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OK, let's go over the Preferences in the Edit section, and we've got a lot to go over; we need to kind of knock it out kind of quickly, so let's get right to it. We find the Preferences in the Edit section by going to Edit, and come down to the bottom of the dropdown list where it says Preferences; go to the right, and let's start at the top under the General area. Now we'll start at the very top and this is kind of important, on Color Picker you want Adobe to do that, not Windows, so choose Adobe. Step Back and Forward Ð in other words, if you're working on an image and you want to go back a couple of steps click Control Z. If you want to go ahead a couple of steps hit Control Y, so on and so on, and if you want to reset that for different parameters this is where you go to do that. Now the stuff in here is kind of important so let's look at it. Export Clipboard Ð in other words, if you're working on an image and you want to bring that image into Create or Share you put it on the Clipboard and then it will transfer between these different sections. Show Tooltips Ð you really don't need this. Zoom Resizes Windows Ð yes, you want that. Beep When Done Ð if that's the kind of thing you like then check it. Select the Move Tool after Committing Text Ð I find this to be very convenient because once I type the text into an image I kind of want to position it and move it around, and if I can get that Move Tool without having to do a manual step then that's a good thing to do, so check that. Save Palette Locations Ð yes, because these are your Palettes, and once you set everything up and you come back to another session of Elements you're going to want it to be the same, so for consistency's sake yes, you want to Save Palette Locations. Use the Shift Key for Tool Switches Ð no, I want to choose those manually so leave that off. Center Document Windows Ð I would also leave that off because if I open more than one image in a work space I want those two images more than likely to be side by side. Relaxed Text Selection Ð yes, it makes it easier to select your text when you go back to edit it once you lay it out, so yes to that. Project Bin auto-hide Ð no, I want to see the images that I have open and those are located down here in the Project Bin. Now I don't have any images open so it's empty for the moment but when I put images in there this is where the thumbnails are going to be and I can look down and see what I have available to me so leave that off. Zoom with the Scroll Wheel Ð if you like doing that, then that's where to set it. Your Appearance Options Ð now we had this in the previous Preferences section but here it is again. The User Interface Brightness Ð if you know that the image that you're working on is going into a white background on the Internet or say a white map on print, then you want to scroll this all the way up so that when you do your adjustments the Luminance, the Brightness, and the Color Saturation will all set the eye for that kind of environment, otherwise just click that to restore it to its default setting. The default setting is a good neutral gray and that will serve you in most display applications. Saving Files Ð just take a look at that, it's very, very self explanatory; change it as you want to. Now, here it says Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for Supported Raw Files Ð if you don't have a third-party raw converter then you would want to check that because the only other thing available to you to import your raw files is Adobe Camera Raw, so that kind of explains itself. You Ignore Camera Data EXIF profiles Ð no, turn that off because you want the camera data EXIF profiles in there because it has all the information about when that picture was taken and so on and so on. Maximize PSD File Compatibility Ð always. That means that you can take a file that was made in Elements 3 or 4 and use it in 7. You'll want that. The Recent file list contains 10 files, so that when you want to go back and start work on a file again it'll be in that dropdown list under File. Performance Ð very important area. Says here that Available RAM is 16 megabytes but I beg to differ. There are 4 gigs in here so it's only recognizing 2 for some reason and therefore it only takes 50 percent of the available RAM and that, in this case, is 900 megabytes. So, I'm not going to fight that battle, just leave it the way it is. Let Photoshop Elements make that determination. I wouldn't move it. History States Ð I've got it set for 60, the default is 50. We will go over the History Palette later, take my word for it, just trust me, set this at 60; set the Cache levels at 8, and you will be a very happy person. Now, Scratch Disk. A Scratch Disk is a situation where the program is operating off the Operating System hard drive where Windows resides. The Scratch Disk is where all the image information is put. In other words, when the hard drive is trading information it's going to work a lot more efficiently if the Elements' operating algorithms are working within Windows to operate the program and then if the individual image changes are put on another disk so that that information can have an unimpeded flow then the performance of the overall Elements 7 experience is a lot smoother and you'll have a lot quicker time doing your work, so have some sort of external drive attached to your computer and use that external drive as your Scratch Disk. Very, very important. Display and Cursors Ð I'll leave this as default. I've never, ever had a chance to change it. Transparency Ð the same thing, just leave it the way it is, however, Units and Rulers is something you will change all the time. So, if you're working on an image that you're going to print, your Rulers are going to be set to inches because when you use your Crop Tool it's going to translate everything into inches. On the other hand, if you're working for everything to show on the Internet you're going to choose pixels, and then of course, your Crop Tool will reflect the numerical values for pixels. So you're going to be in here quite a bit changing the Rulers setting. Leave the Column Size the way it is; I would leave the New Document Preset Resolutions the way they are Ð when you open an empty work space it'll come in automatically at 300 pixels with a screen resolution of 72, which is perfect. I mean, there'll almost never be a time that you will want to change this. Photo Project Units Ð again, inches or metric, however you want to do it, leave it on inches. Grid Ð leave that the way it is. Plug-ins Ð if you've got third-party applications that you want to use in Photoshop Elements this is where you go to set those up. Type Ð I would really rather they named Text because what does type mean? OK, it's text. So, these are how to set up all of your text options. Very straightforward, not a whole lot of complicated stuff here except Enable Missing Glyph Protection. I've got to admit, I don't know what that means, but if it came in default is checked, there's no reason to turn it off, so we'll go ahead and leave that the way it is. So there you have the Preferences section in the Edit section in Photoshop Elements 7.