Adobe 29180155 User Guide - Page 126

121 Chapter 8: Correcting and understanding color Color correction basics Color correction overview Photoshop Elements provides several tools and commands for fixing the tonal range, color, and sharpness in your photos, and for removing dust spots or other defects. You can work in one of three workspaces, depending on your experience and needs. Quick Fix If you are new to digital imaging, Quick Fix is a good place to start fixing photos. It has many of the basic tools for correcting color and lighting. (See "To correct color in Quick Fix" on page 121.) Standard Edit (the Editor) If you've worked with images before, you'll find that the Standard Edit workspace provides the most flexible and powerful image-correction environment. It has the lighting and color-correction commands, along with tools for fixing image defects, making selections, adding text, and painting on your images. When working with some of the adjustment commands in the Editor, you can make adjustments directly on the image pixels. Or you can use adjustment layers to make nondestructive adjustments that you can easily tweak until your image is right. (These commands are also available in the Quick Fix workspace, although you cannot use them with adjustment layers.) Camera Raw If you shoot digital images in your camera's raw format, you can open and correct raw files in the Camera Raw dialog box. Camera raw files haven't been processed by your camera. You adjust the color and exposure to get the best image. Often you won't have to make other adjustments in Photoshop Elements. To open camera raw files in Photoshop Elements, first save them in a supported file format. (See "About camera raw image files" on page 73.) To correct color in Quick Fix Quick Fix conveniently assembles many of the basic photo fixing tools in Photoshop Elements. As you work in Quick Fix, you should limit the number of color and lighting controls that you apply to a photo. Generally, you use only one of the Auto controls on a photo. If that control doesn't achieve what you want, click the Reset button and try another one. You can also adjust your image using the slider controls, whether you've used an Auto control or not. Sharpening is the last fix you should perform on an image.