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Elements
Basic |
Level 2 Basic |
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Lesson 5
Quick Fix
- Getting Started
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The Basic Level of the Elements
program gives you some powerful,
easy to use ways to improve and
correct your images.
This lesson and the next 4 lessons
will outline basic techniques of
fixing up your images. |
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Introduction |
In this lesson we will become
familiar with the “Quick Fix”
screen. We will illustrate how to
rotate images if necessary, and you
will learn to set up “Before &
After” images to help you judge
changes. |
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Step #1: Select Photo |
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From the “Photo Well”,
click on the image that you wish to
work on.
A blue border will highlight the
selected image. |
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Step #2: Quick Fix |
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From the Main menu, click on:
[ Edit ]
Then click on:
[ Go to Quick Fix… ]
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Step #3:
Warning |
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This warning just tells you that you
are going to be making some changes.
Since that is what we want to do,
ignore the warning by clicking on:
[ OK ] |
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Step #4:
Fix Screen |
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Now the “Quick Fix” screen
will appear.
This screen allows us to make any
changes we wish. |
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Step #5a:
Before / After
Landscape |
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The “View” selector is under
the bottom left corner of your
image.
If you click on the drop down arrow,
you can select to see the “Before
& After” images in the
“Landscape” view. |
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Step #5b:
Landscape |
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The result will appear as shown,
with the “Before” image shown
on top and the “After”
correction image shown underneath.
We do not
recommend this view. |
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Step #5c:
Before / After
Portrait |
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The “View” selector is under
the bottom left corner of your
image.
If you click on the drop down arrow,
you can select to see the “Before
& After” images in the
“Portrait” view. |
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Step #5d:
Portrait |
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The result will appear as shown,
with the “Before” image shown
on top and the “After”
correction image shown on the right.
We do recommend this
view. |
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Step #6a:
Fit On Screen |
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We recommend that you click on:
[ Fit On Screen ] |
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Step #6b:
Entire Image |
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This will allow you to see the
entirety of the
“Before” and “After”
images. |
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Step #7a:
Rotate |
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If your image was taken in the
vertical orientation, your image
will appear to be lying on its’
side.
It is easier to judge your
corrections if you rotate the image
as shown. |
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Step #7b:
Rotated |
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The “Before” and “After”
images are shown rotated. |
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Summary |
In this lesson we became familiar
with the “Quick Fix” screen.
We illustrated how to rotate images
when necessary, and showed you how
to set up “Before & After”
images to help you judge your
changes. |
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