Quick Edit Layout

Photo Bin

The Photo Bin is located at the bottom of the Quick Edit screen. It contains thumbnail images of all files that are currently open in the Photoshop Editor. You may click on any image in the photo bin to make it the active image (the one you are working on.) If you do not wish for the photo bin to be taking up the screen space you can make it minimize by clicking on the top edge in the center. Then all but this top edge will disappear. You can restore the photo bin by again clicking on the center of the top edge.

Edit Screen

The Edit Screen is located on the right hand side of the Quick Edit screen. It contains all of the basic quick editing commands that you will need to quickly edit your images. With the tools you have in Quick Edit you can adjust your digital photographs so that you are completely finished for many purposes. These include printing snapshots, producing images for e-mail and for the web, correcting old photographs, etc.

Quick Edit Tool Bar

The Quick Edit tool bar is an abbreviated version of the full editor tool bar. However, it contains all of the tools you will need for basic editing. The tool that is highlighted is the active tool, the one that is currently in use. The active tool will determine the tool menu which is the third row down from the top.

Zoom Tool

The zoom tool will be one of the most used tool you will use. It is also recommended that you keep the zoom tool active while you are not actually using a tool. That will prevent accidental changes in your image. With the zoom tool you can control the size of the viewed image. Clicking on "Actual Pixels" will show your image at 100% while clicking on "Fit Screen" will show your image as large as possible while still allowing the viewing of the entire image.

Hand Tool

The hand tool allows you to navigate around within an image that is zoomed in to see only a partial portion of the picture. You can activate the hand tool by clicking on the hand tool symbol in the tool bar. You may also activate it temporarily by pressing the space bar.

Selection Brush Family

This symbol contains two tools, the selection brush tool and the magic selection brush tool. These tools are used for selections and will not be covered in the Quick Fix lessons. See the lessons for basic editing for how to make and use selections.

Crop Tool

The crop tool is used crop your photograph (surprise!). You can make these crops to a preset dimension or you may do so using a free-form crop.

Red-Eye tool

The Red-Eye tool will allow you to remove the red eye from any person within your image. Photoshop Elements 4.0 also has an automatic red eye removal function which will remove red eye from all people in your photo with a single click.