Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
izer, and then come back over to the Editor and switch this menu to “Show Files selected
in Organizer”; you'll see the photos you selected in the Organizer waiting for you in the
bin. Double-click one to open it for editing.
▪
Bin Actions
. This menu is where the Photo Bin gets really useful, but it's not easy to
spot: It's the little four-line square in the bin's upper right. This menu lets you print the
photos in the bin or make an album right there in the Photo Bin without ever going to the
Organizer. If you don't use the Organizer, then the Photo Bin is a particularly great fea-
ture, because it lets you create groups of photos you can call up together: Just put them in
an album here by choosing “Save Bin as an Album”; after that, you can select the al-
bum's name from the bin's Show Files menu to see those photos. If you like things to be
compartmentalized, the Show Grid menu item here puts a thin black line around each
thumbnail.
NOTE
In the Photo Bin, you may notice little paintbrush icons at the top-right corner of your
photos' thumbnails. They indicate that you've edited a photo but haven't saved your
changes.
The Panel Bin
When you're in Expert mode, the right side of the Elements window displays the
Panel Bin
.
(In the Basic Workspace you won't see this bin until you click one of the panel buttons in the
bottom-right corner of the Editor window.) When you first switch to the Custom Workspace
(
Custom Workspace
), the Panel Bin appears with four panels open: Layers, Effects, Graph-
ics, and Favorites (
Figure 1-8
). These are the same four panels that have their own buttons in
the Basic Workspace, but here you can close any of them that you don't need at the moment.
NOTE
In older versions of Elements and Photoshop, panels were called “palettes.” If you run
across a tutorial that talks about the “Effects palette,” for example, that's the same thing
as the Effects panel.
