Photoshop Elements provides
several tools and commands for fixing the tonal range, color, and
sharpness in your photos, and for removing dust spots or other defects.
You can work in one of three workspaces, depending on your experience and
needs.
- Guided Edit
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If you are new to digital imaging and Photoshop Elements,
you can use Guided Edit to guide you through the color correction
task. This is also a good way to increase your understanding of
the workflow.
- Quick Fix
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If you have limited knowledge of digital imaging, Quick Fix
is a good place to start fixing photos. It has many of the basic
tools for correcting color and lighting.
- Full Edit
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If you’ve worked with images before, you’ll find that the
Full Edit workspace provides the most flexible and powerful image-correction environment.
It has the lighting and color-correction commands, along with tools
for fixing image defects, making selections, adding text, and painting
on your images.
When working with some of the adjustment commands
in the Editor, you can make adjustments directly to the image pixels.
Or you can use adjustment layers to make nondestructive adjustments
that you can easily tweak until your image is right.
- Camera Raw
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If you shoot digital images in your camera’s raw format,
you can open and correct raw files in the Camera Raw dialog box.
Because your camera has not yet processed the raw files, you can
adjust the color and exposure to improve the images. Often you won’t
have to make other adjustments in Photoshop Elements.
To open camera raw files in Photoshop Elements,
first save them in a supported file format.
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