This is the second installment in my blog series on Photoshop Elements 9 based on the video training course I am doing and some of what I learn. When you first set up Elements you are prompted to set up an Adobe account and ID if you don't already have one. It gives certain benefits like being able to store a certain amount on a cloud storage site free of charge and having Photoshop.com which is a kind of cut down version of Photoshop where you can do simple editing. The effects folder in Elements contains your lighting effects presets. There are folders that are edit, create and share that let you do various jobs. To import your photos you will usually click on file, get photos and pictures then from camera or card reader. Of course some people click on from scanner which requires a driver and scanner software which normally comes with the scanner to work. The pictures will usually be displayed as thumbnails and you can also rate them 1-5 to help locate them but will normally rate them 3-5 and leave the rest unrated. Under the enhance menu you can select auto smart fix to auto repair a photo or auto light levels to auto repair the light and colours. There is also a convert to black and white option under enhance. The create folder lets you create things like calendars and cards and many of the integrate with Adobe online and you pay for and they are posted to you. There is a slide show option that does presentations pretty much like Powerpoint. When sending stuff by e-mail select share e-mail attachment to send a photo as an attachment or photo mail to send the photo within the e-mail. Finally it also has a facial recognition feature with which you have to initially label a photo with the persons name and then it selects possible photos that might be the same person and it learns to recognize the person as it goes on getting better and better.
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