The Quick Fix - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 185

What's the difference between the two tools? The Selection Brush lets you paint a selec-
tion exactly where you want it (or mask out part of your photo to keep it from changing),
while the Quick Selection tool figures out the boundaries of your selection based on
marks you make on the image (which don't have to be precise). Also, the Quick Selec-
tion tool is far more automatic than the regular Selection Brush. You can read more about
these tools beginning on Selecting with a Brush . (To get the most out of them, you need
to understand the concept of selections; Chapter 5 tells you everything you need to
know.)
▪ The Red Eye Removal tool lets you darken those red, demonic-looking flash reflections
in people's eyes. This tool works on the green reflections in pets' eyes, too. Generally, if
you need to fix red eyes on people or glowing eyes on pets, you should use this tool first,
before doing any other edits to your photo. See Fixing Red Eye to learn how to use it.
▪ The Whiten Teeth tool makes it super simple to brighten your subject's pearly whites.
Whitening Teeth explains how to use it.
▪ The Type Tool . To add text to an image, just click it with this tool and start typing. The
Tool Options at the bottom of the window make it easy to choose a different font and
change the size and color of the text. In the Quick Fix window, you can do anything that
doesn't require access to the Layers panel, including bending and warping text (see
Warping Text ) . Chapter 14 is all about the many things you can do with text in Elements.
▪ The Healing Brushes . The Spot Healing Brush lets you make truly invisible corrections
to fix blemishes in a snap. The Spot Healing Brush explains all about using this helpful
tool. For now, if you're a beginner, first zoom in so you can see what you're doing, activ-
ate this tool, and then use the slider in the Tool Options area to choose a brush size that
just barely covers the spot you want to fix. Then click that spot, and Elements fixes it
right up so it blends with the surrounding area.
You can also use the regular Healing Brush in Quick Fix—just click its icon in the Tool
Options area (it looks like a Band-Aid without a dotted semicircle next to it). The Heal-
ing Brush explains how to use this tool.
▪ The Crop tool lets you change the size and shape of a photo by cutting off areas you
don't want (see The Crop Tool ).