The Selection Brush tool allows you to build up a selection by painting, while the new Magic Selection Brush lets you roughly scribble over the object and then attempts to work out what you’re trying to select. Previously, these Quick Fix corrections could only be applied globally, but now the window adds two selection tools that let you confine enhancements to particular areas of the image. On the other hand, when removing red eye, users are now spared from even opening their photos, as the new Auto Red Eye Fix command works automatically you can even automatically remove red eye from all images on import.Īutomatic corrections are fine for most images, but to take control of the enhancement process you need to load up Elements’ excellent Quick Fix window this provides both automatic and slider-based control of the most important colour corrections. This certainly simplifies things for beginners, but it means you have to load up the Editor module even for the task of cropping. The Auto Fix window has gone, replaced by a single one-click Auto Smart Fix command available from the Photo Browser. The single fault we can find is that the recognition system only works accurately for subjects facing the camera.Īfter tagging, the next task in Elements is to make your photos look their best. The underlying technology is jaw-dropping and the process is surprisingly efficient. Simply hit the new Find Faces for Tagging command and a new dialog presents a gallery of faces automatically picked out from all selected images and ready for drag-and-drop tagging. Elements has always made this task as simple, visual and interactive as possible, but accurately tagging the subjects of dozens of photos is inevitably a chore up until now, as Elements 4 provides an extraordinary solution. To really master your photo collection, you need to tag your photos with those details that are significant to you. Alternatively, you can now use the new Find by Details command to find photos based on other metadata, such as flash status, exposure settings, resolution and orientation. This is most easily done based on the time your photos were taken, using either the timeline or the excellent calendar-based Date view. This global approach has many advantages, but only if you can narrow things down to just those images you’re currently interested in. By default, the Organizer adds all imported images (and now PDFs) to a single central catalogue, though it also now offers a more traditional folder-tree view of your hard disk. Key to Elements’ success is its Organizer module, which provides dedicated image management. Elements 3 has fought off all opposition over the last 12 months, and Elements 4 looks likely to do the same. What a selfish company: not satisfied with dominating the field of professional photo editing with Photoshop, Adobe is gaining similar ascendancy when it comes to consumer-led PC photography.
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