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USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8
Working with files
Last updated 7/26/2011
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“Save changes in different file formats” on page 41
Guided Edit
The Guided Edit mode provides more structure around specific tasks, helping you accomplish those tasks more easily,
and with explanation throughout the process. The Guided Edit tab is located in the Edit tab of the Panel Bin.
With Guided Edit, you can do the following:
Basic Photo Edits Crop, recompose, rotate, straighten, and sharpen photos.
Lighting And Exposure Lighten, darken, adjust brightness and contrast, and adjust levels.
Color Correction Enhance colors, remove a color cast, and correct skin tone.
Guided Activities Touch up scratches, blemishes or tear marks, guide for a photo editing, and fix keystone distortion.
Photomerge Intelligently merge multiple images of group shots or faces.
Note: Sometimes the Guided Edits available vary in your version of Photoshop Elements.
Automated Actions The Action Player in the Automated Actions Guided Edit can play actions created in Photoshop.
Photographic Effects You can give special effects to a photo. For example, you can convert a photo to an old-
fashioned photo.
Use the Guided Edit options
1 On the Edit Full tab, click the triangle and select Edit Guided button.
2 Choose from the list of Guided Edits.
3 Do one of the following:
• Follow the steps that appear and click Done.
• Click Cancel to choose a different Guided Edit, or go back to regular editing.
Note: If you enter a Guided Edit, then click on the “After Only” button at the bottom of the Guided Edit panel to see the
Before and After view of your photo, when you exit the Guided Edit, that view will remain. To reset the view back to After
only (the default), go into another Guided Edit and change it there, or simply click on either Full or Quick modes to reset
to a single view.
The Crop Photo Guided Edit
Use the Crop Photo Guided Edit to crop an image.
You can view the after image only, or view both the before and after images either vertically or horizontally.
Note: You can also use the Cookie Cutter tool to crop an image. For more on the Cookie Cutter tool, see “Use the Cookie
Cutter tool” on page 134.
For more information on cropping, see “Cropping” on page 132.
The Recompose Photo Guided Edit
For more information on the features used in the Recompose Photo Guided Edit, see “Recomposing” on page 160.
