This is part 3 in my series of software tutorials about Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 which are what I have learned doing a video tutorial with VTC. If you use the auto smart fix under the fix panel it does a good job of fixing a photo automatically. Sometimes you might find the auto color or auto levels tools better. When using these tools there is no undo function as a copy of your photo is automatically made and you can always simply delete it. If you use the crop tool you drag the boundaries with the mouse and can always reset it. There is a rotate and straighten tool also under fix and this can be automated. There is a lighten and darken tool and that has an auto tool which is pretty good but also has 3 manual settings, darken, midtones & lighten which you can adjust. Be careful about having the darken tool on a high setting as it can create noise in the photo. There's an enhance colors tool which it's advised not to adjust hue and brightness. There is an auto tool and you can adjust saturation to good effect. There is a color cast tool to correct color shadow in a photo with an eyedropper tool. A wide angle lens can prevent things being vertical in a photo. You can correct this with the keystone correction tool which will bring up an adjustments screen and you can adjust the vertical setting and then crop the photo. All these tools are in the fix pane & normally you will have to change the photo to 8 bit to edit it. You click on image, then mode & then 8 channels to convert it. If you press the alt key and rotate the mouse wheel it will enlarge the photo on the screen. If you are using the layers tool, you press alt + j to add a layer & if you right click the delete layer button it will delete the currently selected layer. I will try and do another tutorial tomorrow.
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