Elements for Digital Photographers - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 420

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Another handy feature in the Raw Converter is the area right below the histogram, where
you can see important shooting information about your photo, like the aperture and ISO
speed ( ISO is a digital camera's version of film speed). Put your cursor over a pixel in the
image and the pixel's RGB values ( Controlling the Colors You See ) appear here, too.
Once you've gotten a close look at the photo, you have a decision to make: Did Elements do
a good enough job of choosing settings for you? (In other words, do you like how your photo
looks?) If so, you're done. Just click the Open Image button in the Converter's lower-right
corner, and Elements opens the photo in the Editor, ready for any artistic changes or crop-
ping. If you prefer to make adjustments to the photo in the Converter, read on. (If you're
happy with Elements' conversion but you want to sharpen the picture, then skip ahead to Ad-
justing Sharpness and Reducing Noise . )
NOTE
Everyone gets confused by the Save Image button in the Converter's lower-left corner.
That button is actually the DNG Converter (see Converting to DNG ) , and all you can do
when you click it is create a DNG file. To save your edited raw file, click Done if you
want to save your changes without actually opening the file, or click Open Image to open
it in the Editor and then save it in the format of your choice.
Rotating, Straightening, and Cropping
Before tweaking the image's other settings, you can make the following basic adjustments to
photos right in the Raw Converter:
▪ Rotate it . Click one of the rotation arrows above the image preview.
▪ Straighten it . The Raw Converter has its own Straighten tool, which you use just like
the one in the Editor's Tools panel ( Straightening the Contents of an Image ), although it
has a different cursor. (It's just to the right of the Crop tool in the Raw Converter's tool-
box; keyboard shortcut: A.) However, you don't see the photo actually straighten out in
the Converter—Elements just shows you the outline of where the edges of the