Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
NOTE
There's one downside to throwing out your preferences file: Once Elements supplies you
with a replacement file (which it generates automatically), you'll have to redo any
changes you made to things like window behavior. Your panels also go back to their ori-
ginal locations, so you'll need to rearrange them again if you pulled any of them out of
the Panel Bin. But, on the bright side, deleting your preferences file
doesn't
affect your
image files at all.
Deleting preferences is easy. In the Editor, go to Edit→Preferences→General/Photoshop Ele-
ments Editor→Preferences→General, and then click the “Reset Preferences on next launch”
button. You'll see a rather scary warning that “This cannot be undone.” Just click OK; as ex-
plained above, it's not a big deal to delete preferences. Then quit the Editor and start it again.
It's much less common to need to reset the
Organizer's
preferences, but if you want to do
that, it's easy, too: In the Organizer, go to Edit→Preferences→General/Elements Organizer-
→Preferences→General, and then click the Restore Default Settings button at the bottom of
the Preferences window.
