Chapter 4: Setting Your Preferences
In This Chapter
Working with preferences
Adjusting Editor preferences
Choosing Organizer preferences
The Photoshop Elements program accommodates a wide range of photographers and artists who have a wide range of needs. Not every individual who works in the program is likely to work the same way or use the same tools consistently. When you think of all the creative options you have for editing photos and then consider your hardware advantages and limitations, you can begin to design a personal working environment.
Elements understands a user’s need to tailor the program to fit specific needs. That’s why it provides you with a set of preferences that enable you to customize your personal work environment for the way you use Elements.
Understanding Preferences
A preference setting is an adjustment in the Preferences dialog box that has an effect on edits you make to pictures, on the behavior of tools and menus, and on the controls that affect Elements.
When you make a choice in a Preferences dialog box, the new setting takes effect after the adjustment is made, and it remains intact until you make a change in the Preferences dialog box. Most preferences ...
