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The Quick Fix section is a good starting point for Photoshop Elements beginners.
Be sure to check off as you go along.
Photoshop Elements is easy—as long as you do every step.
So—again—check off as you go along.
Class Tips has more advice for Photoshop Elements beginners.
If the Welcome window appears, click Quickly Fix Photos.
If the Photoshop Elements opens without the Welcome window, do the following.
Scroll down, or click here.
Look at the upper-right corner, and click Quick Fix.
Look at the upper-left corner, and click Quick Fix.
Look at the upper-right corner, and click Quick under the purple Create button.
2) Open your photograph by doing one of the following:
• Press Ctrl + o (letter o, not zero).
If you're using a Mac, substitute the Command (Apple and cloverleaf icons) key for the Ctrl key.
• Go to File > Open > New.
• Click the yellow folder icon at the top of the screen (4.0 only).
3) After doing one of the above, an Open window will appear.
Use the Open window to navigate to where your photographs are located, such as My Pictures (Windows) or Photographs (Mac).
When you find the photograph, click Open in the Open window.
Your photograph will appear.
The photograph, and any other photographs that are open, also appear in the Photo Bin at the bottom of the screen.
If you don't see the Photo Bin, go to Window > Photo Bin.
If you want to undo an operation, just click the Reset button above your photograph to the right.
How each operation is performed in the the Standard Edit or Full Edit sections is described.
If needed, you can rotate your photograph by using the two curved arrows below your photograph.
If needed, you can change the size of your photograph by clicking the Zoom box below your photograph to the right.
Click the arrow next to Zoom box, click the slider, hold, and drag the slider.
You can also use the Zoom tool located in the Toolbox palette along the left edge of your screen.
Click on the magnifying glass icon, or press z.
Make sure the "+" magnifying glass icon is selected in the Options bar, to the right of the Toolbox palette.
If you click on your photograph, it will get larger.
If you hold down Alt, and click on your photograph, it will get smaller.
If you need to reposition your photograph, hold down the space bar.
The cursor changes to a hand icon.
Click over your photograph, hold the mouse button down, and drag your photograph.
You can also use the Hand tool, located in the Toolbox palette along the left edge of your screen.
Click on the hand icon, or press h.
Click over your photograph, hold the mouse button down, and drag your photograph.
If your photograph needs cropping, click the Crop tool located in the Toolbox palette along the left edge of your screen.
Make a crop Box
Click over your photograph, hold the mouse button down, and drag out a box on the After image on the right side.
You can't crop the Before image on the left side.
You can reposition the crop box.
Click over the crop box, hold the mouse button down, and drag the box to a new location.
You can change the size of the crop box.
Position the cursor over one of the tiny boxes on the sides of the crop box.
Click, hold the mouse button down, and drag the side to a new position.
Position the cursor over one of the tiny boxes on the corners of the crop box.
Click, hold the mouse button down, and drag the corner to a new position.
If you hold down Shift, click, hold, and drag, the aspect ratio of the box stays the same.
If you hold down Alt, click, hold, and drag, the box enlarges from the center out.
If you hold down Alt + Shift, click, hold, and drag, the aspect ratio of the box stays the same, and the box enlarges from the center out.
If the cropping is satisfactory, click the green check mark, at the bottom of the crop box.
If the result is not satisfactory, click the red circle with a diagonal line, at the bottom of the crop box.
Go to:
Circles & Ovals - Elliptical Marquee Tool
Squares & Rectangles - Crop Tool
Create two versions of your photograph—a Before image—and an After image.
By doing so, you can see the changes you're making by comparing the Before image and the After image.
4) Below your photograph, to the left, there's the View box.
By default, Before Only is selected.
Change it to Before and After, portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal).
Below, the Smart Fix Auto button was used to remove the cyan (blue/green) from the photograph.
Now your ready to improve your photograph by using the operations in the Quick Fix palette.
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