October 2007
Beginner
592 pages
18h 58m
English
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Window Menu
This menu controls which palettes and bins you see, as well as letting you adjust how your image windows display. Windows that are currently visible have a checkmark next to their names. A dash next to a name means the window is visible in another pane, but not in the current pane.
Images
Use these commands to control how your images display. The choices are explained in detail on Image Views.
Maximize Mode. Each image takes up the entire available space.
Tile. Your images appear edge to edge so that all windows are equally visible.
Cascade. Your image windows appear in overlapping stacks. (Cascade is the usual view when you start Elements for the first time.)
Match Zoom. Choose Match Zoom to get the same magnification level in all open windows as in the active image window.
Match Location. When you have only part of a photo visible in a window, choose Match Location to make all open windows display the same part of their images, too, like the upper-left corner, for example.
Tools
The Tools setting hides and shows the Toolbox.
Color Swatches
Use Color Swatches to show and hide the Color Swatches palette (The Color Swatches Palette).
Content
The Content palette holds frames, backgrounds, graphics, shapes, themes, and text effects to use in projects. It's always visible in Create → Artwork, but if you want to see it in Edit mode as well, this is where you make it visible. See The Content Palette for more about how to use this palette.
Effects
Effects shows and hides the Effects palette, ...
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