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[Excerpt from: Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows]
[Essential Training with Jan Kabili]
The Full Edit workspace in Elements editor gives you full control
over editing and manipulating your photos.
Here you cannot only improve the quality of your photos,
you can also create layered composites, you can work with selected areas of photos,
you can add text and graphics.
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You can apply special effects and more.
Let's start our exploration of the Full Edit workspace with a tour of its interface.
This interface packs in lots and lots of commands and features,
and it does so in just a few interface elements.
The first element is the menu bar at the top of the screen,
which you're probably familiar with from other applications.
The menu bar has drop-down menus, each of which contains a list of commands
and importantly, some of those commands have keyboard shortcuts.
So, for example, here the File Open command has the keyboard shortcut Control + 0,
and as you get more familiar with Elements,
I suggest you start trying to remember the keyboard shortcuts
for things that you do most often, like saving files and closing files and undo.
The next Element interface is the tool bar over here on the left.
We'll be looking more at the toolbar in another movie,
but I did want to mention that the Options bar above the toolbar
is related to the tools and that every time you change to a different tool,
the Options bar changes to show the options related to just that tool.
The next interface element to take note of is the Palette Bin over here on the right.
This is where the palettes live.
In fact, the palettes are docked inside of that bin
so that when you want to get all of the docked palettes out of the way,
when I move my mouse on top of the border between the Palette Bin
and the rest of the interface and click,
the entire Palette Bin and all of its palettes collapse over to the right side of the screen,
giving me more real estate in which to work.
And to bring the Palette Bin back,
I'll simply go over to that border and click one more time,
and out it comes again with all of its palettes.
There are many more palettes than those that you see here.
If you'd like to open another palette, you do so from the Window menu
in the menu bar at the top of the screen.
So, for example, I often use the Histogram palette when I'm correcting photographs.
To open that palette, I'll just click on it here in this window menu and out it comes.
Notice that when a palette opens from the window menu
it is not docked in the Palette Bin.
It's free-floating, so that if you click on its title bar and drag,
you can put it anywhere on your screen.
If it's a palette you often use, you might want to dock it in with the other palettes.
To do that, click on the "More" button right here
and choose "Place in Palette Bin When Closed."
Then click the X on the top right of the palette,
and there it is, docked in the Palette Bin with all the other palettes.
You can drag it out again by its title bar if you wish.
Go to the More menu. Uncheck "Place in Palette Bin When Closed."
And this time when you close it, it will disappear from the screen.
One more thing I'd like to tell you about palettes
is that each one has a double-pointed arrow on the top right,
and if you click that arrow, you'll find important commands related to the palette.
So, let's say, for example, you're trying to remember how to do something with layers,
and you just don't know where the command is.
The first place I suggest you look is behind
the double-pointed arrows on the Layers palette,
where you'll find all of these layers-related options.
The last interface element I'd like you to take a look at is at the bottom of the screen.
This is called the Project Bin.
The Project Bin displays thumbnail versions of all of the photos
that are currently open in the editor.
If you'd like to see the file names of those thumbnails,
just right-click on any of the thumbnails and choose "Show File Names"
from the Contextual menu.
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If you have multiple photos open and you'd like to bring a different one
to the foreground then is currently showing, just find its thumbnail
in the Project Bin and double-click that thumbnail.
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So, I'm going to bring the photo of Dave to the foreground now by double-clicking it.
A quick way to close any image is to right-click on its thumbnail in the Project Bin
and choose "Close," and if you'd like to hide the entire Project Bin
to give yourself more screen real estate to work with,
you can do that by going down to the bottom left of the screen
and clicking the "Hide Project Bin" button right there.
And now the Project Bin is out of sight,
and you can bring it back up by clicking the same button again.
Now it's called the "Show Project Bin."
So, as you can see, the Full Edit interface packs lots of commands and controls
into a really efficient arrangement that's designed to help you make the best use
of the Full Edit workspace.
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