PhotoshopElements

The editing workspace

There are three ways to create and edit images: Full Edit, Quick Fix, and Guided Edit. The Full Edit workspace  has tools to correct color problems, create special effects, and enhance photos. The Quick Fix workspace  contains simple tools for correcting color and lighting, and commands to quickly fix common problems like red-eye. If you are new to digital imaging, Quick Fix or Guided Edit is a good place to start fixing photos. 

If you’ve worked with image-editing applications before, you’ll find that the Full Edit workspace provides a flexible and powerful image-correction environment. It has lighting and color-correction commands, along with tools for fixing image defects, making selections, adding text, and painting on your images. You can rearrange the Full Edit workspace to best suit your needs by moving, hiding, and showing palettes; arranging palettes in the Palette Bin; zooming in or out of the photo; scrolling to a different area of the document window; and creating multiple windows and views.

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Full Edit workspace

A.
Menu bar

B.
Workspace buttons

C.
Toolbox

D
Project Bin

E.
Palettes

F.
Palette bin

G.
Active image area

Menu bar
Contains menus for performing tasks. The menus are organized by topic. For example, the Enhance menu contains commands for applying adjustments to an image.

Workspace buttons
Moves you between the Guided Edit, Quick Fix, and Full Edit  workspaces. These buttons change according to the current workspace.

Toolbox
Holds tools for editing images.

Options bar
Provides options for the tool you select.

Project Bin
Displays thumbnails of opened images, and lets you easily manage them.

Palettes
Help you monitor and modify images.

Palette Bin
Helps you organize the palettes in your work area.

Note: To view the area behind open photos, including other open applications, uncheck Photoshop Elements  > Preferences > Fill Workspace Background. To fill the workspace with a gray backdrop, select the Fill Workspace Background. option.