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Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 3.0: A New
Version!
Part 2
Different interfaces for different jobs
Windows users now have different workspaces for
different jobs:
Standard Edit, with its full complement of editing
tools; Quick
Fix, with tools like the new Auto Smart Fix and Auto Color;
the
Create Workspace that allows you to make calendars,
PDF slideshows, and web photo galleries with ease; and the Organizer,
which lets you organize and tag photos and even burn backups to
CD, or if you opted for the Photoshop Elements-Premiere Elements
software bundle, you can burn backups or use the Create workspace
to burn groups of slideshows to DVD complete with menus. The Organizer
is only available in windows, but mac users have the full version
of the File Browser from Adobe Photoshop CS instead,
and can create slideshows and web galleries from there. More about
the File Browser and Organizer later.
Standard Edit
The Standard Edit Workspace contains all the full
featured editing tools you have come to expect from Elements, as
well as easy menu access to the Auto tools like new Auto Smart
Fix. The Standard Edit Workspace is probably where you will
do the bulk of your work in Elements.
Quick Fix
Rather than being a menu item in the Enhance menu,
Quick Fix is now it's own workspace with lots
of tools like the new Auto Smart Fix and Shadows/Highlights filter,
as well as familiar tools like Auto Color, Auto Levels, and Auto
Contrast. Use these tools in one convenient workspace. You can
easily toggle back and forth from the Quick Fix to the Standard
Workspace with the click of a button.
Buttons at the top of the workspace let you switch
to the Create, Photo Browser (Organize), or view the Photo Browser
in Date View.
Create
In Windows, the Create workspace is where you will
print your photos, as well as contact sheets. Get creative with
calendars, PDF slideshows and web galleries. You can send Photo
Mail, but for me. the Photo
Mail feature is buggy. Despite identical installs it
works on one machine (Win XP SP1, P4, 512mb ram, 1.8ghz) and
not on another (Win XP SP1, P4, 512 mb ram, 3.2ghz). On the machine
it doesn't work on, there are no templates when you click the
Stationery and Layouts button. Nothing happens. Prefs have been
reset, and the program has been uninstalled and reinstalled with
no luck. The other mail features work as long as you don't try
to mail them. Mailing from in Elements, in short, is very buggy
and may work for you and may not.
Palette
Bin
The new Palette Bin replaces the Palette Well on
the right side of the Options Bar, present in Elements 1 and 2.
The Palette Well is still there in Adobe® Photoshop® CS.
Is Elements once more a testing ground for a feature that will
turn up in the next version of full Photoshop®,
like the File Browser from Elements 1 migrated to Photoshop® 7
when it was released? One can only hope so, as the Palette Bin
is an impressive replacement for the Palette Well.
The palettes in the Bin are stacked, and can be
opened or closed, or even floated on the workspace. Click the white
arrow on the tab to expand them or collapse them.
 If
you want more room than you have with the Palette Bin expanded,
you can easily collapse it so all you see is a thin line on the
right side of the workspace. Click the small arrow or the arrows
on the bottom of the program window to expand the Bin again.
And of course you can customize which palettes
are kept in the Palette Bin, and you can set your preferences to
remember your settings so whenever you open Elements they are right
where you left them. To have your palette bin settings remembered,
go to Edit > Preferences > General and choose Save
Palette Locations. The preferences are on the Photoshop
Elements menu on a Mac.
Photo Bin
The new Photo Bin at the bottom of the workspace lets you see
thumbnails of all of your open photos. When you minimize a photo
it goes to the Palette Bin, out of your way. From the Photo Bin
you can open or close images as well as rotate or duplicate the
file or see the file info from a context menu. Use the arrows on
the bottom of the bin to scroll though the image thumbnails when
you have more images open than you can see in the bin.
The Photo Bin also will collapse into a thin line against the
bottom of the workspace, and can be reopened by clicking the small
arrow. It can also be set to Auto-Hide, only coming into view when
you roll the mouse over it.
Auto Smart
Fix --->>>
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