Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Chapter 4: The Quick Fix 95

Editing Your Photos

Editing Your Photos

The tools in the Quick Fix window are pretty simple to use. You can try one or all

of them—it’s up to you. And whenever you’re happy with how your photo looks,

you can leave Quick Fix and go back to the Full Edit window or the Organizer.

If you want to rotate your photo, you can do so here by clicking the appropriate

Rotate button, below the image preview area. (See page 65 for more about rotat-

ing photos.)

NOTE If you click the Quick Fix Reset button, just above your image, you’ll return your photo to

the way it looked before you started working in Quick Fix. This button undoes all Quick Fix edits,

so don’t use it if you want to undo a single action only. For that, just use the regular undo com-

mand: Edit

➝ Undo or Ctrl+Z.

Fixing Red Eye

Everyone who’s ever taken a flash photo has run into the dreaded problem of red

eye—those glowing, demonic pupils that make your little cherub look like some-

one out of an Anne Rice novel. Red eye is even more of a problem with digital

cameras than with film, but luckily, Elements has a simple and terrific Red Eye tool

for fixing it. All you need to do is click the red spots with the Red Eye tool, and

your problems are solved.

To use the Quick Fix Red Eye tool:

1. Open a photo.

The Red Eye tool works the same whether you get to it from the Quick Fix

Toolbox or the main Toolbox in Full Edit.

2. Zoom ...