What's New in Elements 3
This book is about Photoshop Elements 3. If you have an earlier version of Elements, you'll find a fair number of similarities. But the program's been given a pretty thorough overhaul, especially the Quick Fix feature, which gathers the basic editing tools into one window and lets you easily apply, well, quick fixes. Quick fix has several remarkable new tools—including the one-button Auto Smart Fix and the Shadows/Highlights tool for fixing areas of your photo that are too dark or too light—and finally a usably large preview window so you don't have to squint to see the potential results of your changes. Finally, the Windows version of Elements 3 is very different from previous versions. (See the next section, "The Big Difference.")
Some of the main changes in Elements 3 are:
The dramatically redesigned Quick Fix window. Not only do you get more space to preview your changes, but the newly added tools really make what you're seeing worth looking at. In fact, you may find that the Quick Fix window becomes your main Elements workspace (Chapter 4).
The Red-Eye tool has been redesigned. No more hours of trying to figure out why vampire-red eyes just turned werewolf gray. Now you can get great results with just one click (Chapter 4).
You can scan as many photos as will fit onto your scanner, and Elements will automatically cut them apart, trim them, and straighten them up for you (Chapter 3).
Help has been beefed up, too. There's help all over the place, even in the ...