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Now we're going to go into detail now about how the program works and how the Edit section is arranged and how you are actually going to take advantage of all the tools at your disposal to do things to the images that you want to do. Now one little caveat here that I have to give you is that this is a large program. There's quite a bit here at your disposal to do to images. I don't expect you to come away from this lesson knowing everything there is to know about how to do things because that's just not going to happen. There's too much here, but if you understand the basic relationships between the various tools, how they work, how to get them onto your image, and start using them at least as you begin to practice and get more experience with the program, your learning curve will be that much shorter. So let's begin to go through and let me show you the relationship between all these different sections and how everything ties together. Now this is the tool that you'll use just to point and drag. If you've got two images and you want to combine them in the one you're going to use this tool to drag, and that's basically it. That's all this really does. This is your Magnifying Glass and you just put it on the image, left-click, now see the little Plus in the middle? That means you're going to magnify the image. If you go up here to the upper left-hand corner Ð see where my cursor is? You click on the Minus mark and then you come down and click and it will zoom out. OK, so that's the Magnifying Glass. This is your, moves it around. Now it's not doing it right now because we don't have the right kind of image in here. Let's see if we can make it work. We zoom in and we come and get the hand that kind of grabs the image and moves it around like that, see? That's what that does, that's all this does, is just grabs your image and moves it around. You left-click, hold it down and then it will just move your image. This is the Eyedropper Tool and the Eyedropper Tool samples your image. That's all it does. Now, you look down here: this is your foreground and this is your background. If you want the foreground, if you like this color right here and you want to use this as a foreground color for something else, you come down here, click on it, and see how the foreground changes? That's all this is. It's a Sample Tool. See how it changes? I'm going to put it over here on the yellow and the yellow is brought over. So, this is the Sample Tool. Now, everything down here has a two-step process. Now, let's click on this. This is the Rectangle Tool, and the Rectangle Tool has parameters. Come up here, well we might want to put a Feather on this, which means that when we draw the rectangle we might want to feather it so that the border blends with the rest of the image and doesn't create a hard contrast with the rest of the image. Let's deselect that. You might want to Anti-alias, which means smooth out, and your Mode is Normal or Fixed Aspect Ratio or Fixed Size. So you have a number of parameters here, so you click on this, same thing. You come up, you might want to set a Feather amount, you might want Anti-alias, you might not. The Width, Edge Contrast, Frequency, and so on. You have choices. So when you click on this you've got to come up here and kind of adjust how it's going to work at the top. Click on the Crop Tool and here's your Aspect Ratio, you might want a certain Aspect Ratio, you want a certain Width, Height, and Resolution. Click on your Stamper and you get to choose the shape. And then you might also want to assign a Feather to it, again, to make it blend smoothly into the image, okay? And if you want all that stuff to go away you just come out to an area over here with your pointer and just click on it and it'll go away. Here's Red Eye Ð God, how I hate this thing Ð Spot Healing Brush, and the Healing Brush Tools. The greatest invention since sliced bread, since the motorized automobile, the Spot Healing Brush is just such a wonderful thing and you will use it all the time, especially on skin, and especially when you have dirt on your sensor that you didn't know you had and ever image has a big dark blotch on it, you'll use this to get rid of that. But you can set the Size, you can set the Proximity Match, or Create a Texture, Assign this adjustment to All Layers, your Blend Modes Ð every parameter for this tool is up at the top, and that goes for all the other tools. Here's the Eraser Tool. How big do you want it to be? Do you want it as a Brush, a Pencil, or a Big Block. The Opacity level; maybe you only want to erase part of the image to blend two images that are stacked on top of each other together. Here's your Paint Bucket Tool. You might want to enter, in other words, if you're going to draw this, you'll get your Paint Bucket and you want to put this color in here, and it won't work because it's a 16-bit file, but if it were an 8-bit file it would put the color in there. And we'll explain the limitations of Elements 7 between 8 and 16 bit files. Let's go ahead and convert the Bit Depth from 16 to 8 so we can demonstrate what we're going to do here and you can see that the Paint Bucket just empties the color into the square that we've drawn, and that's how that works. So, every time you choose a tool you've got to adjust your tool to do exactly what you want it to do at any given point in time.