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Figure 4-15. Top: This photo has a slight blue cast to it. The cursor (circled) is ready to fix this
with a single click on the woman's neck. Bottom: After clicking with “Adjust Color for Skin Tone,”
the entire image is much warmer, especially the sand.
Auto Smart Tone
Elements includes yet another kind of auto correction, but you have to go up to the Enhance
menu at the top of your screen to find it. When you use Auto Smart Tone, Elements automat-
ically corrects the tonality of your photo (its brightness, contrast, exposure, and so on) and
then presents you with a way to make further adjustments. The interesting thing about Auto
Smart Tone is that it can watch what you do to your photos, learn how you like to adjust
them, and remember and reapply similar corrections to future images.
It's quite easy to use this command:
1. In either Quick Fix or Expert mode, open a photo and then go to Enhance Auto
Smart Tone .
Elements makes its best guess about the best adjustments to make to your image and
applies them, but you don't have to accept what it does—you can easily tweak the res-
ults.
2. In the Auto Smart Tone window that appears, adjust the changes Elements ap-
plied .
The window displays your already-corrected image in the middle, surrounded by four
thumbnails of other corrections, one in each corner ( Figure 4-16 ). In the middle of
your image is a black dot with four arrows radiating from it; Adobe calls this the joy-
stick . Just grab the joystick and drag it toward the thumbnail that looks closest to how
you want your photo to look. As you drag, a grid appears over the center of your im-
age. Just keep dragging until you like what you see.
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