Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Chapter 1: Finding Your Way Around Elements 23

Editing Your Photos

The Artwork and Effects palette

The Artwork and Effects palette is a special new feature in Elements 5. Adobe has

simply crammed the program with all sorts of goodies like easily addable frames,

graphics, and backgrounds. You have so many that creating a separate palette for

each one would mean you’d need some kind of Palette Manager just to keep track

of everything.

Adobe’s solution to this surplus is a new palette, the Artwork and Effects palette,

which is organized a little differently from your other palettes. When you want to

use something from Artwork and Effects, first click the button at the top of the

palette to enter the main category you want, as explained in Figure 1-12. Then use

the pull-down menus to find the exact frame, filter, or whatever. You can learn

more about working with this palette on page 344.

Figure 1-11:

You can combine two or more palettes together once you’ve

dragged them out of the bin.

Top: The Histogram palette is being pulled into, and

combined with, the Layers palette. To combine palettes,

drag one of them (by clicking on the palette’s name tab)

and drop it onto the other palette (notice the dark black

border that appears on the Layers palette, signaling it’s

“ready” to accept the Histogram palette).

Bottom: To switch from one palette to another after they’re

grouped, just click the tab of the one you ...