Chapter 4. Quick Fix Edits

As you’ll discover in the rest of the book, Photoshop Elements is a sophisticated image editor, enabling anyone to make photo corrections that would have been absurdly difficult years ago. But sometimes you don’t want to be an image expert. Let the computer to do the work for you, analyzing photos and correcting them automatically.

Elements offers a couple ways to get started. In the Organizer, the Fix pane provides one-click automatic fixes, which may be all you need.

Quick Fix is the tool to reach for when you don’t want to mess with the particulars, or when you know that a photo needs just a bit of tweaking, but you want a bit more control over the adjustments. You can experiment on your photo—ranging from slight tonal ...

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