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Well, now I have to direct your attention to a couple of housekeeping items that are very important to set up correctly; number one, to make sure the program is working for you in a convenient way that you like the way the layout is and secondly, to make sure you get the highest-quality image output from whatever it is that you want to do, whether that's on the Internet or you want to print something or make a project. Whatever that is, these settings that I'm getting ready to show you will make sure all of that is the highest possible quality. Now, what you do is click on Edit, you come all the way down to the bottom and you'll see Color Settings and down here you'll see Preferences and we're going to look at the Preferences section first, then we're going to look at Color Settings. Well, the Preferences, click on the General and you'll get a dialog box here. This is kind of setting the program up for the way you want it to act every time you come to it. The Color Picker: let Adobe be your color picker. You can do Windows or Adobe. Trust me, just take my word for it, make it Adobe. Now, this is an automated process for when you're in the Edit section and let's say you make an adjustment on an image and you don't like it. If you want to go back, you can go back and each time you hit Control Z, it'll go back a step. Each time you hit Control Y, it'll go forward a step. So you can set it to respond either to Control Z or Control Y or to Alt Control Z or Shift Control Z or whatever you want it to be. If you purposely want it to be more complicated than this, it's completely your choice as to how you want it to be. And then down here under Options, Export Clipboard, leave that checked. Show Tool Tips; that's if you want to see little suggestions about how to do things as you go from one section to the next. If you don't want to see that stuff, uncheck it. Zoom resizes windows; yes, you want that. Beep When Done; again, that's your choice. As you execute a process, it takes a while to cogitate. When it gets done it'll beep to draw your attention back to the project at hand. It's completely your choice, however you want it. Select the Move Tool After Committing Text; yes, I would do that. It's very convenient to have that Move Tool so you can move your text around the image. Save Palette Locations; what this means is that once you set up Elements and close it down and then open it back up again, it'll open back up the way you closed it down so you don't have to research and be in unfamiliar territory. In other words, you set it up the way you want it to be, where everything goes and from that point forward it'll keep those locations. So leave that checked. Use the Shift Key for Tool Switch; I would uncheck that. Center Document Windows; yes, initially you want your document windows centered. Relax Text Selection; yes, you want that to be checked. Project Bin Auto-Hide; you do not want to check that. Why? Because this is your bin and as you import images into the Edit section, those images will fall into this bin. Trust me when I tell you that when you go to find your other images to work with later, you're going to be looking for that bin. It's going to be gone and you're going to get frustrated. It's just a lot more convenient to leave the Project Bin up all the time so do not check this box. Zoom With the Scroll Wheel; no, you'll be zooming every time you touch the mouse so leave that off too. And then you go up here and Save Files and On First Save, Ask if Original; yes. Image Previews Always Save. File Extension, use the lower case always. Now down here, if you want to use Adobe Camera Raw for supported raw files, then check that and then every time you double click on a raw file in Elements it'll automatically load Adobe Camera Raw. So you can do it that way if you want to. Ignore Camera Data XF Pro Files; I would leave that unchecked because you definitely want to access those sometimes. Also it makes it easier to search if you leave that unchecked. Maximize PSD File Compatibility Always; that means if you ever want to bring these Element files into the full version of Photoshop CS3 or CS4 or what have you, you'll always be able to do it so make that Always. Now, Performance, now this is getting technical. I'm going to explain to you what a scratch disk is. When you are working on your images, your program is going to access the program on one disk and then it's going to keep the image on another disk. So you want to set your scratch disk up to be other than your program disk and on my particular system, it's D. So the program is on C and then the images and all of your work and all of your temp files are on D and it makes your system work a lot more efficiently. Now, coming up in the next movie we'll continue our stroll down the Preferences lane.