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The settings in the Preferences dialog box are organized into different panes that reflect key categories of preferences. The following list briefly describes the types of settings you can adjust in each preferences pane:

 General preferences, as the name implies, apply to general settings you adjust for your editing environment.

 Saving Files preferences relate to options available for saving files. You can change the case of existing filenames; save a file with layers or flatten layers (as we explain in Chapter 9); save files with image previews that appear when you’re viewing files as icons on your desktop (Windows); and save with some compatibility options. On the Mac, the Finder generates thumbnails automatically, so you don’t need to specify thumbnails in a Save dialog box.

 Performance preferences: This pane is where you find history states (explained in Chapter 1) and memory settings, such as allocating memory to Elements.

 Scratch Disks preferences: Below Performance, you find scratch disk options. (See the nearby sidebar “What’s a scratch disk?” for more on scratch disks.) You can monitor how your scratch preferences are working in the image window. See the earlier section, “Examining the image window,” for details.

 Display & Cursors preferences: This pane offers options for how certain tool cursors are displayed and how you view the Crop tool when you’re cropping images. Chapter 10 explains how cropping works.

 Transparency preferences: These require an understanding of how Elements represents transparency. Imagine painting a portrait on a piece of clear acetate. The area you paint is opaque, and the area surrounding the portrait is transparent. To display transparency in Elements, you need some method to represent transparent areas. (Chapter 8 has more details.) Open the Transparency preferences and make choices for how transparency appears in Elements.

 Units & Rulers preferences: Here you can specify settings for ruler units, column guides, and document preset resolutions.

 Guides & Grid preferences: This pane offers options for gridline color, divisions, and subdivisions. A grid shows you nonprinting horizontal and vertical lines. You use a grid to align objects, type, and other elements. You can snap items to the gridlines to make aligning objects much easier. You can drag guides (sometimes called guidelines) from the ruler and position them between gridlines.

 Plug-Ins preferences: These preferences include options for selecting an additional Plug-Ins folder. Plug-ins are third-party utilities that work with Elements. For example, you can find plug-ins that offer editing features not found in Elements, enable many different adjustments for brightness/contrast and color correction, and provide some nifty special effects. You can find many free plug-ins on the Internet by searching for Photoshop Elements Plug-Ins.

 Adobe Partner Services: Here you can control whether Elements automatically checks for new services, clears the online stored data, and resets your account information for all services.

 Application Updates: You can choose to automatically update Elements or receive a notification that an update is available.

 Type preferences: This pane provides options for setting text attributes. You have options for using different quotation marks, showing Asian characters, showing font names in English, and previewing font sizes.

 Country/Region Selection: You can select your country or region from the drop-down menu.