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correct, the “Learn from this correction” setting can shorten the amount of time you need to
spend on each one.
The corrections that Auto Smart Tone makes are pretty sophisticated, and you may find it
worth spending some time to get comfortable with it. If you use Elements in conjunction
with Adobe's Lightroom, you may find that Auto Smart Tone does an even better job with
your photos than Lightroom's Auto Tone, for example.
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You can tell Auto Smart Tone to start over with its remembering. Say you've been fixing
a bunch of photos that are too dark and now you've got a batch that are too
light
. You
don't want Auto Smart Tone to make the same changes it learned to make to the dark
photos, so go to Edit→Preferences→General/Photoshop Elements Editor→Prefer-
ences→General and click Reset Auto Smart Tone Learning. That tells Elements to forget
everything it's remembered so far about how to adjust your images and start learning
what you do from now on.
Getting Fancy: Effects, Textures, and Frames
In addition to making basic corrections to your images, Elements' Quick Fix window also
lets you gussy them up by using the panels that are hidden when you first start the Quick Fix:
Effects, Textures, and Frames. One of the best new features in Elements 13 is all the new ef-
fects that Adobe added, which let you give your photos lots of the artistic and filtered looks
that are so popular right now.
They couldn't be easier to use: Just head to the bottom right of the Quick Fix window and
click the button for the panel that contains what you want to add to your photo. If you click
Effects, you may have to wait a bit, since Elements is busy creating a thumbnail for each ef-
fect that shows it applied to
your
image. Once the thumbnails appear, just scroll through
them and click the one you want to try. There are even more choices than you can see at first,
as
Figure 4-17
explains.
