Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 Basic Image Editing

In Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 there are two parts to editing a photo or image in. One section has all the full features and editing controls at your finger tips. The other section called quick fix has a lot of features that are automated that allow for a quick and easy way to edit and enhance photos and images.

Open Photoshop Elements and go to the Quick Fix section. Across the top of the opening screen there are the different icons for the different features. Quick Fix is the third from the left. The quick fix screen is the same as the standard editor with some features locked out. These features are available in the standard edit section if you want to adjust any other image attributes not available in the quick fix.

One feature of the quick fix that makes it nice and more user friendly is the before and after images that show up when you do an adjustment on an image. You can see exactly what the image looks like before and after plus what each quick fix does to your image.

Try pulling up or getting a photo and editing it with these features. In the File pull down menu click on Open or use the photo browser feature to find the photo you want to edit. If you click on Photo Browser it will load the organizer and you can right click on your image and then select the Go To Quick Fix in the menu. It will load into the quick fix editor.

Your picture is in the middle window with the word After in the upper right corner. Click on the View menu check below your picture to the right and click on Before and After (portrait). It will pop up two pictures marked before and after side by side on your screen. If your image is an odd shape and you can't see most of it you can try the landscape setting to see a good portion of the image. You don't have to see all of the image to see exactly what is being done to all of it, just a good portion to tell if you like the settings or want to change them back.