Chapter 4. The Quick Fix
With Elements’ Quick Fix tools, you can dramatically improve the appearance of a photo with just a click or two. The Quick Fix window gathers easy-to-use tools that help adjust the brightness and color of your photos and make them look sharper. You don’t even need to understand much about what you’re doing. You just need to click a button or slide a pointer, and then decide whether you like how it looks.
If, on the other hand, you do know what you’re doing, you may still find yourself using the Quick Fix window for things like shadows and highlights because Quick Fix gives you a before-and-after view as you work. Also, the Temperature and Tint sliders can come in very handy for advanced color tweaking, like finessing the overall color of your otherwise finished photo. You also get two tools—the Selection brush and the Magic Selection brush—to help make changes to only a certain area of your photo.
What’s more, with Elements 7, you get some clever new fixes. You’ve always been able to correct red pupils in Elements, but do you want to whiten teeth or make the sky more blue? It’s a snap to do any of these in the Quick Fix window. You can even make part of a picture black and white, right in the Quick Fix window.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how (and in which order) to use the Quick Fix tools. If you have a newish digital camera, you may find that Quick Fix gives you everything you need to take your photos from pretty darn good to dazzling.
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