Photoshop Elements 11: Visual QuickStart Guide

5. Quick Edits

In This Chapter

Making Quick Edits

Walking Through Adjustments Using Guided Edit Mode

As you’ll discover in the rest of the book, Photoshop Elements is a sophisticated image editor, enabling anyone to make photo corrections that would have been absurdly difficult years ago. But sometimes you don’t want to be an image expert. Let the computer do the work for you, analyzing photos and correcting them automatically.

When you don’t want to mess with the particulars, or when you know that a photo needs just a bit of tweaking but you want a bit more control over the adjustments, turn to the Quick edit features. You can experiment on your photo—ranging from slight tonal changes to radical tints and lighting adjustments—and then undo ...