Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Introduction 9

Introduction

In Elements, you’ll often want to use keyboard shortcuts to save time, and this

book gives keyboard shortcuts when they exist (and there are a lot of them in Ele-

ments). So if you see “Press Ctrl+S to save your file,” that means to hold down the

Control key while pressing the S key.

About ➝ These ➝ Arrows

Throughout Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual (and in any Missing Man-

ual, for that matter) you’ll see arrows that look like this: “Go to Editor ➝ Filter ➝

Artistic ➝ Paint Daubs.”

This is a shorthand way of helping you find files, folders, and menu choices with-

out having to read through excruciatingly long, bureaucratic-style instructions. So,

for example, the sentence in the previous paragraph is a short way of saying: “Go

to the Editor component of Elements. Click the Filter choice in the menu bar. In

that menu, choose the Artistic section, and then go to Paint Daubs in the pop-out

menu.” Figure I-1 shows you an example in action.

File paths are shown in the conventional Windows style, so if you see “Go to C:\

Documents and Settings\<your user name>\My Documents\My Pictures,” that

means to go to your C drive, open the Documents and Settings folder, and look for

your user account folder. In that folder, open the My Pictures folder that’s inside

it.

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