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USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8
Color and tonal correction
Last updated 7/26/2011
The Quick Fix panel provides the following tools to refine your photos:
Smart Fix Adjusts lighting and color. Smart Fix corrects overall color balance and improves shadow and highlight
detail, if necessary. Click the Auto button to apply this command.
• Amount Drag the slider to vary the amount of the adjustment.
Lighting Adjusts the overall contrast of an image, and could affect its color. If your image needs more contrast and it
has a color cast, you can use the following two options:
• Levels
• Contrast
These options work by individually mapping the lightest and darkest pixels in each color channel to monochrome. To
apply the settings, click the Auto button beside any of these options.
• Lighten Shadows Drag the slider to lighten the darkest areas of your photo without affecting the highlights. Pure
black areas are not affected.
• Darken Highlights Drag the slider to darken the lightest areas of your photo without affecting the shadows. Pure
white areas are not affected.
• Midtone Contrast Adjusts the contrast within the middle tonal values (values that are about half way between pure
white and pure black). It does not affect the extreme highlights and shadows.
Color Adjusts the color by identifying shadows, midtones, and highlights in the image rather than in individual color
channels. It neutralizes the midtones, and clips the white and black pixels using a default set of values. Click the Auto
button to apply this command.
Adjusting color values in Quick Fix
• Saturation Drag the slider to make colors more vivid or more muted.
• Hue Shifts all colors in an image. This control is best used in small amounts or with selected objects whose color
you want to change.
