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For beginning users, the Quick mode in the Photo Editor is both powerful and easy to use. Follow these steps to make some simple changes to an image:

1 Open the Photo Editor and make sure the Quick tab is selected at the top.

2 Choose File ⇒ Open or click the Open button at the top left of the Photo Editor.If Elements is your default editing application, you can also double-click your photo file in Windows Explorer or the Mac Finder, and the file opens in Elements.

3 In the Open dialog box that appears, navigate your hard drive to locate the file you want to open, select the file, and click Open.

4 From the View drop-down list (in the upper left of the image window), choose Before & After – Horizontal, as shown in Figure 1-3.

5 Make edits to your photo.Here’s an introduction to two simple edits you can make in Quick mode:Apply a Smart Fix: Click Smart Fix in the Panel Bin to see the options. To begin with, click Auto at the bottom of the Smart Fix panel. At the top left of the window, you find options for viewing by opening the drop-down menu. Choose After Only or choose Before & After (Horizontal or Vertical) to see before and after views.Several items are listed in the Panel Bin below the Smart Fix option. Click an item to expand it, and move the sliders or click the thumbnail images to tweak the overall brightness, contrast, and color. In many cases, there isn’t a right or wrong adjustment. Play with the options to bring it close to your overall vision for the picture. For a more in-depth look at correcting photos in Quick mode, flip to Chapter 10.FIGURE 1-3: The before and after views in Quick mode. Each of the Quick Fix options provides you with thumbnail previews showing you the result of a given edit. For a quick preview of an editing task, mouse over a Smart Fix thumbnail to see what the edit will look like when it is applied.Crop the photo: In the Tools panel on the left side of the window, click the Crop tool. You immediately see a rectangle on top of the photo. Drag the sides to crop the image to your liking. When finished, click the green check mark, as shown in Figure 1-4, to accept your edit. When making any one of a huge number of edits to your pictures, you often see icons on top of the image, similar to what’s shown in Figure 1-4. The green check mark accepts the edit you’re making at the time the icons appear. The circle with a diagonal line is the Cancel button. Click this button when you don’t want to apply the recent edit. At the bottom of the Editor window, you see some hints that Elements gives you for crop suggestions. Click one of the options to employ the respective crop.

6 Choose File ⇒ Save As and, in the Save As dialog box that opens, provide a new name for the photo. Click Save.Note: When you use Save As and give your image a new name, you don’t destroy your original image. You save a copy of the original with the new edits applied. For more on saving files, see the section “Saving Files with Purpose,” later in this chapter.

FIGURE 1-4: The Crop tool sized on a photo.