This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Making Touch Up Edits
A few tools in the Quick Fix editor are designed to easily fix some specific situations. In the Quick pane, note the addition
of four tools in the Tools panel: Red Eye Removal Tool, Whiten Teeth, Make Dull Skies Blue, and Black and White–High Contrast
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Unlike the other Quick Fix edits, which apply their adjustments to the entire image or to an area that you first specify using the Quick Selection tool, these Touch Up tools perform the selection and apply the edit in one step.
To make a Touch Up edit:
- With a photo active in the Editor, click one of the Touch Up tool icons to select it.
- Click and drag to define the area to be edited; for example, with the Make Dull Skies Blue tool active, drag in the sky area.
Elements makes a selection and applies the effect
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- Adjust the affected area using the selection tools
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Run Automated Actions with the Guided Edit Action Player
The Action Player is a feature found in the Guided Edit pane for applying preset effects such as creating captions or applying
combination edits like changing a photo’s colors to sepia and adding grain to the image. In the Guided Edit pane, click Action
Player under Automated Actions to reveal a set of automated effects that ship with Elements . Choose a set, pick a specific action, and then click the Play Action button.
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That’s not the whole story, though. The Action Player can run any action created in Photoshop CS. So, for example, if a friend of yours uses Photoshop extensively and has created an action that resizes an image and adds a border and photo credit, you could run that action in Elements instead of performing each step. (Elements can currently only run actions, not create them.)
Adding a new action isn’t straightforward, however. Here’s how to do it:
Take a Photoshop action file—it ends in the extension .atn—and place it in the following directory on your hard disk (each slash represents a folder; you may need to specify that hidden folders are visible by opening a Windows Explorer window and choosing Filder and search options from the Organize menu):
\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\9.0\Locale\en_us\Workflow Panels\actions
Relaunch Elements, go to the Guided Edit pane of the Editor, and you’ll see the action set appear in the first drop-down menu.