Switching between the Guided and Expert modes makes the Guided mode much more powerful, because you can make quite complex edits quickly and then adjust them to your taste. Helpfully, the Guided edits are applied as new layers, which gives you control over their appearance and opacity in the Expert area – plus you can add layer masks if you want. If you need to at any point, clicking on the Guided tab allows you to use the Guided edits before returning to the Expert area to make further edits. What’s more, it’s possible to create layer masks, which opens up advanced editing opportunities. Also, when you select a tool, its controls appear at the bottom of the screen, which is helpful.Ī major bonus of working in the Expert section is that you can create Levels, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, Gradient Map, Photo Filter, Invert, Threshold and Posterize adjustment layers.
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However, that helps you to learn how to use some of the tools in the Expert area.Īs you’d expect, the Expert section has a more comprehensive collection of tools in the column on the left of the screen than the Quick area. Generally the auto-selection tools work well, but they can’t always be relied upon and you may need to use the refining tools to get the best results. There are also no local adjustments available in Photoshop Elements’ version of Camera Raw. Instead, you can select from a range of presets and then adjust the degree of effect that’s applied. It is also possible to convert an image to black and white, but you don’t get control over all the colour channels, which is somewhat disappointing. The range of controls is more limited than Photoshop’s and Lightroom’s, but the most important controls are there, so you can adjust the exposure, white balance, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks and clarity, vibrance and saturation.
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(Image credit: Angela Nicholson/Digital Photographer)Īs with the full version of Adobe Photoshop, if you try to open a RAW file in Photoshop Elements, it opens Camera Raw automatically.