Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
In Windows, the Downloader is one of your options in the Windows dialog box that you see
when you connect a device. If you want to use the Downloader, then just choose it from the
list.
To launch the Downloader on a Mac, in the Organizer, go to File→“Get Photos and
Videos”→“From Camera or Card Reader.” There's no way to make the Downloader run
automatically on a Mac—you have to go through the Organizer to start it.
You can read more about the Downloader in
Chapter 2
starting on
The Photo Downloader
. If
you plan to use the Organizer to catalog photos and assign keywords to them, then reading
that section can help you avoid hair-pulling moments.
CHANGING OF THE GUARD: ADOBE REVEL
For several versions of Elements, Adobe strongly urged everyone to use Photoshop.com, which
let you post photos online, back them up, and sync them between computers. Photoshop.com is
gone now—it's been replaced by Adobe's online service Revel.
In Elements 13, you can use Revel for many of the things you used Photoshop.com for, but it's
not exactly the same. One major difference is that you can access your Revel-stored photos from
many different devices, including your smartphone, not just from Elements and your web
browser. You get 2 GB of free storage space from Revel. Beyond that you pay a monthly sub-
scription fee.
Using Revel
has the lowdown on Revel and how to use it.
If you're looking for the video tutorials that used to be available via Elements' Inspiration
Browser, they're gone, too, but you can watch tutorials at
http://tv.adobe.com
instead.
Editing Your Photos
The Editor is the other main component of Elements. This is the fun part of the program,
where you get to adjust, transform, and generally glamorize photos, and where you can cre-
ate original artwork from scratch with drawing tools and shapes.
The Editor has four different modes:
▪
eLive
. Elements Live (abbreviated
eLive
in the tab at the top of your screen) is a new
feature in Elements 13. When you click this tab, you're presented with a variety of tutori-
als for using Elements and some examples of fancy photography and editing to help in-
spire you. It's a collection of interesting stuff from Adobe and from many different Inter-
net sites. This is where you start the first time you launch the Editor. To move on to
