in Figure 1-1.
 From the Organizer, click Edit in the Shortcuts Bar and select Go to
Standard Edit from the drop-down menu.
Examining the Image window
Not surprisingly, the Image window’s tools and features are most useful when
an image is actually open in the window. To get an image into the image window
(refer to Figure 1-1), follow these steps:
1. Click the Open tool in the Shortcuts bar.
The standard Open dialog box appears. It works like any ordinary Open
dialog box you find in other applications.
2. Move around your hard drive by using methods you know to open
folders and 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 My Pictures folder that was installed with Windows.
3. After selecting a picture, click Open.
The photo opens in a new image window in Elements.
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